Big yellow wheels

After a full day of pouring rain kept us confined indoors on Saturday we opted for a brisk romp upriver on Sunday. There the river is only a third of the width it is down near our house but it was fast and turbulent from the rains of the day before. We stopped and chatted with a farmer who was putting nitrogen fertiliser on his fields. He pointed out the fields allocated for this year’s ploughing match. Finch stroked the big yellow wheels of the farmer’s tractor wistfully when he was allowed to go up close for an inspection. If he only he could have a tractor as big as that!