And I’m sure you’re hoping that when you get to see it next spring, it’ll be a comedic eight-part festival of cute animals, laughter and incomprehensible dry-stone walling.

We began with me in hospital. After trying to open a pub while doing the harvest last year, my heart decided I really had to slow down.

But you can’t do that in farming because in the background there’s always a fox in your hen house or a man from the council with a clipboard and an opinion.

I tried to keep the stress levels to a minimum but then along came Rachel Reeves with her Budget, which would send the cost of fertiliser soaring, prevent farmers from passing their farms on to their children and cut subsidies to zero.

We had all the tech in the world, but if it doesn’t rain it won’t make a difference because nothing will grow. And nothing did.

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