Tuesday 19 June 2012

Tractors and Hayfever

So I woke up on the morning of the 18th to a phonecall from one of my childhood friends Gordon; a Farmer who lives up the road. He was asking me to join him to go and "shake down a field", whatever that was. Seeing as I am unemployed, not at university, living in the middle of nowhere with nothing else better do to I said yes.
The journey down to Ecclefechan (brilliant name) was actually pretty funny. I was just sitting in the most awkward position possible, looking at all the people staring at us thinking "He's too young to be driving a tractor!" or "That's dangerous!". They didn't approve.

Anyway we made it to the field and I bumped into Gordon's uncle Don, which was cool because I hadn't seen him in ages. Then there was three hours of this.



It wasn't hideously boring, Gordon has good chat.

I had to stop a good four times to sneeze my lungs out and empty my sinuses as the hayfever was insane. But, this did give me an opportunity to phone Morag, a good friend from Edinburgh who I hadn't talked to in ages and take some photos.











(Panorama cause I'm an artistic bastard) So I jumped back in the tractor and continued snapping.






It was taken through a window so it didn't come out as sunny and fantastic as I wanted but that is what a field looks like after it is 'shaken down'.