With the troubling events in the wider world it is comforting to focus on what you can see and influence in your own backyard. And important to remember that the seasons move inexorably on and we are now in the season of new birth and new growth.

This is our first calf of the new year, born to one of our new heifers. About three days old now and already very self-confident. There is nothing he likes more than pushing his head through the fence for a stroke.

It won’t be long before he’s too big for that.