I know this is temping fate , but the grain worked a treat. We will need it on Monday and I bet it throws a wobbler, all because of this blog.

Why will we need the grain drier on Monday ?, the Oil Seed Rape is finished, thats why !!. Yesterday (friday) was dry all morning, all morning !! so after a quick lunch, no roast swans or larks tongues, and away we went about 2-30 pm. It was not too bad, even dusty, always a sighn of dry going. About eight Robert took over while I went for a quick tea, more poached eggs than roast suckling pig.

I was getting down to the nitty now, the weather forecast was for rain about lunchtime today (saturday) and there was still some tea in my thermos. If I could finish the next two fields, and the weather guessers were right I could get it done . by 2-00 am I had got far enough and went home and slept well if briefly. This morning ( saturday) was grey and less than promising, but to the combine I went. By 9-30 it was spitting with rain but I went on slowly, and within half an hour the drizzle had stopped and slow progress was being made.

At 2-30 pm I had it done, what a relief, It took 7 attempts over 10 days to harvest 105 acres of Oil Seed Rape. As if getting the grizzly task done was not enough, an hour later it started to rain again, its now nine pm and still raining, relief !!

So how did the crop do, well until its all loaded onto lorries and weighed we wont know exactly, but the best guess so far is around 4.5 tonnes per hectare, which is great. If we had been able to harvest at the right time rather than two weeks late who knows how much more there would have been. Such are the joys of farming.

Not a very exciting blog entry I know, but I claim extreme tiredness, time for bed, and its still raining.