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Music Okay, so someone's coming this afternoon to spray the linseed.

Oh, that's brilliant. Thanks, Adam. Gosh, that's a huge weight off my mind.

And I've ordered the fertilizer for autumn planting. I didn't use your usual supplier. I've got a great price somewhere else, so I hope that's okay. That's excellent. And I've just been in touch with a bunch of people about potential contracts for autumn drilling, so hopefully you'll hear something positive back soon. But obviously that's something that we need to keep plugging away.

But right now, I really need to get going. Well, thank you, Adam. This has been great.

Oh, hopefully things will feel a bit more organised now. What I really need is a kind of map of what I

should be doing when, a kind of timeline, because Stella was across all the day to day in a way that I wasn't. I know, I know. I mean, there are so many emails coming in, I'm afraid I'm going to miss something. And lots of them are questions I can't actually answer. And then the paperwork, God, which a nightmare, incredibly boring. It is very boring. Of course, Stella was across all that, too. Yeah, difficult just to pick up from someone else.

I don't suppose you could take a quick look now.

What? At what?

Some of the paperwork.

I really haven't got time.

Well, just one or two bits and pieces.

Honestly, Adam, I'm starting to panic about missing various deadlines.

I mean, you may not understand some of this stuff any better than me, of course. Sorry, hang on, hang on just a sec. Oh, it's Pat. Hello. Where are you? Uh, I, I'm just in the home farm office with Brian. But you were supposed to be here. But didn't you get my message? What message? Oh, I'm coming in. I'm just going to be a bit late. A bit late. It's already tense. Sorry, Pat, things are tricky here at the moment, but I can stay on later at Bridge Farm today, if that's anyhow. But Susan's been all on her own in the dairy for hours. Was Helen not with her? She's in Borchester. I didn't realize... Because we thought you were going to be here. I am, I am sorry, I know it's not ideal. Not ideal. But I did message you. Adam, that's not how it works, and you know it.

You know I speak to?

No. I am, I am sorry, I know it's not ideal Not ideal But I did, I did message you

Adam, that's not how it works And you know it You'll I speak to her? No, it's all right It's not all right Sorry, sorry, sorry I was talking to Brian I'm coming now, I am You've got ten minutes Adam Okay, okay, okay, see you in Ten minutes I've got to go. What about the paperwork?

You're going to take the call up here?

Well, I can hardly speak to George in the bar, can I?

What time's he ringing you then?

About 10.15.

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