A week of dispatch
Mid winter early morning sunrise Tiz the season and all that! We're having a busy time on the farm - I think I open this blog with that line every time, I must come up with something more original for next year . We have dispatched our first lamb, and it was the turkeys turn at the weekend, ready for the festive table. Everyone is talking about how mild it is. The 'Ologist returned from a walk round the fields only yesterday saying he'd spotted a primrose in full bloom. It is only a few weeks since the lovely rose outside the front of the farmhouse lost all its leaves. We can see the daffodils already pushing up and still no sign of coolers times. The small girl is very keen for snow - having been born overseas in warmer climes she has only ever seen it in photographs - she has never been able to lie in the snow and make snow angels. Who knows what nature will make of this warm winter - I guess as the new year roll...