Since we've been up here it's been huge circular straw-bales, or as I prefer to think of them, combine harvester pooh.
But this year for some reason all the farmers have gone for satisfyingly rectangular bales, stacked on top of each other to make pleasing towers around the fields. They're not the smaller rectangular bales of my childhood memories, but ones big enough to sail to America on - still, it's a nice improvement.
Bonus thought for the day:
Jonathan Raban is obsessed with the different attitudes English and Americans have towards history and landscape. We like to think we are looking out over an unchanged landscape, and the Americans are in love with our supposed history, and yet in reality everything we see is man-made. Whereas the Americans think of their history as stretching back only a few centuries, when in reality huge swathes of their landscape remain essentially untouched by man.
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