The weather at Farside has been absymal all week. Monday it snowed – to the vast confusion of the hens who amused me when I looked out and discovered that the four young hens (who’d never seen snow before) were all trying to walk across the yard without putting their feet down in this miserable white stuff. However I’d seen it coming and the sheep and calves had hay, the twin lambs had shelter in their paddock along with their mum (Rachel) and even with the remainder of the week having been very cold and wet, all is well amongst the Farside community.