Roland: I am just looking at some old photos of the farm and I can see this photo of my mother and father, myself when I was a baby. We're obviously in the hay field somewhere. It seemed to be traditional at that time to go around the hay field with a pike fork and just tidy up the rows, so I'm assuming that's what my father was doing.

And now we move on, we got a winter. Feeding sheep is obviously very muddy. You see the sheep have made a bit of a mess in the field, they’d given them some hay. Not quite sure what year that was. Um… there's myself shearing the sheep. That's going back a few years ago as well.

And we got some very interesting photos of the snow of ‘83. You see, you got snow. We don't very often have snow on the farm, but, um, when we do get it, we have an awful lot and you can see here it's right up to the top of the gate, in the field. I think that's the same, the same time and it’s the road going to the farm, and we've obviously dug through the snow just to be able to get in and out.

Interviewer Vicki Thompson: Did you find any sheep in the snow? Have you had to dig them out before?

Roland: I don't think we had to dig them out. No, I can't remember doing that. They must have just gone and sheltered somewhere else other than up against the trees. I can't remember digging any out.

And there’s myself then lambing the ewe a long time ago, it looks as if we've got one lamb out, she's just about to have another one.

And I have got, it’s a more modern photo now. We've got us the sheep on the marsh. We… there’s a road going out onto the marsh, and we’re actually driving the sheep out when the tide is still in. The tide’s obviously on its way out at that time, but it hadn't quite cleared the marsh. They’re all going out along the road.

Interviewer Vicki Thompson: Have you lost sheep to the marsh tide?

Roland: Um, yes, we have in the past. It's generally our fault or if the wind comes up exceptionally in the middle of the night or something and brings the tide in a lot higher than what we think, but we try to be there. We know when the tides are going to be high, so we try to be there a couple hours before high tide there just to get the sheep off to make sure. Um, and as I said, I can remember a long time ago we did lose a bunch of sheep to the tide, we were too late getting there.

Interviewer Vicki Thompson: On the marsh, is there high enough ground, if they do get cut off?

Roland: No, if they do get cut off that’s it. Yes, we've got to get them on to high ground before the tide comes in. It's… the marsh is a little bit different to a beach, it doesn't just slowly come up where they could walk in front. There's the little gutters fill up, and then once the gutters fill up, they can't come in. So we've got to make sure we get to them before the before the gutters fill.