OUR Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has revealed the problematic “issues” she had on the farm during lockdown, including panic attacks.
The Shepherdess discussed the impact the pandemic had on her farm, flock and family on the Channel 5 show.
The mother-of-nine recalled the eerie atmosphere as everyone was advised to work from home.
Amanda said: “This year has been a very strange year, of course, with lockdown.
“I’ve very much missed the people coming back – even though we live remotely and I suppose, as isolated as it gets, it really felt… there’s been a feeling in the air that things aren’t right.
“During lambing time, everything continued as normal because your focus is entirely on the sheep.
“But once we were past lambing time and into May, that’s usually when the tourists, the visitors come back and of course, they didn’t this year.
“So it presented its own kind of problems and issues.”
She added: “Of course, having nine children at home was one of the first ones and how much they actually consumed – I’d be having a panic attack every time I heard the fridge door go.
“But we’ve got ourselves into the rhythm of it, we’re battling all the usual things we would be battling, the elements, the rain, the sunshine, you name it, that is what we’re good at, being from Yorkshire, being farmers, we can turn our hands to anything.
“So we’re fortunate we did have the space which meant life could carry on as normal.”
There were nice moments during lockdown too as Amanda recalled: “We saw all kinds of things – the skies were quiet so we saw stars and constellations we weren’t familiar with, we watched birds hatching.”
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