Sun puts beef on my bullocks

YOU know that déjà vu feeling of “I’ve seen this before” but can’t quite remember where or when?

I’m standing in the yard in the pouring rain. It’s the middle of July, the middle of the summer. The gutters on the shed cascade full into the down pipes, it’s been raining heavily on and off for days. Damn it, I’m sure I’ve seen this before!

All jokes aside, this isn’t how our summer is supposed to be. Ground conditions are just about holding up, except in the heavier fields. I put seventy 500 to 550 kg bullocks into a six field block of 34 acres of after-grass — two bundles of 35 each, about 10 days ago. I took the last of them out of it yesterday.