The long dry spell continues with no sign of it breaking and bringing some sensible rainfall. We've had a couple of wet days, about three weeks ago, and that gave everything a good soaking but that was followed by a couple of weeks of chilly to cold steady drying winds and the ground is opening up again.
The last rains didn't close the cracks up and now the fields are criss-crossed within the crops and not just the field margins and headlands, the wheat here is twelve to fourteen inches high so that gives you an idea of the dimensions of the cracks. Some are so large a terriers paw can fall into them so in certain places on the walks the dogs are on the lead for their own safety. This morning I placed a pice of stick in a crack to see how far it would go and the depth was just over ten inches using the two and a half inch blade on my pocket knife as the measuring implement.
Please hurry up rain, the perfect solution would be steady rain at night but it's not going to happen any time soon, there's none forecast this week.
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