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I rose early to help Charlie load three tups into the livestock trailer for auction at St Boswell's, the air was bitter cold, frost had settled everywhere.

First of the sheep have entered our poly tunnel, they'll stay here till May 25; picture is my Herdwick sheep, she lambed two lambs last March without intervention.

Brrr, this is the first morning after summer, that I've felt the cold; to think just two years ago I was sleeping outside in this weather, for decades!

Many hours throughout the day I felt unwell, and slept till 3pm. After tending to the ewes in the poly tunnel I grouted the front garden pathway.

Later in the afternoon I decided to try out my new tripod, and film an iPhone 14 time lapse of Woodburn Farmhouse from above using the paddock adjacent.

When Charlie returned I felt relieved and emotional after a day of cruel auditory hallucinations. Without him, severity of disturbance has been almost intolerable.