Dodgyvictorians

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Rosemary Vey Jacqueline Hannah. Writer, historian (biographer of 3rd Marquess of Bute, mid to late Victorian currently interested in farming in 1860s East Ayrshire where I live), goat keeper. Cis, her/she. Bi. Married to @Chalcedonyvark.bsky.social

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Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· 1d

The last of the summer shows and a rare picture of me showing, Veena, who won champion kid today and on 1 August at Dumfries. She is very genuinely my kid as she was born premature and unable to stand and I fed her every two hours. She now feeds from her dam as well. She’s very gentle.

Old lady in a white show coat and denim flat cap kneels beside a spotted lop eared goat.on a green field

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· 5d

Errrr

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Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· 23d

He’s perfect! My own Pangur Dhu had the worst start ever and no cat was ever more loved

Black sits on the knee of a woman (my wife) who is in OJs.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jul 17

No I mean for Scottish Independence.

Extract from Wikipedia. According to the Intelligence and Security Committee Russia report, released on 21 July 2020, there is substantial evidence that Russian interference in the British economy and politics is commonplace; further to this, evidence was uncovered detailing interference in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum aimed at promoting Scottish independence in an attempt to divide and conquer the UK.[1][2][3][4][5] The report described the UK as one of Russia's "top targets" as it was "seen as central to the Western anti-Russian lobby".[6]

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jun 22

Monksfield EmpressElvira stands confidently wearing her second place rosette at the Royal Highland Show last week. She has udder damage from an earlier mastitis infection which different judges evaluate differently. Both @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social and I are intensely proud of our home bred star.

A brown goat with white eyebrows stands before her white coated handler. The green field and grey stone wall show its Scottish setting.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jun 13

“Their names are Ignorance and Want” The two great enemies, and we like to keep them around. All the same, we cannot afford the hideous creatures and we cannot let sympathy for the poor sods in whom they have fixed their claws affect our opposition.

The Ghost of Christmas Present takes leave of Scrooge, revealing Ignorance and Want as two clinging children. ‘Beware them both’ says the Spirit.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jun 4

ABC news

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· May 14

The double white Burnett rose, the white rose of Scotland- a small semi double white rose with a loose open flower and yellow stamens.

The Jacobite rose Rosa Alba Maxima. As its name suggests a very large rose, fully double with small tightly packed inner petals, and large lax outer ones.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· May 14

I suspect that carping about rose species may be peak 🦋but, the ‘small white rose of Scotland is presumably the Burnett or Scotch rose, either single or double. Though the Old Yellow Scotch is the rose also clearly identified as Scottish.

Headlined Stephen Flynn fluffs his lines, the BBC show Flynn wearing a modest sized white rose.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· May 7

Well that’s us done our duty. #DogsAtPollingStations #Greyhound

A greyhound in an orange jacket and a tricolour Border Collie stand next to a woman who is smiling beside a sign saying ‘Polling Place Way In’

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Apr 19

The white belly is, I think, a thing many kinds of primitive goats have. Here is Lillie.

A black goat with a white belly band stands on some spent hay looking over a green field in summer. She has fabulous horns.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Mar 14

Rebec had her first kids today. First kids on the holding this year. With little fat and very fine coats they are vulnerable to the sudden plunge of temperatures we have had. There is snow lying in patches outside, hence the heated box to warm up. They are dam reared. Clarsach (f) and Chanter (m).

A brown Anglo Nubian goat stands on her four legs while on the ground a brown and a dappled grey kid struggle to their feet

A dappled grey and a brown long eared kitten d snooze in a box.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Mar 12

In a move designed to greatly increase the range of colour and texture for producing rugs, I’ve crossbred some gimmers, and the odd yow with my new Icelandic tup. It’s resulted in a megaton of cute.

Two out of a triplet family by an Icelandic tup consider the possibility of escape and adventure on a very wet day. A third lamb, a Cheviot cross, is also up for trouble.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Mar 12

Mount Aso flowering in February in Scotland. A rounded bush of willow with bright pink catkins prolifically on it, against a background of a whitewashed wall and a wire aviary.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Feb 19

I’m not a man. I wasn’t drawing attention to my wife’s name because her employers are poisonous. And I’d like an apology, pretty please.

