Ploughing

Turning the soil

Wednesday 23rd December 2015

It was such a pleasant sunny afternoon, apart from the wind, that I went for a walk in Brubber Dale west of Fridaythorpe. Brubber Dale is a dry valley and is also Open Access land, meaning you can walk anywhere within the confines. I walked along the valley bottom, then returned along the top. I then drove through Thixendale and encountered a farmer ploughing his field. Unusual, in as much as at this time of year the ground could be frozen solid and unable to be ploughed. Not so this year, as the plough turned the soil, it was almost crumbling. Whatever happened to winter weather?