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Hot and sunny last 3 days now

The very cold has just hit us an hour ago, temperature went from about 13 to 9 and had hail showers, strong wind chill making it feel worse. It was 26 degrees here on Friday and Sat.

sunny and hot too in the coastal north west highlands

The north west coast of Scotland is awful this last few weeks, just rain and gales, rinse and repeat Caravans and Motorhomes all leave early or cancel.

I asked a man yesterday about a field I use that has had horses in that needs to improve but I dont want to do a full reseed as its not mine. He said I could aerate it in the spring and then throw grass seed on afterwards as well as the usual lime and dung . Seems aeration is a popular thing to...

They say that the wormer in that product [ not the fluke dose in it] can be very hard on them

if you pull it before its. gone to seed then you can easily leave it in a big pile to compost down and I guarantee you will not get ragwort growing out of that pile as its flowers not seeds so cant germinate and as its just a rotten pile the cows and calves wont go near it. If you have to top...

Its to do with your meter, whether its classed as a domestic meter or a business one. This happened me, but the other way round. I am not sure how I got the info to send the Electric company that it was classed as a domestic , I cant remember how I did it, but its the actual box and MPAN that...

Same here , no midges at all, loads of swallows following me while topping , I hope they are getting something . I think its the cold wet weather. I do have lots of bees now though but usually loads of white butterflies up in the rushes [ that I leave until autumn as I dont like killing...

gales and rain the last week, cold and more like November. The campers keep cancelling or going home early

If you are using blue x cows to a lim bull the blue will dilute this, also if keeping any heifer from this cross, you will find, if your in about your cattle, if you keep smaller numbers, they will take to you and be quiet .

good to hear the heifer is on meds , I would have thought its back was broken in the vid

Here’s a better view of her

Yes she’s a very good cow in every way , never any bother

Yes she has a roan heifer calve this year