It’s been a busy few days preparing for our Open Day yesterday, falling over with shock at more Foot & Mouth and the death of the premature cria…not a marvellous few days. The cria had gone all floppy on Thursday morning and drifted in and out of a deep sleep all day and eventually died peacefully in the night. It was a real shame but we gave him the best chance we could.
The F&M is nasty, just as everyone thought life was back to normal. Luckily we got quite a few pregnant girls home in the ‘clear’ period so that halved our visitor’s field. But it does mean that the two black males we co-own never turned up as they are banged up elsewhere and Jaquinto, who should be going back to Sussex on Tuesday, is stuck here.
What’s the silver lining? We might get to even more jobs that have been delayed due to overwork, sloe gin, sloe and haw jelly may well be made and, perish the thought, I might get through a few of the books sitting there waiting to be read.