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February 2010 - Posts

• Hair’s apparent

  You haven’t been waiting here since Wednesday night to find out who was crowned NFU vice president have you? Oh dear, I should’ve directed you to NayLo’s website – after all, he’s the place for breaking news, hey Kip? In... Posted Feb 26 2010, 11:31 PM by NufSaid Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, farming, NFU, Meurig Raymond, Gwyn Jones, Peter Kendall, nfu conference [Edit Tags]

• Bursting with excitement

  Oooh the drama – it was just like something from the West Wing. We followed the ballot boxes to the council room. We stood outside the meeting room’s door to see if we could hear any of the goings on inside. We paced the corridors eagerly... Posted Feb 24 2010, 05:41 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Uncategorized [Edit Tags]

• Picking a leader

  This must be how catholics felt when they were waiting for the next Pope to be announced after John Paul II popped his clogs. Not that NFU president Peter Kendall has keeled over or anything, but the union’s AGM is underway, which means in about... Posted Feb 24 2010, 03:38 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Uncategorized [Edit Tags]

• Standing by your convictions, even if you’re upstaged by a sausage

  Who’d be a politician, eh? Day one of the NFU conference in Birmingham and DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn is welcomed to the stage. From the off Hils looked like he knew he was going to be in for a hard time, so he switched on the charm. He said farmers... Posted Feb 24 2010, 12:31 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Uncategorized [Edit Tags]

• Reasons not to be healthy

  I’m at the Hilton hotel in Birmingham at the moment for the NFU conference. It’s the third time I’ve been to it and I’m wondering if this year is proof I’ve finally made it in the world. For the first time ever my hotel room is actually in the main hotel... Posted Feb 22 2010, 10:55 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, Birmingham, embarrassment, NFU [Edit Tags]

• Normal service resumes

  The problem with being a journalist in a modern newsroom is that it’s very rare you can switch off and collect your thoughts. I had a tough week last week, hence my almost-silence in the outside world. It was hard enough trying to pull my brain together... Posted Feb 22 2010, 12:43 PM by NufSaid Filed under: New Media, Communication [Edit Tags]

• It’th all in a name

  When I was very titchy, I used to have a lisp. With a surname like Stocks, my parents rightly recognised such a speech impediment would result in much teasing at school and eventually put me off ever speaking aloud. To encourage/bribe me to keep my tounge... Posted Feb 16 2010, 01:57 PM by NufSaid Filed under: names, pets, fish [Edit Tags]

• Health tips from cows

  So, did you spend your Friday afternoon being massaged with horse cream by a man with a tiny beard and an American accent as good as Matthew Naylor’s? You did? Why what a coincidence – me too. It may not have been the most conventional of... Posted Feb 13 2010, 07:10 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Twitter, Communication, ailments, injury, physio, cows [Edit Tags]

• Video thrilled the television star

  Minutes after I’d finished recording this week’s Farmers Weekly noos revoo this morning, I went to an excellently-timed company workshop on how to be a better video presenter. The session was run by one of the stars of a rather popular 1980s TV show Read... Posted Feb 12 2010, 06:53 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Uncategorized [Edit Tags]

• Spilling the beans on badgers

  I went to a media briefing at the Science and Media Centre in London on Monday, but I wasn’t allowed to tell you about because it was under embargo (which means I would’ve been chased by angry scientists with clip boards had I spilled the... Posted Feb 10 2010, 08:37 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, Communication, London, farming, media [Edit Tags]

• A tonne of farming tweeters

  I’ve spent most of the day spread-eagle on my living room floor after a visit to a rather enthusiastic masseuse on Thursday aggravated my dodgy should/neck/back. As I think it’s important to set the scene in these posts, here’s a picture... Posted Feb 05 2010, 09:01 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Twitter, New Media, Communication, iPhone [Edit Tags]

• Britain’s sexiest spokespeople

  Guess who came to Farmers Weekly Towers today? That’s right, only Britain’s sexiest farmers. After all the excitement of the Facebook fan groups, the radio and newspaper campaigns and the unfortunate drama of the rigged voting, it was quite... Posted Feb 04 2010, 10:06 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Farmers Weekly, Agriculture [Edit Tags]

• Throwing insults to spread the message

  I was in Birmingham today, the (current) home of Cadbury’s chocolate, one of my favourite modern buildings in the country: and the location of this year’s Soil Association conference. There’s been a few articles in the press over the... Posted Feb 03 2010, 11:00 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, Conference, Soil Association, Birmingham, Twitter, Organic [Edit Tags]

• Making the Hairwaves

  When I was younger, my birthday wish was to either have a card read out on CBBC, or to have a birthday shout-out on Radio Nottingham. I remember sitting by the cassette player with my sister, waiting to press the ‘record’ and ‘play’ buttons to tape the... Posted Feb 01 2010, 10:51 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Twitter, radio, Prince Charles, New Media, BBC, social media, Communication [Edit Tags]