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16 October 2014

Hermit Life


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Bunnies and Barley Fields

We hae a` sorts o` wild bunnies here on Sanday. Well, I say `wild` but some o` their ancestors were onything but! At some point in time, tame bunnies got oot o` their hutches or were let loose by departing `failed` islanders, and in spite o` the gales and the snow and the cauld, they survived and bred. So noo we hae a variety o` wild bunnies o` a` sorts o` colours.
There are the pure black ones, the equally pure white ones, and those in atween, patchy bunnies they are, piebalds that look like they hae just landed oot o` the pet shop.
We even hae some bright ginger ones!
But me favourites are the silver ones, they look, in the twilight o` an evening, like wee ghost rabbits, coming right up tae the hoose tae clip awa` at the grass and docks, silver fur flashing in the gloom.
I`m nae sentimentalist...I see bunnies, I think meat and furs.
But they DO look awfy bonny, just the same.....
I do like this time o` year tae. Even though the best o` summer has undoubtedly gone, and the gales hae hit early again and the nights are drawing in, there`s a bonny mellow feel tae the air and in the light, which has a special way o` pouring itself ower the barley fields o` an evening, like liquid gold ower silk. Until the fairmer cut the barley I could look oot ower the fields and watch the wind play them, and for a` the world they looked like seas o` gold, and ye could almost expect tae see an auld ship wi` fu` sails glide across them.
But noo the big roond bales sit quietly plump ower the stubble, and the fields look no` sae romantic and mair prosperous, a testimony tae man`s toil on the landscape that hae fed generations o` folks on this wee isle.
Sometimes, when it`s a quiet and still night, I sit ootside and watch the sun kiss the land and watch the sea shift in the dying light and wonder if the wife o` a viking settler once did the same thing. And I wonder what her thoughts were...did she see peedie fields wi` the crop cut and ready, and thank her gods for their prosperity? Did she watch her bairns traipse up frae the beach wi` a catch o` fish and feel pride at their skill?
I would like very much tae hae had the chance tae ask her. For I`m thinking, she would no` hae been sae very different frae ony other woman we ken today.
Posted on Hermit Life at 13:46

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My people saw many silvery bunnies on Sanday and were really taken with them. Over on Hoy some years ago there seemed to be a lot of black ones, but the silver-grey Sanday bunnies are the prettiest. There was a man on Corfu cooking rabbit on the box last night and I just so wanted to be there...

Flying Cat from dreaming of a coney coat


the laast time i saw a rabbit alive was the bay one that the dug killed(mine not coco) but i have lots of hares running in the garden and what was a vineyard in front o the hoose,partidge,foxes,hedgehogs,loads of birds,squirrels and of course nice long grass snakes(not to mention the bats and scorpions and big revolting green lizards)

tws's weather girl from flooding the village


Hermit you see bunnies the way I see cats ( meat and furs) Was that Corfu? No she'd only had the wan drink....

Tws from Dreaming of Bunny


The Zorba cooking the rabbit must have been a folkloric remnant. Now it is tofu on Corfu: tofu on pizza, tofu sandwich, and tofu milk. No tofu beer yet, but it's probably on its way.

mjc from NM,USA


Must be very nice living on Sanday by the sea as you do, Hermit, particularly with your ability to appreciate your ever changing surroundings. # Our rabbits and hares in Albuquerque, NM, are fun to watch, but they are rather drab, and quite abundant fodder for the coyotes.

mjc from NM,USA


I love cute cuddly bunnies but they annoy Mr B who paces up and doon the field in search of them doing his Elmer Fudd impersonation. they nibble his shoots (on the Willows). Your right theres something about the large bales in a field. they have cut our field but the bad weather is stopping them baling it. Such is summer

Barebraes from Shapinsay


you write like a peat stream, dark and glinty. Running for the fun of it.

nobby from wiltshire


Rabbit stew!! Now that's a dish fit for a king ... and us. Funnily enough just last week as I opened the doors of this Outback pub at 5.45am [I cook breakfasts] there were two cottontails across the street ... it seemed as though they were checking how many road trains they had to dodge to cross to the other side. Carol ... a little piece of good news ... New Zealand does NOT have snakes.

Plaid from Too hot for a fur coat


I am trying to write three stories on rabbit life, and your rich information was most illuminating. (I also have not had rabbit stew as yet.) I shall save this for further reference.

Dorothy from auto24203@hushmail.com




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