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About Square Sparrow

Freelance writer Square Sparrow lives on a rambling smallholding in rural Scotland with her husband (HunterGatherer) and, now and then, their three offspring. Other smallholding incumbents include one overly indulged feline called FatCat, a similarly rotund Highland pony called FatHorse, plus a flock of rather attractive Shetland sheep – known affectionately as the Chocolate Sheep because of their rich assortment of wool colours (and because of Square Sparrow’s passion for chocolate).

Some useful information about ‘Square Sparrow’:

Gender
Female

Industry
Communications or Media

Occupation
Freelance writer and linguist

Location
Scotland, United Kingdom

Introduction
I live in a perpetually untidy cottage in the Scottish countryside, with an assortment of wildlife including a husband and (occasionally) three children.

Interests
Self sufficiency, Scotland, poetry, family, mums, parenting, farming, languages, education, university, sport, crofting, gardening, polytunnels, countryside pursuits, hockey, skiing, music, tennis, animals, sheep, horses, ponies, creative writing, chocolate, real food, cooking

Favourite Films
Local Hero, Pretty Woman, Comfort and Joy, Amadeus, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Heimat, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Favourite Music
Mozart, The Proclaimers, Gerry Rafferty, Runrig, Dougie Maclean, KT Tunstall, Amy Macdonald, Ed Sheeran, Vivaldi, Haydn, Chris de Burgh, Supertramp, Abba, Al Stewart

Favourite Books
Sunset Song, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Mornings at Seven, All Creatures Great and Small, The Other Side of the Dale

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  • From Shetland fleece to Shetland shawl: Tufty’s coat of many colours
  • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Sparrowholding!
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From The Blog
humorous festive blog from Scottish smallholding
Festive bleatings from the Sparrowholding in Scotland
4 years ago

‘Surely it’s not that time of year again?’ I hear you cry – and I can only concur. In the halcyon days (daze?) of my youth, my dear old mum regularly warned me that each year would fly past faster as I aged matured. Only now do I realise that I should have listened to […]

clump of stunning primroses in spring in Scotland
Lambing, tubs and other signs of spring in Scotland
4 years ago

Even by Yours Truly’s intermittent blogging standards, it’s been rather a long time since my last rural bulletin, so buckle up and hold on tight for a whistle-stop tour of spring in Scotland, as viewed from here at The Sparrowholding. In my defence, one of the reasons for the paucity of posts to date this […]

shetland sheep fleeces lying on the ground
From Shetland fleece to Shetland shawl: Tufty’s coat of many colours
5 years ago

Some of you may remember that last June I posted a short video of HunterGatherer, using old-fashioned hand clippers to shear Tufty’s gorgeous Shetland fleece. Well, the stunning fleece which appeared in that self-same video has been on a rather exciting journey since the day it left The Sparrowholding later that summer in the car […]

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