MY BREEDING plans this year were centred around the wedding of one of my son’s best friends at the end of July. Not an issue under normal circumstances, but I live in Scotland and Alex and Lena live in Kent. And I’m disabled. My disability is degenerative disc disease. The discs in my back are disappearing, leaving the vertebrae rubbing against each other – trapping the nerves between them.
I have good days, but an equal number of bad days when I am in a great deal of pain and can do very little. So the journeys down south and back were extremely arduous for me. Nevertheless, I set my plans out and conditioned my birds
