Angus Woods: It’s vital to make the effort to wind down and spend time off the farm

We need to find a balance between work and fun – and for me that involves a 720km, three-day canoe race on the Yukon

Angus and his canoe team in Canada

Angus Woods

Given the prolonged winter, a difficult spring and a summer that hasn’t been overly kind to us either so far, it was lovely to get away from it all for nearly a fortnight.

It was well worth the frantic few weeks trying to get everything into order.