Yesterday I rounded up all my ewes and waited for Hugh to arrive with his scanner. Each ewe would be scanned to see if she was in lamb, and if so, he would be able to tell me how many lambs she would have, and roughly when they would arrive. The gestation period for a lamb is five months less five days - but lambs can of course arrive a little early, or occasionally a few days late - so it's only a rough guide!
It's always an anxious moment as the first ewe is scanned - once none of them were in lamb and I had to get another ram in, then found myself lambing in June when all I wanted to do was to lie in the sun eating strawberries, pretending I was at Wimbledon - as if that would ever happen...!
But this time all was well, and all but two ewes are in lamb - at least five of them will be having triplets, so as a ewe can only really look after two lambs all by herself, it looks like I'll be pretty busy wielding a bottle... but at least I won't be bored!
And then today, there was being interviewed by 'Jo In The Afternoon' at Radio Oxford - that was a very interesting experience and I hope I made some sort of sense - it is a very strange feeling chatting away in a studio, not seeing who is listening to you - probably no one - but if you were listening, I hope I didn't send you to sleep, or say something so annoying you nearly crashed into the car in front - I'm not sure if I'm going to be brave enough to 'Listen Again', but maybe I will...
