Time crunch

There just aren’t enough hours in the day when you’re a sheep farmer and yarn show vendor, as Graeme Bethune discovers

- Graeme Bethune

BETWEEN NOW and the start of lambing, I am going to be mad busy. Today, as I write, I am packing to drive to my first yarn show of the year, Unravel. It is snowing and there is a poor weather forecast. It is a minimum two-day drive and I have to allow some leeway because of the weather. So I am going to be away from the farm for nearly a week, leaving my sheeps in the care of my dad, who is in his eighties, and my neighbours. It is going to be a tough trip and I am really anxious about being away for so long. But this is the life of a yarn show vendor. At least if you are me.