Mixed farms, ie many different enterprises, were the norm then.

That's quite a list of roles!

Hi, I posted on your email yesterday. 🙂I was at the hospital on the laptop which I haven't persuaded to do Bluesky.

I've sent an attempt to your email. Next weekend seems a long way off at present! A conversation on here a better bet for me at present.🦤🏴‍☠️

I belong to Winnie the Pooh school of poetry: Sometimes it comes and sometimes it doesn't, you never know with poetry!

As far as I can think back I haven't done a CC "poem", so if you (or anyone) puts up a random pic from the book, we'll see what happens! No promises!

As hospitals go it isn't too bad! Thank you for the good wishes. I'll pass them on.

Thank you. He's doing Ok but early days.

Hello,we will probably be AWOL on Sunday as co-skipper has unfortunately fallen over in the garden while playing with younger crew and broken his hip. We are both spending time at hospital. I'll have a look at the questions though.

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Wishing you a peaceful and blessed Good Friday

Ann would be pleased!

Josh will soon be home!

Think we've got some bits of that!

They really didn't!

Would have most of them but not the "Sweepmaster!"

The bullocks at Pipers & Co Farm being turned out of their winter shed onto fresh spring grass. It's one of the best days in the farming calendar! 🌸

#NatureFriendlyFarming #SpringIsHere

Clock House Farm in Kent is showing what #sustainable soft fruit production can look like. 🍓

They use river-powered heating, water storage, and allow space for nature, to reduce their impact.

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"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

UK to give homes ‘free energy’ instead of turning off wind turbines Europe’s outdated and under-invested energy grid means huge amounts of renewable energy are wasted every year.

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills.
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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

Dishonest transphobic hypocrite Phillipson and the rest of the Starmer government have said puberty-blockers should be banned because “we don’t know” whether they are harmful or not, despite my research clearly demonstrating that banning them definitely IS harmful….

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Pretty sure we had them in either church or school for Palm Sunday when I was a child in the 1950's in England.

R4 March 27, 11am Food Programme.🐍

Ransome readers love a map! I heard a radio programme about eels last Friday. It was a bit sad really but I suppose people have always used what's around them, just like Harry!

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What about M. Braithewaite aka Cook?

Not even "explorers"!