Great image Ewan and that of aspects of your daughters skill set... Power to her elbow.. (-:
I bought this place over 40 years ago, it`s previous owner had only recently given up pig farming in the premises, which was located in a pig farming area of smallholdings.... When those guys spread the manure on the fields, you could taste it... Though boiling the residue of many unfinished restaurant meals for pig feed was not quite as bad, and Mud on the road would seem perhaps preferable... (-: Foot & mouth ended the last of the piggeries in this area, and around that time I suspect SEPA might have had an eye on changing the habit of spraying pig manure on the fields in the hope of increasing grazing and winter feed for the same cattle, which would be bought at a time after the hay had been taken off.
Yeah being a Luddite there are aspects of the old days and ways that I miss, and converting fields to doggy day care areas, perhaps may not provide the same variety around the place as it as was when the older farming cycles determined much towards life`s everyday experiences...Much to the pleasure of ever expanding suburbia and it`s inhabitants when they got wind of the manure spreading processes....(-:
