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Paddington

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Soggy Shropshire
Our journey begins with a story of mayhem in the skies above the south bank of the Thames, outside the largest brick building in Europe.

To create the artwork for the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, a giant inflatable pig has been raised on a chain above Battersea Power Station - this was the 1970s after all.

"Suddenly there was a large crack and the pig sailed up into the sky," sleeve designer Aubrey Powell said.

"A helicopter followed but it couldn't catch it up.

"We were really scared. I feared there would be a terrible airline crash."

The members of the prog rock group scarpered, air traffic into Heathrow was cancelled, RAF jets were dispatched and pilots reported seeing a pig flying at about 20,000ft (6,100m).

Powell was taken to his studio by police and, following a message put out on local radio stations, a farmer from Kent called to complain that a rogue pig had landed in his field and was frightening his cows.

The shoot was repeated with more success the following day, but the final cover is actually a collage of the pig stuck on a photo of the power station taken two days before.

"I love the image, it's fabulous. It was so haphazard and amateurish but it just happened to work," Powell said.

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Image captionAn inflatable pig again flew over the power station to mark the album's 35th anniversary in 2011
If a pig were to be released above the building these days, it could well get caught up in the many cranes rising above the structure.
 

JP1

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Livestock Farmer
Our journey begins with a story of mayhem in the skies above the south bank of the Thames, outside the largest brick building in Europe.

To create the artwork for the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, a giant inflatable pig has been raised on a chain above Battersea Power Station - this was the 1970s after all.

"Suddenly there was a large crack and the pig sailed up into the sky," sleeve designer Aubrey Powell said.

"A helicopter followed but it couldn't catch it up.

"We were really scared. I feared there would be a terrible airline crash."

The members of the prog rock group scarpered, air traffic into Heathrow was cancelled, RAF jets were dispatched and pilots reported seeing a pig flying at about 20,000ft (6,100m).

Powell was taken to his studio by police and, following a message put out on local radio stations, a farmer from Kent called to complain that a rogue pig had landed in his field and was frightening his cows.

The shoot was repeated with more success the following day, but the final cover is actually a collage of the pig stuck on a photo of the power station taken two days before.

"I love the image, it's fabulous. It was so haphazard and amateurish but it just happened to work," Powell said.

BBC NEWS ITEM

_101128761_mediaitem101128760.jpg
Image copyrightPA
Image captionAn inflatable pig again flew over the power station to mark the album's 35th anniversary in 2011
If a pig were to be released above the building these days, it could well get caught up in the many cranes rising above the structure.
Love it and Pink Floyd.

As an aside I once built Gotham City over the rubble inside Battersea Power Station for the Batman Film Premiere
 

Lapwing

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Not sure if i should put it in this thread or the other one. Half a dozen pikies & their dogs at 5am chasing a hare down the road off a grass field we mowed yesterday. Buggers. Then spraying spring barley mid morning & seeing dozens of hares on one field alone. Got to think glass half full really, despite knowing they will find them in the end.
 

Oat

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Location
Cheshire
I don't know your father, have never met him, and probably never will, and I am sure there is nothing wrong with him; but I never trust anyone wearing red trousers.

When you think it about it, you almost never see anyone in red trousers (except for Father Christmas)o_O
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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