Persabus | April 8, 2021
Behind the scenes it has been a crazy couple of weeks of online training Zoom meetings and a pile of admin as we get everything ready, making sure we are ‘hot to trot’. Preparing for the time when we can safely begin to welcome you all back to stay with us on the farm at [...]
Persabus | March 27, 2021
The sun has been rising earlier in the mornings and spring is well and truly here, as those beautiful yellow daffodils are out in bloom lining the single-track road to Persabus. It is an exciting time on the farm with the birth of new calves and the fields filled with heavily pregnant sheep. The Happy [...]
Persabus | March 13, 2021
We appear to be running a professional laundry service at Persabus and are ever so gently and quietly being ‘evicted’ from our 'space'. Our roles might have changed quite a bit over the past year, but the farmhouse continues to be a busy hub of creativity in these strange times. Washing baskets are constantly filled. [...]
Persabus | March 5, 2021
Everyone has been asking what I have done with the Happy Farmer? He has disappeared off the blog posts. Slid off the platform of social media. There have been no updates. No cheeky wee mentions. His last sighting was reportedly on ‘The Mighty Persabus Haggis Hunt’. Did he really in fact end up enjoying copious [...]
Persabus | February 26, 2021
The storms died down The hedgerows were suddenly filled with the excited chirruping of birds. The sun came out and the daylight hours stretched on into the early evening. The tease of the spring to come as even the air feels fresher and everything just looks so much brighter. Islay is a place of spectacular [...]
Persabus | February 14, 2021
The Hebrides have that certain ‘pull’ even when the full force of nature’s elements are raging across the landscape. As gales lash against the farmhouse, rattling the slates on the roof. Blizzards bringing powdery snowflakes that ‘sting the eyes’ as they swirl ferociously in the storms. It is both dramatic and spectacularly beautiful. Taking full [...]
Persabus | February 9, 2021
We have been flying by the seat of our pants at Persabus quite literally. Living on the edge of the land. Winter storms have raged across the landscape. Wild seas lashing against the coastline. Ferries battling huge waves to keep our lifeline service running. Sometimes when you look out of the window on a grey [...]
Persabus | January 25, 2021
It was to be a sombre affair this year With all the current restrictions in place, even the Persabus haggi seem to have been hiding away from this dreadful virus. On the farm, whilst those sheep and cows seem oblivious to current guidelines, not adhering to social distancing rules at all, a little haggis told [...]
Persabus | January 22, 2021
We woke up to a hard frost A peppering of snow on the Paps and brilliant sunshine. Days like these. It is good for the soul, especially in these strange times. Running through hard frosty fields, dogs in tow, and the Hebridean sheep do not blink an eye as we pass. They are used to [...]
Persabus | January 8, 2021
It has been a time of the most beautiful strawberry lemony skies Capturing the final hours of daylight with the last rays of the setting sun painting the landscape with golden, pink hues. Underfoot the rugged peaty ground frozen solid. The wild grasses coated in frost. In the distance the pink and lilac snow-clad mountains [...]
