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Amid the real fields of dreams

Some time in the future, when three-year-old Sandy is old and nostalgic and Farmer Duncan is chugging his tractor across the sky and baby Duncan, Sandy’s wee brother, is telling his grandchildren bedtime tales, those pictures of Sandy at Rawcliffe House Farm in 2009, in seventh heaven grasping the steering wheel of a tractor while crossing the yard, will still be around to prove that dreams indeed come true.

A farm-stay holiday, bringing together three generations beneath one roof, turned out for everyone concerned – not least the goats and ducks and hens who were there to greet us – to be a hit.