06/03/14

One delivery to Carlton store, one cup of coffee, a collection from Woodheads seeds and several farm deliveries then one five hundred kilo bag back to store.  i don't intend to dewll on the collection, I have grumbled about this collection often enough and I have emphasised that its not the yard staff that are the problem.  The deliveries were well spread but easy enough and all made with no problems.  The last delivery was the one I will comment on.  The yard is a little tight, but I knew this before I started down the farm drive, I have been there before.  No, the interesting or possibly poignant aspect was the farm and the people.  The farm sits in a beautiful setting and is within easy walking distance of Kirkbymoorside.  But I doubt that anything has been spent on it for the last fifty years.  Its the sort of place that you can imagine a couple setting up home on with all the expectations and hopes for a new and profitable existence.  Only to have those early hopes slowly eroded by life and circumstances leaving only continuous existence and daily grind.  When the couple who are farming it at the moment give up or pass beyond that final stackyard someone else will take over with new hopes and expectations and the cycle will continue.  Its not that I think there is anything wrong or misguided about the way of things in the agricultural world, its rather my sorrow for the situation of farming on a smaller scale.