April 2005

Firstly I must apologise for the late reports this is partly due to having to fight off younger members of the family who are currently doing GCSE and A level examination work so by the time the computer becomes free I am too tired to write roll on mid June.

Having said that June will bring this year’s Cheshire Show and we will be there as usual with the NFU and Cheshire education "Schools Out" marquees.

It is on the 21st/22nd of June so put the date in your diary. Also if any of you would like to email me any copies of work you have produced using the site please do as we would be proud to display it.

Vet attending cow We started the month with a difficult calving the heifer in question is the last one from my friend Paul Lewis’s farm. Paul has now retired from farming and here is Simon Jones treating her along with his would be vet son Philip the picture being taken by our Simon (work that one out!!).
She had a Limousin Bull calf and mother and son are now doing fine.

weather thumbnail fitting weather vein April was wetter than March with 61mm of rain however as I said last month we are upgrading our weather system here are GRC aerials fitting the anemometer which gives wind speed and direction to the chimney as he said we normally fit TV aerials but the fittings were perfect for the job. We can currently show:

The dipping platform is now nearly finished and the gate and fence also completed all we need to do is level the hard standing area and also you can see a large tree trunk next to the gate we are putting these in as “tables” for viewing the sample trays on. A quick count of the rings on these tree trunks puts the age of the tree at a little over 180yrs old.

Safety is of course an issue and Webby on one of his trips down by the River Dane, spotted a life-belt caught up on a fallen tree so I sent in his Brother-in-law Mark with his canoe to retrieve it.

It appears to be unused so we will put it by the pond area as an additional safety measure.

J&B our skip friends have many different things to clear up and were given three large bags of UNWORN clothes to dispose of weighing nearly half a tonne.

Dorothy and Muriel have sorted them and then asked our local Vicar Gordon as it seemed such a waste he put us in touch with a colleague and they were collected for dispatch to the Solomon Isles.