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Summer had turned itself off again. There was a cold wind coming from the north as I headed out to Tony’s place to read the herd test.

I looked in the distance to the Galtees and thought that however bad the day was down here, it would be ten times worse at the top. Visibility would be nil up there too, as the cloud was down. It felt more like a November day than the end of June.