A quick Xmas update. The fields are too wet to move anything with the tractor unless we want to ruin them. So we are taking hay to the sheep by barrow. Unfortunately we are on clay here so certain areas are now ponds and I have to steer the wheelbarrow through 1/2 a foot of water and the sheep have made a real mess round the hay feeders. But they are at least in a field that’s dry. The pigs however are loving it! Soft earth and it’s so warm they are finding lots to eat.

And because it’s so warm there are Iris and Aconites flowering (normally Feb) and we are having a home grown cauliflower. This photo shows what I picked from the poly tunnel today to go with our Sasso cock bird for dinner: The cauliflower was planted in August to overwinter and eat in early spring but like everything else as it’s so warm they have flowered early. The bad news is we won’t have any  in March.

Merry Christmas to all our followers.