Recent content by Red Fred

I don't have many farming friends particularly but I have noticed that practically every non-farming acquaintance is going through some family squabble over elderly parents, the family home or who was left what, and common denominators seem to be "the crafty couple" who never did much hard work...

I heard the shortage was cause by a nasty smash in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Not too bad here after a seriously windy session yesterday that had some roof sheets banging. It was warm enough in the tractor to make me doze off briefly when parked, but there are an incredible number of midges about as the sun warms all the water pools and dries out the mud. I don't think I...

I watch a young couple on Youtube who make local history videos about old railways, canals, Roman Roads, etc, and they are mostly enjoyable but they get a real bee in their bonnet about land ownership. A recent video explained how ludicrous it was that since the areas of Public Access Land had...

Every time I watch a video of a hand grenade being dropped from a drone into a trench, it makes me think of Uncle Hubert dropping small bombs and taking pictures over the side of his Bristol Fighter. It amazes me that the RAF of 1918 had 10,000 aircraft on strength, each one being closer in...

In the long run, it might just seem that the couple of decades post-cold war were just a brief quieter period in the west rather than the run up to WW3. When we were kids, there was far less news coverage but wars broke out everywhere all the time, and the major powers were just as tooled up...

I'll have a cow calving that night.

As the Chinese army arrives, I'll be quids in.

Bring it on, I've been wondering what to do with myself now I'm getting a bit creaky. :LOL:

This is the sort of thing TFF should advocate:

I don't want to ban flying, but it would be good if the council could stop being so hypocritical. Bournemouth-C'church-Poole council made a big hoo-haa the other day about their meat free days and how they had won a national award for their vegan friendly status. This week, all the news releases...

All our estate FBT and grazing tenants were given the boot 5 years ago when they decided to put it all into a stewardship scheme. I lost 100 acres out of 300, the rest either being our own or rented on an aha. Rather cheekily, they realised as termination date was approaching that it required...

I have been spending an unhealthy amount of time in the graveyard lately sorting out mum's gravestone, and have been increasingly bothered by our old family angel who overlooks the proceedings from a few doors down from mum and dad's pad, and has lost her outstretched hand at some point in the...

I have a Twose linkbox with the flip over top. It's still very handy for picking up calves and things.

Do folks still use blob-markers? They are a memory of my student days in the '80s along with Silade and Propcorn.