Tuesday 25th Aug

Yesterday, Monday, morning we set out to draft the eight 'yet to calve' cows away from those already calved. We did fairly well - we got seven out.
There was a very, very heavy frost this morning, so a later start. Janette wanted to go shopping. She prefers to go early to make distancing easier as there are fewer people around. I took some hay to the cows and two of the drafted cows beat me at the gate and got back in. I managed to push one back but it's not easy on your own.so, with the one left in yesterday, there are now two. We'll do it again tomorrow morning.
After lunch, Charlie from TV Magic arrived to try to improve our TV reception. He checked the aerial sockets, connections into the set-top boxes and the antenna. The antenna are on the shed and the cable is in a trench down to the house. He checked to see if having the antenna on the house would be better - it would be worse. He tried a new antenna on the shed - no better. He decided that we should just stay with what we have.
Poor Charlie - he says he hates not being able to at least make some small improvement for people.Read more