A photo for my 73 birthday with my beloved golden greyhound and tri coloured collie. Old lady in a plumb jumper and blue jeans against very blue grass.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Feb 14

This is THE perfect plant for Valentine’s Day. Easy to grow, prolific, absolutely STUNNING, very reliable. Salix gracilistyla Mount Aso.

A profusion of pink catkins in a white jug.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Feb 14

Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys, or it as bought as such. It’s a somewhat atypical presentation. It is however glorious and very gothic

Red and black small willow catkins, ‘pussywillow’ in a red glass bud vase.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jan 13

I will tell my tame wethers Volodymyr and Seraphim of this, and ask them to spare a moment in their hectic schedules to honour a more local saint than their name-saints.

Lady in red bunnet speaks to a cream wether sheep, xCheviot, who wears a green collar and has a red flock mark. An Anglo Nubian goat commences a photobomb.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Nov 20

Without downloading any new pics describe your gender.

Old lady bouncing on a seesaw, in jeans, grubby walking boots, and a brown jumper, and a red waked hat. She is laughing cheerfully.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Oct 20

I love my dog too. She is also a very good dog.

A golden greyhound lies relaxed and elegant on the grass.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Sep 28

Yows (ewes) went to tups on Friday. Here are the girls put for cross breeding to my beautiful young Icelandic tup Raffles. I’m hoping do do more fiber work. #SmallFarmLife

A young horned tup (ram) is light brown with a shaggy fleece. He’s standing side on to the camera giving it side eye. Behind and around him stand bigger white fleeced sheep.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Sep 18

The Princess of Scotland- a somewhat sentimental version of Scots culture, but true enough in its way.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Sep 13

Ten years ago I was in a new relationship with Sophie. It never occurred to me that by now one of my biggest worries would be that the colour of her skin would make her a target. Main-stream politicians talking about people like her creating ‘an island of strangers’.

A brown woman in a white show coat, grinning happily, holds a young black goat and the cup it has won.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Sep 11

We still suffer Orange marches, and occasionally there are ‘disturbances’ after football matches. And during the Troubles Glasgow was never bombed. Mind you the last time was exceptional circumstances.

Various images of over exuberant reactions to Rangers big win in 21 as lockdown was being eased.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Aug 23

Most of the time Sophie (my half Asian wife) and I live in our family and friends world. We have the usual ups and downs and worries of our small farm life, and our families lives. They are vivid and sometimes heartrending but patterns universal to human kind. People meet and love, quarrel, get ill.

My wife, a smiling brown woman, holding a small black goat, flanked by a young woman and a middle aged woman, also with goats. All friends at an agricultural show, a happy day with prizes and fun.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Aug 15

So we have this rose bowl for a year, courtesy of the beauty of Monksfield Damaris, Penny’s kid, and our roses look rather fine in it, I think.

Pink yellow and red roses heaped high in a silver bowl.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Aug 14

Well I hope they paid the excellent Val McDermid a shedload of dosh for mangling and sentimentalising her second Pirie novel.

Karen Pirie series promo photo. The actress Lauren Lyle as Pirie turns to look at the camera.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Aug 3

While it’s vulgar to boast, Zoe got Reserve Champion Goat at Dumfries show yesterday and here she is with @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social. (Note for USA. In the UK red is first, blue is 2) #Goats #SmallFarmLife

Woman in a white showing coat stands beside a goat who is brown with Swiss markings. A large blue rosette flutters in the breeze of a brilliantly sunny day. It’s Scotland. Sun is more bright than hot.

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jul 27

Perfectly reasonable. I really hope the locals DO use loos. Oh wait, did the sub editor mean ‘dirty campers … ask to be allowed to use the locals’ loos’???? (I don’t mind ordinary bods getting English wrong. If you are paid to write it, try harder!)

Heading reads ‘Dirty campers ‘fly tipping, raving and asking locals to use loos’

Dodgyvictorians@dodgyvictorians· Jul 23

It’s terribly hard to sleep through the kiss of life delivered by a loving and slightly worried collie. (Demi. Delphine loves her except when she forgets there’s a greyhound inside the bed and walks in her.)