The restrictions have been lifted and we are free to move animals which is very good news. Mobile matings can resume and we can ship animals who are now pregnant off to their owners. It is a great relief that FMD did not spread anywhere else. All we’ve got now is bluetongue to look forward to.
Joshua has returned from France to a boiling hot Devon and Kyle is off at a music festival on Dartmoor somewhere. He will be TOO hot as opposed to the last one where he, the tent and all his clothes came back covered in mud. Various cryptic text messages were sent, possibly too much booze?, but the general message seemed to be that despite the mud it was very cool.
I picked raspberries yesterday and strawberries this morning before the start of a big jam making exercise. They are going through the raspberry jam I made last weekend too fast so more is clearly necessary and Josh has requested strawberry as well. I love making jam, it is so satisfying to see all those pots in the cupboard.
A reurnion is being set up for those of us who were baby journallists on the IPC Training Scheme in Plymouth – this reunion thing is clearly a function of old age…we are approaching 60 – oh dear.