My neighbour (Colin) has a ewe that thinks it's a cow. It hangs about with all his cows and doesn't mix with any of his sheep at all, except when the Tup (Ram) is in the field.
Colin first noticed his ewe displaying this odd behaviour, when one of his cows butted the ewe, more or less saying "You are a sheep! Go Away!", the ewe stood for a while looking at the cow, then ran at it and butted it back. Weird.
Just this spring I noticed that the ewe now has a lamb. The lamb thinks it's a Larf!.
After all the fanfare of finishing my ROOF I decided that the fireplace should now take centre stage.
Jim Duncan (who is a fine stonemason) took on the challenge.
My thoughts coincided wi
th his and he has come up with a superb design. We have used Nigg sandstone (courtesy of Johnny Ross).....
Strangely the living room is the same size as my flat was in Thames Ditton........More photos to follow as work progresses...
All the stonework finished. Just need to plaster the lintel, do recessed pointing, tile the back and splash out some more money on a suitable burner......
It has taken 2 years and seven months to get this roof finished......
Ok I don't rush into things. However I decided to have a "Wetting of the head" of my roof. It has been an epic voyage....especially as I don't like heights and and and and....hate roofing.
Money is/was and in fact probably always be an issue: So here it is in all it's glory. My roof.
The front view
Left to right........Chris & Brian.... Thanks guys.
Left to right....Susan, Derek & Johnny.
Yes we do make cocktails from Heinz tomato ketchup in Rogart!......
Check out the space heater in the background..mad.
It was really warm but I think the insurance company just might have had grounds for a fraudulent claim
Crofter, Sculptor, Photographer...my work is very diverse.
6000 years ago a huge forest covered Scotland it is sometimes refered to as the Great Caledonian Forest.
My main work is finding pieces of this forest, usually in the peat bogs locally, then enhancing their natural shapes. The finish is highly polished using a combination of wire wool and bees wax. The end product is known as "Scottish Bog Wood Sculpture"