- Starts slow
- Here’s hoping Spencer is more reliable
- I love it when Usha does rural
- Those funny deer
- Those even funnier sheep
- David said “canoodle”
- Big doesn’t mean bad
- Joint birthday party next week
- Toby with red hair wants to chat about sheep
Starts slow
Brian still isn’t convinced that they should have taken on Open Farm Sunday, and he at first seems to be proved right. There are only a few ‘great unwashed’ to be seen.
[Brian] “I shall be really fed-up if we don’t do as well as Brookfield after all the work we’ve put in”
Adam tries to tell Brian that it isn’t a competition …
Here’s hoping Spencer is more reliable
Pip and Spencer are helping out at Home Farm for Open Farm Sunday. As it’s quite, they have time to plan a summer holiday, before Pip goes to Uni (assuming she gets in).
Let’s hope it’s a holiday that Pip manages to get to go on. Remember what happened last time with Jude …
To go on holiday, Pip also needs to earn a few pennies. It would seem that the only place she can get work is Lower Loxley (surely not?). Which means she’ll have to talk to Elizabeth again.
Better her than me, with the mood Elizabeth is in at the moment.
I love it when Usha does rural
Alan’s busy (it is Sunday), so Usha takes herself down to Open Farm Sunday.
I adore Usha for her complete lack of pretence that she knows anything about farming. She’s openly admits her utter ignorance, even though she is rural dwelling.
She reckons the deer calves look like Bambi.
Usha found Open farm Sunday very “thought provoking”. David reckon he enjoyed Brian’s “propaganda”.
And she got to see Bambi.
Those funny deer
While the deer mums are better looked after at Home Farm than Bambi’s mum had been, they’re still not particularly maternal.
Adam tells us that they leave deer to their own devices when they give birth. And, the deer mums leave their new borns behind tree or grass after they’ve had them. The rest of the herd don’t get to meet them for a few weeks.
Those even funnier sheep
[Adam] “(Deer are) far less determined than sheep to get into trouble … they have a death wish. They do find creative ways of getting into trouble. But I reckon they’re more intelligent that they’re given credit for”
David said “canoodle”
And worse still, he said it to Spencer and Pip.
How embarrassing for all concerned.
Big doesn’t mean bad
Or, at least that’s what Adam and Brian want folks to understand about Home Farm.
Adam won’t apologise for using sprays on his crops. He reckons organic farmers use sprays as well, and the ones he uses, he uses sparingly. After all, they cost money.
The main thrust of his and Brian’s argument is that the world needs food, so they need big food producers to produce lots of it.
And they can produce lots of food while “also looking after the bugs”.
[Brian] “Maximising yields doesn’t mean not caring about the environment or wildlife, but you do have to care about people too. And farmers have to make a profit, or we wouldn’t be here too”
Joint birthday party next week
At Brookfield. For Ruth and Usha.
Toby with red hair wants to chat about sheep
But with Adam and Brian busy, David heads off to explain more.
It wasn’t even his Open Farm Sunday, but he was happy to help. Which is more than Kate did. She was too busy researching schools for Phoebe.
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