Here on the farm if looks as if spring has finally arrived the grass is growing in front of the cattle and sheep and all look contented to be out again. I love this time of year, I can be a real dog and stick farmer and lean on a gate a survey the growing animals in the spring sunshine! I am soon brought back to 2010 when I remember the mountain of paper that has built up during the lambing season: Defra, RPA, Fabbl, VAT etc etc. The RPA have sent out digital maps again, wrong again 5 months after sending them the corrections they come back wrong again and more so than before! It is up to us to correct them again. I cannot print what I would do to them if they were employed by me. Suffice it to say it is rumoured now more work for Defra than there are dairy farmers.