12/07/12

Another hot sticky day with the window open most of the day. The work went well, there were very few idiots and Lycra wearers on the roads and the traffic was fairly light. The customer's were all in when I arrived and so far as I know I didn't run over any hedgehog's. What more can a driver ask of a day?  Yesterday I started writing a children's story, my daughter has agreed to provide the illustrations. Her sketches will put my writing to shame and the result will be worth having just for her work. We have discussed what I want and her first two sketches are fantastic. Better polish up my writing to match if I can.
See you tomorrow.

11/07/16

What a humid day it's been. My truck doesn't have air conditioning so I've had the window open most of the day. The trouble with a n open window is that it drowns out the radio. I'm a radio four addict and it's bloody irritating to mix the he punch lines due to wind noise. But it's either put up with being too hot or miss some good radio. I compromise and do a bit of both. Two loads today, the first was a full load of feed to a farm near Kirkbymoorside the second was to Carlton store and one drop. All went well enough and I loaded with stored stock from Carlton back to base. The closure of the A63 around Selby is still causing me problems and will do so until September, and that's if I'm lucky and they finish the work on time. See you tomorrow.

09/07/16

Saturday, I'm not at work and the children are at home with partners, we have a house full.  The working week has contained some frustrations, which I'm not going to mention here.  I am gradually settling to the idea that the UK will be leaving the EU, I'm still not happy and believe we are the victims of a political con.  I have met several farmers who voted to leave, I have never seen people who have just committed financial suicide to be so innocently happy about it. They don't seem to realise that they have been hiding behind the protection of the French farmers for forty years and have been sheltered from the vindictive hatred of our UK politicians.  If I'm right the dung will hit the fan big style in three to four years so they had best prepare now otherwise they won't be in business.  I suspect that what's about to happen will only be the acceleration of a process that has been creeping along since the last war.  Big farms will get bigger and middle size farms will disappear.  Small farms will probably survive, by small I mean any farm of two hundred and fifty acres or less.  Unless they are very specialist farms of this size can be managed on a part time basis with the help of contractors the farmer and his wife can find paid work off the farm.  But I may be wrong it wouldn't be the first time.  See you Monday, perhaps.