This is the place

On a hill in Matarau on Monday...

I was on the phone, talking This Is The Place, when the calf finally arrived. Surely I wasn't this anxious when my own kids dawdled past their due date! Shouldn't have worried; the wee red thing is just fine, and Ma Cow is a natural (of course). I know the dairy farmers, with their 500+ herds, will be laughing at me, but when you've got just the one precious heifer it's all so much more fraught. This lifestyle stuff can be a little bit scary... Trisha Fisk (of Practical Smallfarming in New Zealand fame) tells me I can neuter my own rabbits. Sure. Maybe tomorrow...