Sybil Armstrong knew it would be a challenge when she took on a sixteen-acre croft in North-West Scotland at the end of the Second World War, but she never could have guessed how much she had to leam about even the basic business of surviving as part of the tiny loch-side community of Clachan. The problems were simply enormous, but the warmth of her welcome and the hrm friendships she soon formed opened the door to an increasingly rewarding new pattern of life. The story of her first year in the Highlands was told in A Croft in Clachan, which won the hearts of numerous readers, and in Clachan Days Sybil Armstrong provides the equally engaging account of a second twelve months of coping with the croft. Experience had already taught her much, but each day still seemed to bring with