whotheheckami | Oct. 6th, 2005

Arrive on farm and swear my greetings at the butchers

Measure out 4 portions of Beef in Beer and blast-freeze them ready for customer orders going out later that morning

Hitch up stock-trailer to rusty Toyota pick-up

Load sheep for slaughter with the lovely Jo and Richard the HT

Check tag numbers of sheep

Feed dogs

Collect sheep paperwork from highly skilled and beautiful Goth farm secretary

Take sheep to abattoir in Melton Mowbray along with the lovely Jo

Successfully reverse trailer in anger for the first time

Pressure wash stock-trailer

Drink a cup of tea, skilfully made by beautiful Goth farm secretary

Shout at small dog who is trying to kill Eric the farm cat!

Grab small dog and give it a bloody good shaking!

Avoid getting bitten by sack of angry wriggling bones, gristle and muscle formerly known as small dog.

Unhitch stock-trailer

Put diesel in Toyota

Feed 2 khune-khune sows

Feed 5 cows and 2 calves in barn

Feed 3 Gloucester old-spot sows and Gloucester old-spot boar in field

Walk around the farm to check all livestock. Have the valuable help of Maggie, Annie and small dog, who seems to have stopped sulking. All the stock seem content.

Place order for more animal food – make sure I order non-GM food.

Took a call from a new customer who’d seen the farm details in the BBC Good Food Guide- sent her our Christmas price list and normal price lists.

Escaped from office

Portioned out the remaining 16 servings of Beef in Beer – saved some for staff lunches!

Got trapped by two reps who were selling chemical fertilizer – it took me nearly half an hour of my life to get rid of them by telling them WE DON’T USE CHEMICALS!!! Grrrr!

Glazed two hams with a honey and mustard glaze

Cooked staff lunches

Washed up lots of messy stuff

Did costings for the cooking I’ve done this week

Drove around stock and filled the creep-feeders for the lambs

Helped the beautiful Goth farm secretary and the lovely Jo to re-stock the cooking trailer for a show over the weekend

Swapped over the gas bottles on the cooking trailer

Re-fuelled the Land Rover

Evicted a Robin from the office - those pesky Robins seem to get everywhere! ;@)

Brief The Master when he got back to the office

Did some more washing up

Came Home

...and relax?

Not likely...I've got the evening meal to make, a house to tidy and I've promised Ivan I'll go to see Batman at his school's movie club...no peace for the wicked!