Complaining about the weather is standard practice for most of us and although I’ve tried to avoid the subject when writing these articles, the recent cold conditions are making it difficult to look past.
The poster covered the whole rear window of the hatchback. ‘I back the farmers’, it declared. Sat at a traffic light in north London, my heart skipped a beat. Alas, looking closer, they didn’t mean us.
For some farmers, they are dipping their toes into a new, exciting era for UK agriculture.
With lambing almost finished, we are down to just eight to lamb and it is time to reflect on how it all went.