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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-09-14 18:06:59

OK, my #MentalHealth is pretty bad, and I'm still hurting from a bad fall on Saturday, but that is the first sheet of steel on the new workshop roof so it has not been a bad day.
Very tired now.
#TheJoyOfCrofting

View from the roof — made of fairly rough timbers — with four purlins on it. The floor of the wood looks very green from up here. In this view I'm looking south.
View from the roof — made of fairly rough timbers — with all six purlins on it. In this view I'm looking north.
View of the completed roof frame from the ground.
View of the roof with one sheet of steel cladding on it.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-01 18:58:52
Content warning: Meat

Today we have mostly been butchering the bull we killed a fortnight ago.
A long, hard day, but it's done. That's all my meat for a year.
#TheJoyOfCrofting (unironically)

Start of the day — before the rain. The mincer is set up on the table nearer to the camera, most of the other equipment is on the big stainless steel table further away.
Deboning a leg. My friend Phil uses a knife to cut the meat off the bone.
Making mince. There is a tray of steaks to the right. Behind, other parts of the carcass are being dismantled. The rain has started so we have moved everything on to the main table and erected an awning over it.
At the end of the day, everything has been cleaned up and cleared away, but the awning is still over the stainless steel table.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-30 11:52:19

Just moved the cattle onto fresh grass. Needless to say, they're very happy about it.
#TheJoyOfCrofting (unironically)

Black cattle up to their bellies in lush green grass. Some of the calves are almost hidden.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-08-15 16:57:54

Today, The Little Tractor That Can and I have been mostly topping thistles.
Yes, I'm late in the year for it, and it has set seed; but I also got most of the ragwort, which hadn't, so it was worth doing.
#TheJoyOfCrofting

The Little Tractor That Can in commons meadow, with tall thistles to the right of it and none to the left.