Recent content by bluebell

Amazing how much still survives in the landscape from WW2, here in essex there are still many "pill boxes" in fields, built to defend against possible invasion, many nisson huts still survive on farms and out in the countryside, bought after the war and still useable? We here in essex grew up as...

Dead right, take my village, please anyone take it? in the good old days, long before people were obssed with house prices, and we had a very mixed community, from people working in factories, local ford tractor/radiator plants, or farm workers to a few city commutors, and most if not nearly all...

If farming was still as profitable as it was in the 1970-80s, first there would still be far more small farms being farmed as a single unit, two, farms would not have, had to go down the letting route, of letting barns, buildings to businesses, it was nicer to be in charge of your farm and not...

Not long now, before we just surrender, i cant fight, ive got, mental/health issues, thats why i dont work or want to work? Whats happened to people? people like douglas bader, a great example of someone, had no legs, but would not take no for an answer, yes reading about him, it appears he...

Early morning tv news, reported that the UK had the wettest period (winter/spring), because of which less crops could be planted , so as the news report stated, "the UK has to rely on more imports of food", well thats hard to believe? or took alot of "intelligent" people to come to that...

What about the smell of tobacco? I always as a child enviyed the old men when they had a break, got their tin out to roll a cigerette, that and pipe tobacco, a dying tradition?

What about the smell of well made hay from a bale opened up in the height of winter? Or that perfumed smell that only comes from hay made from old meadows, whats that variety called,? sweet vernaral or sommtt?

If its your money and you have earnt, got it "honestly", then you have every right to do with it whatever, wether you buy a farm, boat, pub or what? Farms are different to many businesses in the one sense, unlike a large industrial factory, or office, they are nice/very nice places to live, and...

Yes its true, it can be pouring with rain up the road and dry here, and for a small country the scenary varies so much, ie, used to travel from essex up to the royal show at stonleigh, going up the M1 from london you could see the countryside change, to near stonleigh ridge and furrow small...

Long long before this ukaine, russia war, i had a schoolboy friend at school, whos father came to england soon after ww2 ended, he told us back then how pround the ukrainians were,are, and the vengance metted out to them when the war ended, because they sided with the invading germans?

What changed farming, and full employment was WW2, suddenly food was important, after the end of WW2, the americans realised if they didnt bring out the "marshal plan", much of devestated europe could be in conflict, that and the formation of the EU, was the bedrock, of european, food security...

My fathers oldest brother was killed on the 26th april 1945, crossing the po river italy, served in the "queens regiment", we all can complain about this that and the other, but we are so lucky we wernt born 80 odd years earlier?

Just like the "con" of the ulitiy service providers, last winter, when the wholesale gas price went up through the roof, they all went "bust"? Ran with the millions the directors had coined in? Guess what, people had to have heat, so once again the GOVT. ( is poor old tax payers picked the bill...

I bought the book as well, shows how bad UK farming had got between the wars, then when war was likely, how farming suddenly changed and become very important, this lasted right up to the 1980s?

You can see right now many cases of children, workers etc, mining in unsafe holes in the ground ? Working in back street works, large works, no protection, rights or what ever, many other sights of workers, with "knapsack" sprayers again no protection walking spraying crops, proberly, with...