17,18,19 and 20/09/14

Yes even Saturday the twentieth, I was working this morning.  I have spent the last four days seed dressing and expect to  the job to continue for another two weeks and then it will slowly peter out over the next month as farmers complete their autumn sowing.  My last day of operating the seed dresser could be late October or early November.  The week has gone fairly well, no more problems or break downs and no difficult customers.  There has been some very dodgy loader driving but nothing too serious or dangerous. I arrived at the customers farm this morning in time to see the longest row of swallows and house martins lined up on the electricity wires that I have seen in many years.  It really is a pleasure to see these little birds in such numbers again, I do hope that their decline in numbers will finally come to a halt.  It would be a very sad world if it came to the point that there were no swallows arriving for the summer. Sorry I didn't get any pictures.  I'm now going to work in the dark, it won't be long before the swallows depart for the winter to warmer climes.  Aren't they sensible little birds.  Soon enough I'll be coming home in the dark as well and I won't see my orchard until the weekend.  After the shortest day has passed and the daylight slowly lengthens I will look forward, once again, to welcoming the home.  See you on Monday.