My good intentions of sharing with you the minutiae of life here on the smallholding have gone the way of all good intentions.

For now, I am busy making hats, and hoping that some of them will find homes in the south, when I take them to the Festival of Crafts at Farnham Maltings on 27th and 28th October, and in the north, when I take them to Crafted by Hand, Masham on 3rd and 4th November.

So, two excellent opportunities to try a hat. I much prefer people to try them on rather than order online. Honestly, you can have no idea how anxious I get about them not fitting when someone just sends me their head measurement (and about the possibilities for hats getting squashed in transit.....).

Anyway, I know what you really want to see are photos of my sheep, but today all I have to offer is a hat.