Pretty primroses, delicate daffodils, a big, busy bumble bee and the sowing of oats all herald the advent of Spring at Maesmawr Hall/Cefn Du farms, Welshpool. There are sheep and lambs in the fields but one lamb has found a new home with a sow and her piglets! At Esgairdraenllwyn, a farm at Llaithddu, Llandrindod, the horned Welsh Black cattle have calves with white faces (Hereford x) and one gets a serious licking from its mother, a striking record of a cow-calf bond.