The new Dom (not Cummings)?

Dominic Dyer stepped down from his part-time role as boss of the Badger Trust a few weeks ago and the Daily Fail may have the reason why – click here. An anonymous prominent farmer is reported as saying his only qualification is that he is a friend of Carrie Symonds. That was brave of the…

Floods, pestilence but a Brexit deal?

When I queued with my mask on, to pick up our turkey (that’s now our Easter turkey), at 09:30 it had rained overnight but was just a bit drizzly but by the time I get home it was tipping down. The sky darkened and by mid afternoon there were floods all around us very locally…

Half-price Christmas tree

Last year, we bought a live Christmas tree in a pot and it has lived in our garden for the last 50 weeks or so and now it is in our conservatory ready for some lights to be draped over it. This is the first year for over 30 years when we haven’t had ‘kids’…