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Three blind cows....

Author:	Stevie	Created:	8/29/2007
Occasional rants and views on farm life from Stevie Pattinson, a Cumbrian dairy farmer and webmaster of Pentalk.

It's a Winter Wonder Land...........
	By Stevie on 1/21/2008

It's been a while since I last put finger to keyboard. Calving has ground to a near halt ...

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Laying in time!
	By Stevie on 11/3/2007

It's a busy time at the back end, or laying in time as we call it on the fa ...

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2007 - The Benchmark Year
	By Stevie on 10/20/2007

Tough times, I am told, bring out the best in people, well I'm all toughed out! It has been one of those years, a benchmark I suppose. A year we will mark others by and one we will tell the kids of when things are getting too easy again.

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The Spectre is back
	By Stevie on 9/16/2007

I was down at a very busy Carlisle cattle mart last Wednesday when I heard the news. At first it was met with denial, but it soon became clear that all the good work and high hopes of the last few weeks were in vain.

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It never rains....
	By Stevie on 9/5/2007

'It never rains, it just pours' was what I was thinking as the first dust of the summer blew across the yard of Kinkry Hill and filled my open mouth, just as I cursed the dog for being in the wrong place again that day.

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Introducing three blind cows....
	By Stevie on 8/29/2007

The grass is green, the birds are singing and the puddles are not as common as they were a few days ...

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