Wee Matt Goes to a Walled Garden

In early June, I took Wee Matt to Castlewellan Forest Park. This was his first outing of the year.

Wee Matt is not a man to be rushed, so getting to the walled garden (where I'd been with Jim a couple of months earlier) took a while.

We reached the entrance to the garden eventually.

Admiring the flowers.

We had a wonderful time wandering around and admiring the colourful flowers, then we started making our slow journey back to the car park, stopping on the way to take the customary photo of a sheep in front of the castle, of course.

You wouldn't have known that Wee Matt had had the whole of the winter off from adventuring, he was such a good boy.

Summer 2026

I've fallen ridiculously far behind with posting, so in order to speed up proceedings, I've gone through my photos from June, July and August and picked some highlights. A few summer photoshoots deserve their own posts so we're not done with summer in October yet.

Summer kicked off with getting the sheep clipped. 

Annie and Erin.

Erin.

Annie.

Wee Matt.

Billy, Ida and Wee Matt at the gate.

Ilsa.

Ida on a walk.

Blue Belle.

Getting haylage gathered in.

Poppy helped.

Susan helped too.

All of my Sweet Boys in one photo.

Summer in full bloom.

Baling away.

Jim.

Wee Matt.

Poppy.

Baling again.

And again.

Photoshoot with Poppy and my favourite tractor. (On this glorious evening I also did something I hadn't done for well over fifteen years and rolled down a hill, a much more dizzying experience than I remembered it being before.)

Just assume that there's always some baling going on.

Susan.

Walkies for Jim.

Ilsa.

Greta.

Astrid.

Ilsa.

Ingrid.

Prue.

Annie and Prue.

Susan.

Sheep and dog.

Wee Matt.

Dad, Poppy and I went to some fields very near the coast to collect some straw bales.

A beautiful sky.

Astrid in the field she shared with some other ewes and the tips.

Ida.

Annie.

Teenie.

Annie.

Irving.

Wee Matt and Billy.

I took Billy, Wee Matt, Jim and Ida on a sunset walk.

Walkies for Billy.

A beautiful evening.