Recent weather is, once again, giving some farmers cause for concern. The good weather that the UK has been experiencing of late is giving farmers, especially those in the South and East of the country, only 10 per cent of the rainfall they expected in March and April. If normal levels of rain do fall … [Read more…]
We are in the deep, dark depths of winter on the farm and my, do we know it. I have therefore come up with five reasons you know it’s winter here. 1.My hands look like I am a bricklayer. They are so cracked and sore. Having animals and children means I wash my hands all … [Read more…]
So it’s St Swithin’s Day. If you don’t know the tale, the feast is named after a ninth century bishop who wished to be buried outside the door of Winchester Cathedral but, his body was moved in the tenth century and that is when the legend began. The old rhyme goes: St Swithin’s day if … [Read more…]
