Thank you for your kind words yesterday. I think I am back on track now.

Today OH pointed out that there was a Red Admiral butterfly outside the kitchen window.  I can probably count on one hand just how often I have seen any butterfly in Shetland.

The butterfly flitted about from pansy to pansy while we quietly watched fascinated. Apparently, and I did not know this, pansies have coloured guidelines to help the pollinators land.

Luckily no one else was outside so the butterfly was left in peace to go about its day.

I haven’t seen the Shetland ponies. They didn’t turn up for their breakfast so I left them to it, thinking they might appear some time during the day.

Can you see them? Clue – far distance, miles away.

There you go.

Anyway, I am not talking to Waffle – though, obviously I am talking to Tiddles. We always luffs him. He can do no wrong.

Waffle, however, is equus non grata.  He has been destroying the fences again, by standing on the bottom wire to pull it down and then forcing his head through between the top wire and the mesh.  He wants the long grass on the other side.  This blatant vandalism results in the fence and fence posts becoming weaker and less effective.

So, OH and I ran a strand of electric fence wire along two parts where this heinous crime is committed on a daily basis.  I am optimistic that this will solve the problem and extend the already knackered fence’s life.

And I hope I am around to watch Waffle find out what we have done.  I am that cross with him.  I think he knows his name is Bloody Waffle!

This is war.