Our move prior to that, was also only about a 100 yards where I had started farming in 1960 and stayed for twenty years.
My move from the home farm where we were brought up to my first farm was half a mile, all within the village.
When I get up in a morning at the farm house, track to the bathroom and then off back down to the kitchen to put the kettle on , I have done 65 paces, in our retirement house it will be all of 10 paces. Think i'll have to join a gym or sommat crazy.
Since I wrote this a couple of years ago "On this land we love the best" it should be renamed "On this land we loved the best".
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| They always told us as kids that there is a pot of gold at the base of a rainbow, don't even bother looking now. |
On this land we love the best
We are watched from
way up high, on how we treat our land,
This land that we are
caring for, for generations stand,
To stand just where
our fathers stood, see it through their eyes,
And how the fields
and lanes have looked, neath the clear blue skies.
The misty foggy
mornings, dew drops on all the leaves,
The sunrise on the
meadows, the bird song in the trees,
Long shadows in the
evening, as the sun sets in the west,
Trees and bushes in
full bloom, on this land we love the best.
Owd Fred
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero (106BC - 43BC)
