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Hello ‘Fiona is travelling’ fans, new readers and 'passing trade' I’m writing this on my last day of a two week return to Cleire Goats , my friend Ed’s goat farm on  Cape Clear Island in the Republic of Ireland. It’s been a pretty momentous two weeks - with four births - three twins (one little goat didn’t survive but the other six are doing ok) ... one little kid separating from the herd and getting lost - we looked for him till it went dark the first day, and all morning the second day, till our opposite neighbour called to say he’d heard a strange bleating noise in his garden! one of yesterday's twins the little escapee I’m exhausted and elated from working on the farm since I’ve been here - it’s still completely beautiful , you get to see the sea and the mainland on the walk from the farmhouse to the goatsheds and the light and colours change every hour.   I was in bed this morning listening to a gale blowing outside ... let’s hope the