Shearing

Back to Hay today.

The morning involved a trip to Brobury farm - a medium sized mixed farm. Soil health is a big thing for these farmers so crops are rotated - wheat, oats, field beans, oilseed rape. The other side of the farm is sheep. We were led by the farmers, a vet and a crop specialist. The ground everywhere was very dry, the wheat only half the height it should be and other crops stressed. I learnt a lot.

This afternoon I went to see Mark Steele being interviewed (he has a book out subtitled “one man’s adventures in cancer land”. Being Mark Steele the interview was full of laughs). Then David Spiegelhalter on the science of uncertainty. And finally, in the BBC Studio (it’s a tent) the latest episode of the Henry Normal show being recorded (I haven’t followed him. It was very funny).

Extra - queues are everywhere at Hay, and there is a lot of book signing going on. I don’t read much contemporary fiction so don’t know the authors in the extra (Elif Shafak and Abdulrazak Gurnah) but the queues of people wanting their books signed by them were very long indeed. I must be missing something.

I know I am off theme for mono Monday, not thinking about it during the day.