Following all Tim’s blogs I thought it’s about time I added my tuppence-worth! As Tim’s wife I’m the last member of the “team” to be introduced to you! Followers of the blog will know I married Tim last year on a lovely day filled with family, friends and lots of well-wishes! I’m now expecting a mini-May but contrary to Tim’s last blog I am nothing like a sleeping crocodile!
So after joining the May family in July, I then joined the Kingsclere Estates family in October to help Tim out with the Pitt Hall Barn side of the business. The enquiries were coming in thick and fast and Tim was finding that more and more of his time was being taken up responding to them and the subsequent work. Plus being such a boy he wasn’t really in tune with the wishes of brides-to-be and the emotional complexities of weddings!
So I joined to add the female touch to the business and so far it’s been great! It’s keeping me out of mischief and freeing up Tim to concentrate more on the farming side of life. We’ve had three do’s over the last three weeks – a fundraising “St Georges” Ball, a Wedding, and a “spacemen and hippy” themed 40th which have all gone really well! It’s good fun being involved in such happy events, and it’s really rewarding when you see a group of people who have obviously had a really great time, and know that you’ve played a small part in making their day special.
We have a bit of a breather now for a couple of weeks, but then the summer will get busy again with the wedding season kicking in! Harvest time could be interesting, as it’s when the Barn is at its busiest, Tim will be fully occupied elsewhere on the farm, and my bump will be getting ever bigger! However I’m sure it will be just fine.
On the farm side of things, everything seems to be ticking along quite nicely - it’s nice to have a calm husband at the moment (long may it continue) despite quite an amusing episode with a drill and some millet – I’ll let him tell you the story!!! He has kindly planted rape in all the fields around our house this year, and it is approaching its smelliest at the moment but that won’t last long! I can escape it by walking the dogs in the woods instead and marvelling at the bluebells. They seem to be lasting for ages this year and are as always truly spectacular!
The other thing you may not know about me is that I do not come from a farming background. Although I grew up in the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside I then moved into city living in Manchester and trained as a Sports Injury Specialist, which I still practice two days a week. This means that I’ve had a steep farming learning curve over the last few years. I hope that for those of you who enjoy the blog but are also somewhat flummoxed by the farming-speak I can help explain some of the things that happen on the farm in lay terms as I learn about it too!
Please feel free to ask me questions and post comments!
Sharon
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