CraigardCroft: Norfolk Boy Reprieved

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Norfolk Boy Reprieved

"Norfolk Boy" the psychopathic Ixworth cockerel has been reprieved. I had tartiflette and salad for lunch. Sue Cheadle, Crofter at Sanna is taking him along with a few of his wives to a high security twilight home for criminally insane poultry.

Norfolk Boy is the one on the right with big claws, evil eye and cruel beak., He has got to be much heavier than Asterix the Gaul on the left. The camp younger brother of Asterix is "TinTin" and he has also gone into care with Joyce O Connor at Achosnich. This leaves me with only Asterix the elegant and friendly BG cockerel for the moment. Its a lot quieter at 4.30am.

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About Craigard Croft

Finding this place was a bit of luck. Walking through Ft. William I saw the ad in a Solicitor's window. Within a couple of days I was here to see it and to be interviewed. Well it felt like an interview. Ann Scott who was selling Craigard, daughter of Mary Jane Scott, the last crofter, wanted to make sure that her Mother would approve of who ever bought the place. I must have met Mary Jane's criteria.

My working life was in farming in Scotland, Northumberland, Cumbria, Kent and Russia where I managed an EU technical assistance project in the Ministry of Agriculture. Retirement to a croft was an opportunity to carry on farming on a small scale, at a slower pace with time for idling. It's an experiment in sustainable self-reliant farming and living. The blog is an experiment too; in agricultural journalism, something I dabbled in years ago, I'm an inveterate dabbler.