But apart from that .... how's farming?
Welcome back
other than that, oh well it's just marvelous when you're not injured (never), not sleep deprived (virtually never) and swearing like a trucker at broken tractors and thick and sh*t sheep!
we all just walk bout in tweed jackets and moleskin trousers with a well kept collie by our side whilst we we lean on a traditional shepherds crook looking vacantly at some clean, good looking sheep grazing gently on a lush green field with soft blue skies overhead (or maybe not!)
Welcome back - I was thinking about you this afternoon!
(I rode along some hilltop lanes and was watching farmers harvesting hay. Or is it grass until it has dried? Anyway, the stuff that their sheep will be eating in the winter! Wrapping it up in big rolls covered in black plastic. I wondered if you were out somewhere doing that.)
i would say it's always hay when we're harvesting it, after all we say 'i'm going to cut that field of hay on friday'
can't believe you were thinking of me!
although today was my 'day off' one farmer is trying to struggle on by him self for a few days now as the last 2 lots of lambs he sold were terribly cheap and he's worried about how much he owes me now!
and it's too wet for hay making or gardening for the moment and i've lost count of how many days in a row i've been working now!
so today i decided to go down the workshop and sort a few bits out and take the bike out, my idea of giving my buggered back and legs a 'rest' (soon buggers your body when you have a 70 odd kg (11 stone) sheep trow it self at your legs at full pelt trying to snap them or you have a 40 kg (6 stone) lamb run and jump/trow it self at you and knock you over on the concrete whilst you wrestle it! haha
Cheers Ed
back
