Mrs Down's Diary September 24
WE have been so lucky. Pressed on and harvested all the wheat. Heaps of it.
In the end John was working until nearly midnight, with failed lights on the combine, just to make sure all the crops were under cover and out of the field before the rain, once more, fell and drowned everything.
Some of our neighbours who use our equipment to test the moisture of their wheat tut-tutted when John started to combine. "I'd wait a bit," one said. "The weather is bound to take up." Well it didn't '“ well not much, but fortunately the windows of opportunity that we worked in were dry.
For the full Diary, see the West Sussex Gazette issue dated September 24