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My Shetland
@thordale.bsky.social
Crofter, animal rescuer/collector and retirement home in Shetland. Daily blogger sometimes with half way decent photos of my life in Shetland. Spinal surgery failure x 3. Mother of Muscovy ducks. Animals in my house. Insomniac.
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Haakon is so much better now. Back to his old curmudgeonly self, hating everyone and everything around him.
Phew.

#icelandichorses #myshetland #shetland #rugging #lame
So Much Better
Well, it’s been a week, I think, of running around after Haakon with buckets to soak his hoof in, injections, painkillers, food twice a day.  I am exhausted but at last I can say (still prayi…
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November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I can’t sleep.
My friend just died.
I did say goodbye this afternoon.
I feel rather lost now.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Haakon (my Icelandic horse) update.
Pepper (my Patterdale terrier) update.

All too much worry.

#myshetland #shetland #worry #patterdaleterrier
Only Problems
I am trying to feed up Pepper and get some weight on her. Due to her one day on/one day off meal regime, Pepper is losing weight and I don’t like that.  The problem is that she is always on t…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Found these old photos from 2013 of mostly Shetland and a bit of St Andrews, Scotland. Reminiscing.

#shetland #myshetland #oldphotos #memories #scotland
Old Photos – Scenery
Today I went through over 1,000 photos this morning.  It seems I have taken a lot of photos – in fact, I still do – and every so often there’s a good ‘un. This is all from 2…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Setting up new broadband router. I have no words. So, I took some nice photos from yesterday. Enjoy

#myshetland #shetland #broadband #icelandichorses #shetlandponies
No Words
I spent my day spent changing routers so we are now using mobile wifi.  In some ways, we are much better off by having faster internet speeds, but there is a downside too – we have now lost o…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Storm something is on its way. Four days of hell. But I am hopefully prepared. Worked hard all morning getting ready.

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Be Prepared
We have a storm forecast and it’s not going to be fun. So today I decided to be prepared. I went around the croft with Skippy making sure everyone would be ok if we couldn’t get to them…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM