'A business that lacks diversity relies much more heavily on fewer resources and income streams, so any breakdown is likely to affect a business to a much greater extent. It’s like financial investment, you want to choose a broad portfolio to spread your risk.'
As the days have swiftly passed, the elusive nature of summer's presence becomes evident. From the inception of lambing just yesterday to the impending task of assembling tupping groups tomorrow, time appears to play tricks.
Well that’s lambing time in full swing again for us – as I write this I sincerely hope that any farmers calving and lambing at the moment did not experience the biblical downpour last week that turned our lambing fields into rivers within hours.
Humanity has a long history of fascination with the workings of the world, the laws governing our surroundings and how things work at the minute and massive scale.
It is fair to say that, after the Isle of Mull seemed to have missed out on most of the previous warm weather spells this summer, this last week has more than made up for it.
