Farm Life - my favourite month

by Roger Hill

May is definitely my favourite month. Winter is behind us and we have those long summer days to look forward to. In the fields the lambs are skipping and playing, and the cattle are munching the deliciously fresh green shoots. Nature is bursting at this time of year and with an abundance of grass the first harvests of silage take place.

My favourite time in the calendar year is epitomised by my favourite flower - the bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) carpeting our woodland walk. Hopefully too from May 17th we shall be able to welcome back our guests for the first time in fifteen months to share our beautiful Devon countryside.

Of course May also brings forth the sound of leather on willow and I love watching village cricket on a warm summer’s evening. My dream would be to still be out on the field of play but my creaking bones tell me to enjoy the game from the boundary’s edge! The advent of May means that; Spring is sprung The grass is ris’d I wonder where the birdies is The birds are on the wing But that’s absurd, the wings are on the bird ‘Til next time, Roger #TuppertheTractor (website: quoit-at-cross.co.uk)

Bluebells carpeting our woodland walk