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         <title>A fruit case? Well, a veg case....</title>
         <description><![CDATA[This isn't normal; <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3166576/Charity-adventurer-JR-Hildebrandt-to-paddle-down-Wisconsin-River-in-giant-pumpkin.html">paddling down a river in a pumpkin</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>A cracking idea?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Poor old Charles Saatchi.</p>
<p>You'd have thought being married to the lovely <a href="http://www.nigella.com/">Nigella Lawson</a> would mean that he got to eat&nbsp;rather better than most of us. It seems <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1063289/Nigellas-husband-cracks-obesity-thanks-egg-diet.html">she's been giving him nothing but eggs, though</a>.</p>
<p>Has the woman never heard of the expression 'egg-bound'? Or maybe she, like me,&nbsp;thinks <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2008/09/do-i-hear-12m.html">Damien Hirst's art is rubbish</a> and was trying to&nbsp;make her point to her hubby, who's a big buyer of his work.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Game on</title>
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<p><img class="mt-image-none" height="298" alt="Lindsay Waddell National Gamekeepers Organisationwith Camilla Clark editor of the Shooting Times Raby Estate.jpg" src="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/Lindsay%20Waddell%20National%20Gamekeepers%20Organisationwith%20Camilla%20Clark%20editor%20of%20the%20Shooting%20Times%20Raby%20Estate.jpg" width="448" /></p>
<p>More calendar news. Not the <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2008/10/combined-effort.html">semi-naked variety</a> this time (sadly), but two more photos from the <a href="http://www.gamekeeperwelfare.com/page4.htm">Lord, Ladies &amp; Gamekeepers 2009/10 monthly calendar</a>.</p>
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<p>Each page shows a keeper going about his daily routine, but with the addition of a prominent female figure, well known as a supporter of sporting and countryside issues.</p>
<p>Funds raised will be divided between the Gamekeeper Welfare Network (GWN) and Macmillan Cancer Support.</p>
<p>The photos are also taken by my friend, super snapper <a href="http://www.johneveson.com/">John Eveson</a> (and he'd never&nbsp;forgive me if I didn't give the calendar a mention on Field Day!) </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Never mind the bullocks</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Anyone else seen the advert for Country Life (the butter, that is, not the mag) featuring ex-Sex Pistol <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon">John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten</a>?</p>
<p>I love it. Particularly the bit where he's chased by the cows!</p>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I've lived in both Newcastle and Darlington so I've seen&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/angel/features/angel-ten">The Angel of the North</a> many times. It's an incredibly&nbsp;<em>striking</em> piece of work. Very transcendental. (I'm not sure what that means exactly, but&nbsp;I remember hearing&nbsp;Melvyn Bragg use&nbsp;the word once so I'm sure it's very fitting.)&nbsp;</p>
<p>I thought it was hilarious, too, when <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/12/98/review_of_98/newsmakers/234608.stm">some Geordie wag draped a huge Newcastle United shirt over it</a>.</p>
<p>Now it seems a farmer in Yorkshire has had a go at creating another landmark: <a href="http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northyorks/3704007.Region_s_own_Stonehenge_completed/">a Stonehenge of the North</a>.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Ever struggle lugging your shopping home?</p>
<p>Well you could do what <a href="http://chalforddonkeyproject.blogspot.com/">this lot</a> did - <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7404250.stm">enlist the help of a donkey</a>.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Well, this is a turnip for the books</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061094/Turnip-sales-shoot-50-vegetable-choice-cash-strapped-families.html">Sales of the humble turnip are soaring</a>, it would appear, as cash-strapped shoppers try to beat the credit crunch.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Potatoes with parsley</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Since Mr Naylor has been kind enough to post <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/lincolnshire-farming-blog/2008/10/potato-data.html">some potato data</a> (who needs Nytol?), I thought I'd repay the favour with a nice picture of Parsley.&nbsp;]]></description>
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         <title>They&apos;re game</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I like eating game, so was interested to see the latest initiative from Game-to-Eat: <a href="http://www.game-to-eat.co.uk/blogcategory/phil-vickery-recipes/">a series of short videos, focusing on pheasand, partridge and venison</a>.</p>
<p>When I saw they featured Phil Vickery, I immediately thought of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Vickery_(rugby_player)">the rugby player</a>. It is, of course, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Vickery_(chef)">the TV chef</a> though...</p>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><img class="mt-image-none" height="329" alt="Rearsby YFC 2009 Front Cover.jpg" src="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/Rearsby%20YFC%202009%20Front%20Cover.jpg" width="353" /></p>
<p>I'm a man of my word, so here are two more photos from those <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2008/10/combined-effort.html">nice people at Rearsby Young Farmers</a>.</p>
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<p>Good work, ladies.</p>]]></description>
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<p><img class="mt-image-none" height="427" alt="Copy of July.JPG" src="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/Copy%20of%20July.JPG" width="457" /></p>
<p>God, how I wish I was a combine driver.</p></p></p>
<p>News of another charity calendar made by country people. First off it was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2008/09/dorset-bares-nearly-all.html">Sturminster Newton YFC</a>, now&nbsp;this one from Rearsby Young Farmers in Leicestershire. </p>
<p>Keen to raise some money for a good cause, they've got their kit off and donned their wellies in aid of <a href="http://www.rabi.org.uk/support/campaigns/WellyWeek.htm">RABI's Welly Week</a> which kicks off this Saturday.</p>
<p>Thirteen female members of the club posed for the calendar, which is available for £7.50 (+ £2 P&amp;P) from Catriona on 07890 226035 or you can <a href="mailto:missippimudpie@hotmail.com">email her</a>.</p>
<p>I'll post more pictures from the calendar later. Obviously, I'm only publishing them in the interests of supporting a good cause (I'd hate you to get the wrong impression of me, especially after having so vehemently denide <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2008/09/i-am-not-a-pervert.html">those scurrilous 'pervert' rumours</a>).</p>]]></description>
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<p>Funny, the things you remember people for. </p>
<p>I've been thinking about Lord Rooker today (<a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/10/06/112497/rooker-stands-down-as-farming-minister.html">he's standing down as junior DEFRA minister</a>). </p>
<p>He's been a popular figure with farmers - a happy-to-listen, straight-talking city boy who seemed to genuinely care about the countryside. </p>
<p>But I'll only ever be able to remember him for one thing. The day a colleague of mine soaked him with sparkling water.</p>
<p>It was at The Game Fair and Rooker was speaking at a debate I'd organised. My colleague, who was chairing the event, opened a bottle of very sparkling water midway through his presentation. It was like he was shooting the man repeatedly at close range with a water pistol. There was a ripple of nervous laughter. Then silence. </p>
<p>Other than that, I think the debate went quite well...</p>]]></description>
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<p>Ex-England rugby player <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/livestock-and-sales-blog/2008/10/rugby-star-billy-whizz-gets-th.html">Jason Robinson has gone into sheep farming</a>. He'll need all his speed and agility to catch them when they escape!</p></p></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Having survived <a href="http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2008/08/itll-be-a-breeze.html">my last nautical adventure</a> (I've destroyed most of the pictures from that weekend, but one of the less embarrasing ones is below) I'm now bracing myself for another one. This coming weekend. Another stag do. Another&nbsp;vessel - this time a narrow boat in Oxford. Oh dear again.&nbsp;</p>
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         <description><![CDATA[We talk a lot about food here on Field Day. But never testicles before. Be warned, <a href="http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2008/10/finally-the-mul.html">this story</a> might bring a tear to your eye.]]></description>
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