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23rd March 2008

It’s been a wintry Easter Day with a good covering of snow across the fields and downs. I love that special quietness that comes with snow, just the crunch beneath your feet and then every so often an almost magnified sound of a buzzard and crows mobbing overhead. The feeling of being alone today, (sometimes difficult in this well populated county), was certainly helped with fewer cars on the road and no sign of other crazy people venturing out into the blizzard-like conditions.  Perfect, I was in my element.

The cold weather will help prevent the Bluetongue virus for a little while longer, on the other hand we need the weather to improve so that field work can continue and of course we are in dire need of grass to grow once more.

David and Sam have been working over the Easter weekend feeding and checking livestock and then it’s back to field work on Tuesday.