Category Archives: Farmblog

The heat of the last week looks like it’s about to break at any moment and beyond my window a tractor is rapidly gathering up the fresh bails of hay from the field. Well, I say rapidly but the whole … Continue reading →

Today was a good day. We got a lot of stuff done and it was very rewarding. In fact it was what I always thought this kind of thing would be like. First of all we brought the sheep in … Continue reading →

Cycled 20 miles today. A few months back that would have been unthinkable, but I did it, and apart from a slight ache in my lower back muscles I could probably cycle some more. Blimey. After lunch, at about 2.30, … Continue reading →

When I came back from Newport this afternoon, all hot and sweaty from the cycle ride, I saw one of the orphan lambs in the farmyard but not in the field paddock with the calves where they’re supposed to be. … Continue reading →

Funny, a week ago it was getting cool enough to wear a jumper out to the field (only to take it off as soon as actual work commenced) and, despite July and August still to come, I was thinking that … Continue reading →

“How did the idea of Ira’s shack maintain its hold so long? Well, it’s the earliest images – of independence and freedom, particularly – that do live obstinately on, despite the blessing and the bludgeoning of life’s fullness. And the … Continue reading →

Just now I was lying down in the caravan as the sun set, reading the Philip Roth book (very good, btw), listening to Miles Davis (Kind of Blue) and pondering how good I was feeling. It occurred to me that … Continue reading →