Back in the darkest days of lockdown we managed to purchase the Motte & Bailey adjacent to the Pinfold. Since then we have removed approximately 50% of the bramble and, more importantly, the last sheep to grazed it in August 2020. With all the meadow nurturing and trees, both old and new, our little lockdown project is becoming a thing of great beauty. We came south from Scotland to see it for ourselves at the height of summer.
Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal and in 2024 we sailed to French Polynesia via Galapagos.
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Tuesday, 13 June 2023
The motte meadow is maturing nicely
Back in the darkest days of lockdown we managed to purchase the Motte & Bailey adjacent to the Pinfold. Since then we have removed approximately 50% of the bramble and, more importantly, the last sheep to grazed it in August 2020. With all the meadow nurturing and trees, both old and new, our little lockdown project is becoming a thing of great beauty. We came south from Scotland to see it for ourselves at the height of summer.