When you can no longer see your dog (or small children) remove them, and if the weather forcasters give us four clear days you can get out the mower. Each year it feels as if there is a marathon ahead. You wave goodbye to your loved ones and promise to return at the end of summer. There is nothing like the ‘squirrely feeling’ of a barn (or yard if wrapped) full of hay. Safe for another 12 months. Really farmers are professional gamblers. We make a decision based on a pine cone, seaweed or the met office then put thousands of pounds of crop on the deck and pray. Imagine a pay cheque depending on weather forecast. One year we were loading up at 2.00am, as we drove up the drive the first spots of rain hit the windscreen. We backed into the barn and went to bed, exhausted but happy.
Ploughing mashed potato 