15/04/15

Busy, busy, busy.  But having said that it wasn't too bad, it was all doable and it got done.  Carlton and area with no local store drop first, that's always a good  start.  First drop was at Skipwith and I herd a cuckoo, that fact has nothing at all to do with the drop but it's one of the things I listen for every spring.  It's early to hear a cuckoo they don't usually start calling until next month.  I've seen five more swallows today so summer may arrive in their wake, eventually.  The trouble is our summer may only bring slightly warmer rain to the UK, our weather is as always, unpredictable, even to the BBC weather service.  Back to the work, the first drop done I went to Carlton store and unloaded over half my total load and yes I did manage to scrounge a coffee.  Then it was off to a farm on the edge of Selby with a 205 litre drum of creocote.  None there so I rolled the barrel off onto a dray mat then into a shed before standing it up, still no body in sight.  Next off to Burn to drop forty two bales of wood shavings for a poultry farmer, this is bi weekly drop.  Today I had help unloading from the start so the bales came off quickly.  The last drop was to a farm in Hive, again this is a regular drop once a month every month.  Just over a tonne of pig feed in bags and all lifted off with a loader.  Lunch time and I was passing my Mothers door so I scrounged another coffee and had a talk for three quarters of an hour.  She seems to be keeping well and is recovering from an operation on her wrist.  The good news is that it seems to have been successful.  A collection of Lithan from Howden Dyke next, a full load.  Delivery to Shipton by Benningbrough and then back to base just in time to pull into the queue before they shut the gates for the night, ready for a flying start tomorrow.  See you then.