Elenora: Gwyn's auntie was living up in Gwynfe came down from Sennybridge to Gwynfe to farm. We were a lot of youngsters then and I was friendly with his cousin. And, so he was coming up to visit and that's it.
Caroline: She's also from a farming…?
Elenora: I'm from a farming area. My father had a farm.
Caroline: What were you farming?
Elenora: Sheep and milking again, making butter. Mother was making butter. She was churning in the old churn every week or… I was glad to see them going to milk. My brother made it / got a cow shed out then, to go to milk, you know. It is much better than making butter, but the butter was lovely.
Caroline: Is that how you started with the sheep by here? Were the sheep by here when you got married?
Elenora: No, we bought sheep in Gelli Cwm.
Caroline: So, that's how we got into the sheep there?
Elenora: Yeah yeah.
Caroline: So it’s your fault?
Elenora: Yeah, it’s my fault.
Caroline: Yes, because we used to have quite a lot of sheep at one time, didn’t we? And then we would turn out onto the mountain, and that's all we used to do was to spend our own time either bringing, a gathering them in, or taking them out, and the ferns were getting taller and taller and… Isn’t it? We just spent ages, didn't we? Out on the mountain collecting sheep, did gathering in for this and that.
Elenora: Yeah, we did. Yeah.
Caroline: Gathering in for this and that.
Caroline: And then you came down here in 1959, isn’t it?
Elenora: 1959
Interviewer Vicki Thompson: Was it different? Between the different farms?
Elenora: Well, much different between milking and making butter see, isn't it?
I enjoyed both mind, but turning the old churn every week…it was, you had to do it every week see, and the butter. Yes
Caroline: Nora would drive the tractors, everything. Didnt you?
Elenora: Yes, I was. I used to drive doing silage here. My mother in law was looking after the children, when I was cutting the silage in like…ur
Caroline: and the small bale hay as well, isn’t it?
Elenora: Yes.
Caroline: ‘Cause they were initially just hay, weren’t you? And then the silage came, wasn’t it?
Elenora: Yes the silage came, and then the round bales come, you know?
Caroline: It's much easier, isn’t it?
Elenora: Yes, much easier. At least you can use tractors to do the job, you know. Yeah, there we are.