I raise wild birds every year but each year, each one is different and, you know, very, very intensive, particularly at the beginning where you’re giving 10 minute feeds. But yeah, that’s, that’s just been a really beautiful experience, but it’s meant that I haven’t been over to Oban in, in a long time so, you know, feeling very happy and very homebound at the moment and, and you realize that right here we’ve got everything that we need.
LA: God, that sounds magical. What a scene with the birds and also, like, incredibly intense.
TC: Yeah, and they can… Over the years, they, they, they show you such tenderness and how complex their social interactions are that they share with us as well. You know, a starling that I used to have would fall asleep in the nook of my neck and every night before she slept she traced my cheek with her beak. They are very responsive, beautiful, intuitive, compassionate, and wildly intelligent creatures. We have so much to learn. LA: You can follow along with Tamsin’s upcoming winter on the farm on Instagram. TC: You know, you’ve got Christmas and you’re walking out to the, uh, church service which is in this very old, um, 11th or 12th century church and the bell is rung… Uh, still there in the bell tower, and it’s rung when everybody’s standing inside and everybody’s just there with a candle-lit lantern.
LA: I mean, you talk about it and clearly you love that island and the life you chose really deeply.
TC: There’s a point in all of our lives where, you know, life, life can meet you unexpectedly or perhaps with a, a, a force of motion that, that you’re not quite ready for, but, you know, it’s always teaching you something very, very precious, I think. You know, those times of difficulty are really there as beautiful situations of growth, and it’s only when we dare to put down roots and to start to sow into that bare ground that really you’re, you’re really planting hope for your future.
And that might not come immediately, but it’s so important to do the sowing, to do the blessing in the time of… Those hard times of challenge and difficulty because the very act of doing that gives back so much, and what I’m suggesting is that we are all islands until we meet that point of really tapping into that greater, uh, source of presence, and it’s only when we start to really
