Morning
We are very rural, nearest neighbours three miles. Family farm, two families, plus in theory four young staff and two elderly PIL. We are about to commence lambing over five thousand sheep and calving five hundred cattle.
We had a meeting last night and the plan is a sort of cross isolation, bare with me.
We always hold a good stock of supplies in case of snow, sil and I have made a list this morning of a few extras (gin) and are heading to get those, we would have done this anyway.
Cottages are made up for lambing staff.
Our proposal is we carry on as normal until one of us needs to self isolate, at that point all of us self isolate but mix with each other. Except maybe PIL but they are a law unto themselves. As in we would rather not mix with them if one of us is unwell but they won't stay inside and let everyone else get on.
The harsh reality of lambing in this kind of landscape is that we need to go out and do it.
We can close the farm at the road end and stay put, but we do need to lamb the sheep.
We have diesel for heating, wood, meat, milk, veg and eggs.
It's not ideal but we cannot leave animals to survive.
The lambing staff are happy with the proposal and to move in for the time,mother tend to do that anyway.
Is anyone else facing this type of thing and does anyone have any other suggestions? Or advice.