You know its wet when your 4 wheel drive quad with all four wheels locked slides down a gentle slope pirouetting gracefully when you step off to look at a ewe. You know its wet when walking across a 30 degree slope you realise you are still ankle deep in water. You know its wet when your neighbours lambing shed has a ships life ring hanging outside. You especially know its wet when you have time to spend 3 days online with the SRDP online submissions system. The weather has been appalling with weeks of snow followed by rain and a total absence of sun. I hope extreme drought follows as I would welcome the different challenge.
All that said spring cannot be too far away as we are at mid April and the days are longer. Fieldwork is of course on hold but the lime is on and the seed is waiting for the drill. I have not mentioned the windfarm much as I got such a hard time over it earlier on but the works have commenced and we hope to be completed by October. The fall in the value of the pound has cost us over £100k but has also boosted income by 10% so we are probably better off long term.
This is just a short update as we are lambing, an update on that will follow after I have erased all the bad bits from my memory.