This is just a short follow-up post to my last harvest one. Straw bales are appearing! They’re the less scenic variety, the ones for solid fuel heating, I think.
But, peering from the trees, I captured one being made.
Fireflies and Chocolate
FIREFLIES AND CHOCOLATE was inspired by the 600 children and young people who were kidnapped from Aberdeen during the 1740s and sold into indentured servitude in the American Colonies. The story follows the adventures of Elizabeth Manteith from the castle and her determined efforts to get back home. There’s love. There’s proper derring-dos on the high seas… And there’s chocolate!
Further Insight:
- Review from the Historical Novel Society
- Review from Barb Taub here
- Some Eighteenth Century Letter Seals
- Historical Hot Chocolate which shares the opening of the book.
- The Cumberland Stone near Culloden Moor
- Witchcraft, Kidnapping, and the Cobbles Between
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Wow, Ailish, that is a huge bale! Good to see the Scottish farmers at work.
It is 🙂
There it is@ And what a solid, horizon-bumping chunk!
Yes 🙂
Here near Skye, a local farmer makes his hay this way, see https://www.instagram.com/richard_m_meyer/
That looks traditional!