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[maggie]

  Maggie you have got it right my girl it is silage round this way crops are different and have a limited time to get them in Well done Maggie right again Gold Star for you my friend 

Dont know anything about crops Suse as I am a city bird by birth although now I live in deepest somerset,  my Mum was in the land army in the war on an arable farm  .
I agree with you that hay and such like cannot be stored damp so they have to make sure it's dry from the dew first. I would think cereals are the same but turnips and stuff like that may be different.
Maybe we should take up farming after all.

[guest154]

8am for a rural farmer? I think 8am is the time they have their first break after being up working for a few hours. 

[susan]

8am for a rural farmer? I think 8am is the time they have their first break after being up working for a few hours. 

hahaha Mat guess you have not visited The Highlands never start till 8 a.m but that could be because they don't finish till 4 a.m. hahaha

[guest154]

hahaha Mat guess you have not visited The Highlands never start till 8 a.m but that could be because they don't finish till 4 a.m. hahaha

Guess, I haven't. They finish at 4am? Get home and eat I guess, in bed for about 4:30am? Up at 7:30am and start at 8am?!

They aren't farmers, they are robots. 

[Caroline]

Dont know anything about crops Suse as I am a city bird by birth tho now I live in deepest somerset, my Mum was in the land army in the war on an arable farm  .
I agree with you that hay and such like cannot be stored damp so they have to make sure it's dry from the dew first. I would think cereals are the same but turnips and stuff like that may be different.
Maybe we should take up farming after all.

I live in a rural area, they start very early, they don't just get up and go straight to the field. They have to eat, and prepare machinery and give instructions to other workers etc.

[susan]

Guess, I haven't. They finish at 4am? Get home and eat I guess, in bed for about 4:30am? Up at 7:30am and start at 8am?!

They aren't farmers, they are robots. 

Hahaha Mat you could be right have to be careful what I say I am living on a Dairy Farm

[Jan]

my dad used to work from 5am to 5pm with a nap at lunchtime with one weekend off in two. Dairy farming.

[maggie]

my dad used to work from 5am to 5pm with a nap at lunchtime with one weekend off in two. Dairy farming.

Its certainly hard work and looks really miserable in the winter months, Jan. I don't think I would have made it as a farmer somehow.

[susan]

Its certainly hard work and looks really miserable in the winter months, Jan. I don't think I would have made it as a farmer somehow.

Maggie the cattleman on this farm is out 4 a.m. every morning breaks at 9 a.m. back on at 2 p.m. till 5 p.m. then checks the cattle at 9 p.m. he works 7 days a week with one weekend off every month a really hard life when all the equipment freezes up in the severe frost but nice in summer out in the fields at 4 a.m. bringing in his cows

[guest2181]

I don't know if it's feasible or not Susie, it may be something which happened at harvest time and usually Sheila wasn't there so he would stay in her room but obviously this time there was no spare room so he might have sat in the lounge and watched his programmes waiting for the house to settle down for the night before creeping upstairs and the rest is history.

JB's bedroom was opposite the room where the twins slept.

[guest2181]

See the second paragraph:

[guest2181]

The bed in 'Jeremy's Room' was made up but undisturbed.

[maggie]

JB's bedroom was opposite the room where the twins slept.

I know but I thought it had become just a storage room?

[maggie]

The bed in 'Jeremy's Room' was made up but undisturbed.

I wondered about that room but remembered I had read at some point that Jeremy's bedroom had become a store room and assumed there wasn't a bed in there.
The fact there was a bed made up is interesting and points to the possibility Jeremy did stay there from time to time although that night he didn't go to bed.

[guest7363]

8am for a rural farmer? I think 8am is the time they have their first break after being up working for a few hours. 

Quite right Matt, this is why I cannot believe Mikes theory that Jeremy had no idea his family had been killed?  With all the commotion outside and the dog barking and sounding distressed, his Dad had not appeared to see what the hell was going on?  Did he think Dad and mum was having a lie in?