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Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Putting the past away and looking forward

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Last week we drew a line under silaging and washed off the the equipment and locked it away till next year.

Today we're tidying up the smaller stuff. September was, as seems usual, a month when there was no time to pause and take stock between shows, silaging and selling stock. For a couple of weeks I have been studiously ignoring a stack of plastic boxes in the corner of the pantry. They had come back in from the meals I packed up during silaging, when I just emptied out the leftovers (not too many, as most people know if you don't eat it all, you get less next time) and promised myself to wash and dry them "sometime". But now they are overflowing off the draining board. Henry and James have finally got to the bottom of all the stuff that came back from shows - from less than pristine white shirts to halters. And having had a round up of jumpers cast off in various tractors and buildings over the summer, the washer's keeping busy.

But what's this about looking forward? Seventy nine days to go.

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