Thursday, January 30

This is getting out of hand

Well this wet weather is really starting to get out of hand and is beginning to stress me . It was the same this time last year . Its come so much rain it has actually changed the colour of the dale and the buildings on the farm . It has changed the landscape of the farm so much so that its taken on a nightmarish bedraggled muddy apocalyptic appearance and a sense that nature is pushing things close to the unexperienced or unprecedented . Yes it looks quite disturbing . Nature can scare you , even when you make your living through it .
   The fields are just a mass of mud and even our quad bike is having trouble travelling to feed the sheep who are now starting to look heavy as their lambs are growing . They are looking muddy and wind swept and uncomfortable such is the weather . Nature and the land can only take so much rain . This has been the wettest January on record . Surely something will give soon . Today it actually stopped raining but a terrible forecast for the weekend is coming . I really am sick of rain . Whats happened to nice average weather ? All we seem to get is extremes . Extremes are not good and rarely beneficial to anyone .  

"  Ive worked the land , and its a howling , screaming bitch . "  Dion Fortune

Wednesday, January 29

Not quite sure just what this means to me...

"  As Ukraine's political classes began horse trading for a new prime minister , speculation focused on a chocolate billionaire described as a cross between Willy Wonka and Che Guevara . Petro Poroshenko , an MP and former cabinet minister known as The Chocolate King for his confectionery empire , commands respect among the protesters .... "

I found this in an article from The Telegraph . No , its not a joke... ( though I maybe laughing  )