Chapter 3
Extract from Tales From The Home Farm
read the intro paragraph below or click on the attachment to read the preface.
The biting cold of February is behind us. It’s bright until 6.00pm now, which means there’s time to get out and about in the garden even after a day’s work. When the sun shines, you could be forgiven for thinking that it is already summer. You strip off layers of clothing - then the sun disappears behind the clouds and you quickly realise that there is still no real heat in the air and you should really put your clothes back on (the neighbours are talking). Still, these fleeting occurrences of warmth are enough to encourage nature to begin a veritable frenzy of growing. The farmer who owns the land around our acre has some of his cows out in the fields again now after a long winter indoors - so when standing at the kitchen sink we can see them in the adjacent field and hear the crunching noise as they tear grass from the ground. It is wonderful to see them out again. There are rapidly fattening green buds on the trees and, elsewhere in the surrounding area, there are little lambs frolicking (as only lambs can) in the fields.
