Sunday 8 February

 

Everything looked beautiful this evening having had yet another snowfall, that's the eighth day on a row now and perhaps the thickest yet. I must admit to wanting to see the colour green again though.

Saw one of our neighbours this morning whilst out walking the girls, they only moved in a few months ago and their friends had come to spend the weekend, talk about a small world. I was introduced as 'the lady with the Highland Cows' which then led to where they had come from, well as soon as they said 'Lincolnshire' you can imagine as a fully fledged 'yellow belly' I wanted to know more. They only knew one of my old employers from my farming days near Stamford! what was nice to hear is that it's a Dairy Farm which still exists, where sadly so many haven't and we're still losing them. If I tell you that farmers get the same amount per litre of milk which I used to get for my cows over twenty years ago gives you an idea how hard it is for them and something has to be done before it's too late. Believe me, milk from Romania has been brought in before now only to find it doesn't last the journey - thank goodness.

Glyn was on BBC Bristol this morning presenting their Breakfast Show, they've had it bad down there, so much so he had to spend last night in a hotel just down the road from the studios. I thought then I'd let the dogs stay with me upstairs seeing as I was on my own - remind me never to do that again - it felt like being in hospital with a nurse being asked to check on you every half an hour, I've had to put extra eye cream on today because of it.

Not sure what's happening this next week, guess it all depends on the weather. Thursday evening sees a special event at St Mary's Church in Tenbury as farmers from Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire come together to mark one hundred and fifty years of Tenbury Agricultural Society and I've been asked to say a few words which I'm very proud to do. I had a sneak preview of the programme and I'm down as a Cattle Farmer, should be interesting when they ask how many I have and I tell them two!

Do you know, I reckon I've got a hole in my wine glass, I brought a full one up and I'm just looking at it, and it's all gone - best go, you know how red wine can stain!