Recent content by DrWazzock

So dark today I had to keep the lights on in the house. Quite a bit of rain.

Last time we had a break in we found footprints in the sand in the shed we could not afford to concrete out. The PCSO they sent out a couple of days later accidentally trod on the footprints we’d saved as evidence. You couldn’t make this sort of thing up in a Tom Stoppard farce.

We just don’t have anything worth nicking anymore. And when the gypsies arrive for scrap I show them round and explain what it’s like trying to run a small business on a shoestring. Many leave crying at the state of things and we never have any bother.

It was the right decision on the day. That’s probably all that matters, whatever somebody decides to call it. Never say never. Never rule anything out. Avoid dogma and blind obedience to rules.

We are planting trees here though. Christmas trees for shelter belt and Christmas cash in hand. As long as the customers chip’em when they’ve dried up we can virtue signal about saving the planet and trouser a tidy profit. Feckin carbon sequestration. Don’t you just love it? As long as we can...

So a seven leg subsoiler with OSR sorinkled behind the leg is DD bringing 300 hp to its knees in places is DD? 🤣

Yeah we’ve had wet spells before but two years ago it was 40 deg c in Market Rasen and some of my brothers chickens died of the heat. That’s unprecedented. We’ve just had peak El Niño so hopefully things will settle down for a bit. 11 years from now when it peaks again could be tricky. But...

Good job. You sowed them with a drag. Is that really direct drilling? 😉

It might work reliably here if we went to all spring drilling as the straw toxins have broken down by then and you are drilling into drying rather than flooding conditions. But all spring drilling is hardly likely to bring home the bacon here if it left us with a warm fuzzy feeling. Existence...

We wanted it to work but ended up with the DD tail wagging the dog. To make it work we had to: Bale the straw and buy in more potash or move to spring drilling. Oh dear. Drill everything by 3rd week of September or don’t drill at all. Hardly conducive to arable business survival here. Order...

But the folk behind the desk are blow ins who don’t know anybody? I had an identity card while I temporarily worked in France. You couldn’t function without one. Even the massive queues to be interviewed to get the card were a deterrent to spurious asylum seekers. That’s why they cross the...

Tony Blair tried to introduce an ID card but it was shot down by the civil liberties fanatics. Actually it would have been a good idea as it would have solved the problem once and for all. As it is if you don’t drive, don’t have a passport or can’t find an electricity bill with your name on it...

It is if you don’t drive or don’t have a passport.

The rules are wrong then. I recall attending a seminar at Riseholme College years ago put in by Kings Seeds or Masstock and they warned against drilling clover after early August as it wouldn’t get big enough to withstand the frost. That chimed with our experience with grass leys. Seldom have we...

When we actually had a crop that got to flowering we were loathe to spray it with insecticide as bees were foraging. We were also told that any insecticide would only have a one off knockdown effect and so it would be unlikely we’d actually hit many egg leg laying flies as egg laying occurs...