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    Help - shoot burning pheasants and feeding them to my pigs!!

    As a student (long time ago) we once had pheasant pie on the hall of residence menu (must have been cheap as the menu was generally greasy spoon). Every bite had lead shot in it, cooked in the pie. How do you square that with H & S?
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    Christmas begging has started early this year!

    UKjay has hit the nail on the head in this thread. Far from being "chippy" this is a fair - and good tempered defence of those of us who keep horses. Compare to this rather snide,self-righteous quote: Do we need farmers? I thought the biggest crisis the industry was facing was that we can...
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    Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

    That would be a bit warm for the climate, I would have thought... Still, plenty of nice ventilation, I suppose. And no midges to make you skip and dance. Just poisonous spiders, etc...
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    What’s eating the tree ?

    Is it true though?
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    What’s eating the tree ?

    If it is totally ring-barked it is finished, unless you make a bridging graft to allow it to transfer nutrients; but if a strip of cambium remains joining the top of the tree to the bottom, so to speak, it could survive if protected with a bit of wire netting round the trunk; the missing layers...
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    What’s eating the tree ?

    Look round the edge of the field to see if there is a track or trampled place where the mystery beastie gets in, and where a hoof print might be more visible if it is deer. I'd put my money on deer as well.
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    Min till trap?

    What a shock! Imagine being in that cab when that happened. I didn't even see the tractor at first.
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    Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

    Sounds a bit like your normal British cold; that's why we moan about it even though its barely freezing. Best thing about it is coming in afterwards to a hot cup of tea and a warm fire. But a few years back I was in Lincolnshire and we had freakishly cold weather straight from Siberia - this was...
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    ‘The interigation of Tony Martin’

    Yes perhaps that old saying about walking a mile in someone elses' mocassins is relevant here... Which leads me to REPEAT the unanswered question - have you ever been burgled, @Fallowfield? How about an answer this time? Then there is the interesting question of what has turned Fallowfield...
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    ‘The interigation of Tony Martin’

    I think it looks more like you've run out of anything even remotely worthwhile to say, @Fallowfield ...
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    ‘The interigation of Tony Martin’

    When someone is targetting you, destroying your business, invading even your domestic privacy you have good reason to feel entitled - you ARE entitled - the law should protect you. It failed him, as it is presently failing so many others beset by scum. And yes, you will also feel resentment -...
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    ‘The interigation of Tony Martin’

    With a major difference: The Krays were criminals, out and out. Tony Martin is an innocent man driven to desperation by the unchecked criminality of others. Few of us could be anything like the Krays. Almost all of us, I think, could be Tony Martin, if pushed hard enough by the unrelenting...
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    The National Interest v. The Cliff Edgers.

    I think that reply was for Ashtree's benefit, @Cowcorn. Ashtree's twisted, sneering bitterness and sheer delight in anything that might seem problematic for the UK in these threads provokes a reaction; and if that one reply makes you angry, please realise that we have had to put up with a lot of...
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    Are the NFU fit for purpose

    You see, that gets me for a start - blazoned across that website - "NFU the voice of British Farming!" But it isn't, is it. Some of us can't join - here in Scotland (still part of Britain) I'm told that I would have to join NFU Scotland and that this is an entirely different organisation; so...
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    Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

    I didn't know about the journals; I've only ever read the books, which were amazing, I thought. A different world. Very interesting to compare with "Lark Rise" from the same period, but being the memories of a child growing up in a poor farming hamlet in England.
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