And all around the lanes tractors are trundling up and down from first light until dusk. It’s good, dry, harvesting weather and the farmers are not wasting the blue skies and the long days.
At the back of the house in the adjacent field an enormous machine is cutting barley at the front and spraying out grain at the back.

In spite of the noise and the dust, the cows and sheep sit under the shade of the oak tree that marks the boundary of our field and the barley field. They are too hot to move on such a stifling day.