If you have visited our website recently, the eagle eyed among you will have spotted a new item on our menu. Labelled ‘Learn‘, it’s a drop down menu that is designed to enable you to see at a glance all the opportunities we offer to enable you to come and learn something new in the […]
A snowy Lint Mill began 2022, as we published our first monthly newsletter. We hoped it would be a great way to share our lives at The Lint Mill with our followers more regularly. Each month The Lint Mill Newsletter contains the following enticing content: The most interesting news of the month (it’s often tricky […]
I wrote this entry just after the clocks had just gone back and we were well into the shortening days of autumn. It offers a useful context for the entries I am currently working on following my time at Racy Ghyll Farm. Late October 2021 The mood on the smallholding changes at this time of […]
Earlier this year we bought Herbert the Herdwick tup from our friends in Lockerbie who breed lovely Herdwick sheep. We planned for Herbert to be what is known as a ‘terminal sire’. In other words, his progeny would not be used for breeding themselves, so he represents the end of the breeding line. We wanted […]
Our Bagot keeping adventure is 3 years old today! On 18 August 2018 we went to the rare breed sale at Lanark. We were just going to ‘look’, to see what they had for sale and to meet other breeders and rare breed enthusiasts. We enjoyed looking round and chatting with people we tend only […]
This year has been dominated by Covid-19 for all of us. I’m fairly sure that I never imagined writing a blog in the middle of a global pandemic. Now, after months of uncertainty, it seems we are facing a winter of continued disquiet. One thing however, has felt certain for me; that it has never […]
Nine years ago, almost to the day, I spent dawn until dusk outside in the land at The Lint Mill undertaking a ‘solo’, a practice I had learned as part of my work with an organisation called Natural Change. This time alone, outside of my usual routine, yielded some insights that have returned to me […]
A guest blog by Anneke Scott a leading international exponent of the many number of instruments that make up the family of horns. In 2019 the UK charity Help Musicians launched its latest scheme designed to help and support musicians, a new fund called the Transmission Fund. The Transmission Fund offers grants for emerging and […]