I Live On a Farm

I live on a quite big farm in Wales. It is one of the farms that has been mentioned since the Middle Ages. Today we have dairy cows. A Holstein herd. And higher up where I live sheep. My family, five sisters and a brawd, rent our cottage and are responsible for the sheep. Oh we have a Mam and Dad too!
We all have jobs to do. I get up at 4.30 very day. I have a cup of tea in bed and read a few pages of my latest novel. But at 5 I am out feeding the sheep. They have sugar beet to add to what they get from the grass. Also make sure they got water. Sheep don’t drink a lot. They get water from the grass. But if it is dry, they can drink!

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Platoscave · F

Your story reminds me of this beautiful novel entitled "Lark Rise To Candleford" (Flora Thompson)

A celebration of cultural traditionalism at a time of great change.

Did you read it? Sounds like it. Anyway your farm sounds like a scene out of that book...

Nice writing here, would love seeing more!

LiliMaiJones · 22-25, F

No. I never heard of it. @Platoscave

Platoscave · F

@LiliMaiJones Excerpt:

"...abundance of such foods, and even the poor enjoyed a rough plenty.'
The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box..."

(from Flora Thompson "Lark Rise at Candleford")

LiliMaiJones · 22-25, F

I had no idea. We don’t have much money. But everyone works hard. And we have enough. Even to send me to college. I do the cooking. It is just plain food and we dress plain. But we have so much fun. You wouldn’t believe the high jinks that go on on this farm! @Platoscave