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25th August 2008

The last of the fields at Silent Pool were completed this afternoon and now the combine is being prepared for a 5am start tomorrow.  Next stop,  Shalford. 

I was intending to keep a photographic log of the harvest, but this has become rather difficult since an Orthopaedic Surgeon put my ankle in an air-cast boot and told me to slow down for five weeks.  True enough the boot has slowed me down a little but it has made the routine chores twice as hard and therefore my day even longer, not exactly restful and probably not what the doctor is expecting. 

The pressures on the family are greater at this time of year and this hasn’t been helped by the wet harvest, increased acres to cut, and what seems to be turning into an annual event – George’s trip to A&E last week.  This time he crashed a quad bike into a set of discs and gained various scrapes and bruises and a questionable wrist injury which needs to heal, ready for the rugby season which starts next Sunday.