Nicholas working on the farm ...Easter lambs

 The land is drying up and the sheep and the lambs are filling the fields. Nicholas ,my son, is working 14- 16 hours, a day, every day whether it is on the land or with the animals. 
Please will you give a thought if you go for a walk in the countryside that you adhere to the country code. Life has been a lot harder for Nicholas as walkers are leaving gates open .Animals are getting in wrong fields. And it isn't we have 60 in one field and 40 in the next when  some one leaves the gate open we have 100 all together. Then the problem is another field may not be big enough to take 100 when they have to be moved to fresh pastures. .You try and sort out which lambs go with which mothers. And it takes so much time trying  and even if you tried all day you would get it wrong and sheep only feed their own lambs so please take a minute to think  and who doesn't like to see happy lambs gambolling about in the fields .A young lamb away from its mother will die. We understand people want to take their dogs on a walk but please take them on a lead and if possible find a quiet land or road to go down instead of our fields

We love that you take a walk, but not at the moment. Think you could easily be spreading Coronavirus when you go through a gate . You see you are not the only one who is going through that gate, there may be 50 plus people who have the same idea as you.  And as we have learnt not everyone takes the care to sanitise as you.may be doing. You are at risk too.

 This is a big risk to Nicholas who is  key worker and are other people who work on the land. Do you want  to have the chance to catch or spread Coronavirus . Please just for now try not to choose to walk through farmland. Please, please dont.

Here are a few photos to keep you going
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And just another thought , Nicholas is a daddy. His little girls aren't able to be on the farm at the moment as they are self isolating with their mummy . I want my grandchildren to have a Daddy at the end of all this . Farmers are strong in mind IT is what makes a farmer a farmer less they wouldn't survive. Battling with weather condition,  and long hours and that fact when you have livestock you can also have dead stock and a host of other knock-backs  . Coronavirus can take anyone. Farmers will want to continue to work even if they get symptoms, it is their nature to try to carry on and look on the bright side.Look what happened to Boris our Prime Minister, he tried to carry on and nearly lost his life in the proceeds and he was brought up  and worked on a farm and the ethos of such people are engrained in the farming community  . Hopefully we hear today with the excellent NHS he is on this way to recovery . But think if Nicholas get ill who is going to tend his flock .

Clapping for Boris

I hope you all spent one minute , yes it was only one minute, out of your life to clap for Boris tonight . Whatever your political views and I don't want to get into, that you must agree that Boris has done his best to cope with what we are facing now. Would you have come out on your steps to clap if you had Coronavirus . But he did trying to keep spirits up when me and you would rather be curled up inside if we had been ill . I understand if we get stuck down we must drink a lots of liquids and rest. Rest is certainly what he has not been doing
I hope Boris will be soon back on his bicycle.That is when I first noticed him when he was Mayor of London. Although I have not met him personally I reckon he is quite a character . The nearest to having links with Boris was ,we had a clumber spaniel and the lady who bred it lived next door to Boris's father. . And apparently the sire of our pup was called Boris and named after his truly.
So hopefully with the care of the NHS and taking some rest he will be soon back in harness.  He reminds me so much of Jack ,the same sort of character too who when he had sepsis last year and had a 8 days stint in hospital was back working on the shoots with his dogs in less than 2 weeks after that .Pushing himself and maybe for both of them they should have heeded the doctors advice . But it is men like this who make the world the place it is. Photos and video as I was waiting for 8pm.