Fed up with snow - but free of TB

摘要

It is officially spring and I know at least one person who will have switched their heating off on 21 March, because that is what they always do, come hell, high water or subzero temperatures. However, here in vernal upland Northumberland, the prevailing weather for the past month has been snow. We are all fed up with it and so are the sheep. One creature felt so strongly that she made her way up the yard before making the ultimate gesture of ovine defiance by expiring outside the back door. Yet, the awful pictures of buried livestock elsewhere in the country put our situation into perspective. We have only got a few inches of snow. The sheep are mostly OK, they aren't lambing yet and things could be a lot worse.