Weddings and global events

I went to a wedding this weekend with my spouse. It was a cracking one – lovely ceremony, fab couple getting married, complete with an adorable flower girl sprinkling petals shyly while walking down the aisle ahead of her mother and the bride. I don’t go to so many now – in my age group, people are usually divorcing and often not throwing parties for that event. 

I love going to weddings just as a guest. In my twenties, I was a bridesmaid eight times, and after the last wedding where my dear friend, the bride, had a complete meltdown on the day, I swore the next wedding I went to would be my own. And so it was.  

The couple did have a lot of good ideas at this one, in particular a piece of paper where you wrote a bit of advice for them. And drew your face, which in my case was not the best. My advice was about remembering the good, fun things and having a short memory for the bad events. Marriage is a marathon, not a sprint, as we say here. And sometimes it is a long way from one water stop to the next. 

Which is often the case with dairy. While we all focus on fertiliser costs, rising inputs and those closed shipping lanes, it might be the time to think of how we have been here before. Farming has been around for thousands of years, and making dairy products has been around almost as long. As an industry, it’s been subject to long-standing pressures and endless shocks caused by events outside our control. However, it’s also about the joys of making quality cheese and dairy products, and having a good day’s work in the plant, making products that people use every day in their lives and enjoy. It is hard to focus on the positive but it’s occasionally a very good idea to do so.  

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