3/25/2009
Spring 2009

Well it has been a long hard winter especially February.

February was also the month that our youngest son Mark went off with the TA, he is okay and keeps in regular contact lets pray he comes home safe.
Spring seems to have arrived the clocks have gone forward and the daffodils are now cheering us up with hope of some long sunny days ahead, well we can hope.

Life at Lorbottle is also coming to life, the weather has improved from the cold north winds and lambing storms of last week. Although we do not officially start to lamb until the 1st April we have had a couple of ewes lambing early both with triplets, so at least we have some spare lambs to adopt on to ewes who have only one lamb. We find the best way to do this is called wet set, hopefully you can catch the mum as she is lambing and rub the after birth over the lamb to be adopted and then pen the new family up together and hopefully the ewe will lick both lambs and treat them the same. Its much better then the lamb being hand reared.!!!! . Mirk is preparing himself for some long days out in the fields as Leslie & I are.

We have also had 6 new calves tearing around the shed while their mums eat their supplementary rations, tails up chasing and playing with each other patiently waiting to gain access to the outside world and explore and youngsters do but they will have to wait a little longer until there is grass.

Due to the awful conditions in the back end of last year we had to abandon the planting of crops due to the fact that it became impossible to work the seed bed and it also got too late to plant the seed, Leslie is busy putting spring Barley in the fields that we did not get ploughed as well as some that did not germinate so that means extra work that we would not normally have at this time of year.

Well that’s all for now hope you all have a happy easter and the first day out is 4th May at Rothbury Food & Craft Festival.

Cheers
Helen

 

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