Now that automatic baling machines do the hard work, it's rare to see traditional stooks, ricks, and stacks in the fields. Eric Ravilious painted Furlongs (1934) at Peggy Angus' house near Lewes in Sussex; when he visited, he felt ‘he had come to his own country’, wrote Helen Binyon with whom he had a relationship which forms part of the narrative of his wife, Tirzah Garwood's book Long Live Great Bardfield.