Butterly Lovely

...and just because they are good photos, here are a couple of butterflies, photographed on the Croft today. They illustrate a point about butterfly diet - nectar, and rotting fruit... the butterfly equivalent of a land of wine and honey.

As yellow as butter

Cherry licker

A Hungry Donkey Looks at the Thistle*

It's a tough life being a donkey on the Croft. I've put Arran and friends on a diet, and now there are only thistles to eat. It's a delicate process, getting past the prickles...

The straw diet is working well, and I think that the donkeys are beginning to lose weight. They are certainly tucking into their feed.

*With apologies to Hugh MacDiarmid, author of "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"