Wet Wednesday

As predicted monsoons are on the way, well Easter Bank holiday is on its way when the kids are off school, so you could count on the weather turning cold and wet. We had spent a nice morning yesterday in Hanley shopping followed by a large meal at the China Garden (a Toby carvery) on the Festival Park site with my brother Ken and his wife Audrey. Hanley has become a minefield to navigate they just can’t stop messing about with the road system which meant we turned up a tad late.

Then on our return to the RV we said a sad farewell to one of the oldest Highland cows on the farm. The poor old thing had been looking ill for a while and for the past two days had just sat on a dusty patch in front of our RV without moving and even though the water trough was just in front of her she would not drink or eat. The other Highland cattle started to gather round her as though they knew she was dying so sadly the owner called in the Knackers man to put her to sleep.

The old Girl

A mischievous little tyke from the next caravan wanted to watch the gory proceedings “can’a watch mister are you gonn’a kill her”, but the farmer put a huge bale of hay in front of her to hide her from the caravan site and shooed the lad away. We noticed that all the Jersey's on their way out from the milking sheds lined up along the far edge of the field like an honour guard and as soon as the old girl was dispatched and removed, they all turned in unison to head out into the fields.

Who says animals can’t feel? We felt that all the animals on the farm were well aware of what was happening. The previous day the young pony ‘Bella’ had put her hoof over the old girl several times, she was tugging at her to move and licking her face without any response. I suppose us townies are too sentimental when it comes to animals.

The site is fairly empty now apart from a few caravans and a new arrival….another RV, a Damon Daybreak owned by a chap called Andy, Like us he’d just returned from having a new set of tyres supplied by Brian Evans in Oswestry and was also putting his machine in for its annual MOT with Signature motorhomes. I suppose this site is well placed for the RV community as there are a few good RV dealers and suppliers in the vicinity.

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