Spring turns cool and cloudy.

April has been so warm, dry and sunny and we have all enjoyed it very much, but......the farmers need rain to make the grass grow so that they can make a lot of sileage. We need it to help our potato crop as well and the River Okement is low enough for us to walk through it from one side to the other (stopping to skim stones on the way!)
Our pigs went to the slaughterhouse during the Easter holidays and we are now eating delicious sausages and roast pork. The pig shed seems very empty and won't be welcoming more weaners until September. We have more eggs than we can eat as the hens are laying so well. There are turkeys and geese sitting on eggs as well as loads in the incubators.
Death Hill is covered in buttercups and thistles, which makes rolling down it quite painful on the stock check....but we still do it! Now the smell of cooking pizza is wafting up the stairs to my office as I write after the children from Curledge Street Primary in Paington have spent today cooking their tea.