Countryfile

Watched last night, wonderful farm and cows, Goldie. Loved the cow back scratcher. 

Just caught up with it on iPlayer and it was a great few minutes TV. Those cows obviously repay the care and attention you lavish on them. Great to see them using that back scratcher and then cavorting round when let back out into the fields. But also a fascinating bit of family history  looking at the details in those diaries - I think you can be rightly proud of what you've achieved and are continuing to achieve! 

(Just as an aside, we were in Coniston at the outbreak of that dreadful foot and mouth outbreak in, I think, 2001. Were you affected at all by that?)

Re Foot and Mouth.

We were lucky that we never lost our herd. It was mainly north of Shap.

We shut down all access to the farm except for the vet and feed wagons. Postbox at the end of the lane etc. The gate was kept shut and we sprayed the car and ourselves if we had been out. It was a bit of a bind as I was working off farm full time, but worth it.

We also closed down our CL, which my late father in law had started in the 70's. And for various reasons did not reopen it.

Just watched it, you must be very proud of your family and farm

Goldie have finally caught up with Country file.What a lovely family farm and herd of girls you have in that order. As for that back scratcher I've gotta get me one of them .😀😀

I think that we may have used your CL many years ago, Goldie. 

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing it all on Contryfile. Was that Helm we spotted one of the scenes?

Yes, it's The Helm - we're south of it. There's a footpath that goes over Helm (from The Station Inn), towards the A65 and back east through our wood and onto the B6254. Though a footbridge is still down (not on our land) after Storm Desmond.

It doesn't go through the farm yard - though quite a few seem to think it does.