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Seems like everyone’s on bloody strike- finally got in the office at 3pm today after a mad week and no company will answer the phone! WFH so often means doing F all doesn’t it?

The M & S BP garage near me was really pushing plant based a couple of years ago. Have seemingly ditched the lot now.

Some very interesting looking churches on Lewis and Harris. I would have loved to have attended a service but sadly wasn’t there on a Sunday. We did see a funeral procession from a distance though which was very poignant- over 500 immaculately dressed people walking out of the church a mile...

Really!? Our village church was built in 1160. Knocking it down to replace it with something modern would be an act of cultural and historic vandalism. It’s still used every Sunday plus weddings, funerals, baptisms including those of my own family. It’s unlocked every day during daylight hours.

Makes me chuckle the whole women in ag thing. My wife is a farrier- a job that is 99% male. Far more male dominated than farming. She has absolutely no time for the whole ‘it’s so hard because I'm a girl’ thing. She says if you’re good enough and determined enough- you’ll do it. My shearer is...

That’s an astonishing piece. Could have been written yesterday- not in 1941. I do sometimes wonder what the angry left ever find joy in? Any time I have travelled abroad I have returned thinking how lucky we are to live in the U.K. It’s not all luck of course- it’s hard work, good soldiering...

But…but…that’s what I come on TFF for!

It’s got a 7 bedroom house and five cottages- that’s before you look at the farming.

Thanks Neil- if a crop is sown in early June would it be good to graze in say October? Or better to wait until Christmas?

The farm shoot has been cancelled due to lack of birds and we aren’t in a wildlife agreement until 1st Jan so I have c.20 acres of various game covers and wildlife strips around the farm available now to do some proper farming with. I’m thinking of putting maincrop turnips in. Any thoughts or...

I got handed his business card earlier in the week…I thought ‘I recognise those initials!’

Depending on location, fencing, water, local demand etc.

I’m quietly confident the collies and crook are Russian hacker proof…

Recently I asked my livestock haulier who must be in his mid 60s if he was going to retire soon. He looked at me as if I’d just kicked his dog and shat in his kettle. He has a new lorry on order…

When I lived in Glasgow all the joints of beef, lamb, even whole chickens were electronic security tagged with bouncers on the door of the supermarket to deter theiving. Brought to you by the city where the offies are in cages…