if everyone stopped eating beef, they'd ALL be slaughtered.
What many people fail to understand, or ignore because it doesn't suit their cause, is that it is livestock farming which has caused our countryside to be the way it is. The upland areas in particular would quickly be overgrown with gorse and bramble if left to their own devices.
Drive through mid-Wales and tell me it wouldn't be an impovement. The hills are a bit undergrazed around here at the moment and it's made for a much better crop of whimberries anyway There seems to be a shift to diversify from just sheep towards mixed grazing with Welsh Black cattle too.
11 minutes on the phone to my car insurance company already and I haven't spoken to a human yet. I only want to tell them I've sold the car...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Can I be curmudgeonly about one the "jungle" garden owner saying " it builds to a crescendo in September"?? No it doesn't. It builds to a climax. The crescendo is the "building" bit.
Thanks, Hosta! That one regularly makes me curmudgeonly too.
OH was having a rant this morning about the teaching of grammar. It seems as if every few years the education boffins decide to do things a different way, just in order to be... different. What made him explode today was the expression "fronted adverbial". Apparently we're all supposed to know what it means - it's an adverbial phrase which appears before the verb in a sentence - even though in itself it's grammatically incorrect (since when was "adverbial" a noun? and since when did "fronted" mean "moved to the front"?) Â
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
WE - write a letter to the MD with a recorded delivery stamp and requesting acknowledgement and appropriate action confirmed in writing within 7 working days of receipt.  It'll be cheaper than hanging on a phone all day and probably more productive.
After 15 mins the phone just went dead. I rang back, went through the 5 mins of chatting to 2 different robots then sat on hold for another 20 mins. The whole human conversation took less than a minute. Â You can do most stuff on-line with this company apart from tell them you've sold your car which is annoying.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I don't pay my phone bill luckily and I got things done while sat on hold. I finally remembered to sign up for a paperless tv licence and caught up on a few emails.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
That's OK then.  I need to contact the prefecture in La Roche-s-Y. It seems that everything has gone digital. Phone number no longer published so please use the form to send an email, which I have done and already have an acknowledgement but what about the people who don't have email addresses or even an internet connection?
I'm cross today because I drove right across town to a good GC to get a replacement Spiraea 'Firelight' for the one I thought had died, only to discover when I got home and started to chop it down, that it was in fact still alive (although it's not got any new growth on it).Â
In my Belgian garden I learned never to give up on a shrub till mid-June - hard winters/late frosts/drownings/hail storms/early heatwaves - could all be a challenge.
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OH was having a rant this morning about the teaching of grammar. It seems as if every few years the education boffins decide to do things a different way, just in order to be... different. What made him explode today was the expression "fronted adverbial". Apparently we're all supposed to know what it means - it's an adverbial phrase which appears before the verb in a sentence - even though in itself it's grammatically incorrect (since when was "adverbial" a noun? and since when did "fronted" mean "moved to the front"?) Â