A weight lifted from Del’s shoulders after she sent the letter to Nick. In the days that followed, it became possible to think about him without a crippling pang of heartbreak. Instead she felt just a dull ache of loss. Painful as that was, it wasn’t enough to stop her living her life.
Del was taking an active interest in the running of Kingfisher Farm now, and she needed to make a business plan. So, one morning she sat down at the kitchen table with a pot of tea, some toast and her laptop. Time to make a list of pros and cons. Right. On the pro side, beef values were up and cattle were fetching high prices at market. Since the farm was understocked, there was the potential to run many more head in the future. Del had also been researching viticulture enterprises as fast as Mum’s dodgy in
