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The Clerk in the Country
Friday 2nd October 2020 Rotating the crops The cereal harvest is now over for another year and, with memories of last year’s disastrous autumn planting season still fresh, there’s been a rush to get seed in the ground before the …
The Clerk in the Country
Friday 25th September 2020 Safely gathered in Throughout the summer I’ve been watching the progress of a field of wheat a short walk away and just visible from the back windows of the house. In the middle of the afternoon …
The Clerk in the Country
Friday 11th September 2020 A problem with an imaginary parachute With the weather continuing to be mainly fine, tractors are hurrying through the village pulling trailers of grain, loads of bales or cultivation machinery, while the fields around are now …
The Clerk in the Country
Friday 4th September 2020 Working in the rain Readers who are YPS members have probably realized that the gap in blog entries was caused by work on the quarterly newsletter, which under current circumstances proved less straightforward than usual. The …
The Clerk in the Country
Friday 21st August 2020 Return to the Lodge This week saw me return to the Lodge for the first time since the office plant and I left it on March 17th. Both of us are now somewhat slimmer. I have …
The Clerk in the Country
Thursday 13th August 2020 Solving the struggle to open a plastic bag One of the first crops to be combined is oil seed rape. April’s cheery fields of bright yellow flowers are by now an impenetrable jungle of thick stems …
The Clerk in the Country
Tuesday 11th August 2020 Mighty machines Modern combine harvesters look as big as a small house, and probably cost more, with air-conditioned sound-proofed cabs making driving them a much pleasanter job than the models of even a few years ago. …
The Clerk in the Country
Thursday 6th August 2020 Waiting … August, and the countryside here is waiting. Farmers watch their fields, check weather forecasts and keep an eye on their neighbours. Combines have been serviced and grain stores cleaned. “By the end of the …
The Clerk in the Country
Tuesday 4th August 2020 A true Yorkshireman On Yorkshire Day, when we celebrate Yorkshire people, past and present, my thoughts often turn to Lord Thomas Darcy. Had I been living here in the early 16th century, he would have been …
The Clerk in the Country
Thursday 30th July 2020 Eat, drink and unwind Another month since my last visit to the field of wheat, here it is again, ripening nicely, and looking very different to a nearby crop of barley. Spiky and upright, wheat seems …
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