I have been reading Penelope Trunks blog. Some of it 's nuts and doesn't resonate with me at all. She has an editor who has the same personality type as me ( and she doesn't really like people with that type, he's the exception)This I liked though 'An important part of farming is not talking. Farmers don’t talk to each other. They say it’s because animals get more difficult to work with if they hear voices. But really farmers get more difficult to work with if they hear voices. No one chooses farming to socialize.' Its easier to work with animals if you have most of your instructions worked out in advance. Otherwise normally calm people get stressed, which makes the animals stressed. Its a fine line if you are going to tend to them sometimes you and they, will have discomfort eg dosing cows for Liver Fluke http://www.msd-animal-health.ie/diseases/cattle/internal_parasites/liverfluke/information.aspx.

The Life Cycle of Liver Fluke, Phytophthora infestans ,ejaculation /knee jerk are the only two reflexive actions in the body are the only things I remember from Leaving Cert Biology. It was my highest mark, the year the exam contained a now illegal experiment involving Tadpoles and iodine. It was still in the book -we hadn't studied it as it hadn't come up in years.