We've waited weeks for a forecast of at least five fine, sunny days to cut the hay. OK, I know hay is unfashionable these days and we also make haylage from some fields. But anyone who runs a livery will know that horse owners are a picky bunch. Some of them treat their animals like spoilt children. Indeed they sometimes look after them better than their children. Its called equine anthropomorphism I think (look it up in the dictionary).
Anyway, to keep all of them (and their horses) happy we have to supply hay and haylage. Hence the need to make hay which takes an extra day or two of good weather and is more demanding of good management. So, following a favourable local forecast (I'm aware that the in north and the west rain is anticipated all week) we cut it and conditioned it over the weekend in the hope that we can get it baled and under cover before the weather breaks.
With the Royal Norfolk Show on Wednesday and Thursday and Wimbledon all week, both of which are notorious for wet conditions, it is, of course, foolhardy to hope fine weather will hold. But we have everything crossed; we will turn it at least twice a day, and we have threatened to lynch the local forecasters if they've told us wrong. I will keep you posted.