After all the efforts of the past few weeks the day arrived. I think we were all fairly pooped before it started, but we were running on adrenalin!
At 11.00am the first began to arrive and they carried on throughout the day, 80 in all ,with varied ages from 3 - 95 and from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, to Leeds, they came from all over.
What I thought was a real shame was that not many locals came. It wasn't for the fact that it hadn't been advertised well enough, oh no!, I'm sure the media in our area were absolutely sick of the sound of my name. It was on Radio Maldwyn, in the County Times on the Powys Intranet, on the school newsletter, the church newsletter, e-mailed to all the local schools, on posters from Aberwystwyth to Stourbridge and from Merthry Tydfil to Wrexham...oh yes people would have certainly known where to find us.
Still a wonderful day out, and that was the consensus of everyone. the tractor and trailer rides were real winners, the second most favourite thing was our Welsh Black Bull.
My daughter Hannah and her friends Sasha and Sarah made £110 for the Brooke Foundations Horses in Need appeal, so our guests could sit under our gazebo in our garden and nibble scones with butter and jam and grab a cup of tea before being spirited away on a tractor with Philip to give them the guided tour.
Well Done and thanks to everyone who helped us organise the event, and thanks to LEAF without whom this national event just wouldn't happen, and it needs to.
Only 7 farms in Wales opened to the public - come on everyone open your eyes we need the general public behind us, we need them to know what we are doing and why we do it, tell them how good we are at our jobs at looking after the country side at, knowing our stock and protecting the environment don't give up fight back, most people will support us, they want to but you have to make contact - give it a go....
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