The Farm
13th August 2018
Last Sunday began on a high as the family descended on us en masse to celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary. How fortunate we have been both […]
30th July 2018
Recent weather put into perspective I was brought up short by seeing pictures of skeletal sheep in Australia – where they really do experience drought. For […]
23rd July 2018
It becomes ever harder to ignore the lack of any meaningful rain. We are still grazing our cattle and, sheep but we are also providing some […]
15th July 2018
Weather forecasts, however wrong they so often seem to be, have been watched by us with great interest recently. On Friday it was suggested that we […]
9th July 2018
And still the cuckoo calls! Has he no idea of the near disaster farming in this country is facing as a result of the longest period […]
2nd July 2018
This has been a productive week on the farm. An additional four fields were cut and baled as hay, meaning we now have in storage just […]
25th June 2018
My concerns about the weather have proved well founded. According to the ‘experts’ we have had but a fraction of the rain we might have expected […]
18th June 2018
As Milly stole the show last week in the shared photograph of her after her having helped work the sheep, this week you find her entirely […]
13th June 2018
As rapidly as it finally arrived, spring seems to have already turned into summer. Trees, hedges and verges show this only too clearly. Strange weather we […]