Saturday was mainly wet and horrid. I've spent some time trying to upload a video to entertain you on your horrid days but YouTube is giving me jip and now the weather has improved I've given up.
Yesterday a man from the ministry came out and measured our fields. Apparently they are smaller than they were when he measured them a few months ago. Every year we have to fill in a form saying how big our fields are as part of claiming a grant to help po' marginal farmers like us. We don't get the grant ever - because no one applied for a grant in 2006. Makes sense huh? But we still have to complete the grant form because eventually they'll shift the base line year and if we haven't applied for a grant in the base line year, irrespective of whether or not we get a grant in the new base line year, we'll not get a grant. I hope you're following all this.
Honestly - it's enough to drive you to sheep farming. Crofters who keep sheep are fond of telling you how busy they are. I've often wondered what keeps them so busy - as actually you don't see them out all that often (usually at odd times at the weekend). I now realise that they are busy filling in forms.
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