Country diary: Lambing is a physical business | Andrea Meanwell

Tebay, Cumbria: This morning there are two sprightly lambs to catch and reunite with their mother. They bleat for my attention, then dash off as I try to catch themSpring has come at last to the Howgills, and new growth is bouncing out of every verge and tree. Each day there are new hedgerow blossoms and roadside flowers to observe. Today it is the turn of the cuckoo flower to appear, yesterday it was hawthorn blossom.The main business of the month, though, is lambing. I walk around our in-bye fields three times a day, clocking up thousands of steps and about 12 miles a day, according to my phone's health app. I keep getting alerts that I'm "trending higher for 15 days", though my whole body knows this already. Continue reading...