Vet student Emily is having a busy time

Emily feeding a Bluefaced Leicester lamb one of triplets whose mum died at Princetown

Emily arrived on Friday evening and has been kept busy since either here or at the Prison Farm, Princetown. Today she arrived back at around 8.30pm looking tired, yet having an enjoyable time, exploring the outreaches of the fields at Princetown, with Neil, to find a gap in the fencing where young sheep have been getting into a field with the inlamb ewes. She has ridden several miles on a quad and has a few bruises from sheep horns. Hye Ho, all good experience.

Lucy has been with Mat trying to empty the overflowing lambing pens again today, unfortunately they had to go to the fields in the rain, at least it will help make the grass grow.

Would you beleive it, last night a car went around the right hand corner to fast, up by the road cattle grid and almost jumped our wire fence, only breaking the top wooden rail and landing in our field, this is the second car in a week that has faultered there, whats the third ??

I have been busy in the office ringing Rural Payments Agency (RPA) chasing government money owed to us, and finding we are to lose some payment this year for land in another 'wonderful' new scheme called Uplands Transitional Payment (UTP). Government seems to be trying to save money by just altering and delaying thus putting payments forward into another finacial year. What would our supplies say if we told them "we will pay in the next finacial year"  Ha ha, I think not. Anyway don't get me going on this to much I could go on all night about RPA issues,  bye for now