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    Wales 20mph speed limit in every town

    Ah, yes: perhaps not the most apt term to use when the other candidate is allegedly known to ‘bat for the other side’ as it were. Anyway Gething is a decidedly dodgy character, and whatever may be his cricketing abilities I certainly wouldn’t want him batting for my side in any way shape or...
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    Wales 20mph speed limit in every town

    As slippery as a colony of eels on melting ice. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could kick an anvil up Snowdon with both my legs tied together in a Hessian sack. His career so far is a litany of mediocrity and abject failure, so he should be ideally suited for being the next slapstick...
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    Too many Welsh!

    He’s always lurking…….you can almost hear the heavy breathing……
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    Too many Welsh!

    High time the bloody Welsh were all deported in rubber dinghies back to bongo bongo land where they come from!
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    Looking grim .......

    Totally agree with you. I have stopped growing barley this year after over half a century of it being an integral part of this small mixed farm. Lousy crop last year and with £150/tonne seeming to be the new normal price has made up my mind to stop losing money on this crop. Will grow more...
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    Wales 20mph speed limit in every town

    You are joking! Aren’t you? The plod (in North Wales anyway) have stated that they won’t prosecute anyone doing u 26mph. So why do some cretinous half wits create massive tailbacks by driving at under 20mph for miles on end!! Most people with a brain didn’t vote for the Taffia anyway, and...
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    Up Horn/Down Corn

    Spring barley straw shrinks back to less than a foot tall; and even with growth regs the barley invariably brackles so we end up losing way too many heads under the cutterbar! Hell of a job selling the barley grain before the end of the year, and then virtually giving it away at £150/ tonne...
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    Up Horn/Down Corn

    Not growing barley again. Grown both winter and spring stuff every year without fail since the 1970’s, but totally had enough of losing money on it now. Needs to be at least over £200 a tonne if not nearer to £300 to make any money at it. £150 is a joke; we’re actually losing money at this price...
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    Up Horn/Down Corn

    Nothing like a stampeding herd of Limousin bullocks high tailing it over the hedge into next door’s oilseed rape crop in June……. Personally, after a lifetime of tending to all their needs and ailments, and putting up with their many manifestations of wanton vandalism I’m glad to be rid of the...
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    Dealing with depression - suicidal thoughts - Join the conversation (including helpline details)

    Firstly, I have to say that I voted to remain in the EU. To vote to leave was IMO suicidal for farmers. As I feel has been proven. But, we are all under stress for myriad reasons apart from that of leaving the EU: so our own problems are shared by many others regardless of our past decisions...
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    Kit one used to see

    Whomsoever invented the flat 8 system deserves both a medal and eternal pacific rest in a heaven of his choice. Having been brought up without the aid of any collecting sledge; and then the relatively luxury of stooking bales from a group of bales ranging from six to ten: the advent of a flat...
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    torches and pitchforks

    I think that there are two apposite words in his statement. The first and most telling is the word ‘you’ which automatically infers that he considered himself in no way whatsoever to be part of the great unwashed of this country: but rather as a member of the upper class. The second word...
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    Dealing with depression - suicidal thoughts - Join the conversation (including helpline details)

    I now class myself as almost semi retired. Will be 68 this year and I now make the farm work around me. No livestock apart from DIY livery and winter sheep keep which the owner looks after. Decided to stop losing money every year by not growing any more barley. I will carry on with the DIY...
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    Dealing with depression - suicidal thoughts - Join the conversation (including helpline details)

    Yep, I feel just the same now. Will be 68 this year, and whereas I used to enjoy keeping all sorts of bits and bobs and doing up older machinery etc, I am now at the stage when the old adage ‘it might come in handy one dark night!’ doesn’t seem so relevant when you’ve never needed it in the past...
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    You couldn’t make it up!

    No of course not! Are you totally and utterly bonkers Henarar!! If we are going to fry it out then better to programme in the co ordinates for Cardiff Bay and hope and pray that they are accurate.
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    Our Parliment today....

    “I’m a fairy. My name is Nuff. Fairy Nuff” Anon. But probably Baldrick.
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    Parliament now

    He may well be, but I don’t think it will. Watching Starmer on TV last night: when he was asked if he had in any way tried to bully or persuade the Speaker of the House to influence the proceedings he tried to categorically deny it. But his eyes were darting about all over the show, and he...
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    no farmers no food

    You lucky barsteward! You lucky, lucky barsteward!! I can only dream of eating an apple tree and a massive raspberry patch! My family and I live (or rather exist) in two rented dustbins on Rhyl tip. Now don’t get me wrong; I’m not complaining: some of my neighbours don’t even have the luxury of a...
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    no farmers no food

    I know all about Scurvy! And Scabies and Scrofula, Ricketts, Warts on the Genitalia, Bubonic plague and endemic Leprosy. Such is life in contemporary Cambria, under the benign authority of Herr Drakeford and his Nationalist Socialist Party, that are ever cementing their power base in the...
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    no farmers no food

    Sounds like you’d go down a bundle on ‘Masterchef’ mate. John Torode and Greg Wallace are always looking for alternative and innovative approaches to the concept of high cuisine. I was recently awarded two Michelin remoulds for my avant garde twist on ‘beans on toast’: which introduced the...
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