Sorry for the delay in getting another blog on my page. It's has been quite a while since I last added some news to life at Southfields Farm but we have been interrupted by broadband breakdowns.
It's half term week this week, so Harry is home for one week from Reaseheath College and Mark and I have taken this opportunity to jet off...........to Hunstanton for the week! Well, Mark's getting a week of lazying about, with 6 morning a lie-ins!
So this morning, up early (5.30am) to leave Hunstanton and return home (did it in 1hr 45mins - hope the highway coppers were still asleep) as there has been a pressing need since Friday to get our broadband up and running again. BT Openreach visited us this morning, to repair yet another loose wire inside the house, making our broadband connect a 100 times better than it was! I'm now a happy person again......phew!
Life without broadband makes you feel you've lost the use of both arms. We have become so used to all its multitasking, I'm sure my computer is a woman! Like all things on our farm, the females are working hard, multitasking and producing the goods, even if sometimes a little tempermental.
However, the boys Harry and Jayden are home alone this week (maybe not, cousin Tom has arrived tonight to stay for a "while"!) Three young men home has brought life back to the place.
In case you're confused....... I've left Mark (not in the sense of marriage separation) in Hunstanton and returned back to do a "Talk" in Southwell this lunchtime. I hate messing my bookings around just to fit in a holiday, so I've returned back for a couple of days to check the farm, the cows, host a farmwalk tomorrow, make sure Trevor our relief milker is OK and feed the boys. They did manage two nights feeding themselves. Oooh and to see our little dog Beattie too and the horses, who are living like kings in heaven, the amount of long grass they've got in their field.
As the nights are drawing in, the chickens went to bed this evening at 5.45pm cos they hate all this rain and very windy tonight. We opened up the cubicle shed to offer bed space for the cows, and they didn't say no. About 30 or so, went straight into the stalls, to relax on the bed of straw even though the gate is open for them to walk out to the fields. It's not cold, just very, very wet! The milk yield is dropping rapidly - we've been feeding our silage from the clamp for 5-6 weeks now and are expecting more cows to calve shortly. Winter is only around the corner, hence Mark's quick break to the "far east" to get him fit and well for the months of hard work ahead!
Hopefully, it won't be too long before I report again, about life down on Southfields Farm.
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