This, my friends, is a sea cow. Or manatee. Or mami water. Or (my personal favourite here) a dugong. These here dugongs in Lake Volta in Ghana, West Africa, are slowly being wiped out. There’s a Guardian article here. I think that us farmers need to show a bit of solidarity to the poor little [...]
Can you remember the entry about the podcast that Clare, Tim, Ian and I were faffing around with at Oxford Farming Conference. Well, it’s finally up on their website for you to have a little listen to. Click here to find it. Comments welcome. Well, I say welcome. If you put that it is too [...]
After the recent stream of puns for titles I decided to enter some of them as entries in the National Pun Awards. I sent the best ten puns in hoping that at least one of them would make it into the finals. But no pun in ten did.
Oooo while we are on the subject of potatoes (what do you mean when were we ever off it), did you see the programme on BBC3 about freaky eaters. You can watch it again here You must be impressed at the way that my cultural landscape reaches from high-minded (pink) newspapers to the trendy youth [...]
http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2007/11/spuds-i-like.htmlToday’s pun is a C-, I’m afraid. It’s a pass but that’s about all. Right. I’ve started reading the Financial Times. Yes, be impressed. In fact I love the Financial Times. The pages are just as big and flappy as the Telegraph (the little Guardian is useless for lighting the Woodburner) but you don’t have [...]
Here’s a link which I have picked up from Nontropolis, the blog of Steve Fairchild in the States. It’s fairly puerile – you can see what frame of mind I’m in at the moment – but is perhaps more entertaining than an entry about the impending meltdown of capitalism and the Western economy.
Good Tractor Driver needed in Hertfordshire. I’m assuming that out of the eight people who read this blog there are at least two highly-skilled operators who are looking for a job. Well today is your lucky day. A mate of mine is looking for someone good and has a great opportunity for the right person. [...]
Herself, on her funny blog, has commented on my last column in the FW magazine about saunaing (that is the correct verb, no need for you to check it). Whoahh, Matthew, I hear you say. You’re bloomin’ well cross promoting again. Well get over it – this, my feathered friend, is the way that the [...]
Have a look at this hilarious discussion thread here. It has made my day. It is clearly a wind up. My only concern is that when farmers rise to the bait, they often reveal a self-righteousness that they have no right to. They also reveal some pretty crappy grammar too. (The Campaign for Spellcheck on [...]
I just spent bloomin’ ages typing a lovely entry for you and it’s disappeared. I forgot to blinkin’ well save it. I have problems with this computer when I try to do more than one thing at once and it all jams up. So that entry is gone for ever. Still. We got a nice [...]