The art of management, I learned when I was paid to write on the subject, is to delegate a well-defined role to the right people. And then to let them get on with it, presuming on their abilities and initiative. Actually this is not as easy as it sounds and not just...
No sooner had I put off the vet, than the lambing started. A singleton born the morning after the new moon, Monday 11th. All went well. Then there was a pause, no newcomers until the morning of the 15th when an exhausted ewe presented twins. One was extremely...
The first lamb of 2013 – born with the new moon overnight Sunday 10th February The lake at danger levels after the winter...
The weather is decidedly beyond the pale as a subject for discussion, even so far so sunny this Monday. Were it a child, one would confine it to the naughty step for days. So that is enough of that for this week at least. Last Thursday evening I went down to Tocane...
The weather gods are still fighting over La Chaise. January has always had two faces. The Blue Faced Hag has, possibly temporarily, given way to the various gods of winds and rain. Temperatures in the last ten days went into double figures and, not liking the... 
