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Tomorrow we're the final destination for "Teasdales Tours 2009" - an semi-informal tour of Shorthorn herds, taking in a different area of the country each year. We had hoped for a warm dry day - to show off the stock to it's best advantage, and to make the barbecue lunch less of an endurance test. But it seems the best we can hope for is dry and windy, with heavy showers. So, forewarned is forearmed, and Henry and James have cleaned out two large pens in the "new" building across the yard. If it gets really cold we can always pull down the Galebreaker roller blinds. The barbecue is dusted off (and tested, with James' mid morning bacon sandwich), chairs dragged out of storage (just need to wipe off a bit of bird muck), and food and drink in hand. It's "Meats and salads, buns and cakes" - with local meat from Cranstons and cakes from Wellbank. Michelle is a far better cake maker than me (and much keener!), so I'm sticking to salads and marinades. James has just come back from our neighbours with some conventional hay bales, so we can put them in the feed trailer as seats and take the tour round all the stock. I've been told not to go overboard with quantities, but I tend to over rather than under-cater. We could be eating up for a day or two.
Meanwhile - if you're at Newark Show on Saturday, look out for James judging the Dairy Shorthorns
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