Last night was the Grower of the Year Awards in London. My Dad and I were invited as guests of one of our flower customers. Dad is definitely hot social property at the moment, I think people must be angling after a ride in the menoPorsche or something (just another week and the new concrete [...]
Hope that you like the new title. You can imagine how much pressure it was placing on me to devise a ripping pun every time. I think that we reached the pinnacle of human creativity with Flora and Sauna actually, it was always going to be downhill from there wasn’t it? This is why I’ve [...]
I appreciate that I am in Field Day territory here. This isn’t even to my comedy taste. In fact to me it was full of pathos. Clearly the fox is dead. I’m guessing that the person who took this photo wears camouflage trousers and drives a very old 3 door Landrover Discovery with lots of [...]
Once again another first class pun as a title, I’m setting you up for a disappointment at some stage. I’m at work today loading daffodils into the coldstore. A bunch of ramblers have just walked along the road; they had become split into 3 little groups and were only about 20 metres away from me [...]
Another fantastic pun in the title there, all will become clear on this in a moment. So where have a been for nearly two weeks? In Finland of course. Oh and I’ve been on a leadership course at the Royal Ag. College in Cirencester. I’ve got loads to tell you and not much time today. [...]
Hope that you like the title. Usually my titles are rubbish but this one is a pun which is actually based on the contents of the entry. Wow. Daffodil cropping continues apace. The cool weather in the mornings is slowing them down and keeping the pressure off. The famous photographer, Tim Scrivener is in today [...]
I’ve just been faffing around sorting out what I need for the trip to Finland for the Worshipful Company of Farmers course reunion next week. The week after that I am in Cirencester for the Institute of Ag. Management Leadership Course. I had been looking forward to both these things but the hot weather has [...]
We have started cropping daffodils. Some people think that this means Spring has arrived but in my experience it means that hail storms are on the way. This is the earliest that we have ever harvested daffodils. If (as is madly suggested here by Professor Stott) global warming WAS purely invented by Margaret Thatcher, then [...]
I am always delighted when I get a reaction to anything that I have written. Because I tend to trade in opinions rather than hard facts, there is always room for a bit of discussion. Probably it’s a Catholic thing, but always enjoy being criticised. You can always make use of a criticism, whereas there [...]
I was invited for lunch yesterday by my friends Jeremy and Boo. They are both fantastic cooks and it was a phenominal lunch. It reminded me of a nightmare situation at their house some time ago and I thought I could exercise my demons by writing it down here. It’s a bit puerile and toilet-humourish. [...]