Here comes Christmas!! and our BBC TV programme!!

After all that over indulgence during the festive season, you might like to laugh it off by watching the Barnes family on TV in a weeks time.  The East Midlands version has a section at the end featuring the effects of the wet summer, autumn and winter has had on our dairy farm in Somerby. 

This BBC programme will be aired on Sunday 30th December at 5.30pm on BBC One and its title is "Wild Weather in 2012".   They filmed Noel (my 82yr old father in law) on his memories of past wet seasons of weather over his lifetime, my husband Mark on the effects the present rainfall has had on the land, my son Harry (15yrs) on his thoughts of the weather can have on this farm and myself, who had the nice warm Aga in the kitchen for the interview.  Countryfile's Adam Henson, eat your heart out!

Talking about this wet year, we've had another deluge over the past couple of days.  My rain meter in the garden can't take more than 1.5 inches so we've had more than that.  Consequently, we are daily underwater throughout the outdoor yards and with 120 cows housed inside, we've been unable to scrape out the muck to the muck store.  Mark's getting rather stressed about it and has now got a cold to boot.  Why can't Christmas be in July when all the cows are outside feeding themselves, spreading their own muck and don't need a daily bedding with fresh straw?  We'd have time to enjoy the celebrations instead of having to fit Christmas in before afternoon milking.  Barely time to open all my presents, eat a roast dinner and have a glass of something alcoholic!

So it's the day before Christmas Eve, Charlotte and I have finally found one of the last Christmas Trees available at the local garden centre and decorated it before lunch.  "So Santa now has somewhere to put all my presents!" exclaimed Charlotte.   No help from the boys in this household, just Beattie the puppy who took off as many baubles as we were putting on!

Just been Carol Singing around the village, which was fun and definitely filled us with  alot of Christmas Spirit.  Or was that the Mulled Wine and mincepies.

Anyway, don't forget to watch "Wild Weather in 2012" next Sunday at 5.30pm on BBC One, for a good old fashioned belly laugh!

Have a good Christmas and New Year.  Roll on a much drier 2013!