Harvest is now all but finished and I have a little time for reflection before we get busy planting the cereals again. We have already planted quarter of the farm down to oil seed rape, and need to wait a short while before we start on the cereals.

A lot has happened since my last update. Mark, and Sarah Davis have had a new baby boy called George, he was a massive baby of over 8 pounds and be brings the family up to 7 which is pretty impressive. We have also taken on a new man called Henry he applied for the position I posted earlier in the year and he started in July. I’ll do a little blog about him next, now that we have got to know him.

We had our first woodland wedding blessing this August which was really exciting! Dad had done a lot of work to make a clearing in one of the woods and sowed grass seed in it to make a woodland glade. It was great seeing all the guests entering the wood and winding their way through the path not really knowing what to expect. Then seeing their faces as the came out into the clearing, which had bales laid out for seats and staff serving Champagne. We also had our first legal wedding ceremony at the beginning of August. This was a great wedding, half the guests were Indian ( the Bride’s side of the family) and I got dragged up to do a spot of Bangra  dancing which is so much fun I think it should be promoted - even a fool like me can do it!

Dad managed to break his arm near the beginning of harvest so he has been out of action but only a bit - he has still been helping out as much as a one arm bandit can. Luckily we had a chap called Guillaume from France over to learn a bit of English. He was a lot of fun and found life in the country side to be very action packed. Once dad did his arm in Guillaume became dads arms, Dad would get him to drive him around the farm or to the grain store and stand where he could get to and then Guillaume had to run around doing what Dad asked him to do.

Our new combine has been a great success we have had quite an easy harvest we have worked less hours, but cut loads more in the time that we have been cutting. It has been really good and we have been able to cut most of our wheat when it has been dry which means that we’ll save money on drying costs, and that the crop should have a better quality about it. We have about forty hectares of wheat left to cut and another 46 ha of Beans the great thing is that we can do the area of wheat in an afternoon, so it really isn’t that stressful, and I’m all in favour of that!

That’s about all the news for now, but I’ll try to return to the blog sooner next time. See you for now!