Comment – weather, and politics
Just as farmers breathed a huge collective sigh of relief and finally, first cuts are done, the last of the
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Insight
Comment – Sun storms and cyber attacks
We were very lucky to see the Northern Lights last Friday night at around midnight – coinciding with my return
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Comment – The chattering classes, blue skies and black smoke (soon to be discontinued)
I spent Friday night in St Andrews Church, Sedbergh in the company of about 200 of the parish’s chattering classes
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Comment – Milk and tractors
In the distance, if it’s really quiet, you can hear the burning of diesel as the early first cuts swing
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Comment – Neither VHS nor Betamax*
Your humble correspondent was fortunate, this week, to have been invited down to Basildon (‘BasVegas’ apparently!) for a couple of
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Comment – The difference a week makes, and the cost of straw.
On the back of only 197mm of rain, so far, in April, it has dried up, and the sun is
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Comment – Sentiment, and confidence
Its not everyday that you can escape the routine for 24 hours, especially at the end of lambing time, so
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Comment – Rain, rain, go away… and don’t believe the hype.
You guessed it, sooner or later, I had to mention the weather. No surprises, but what is interesting is that
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Comment – Global and local issues
I must admit to being somewhat in awe of the footage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore,
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Comment – Time travel or the spring of discontent?
What is going on? With New Hollands Basildon plant being balloted on strike action, waterlogged ground across the nation and
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