Back to school for Joshua, his vey last term, I would be ecstatic but he is very tired and cannot sleep so not much reaction. Monday was quite busy for us with a group of people on the farm who may want to buy alpacas. In between Ben Hey turned up to ferry the black stud Discovery up to Atkins Alpacas for a bonking stint and Nick Harrington Smith took Jaquinto back to Sussex for a similar experience.
Our big range cooker for the new house was delivered and it is starting to look good down there now the awful builder’s mess has been cleared away, the drains are in and the septic tank. Our farm signs at the top of the lane were pulled up at the weekend and chucked over the hedge. Who knows why. They are back up again now so we shall see what happens next.
The hen and her three chicks have been released from their coop and are poddling about in the barn. It is best not to get too close to her as she gets extremely annoyed and flies at you. The chicks seems fine, not exactly pretty, but hopefully they will turn out to be hens. Two others are sitting but we are still overwhelmed with eggs.
My brother William’s asparagus is growing fast now, at least two weeks earlier than usual, and it started before the Eastern Europeans had arrived. So William and Liz were flat out. It is a backbreaking job. The temporary workers come in under a government scheme and occupy the house William built as a young man across the road from the main house. My sons worked there one summer and the Poles and Latvians they met have stayed firm friends ever since. I am hoping we can drop by at William’s on Thursday and pick up some of his fantastic asparagus and eat it non stop for several days.