Well how are yu all a’gettin on t’gether?
Well thas a rum old world out there at the moment. The sooner them who are fightin each other stop the better that’ll be for all on us. That must be terrible for then ordinary folk who are caught up in it all. Why can’t folk just earn t’live t’gether. Them farmers in Ukraine are a’gettin plenty o’publicity about towin them damaged Russian tanks away, that were good to see a photo tuther day of um using their tractors for planting potatoes. What ever is a happenin out there the farming cycle ha’a go on. Thas just the same on farms round-about here the planting cycle ha’a go on despite the price o’diesel und fertiliser. Although farmers will hev bought the fertiliser they are a’usin now a’while ago the next lot they buy will be several hundred pounds a’tonne more. Yes I know yu are all a’thinkin well they will be getting more for their wheat und barley to help pay for it but that’’ll also mean that the feedstuffs farmers buy for their livestock will cost more un all.
All that ull mean is that food, milk & bread we buy will cost more. As well as think about all this there is another thing Farmers ha’a think about und thas dear old Mother Nature und what she is a goin t’throw at us.
Last week we hed sum right old warm weather und now they are a’forecastin at the end o’this week (2nd April) thas a’goin t’git suffin cold agin und we could git a snow shower or two. While I get been a’gettin about on my old bike I see folk who hev cut their lawns really short und I am a’thinkin, yu don’t want t’be a’duin that just yet cos we could still git some cold weather. Cos I hev lived a few more years than sum on yu I hev just run the mower of the lawn t’top any grass that hev grown up in sheltered corners or under seats. I han’t got the Missus’s tender plants outa the green house yet cos old Jack Frost could still be leaving us his calling card. I hev bought some sweet Pea plants though cos they can stand the cold weather but I hant bough me tomato plants.
I might hev told yu this before but I remember several year ago when I were planting a field o’potatoes in April that snowed s’hart one day while I were a’goin across the field when I tunned round at the end the snow hed covered up my marker furrow so I din’t know where t’drive.
Yu can tell that old Mother Nature hav got har self in a muddle cos one o’our neighbours were a’tellin me this week that he hev got a robin nest in one o’his shuds und that hev got three chicks in it. Less hope Mr & Mrs Robin can keep them warm und fed during the next few days.
I see they hed got a couple o’old tractors at the auction next week so I ha’a draw there und hev a look at them. One on um were an old Nuffield tractor just like the model I used t’drive in the 1960s. There were an old Fordson Major there und all, Yes I have driven one o’them und all. I were standing there a’lookin at um ……I say the the Missus “yu can see how simple they were to drive compared with todays tractors. Back then everything were controlled by levers un push rods”………….She din’t say anything but I know what she were a’thinkin…… that that would hev to be simple for somebody like me t’drive it.
Tuther week u’group on us drawed up to Wells with our cameras t’hev a look t’see if there were any birds about. We got there as the tide were a’turning und see the birds a’feeding on the mud flats as the water were a running out. Later on a group some on us went und hed a look on a some water scrapes where there were a few Lapwings. There were a Marsh Harrier about but they hev suffin good eye sight und they see you a’fore you see them.
Cos that’ll soon be our Queens Golden Jubilee celebrations. I hear that there is a’goin to be a Jubilee Picnic on the Millennium Green, I recon we’ll hear more about it nearer the time. I can remember we ned a party in the village Hall for her Silver Jubilee. I am old enough t’remember the party that were held in the village where I lived for har Coronation. That were a cold wet day un all, let’s hope old Mother Nature play har part better this June.
Cos that were hot last week-end we met some o’our family at that there High Lodge place in Thetford Forest. My hart there were a rare crowd o’folk there. While the Missus und I were sit-in in the sun awaiting for the rest on um t’turn up,(they allus late) there were s’many folk a walk-in past the Missus recon that were like bein on Yarmouth sea-front. When they all arrived we hed a good walk round with the dogs und Grand Children. When we come t’leave I went t’pay at one them machines but that didn’t recognise my car number plate(that were spossed t’be read on the way in) arter a couple o’goes I went t’see a young Mawther in an office nearby, She put my number in und I paid. She recon thas unusual for that to happen…I told har she’d ha’a tell that to the line o’folk behind me who were havin the same problem. Und I’ll tell yu suffin else when we got the barrier t’git out with the car that didd’t wark un all so I ha’a press the button on a nearby post und tell somebody that the barrier weren’t warkin, The fust thing they asked was hed I paid. Arter a minute or two the barrier cum up und we drive out but not before I see that they were havin the same trouble at tuther barrier.
Less hope that next time I hev a wud along w’you the weather will hev settled down and Russia und Ukraine will hev stopped fighting und got round a table t’settle their differences.
Fare yes well t’gether und du yu keep a’troshin,