Seasons greetings to all you bloggers!!! Apologies yet again that I have not blogged for so long but we have just finished our last show for 2007 and I can now breathe and get down to farming again.This is a wintery scene from 2006 but you can see that we do get a little snow here in South Wales. In fact the thick frost outside certainly is doing a good imitation this cold December morning.
Having been away for most of the last two months selling at various shows i.e. BBC Good Food Show, Royal Welsh Winter Fair, Shubgborough etc we have had little time to do any normal things, so yesterday was a quick dash to the shops for nearly all our christmas shopping. I have never really been a shopping sort of gal, my concentration level for toys and clothes is not the best and even mucking the stables out comes an extremely close second! But Mike and I managed to pull it off, just! It is so difficult having not watched telly much whilst away and the children's Santa letters being very generalistic - I mean what is a red thing that goes on land and sea? Four year olds aren't the best at explaining clearly so Santa settled for the more traditional Thomasy approach! Well Sodor had a harbour and trains and some of those are red!
The eight year old was even harder. Amy has stopped playing with toys as such (except for her brothers of course) and is thinking about being more of a young lady. Santa was not keen on the mobile phone mind - being quite old fashioned we believe we should wait quite a bit longer! The laptop again we decided to go for a more junior model and build up to the full monty at a later date (preferably a couple of years).
Don't you have difficulty explaining to a four year old that they can't have the same things as their eight year old sister? We are still battling with the TV in the bedroom and the digital camera from Amy's last birthday, Josh just won't understand that he has to wait until he is a little bit bigger - although I have to admit he's right he is more technically minded and can work the DVD player better than her. Whoever made up this "reason with the children", what happened to the simple "No you can't" that my parents used to say. The trouble is when the children'ts arguements are actually quite good but you still know that they are children all the same and do we really want them growing up too fast? I know I don't!
Anyway I'd better go and get yesterdays spoils out of the car and into the warmth of the house whilst the children are still at school and hide them away so Santa & Santa's helper can wrap them up one evening over a glass (or three) of mulled wine. (You didn't think I was going to wrap them on my own did you!
Back to milking for the next three weeks from tomorrow so I will let you know how I get on and how rusty I have become!
Seasons greettings to all
