Well, we've got through to the end of 2012 rather soggy but still here. What a relief and nice change it was to have the sun shining on us this morning with a slight touch of frost in the air as the sun rose.
All the family are slightly tetchy this evening, as we all had various NYE parties to go to last night. Our children went to a themed Young Farmers Party and we had a fabulous dinner party at one of our oldest friends home. But no one had a lie in this morning as all the animals are still expecting to be fed and milked as usual. Poor Mark, who went to bed at 1am only to rise again at 5am. He's looking forward to a night in, in front of the log fire and TV. The festive season is OK if we had time! I still think Christmas would be better for us in July.
Now we've made it to New Years Day and with the sun shining it brought a fresh new start of hope for 2013.
We wish for a better year of weather - drier and a more temperate climate please? We wish for greater milk yields from our 120 cows. We wish for a better milk price as we're currently on 27.376 pence per litre. We wish for our relief milkman to come back and help us asap. (He's recovering from a broken arm).
Then there was the infamous TV appearance on Sunday. What a laugh! Daughter Charlotte was cross she wasn't included in this project at first, but on Sunday night, she was laughing at her family's debut and glad not to be on it. What does that say about our performance? Anyway, for those who didn't view it I'm hoping to get it linked to my blog page/website at some stage. Our wider family thought it was great and many positive comments about all four of us. We got the message across on the difficulties of farming in the wet, but also showed we had hope "that things can only get better"!
No phone call from Countryfile though. There's still time. Our best friends Helen and Charles visited us on Sunday too. They've recently been filmed for Countryfile on the Schmallenberg disease which will be shown on 20 January. Can't wait to have a laugh at them on TV.
To all my followers, I wish you all a very Happy New Year and better weather where you live too!www.farmwalks.vpweb.co.uk
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