F.C Palmer & Sons. Farming in the glorious Fens, every day is a learning day.
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At least they can’t tax our sense of humour 🤣🤣🤣
Tonight, Cardiff Castle will light up green to mark Dwarfism Awareness Day. 💚
The illumination celebrates diversity and helps raise awareness and understanding of dwarfism. orlo.uk/S4Qel
ALT Cardiff Castle illuminated at night by bright green floodlights against a dark sky. Caer Castell Caerdydd wedi'i oleuo wrth nos gan fflachlysau gwyrdd disglair yn erbyn awyr dywyll.
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I do challenge the advice about stockpiling Sauvignon blanc.
Surely better to stockpile a red - because if the power goes down, the white would be room temperature, which would be simply ghastly.
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In 1996, an amateur archaeologist was walking along the Tollense River in northern Germany when he spotted a human arm bone sticking out of the riverbank.
Lodged in the bone was a flint arrowhead.
Archaeologists eventually started digging, and they kept finding bodies. The remains of more than 140 people so far, along with horses. And they've only excavated a small part of the valley.
The bones dated to around 1250 BC. Most of them were young men. Many had wounds that never healed, because they died from them. Arrowheads stuck in bone. Skulls smashed by blunt weapons. Wounds from behind, as if men were cut down while running.
This was a battle. Probably the oldest large-scale battlefield ever found in Europe.
Before Tollense, most historians thought Bronze Age northern Europe was a world of small villages and small fights. Raids, feuds, maybe a few dozen men at a time.
Tollense blew that up. Based on how many died and how much ground the fighting covered, researchers have estimated that a few thousand men might have taken part.
Some of them had old healed injuries, too. These weren't farmers grabbing whatever was nearby. Some look like men who had fought before.
The weapons were a mix. Bronze swords and spearheads. Bronze and flint arrowheads. And wooden clubs, including one shaped like a baseball bat and one shaped like a croquet mallet.
Then it gets stranger. Chemical tests on teeth suggest many of the dead didn't grow up anywhere near the valley. And in 2016, archaeologists found what looks like one warrior's personal kit, a bundle of bronze tools and scrap metal. The style points to someone from southern central Europe, hundreds of miles away.
So who was fighting whom, and why here? Nobody knows for sure. One theory is that the battle was over a causeway crossing the river, part of a trade route.
There's no written record of it. No names, no winner, no story.
Just a riverbank full of young men, 3,000 years old, and a war nobody knew had happened.
Seems not just the uk really struggling with water
4 ans séparent ces 2 photos.
Même endroit.
Cette année, le colza a germé difficilement et est mort suite à cette sécheresse sévère.
On a soif.
#agriculture #colza
3 Lorrie’s loaded before 8.30 on a Sunday, thankyou @OpenfieldTM for being well organised. @ragtseedsuk Illustrious wheat off to the mill to make bread.
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🚨 The Crown Court scraper has been running for 20 days and just hit 16,000 unique people. The UK Government are rightly terrified to release crime data as it would be too hard to ignore the data: 🧵
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I am exceptionally disappointed that the Reform UK administration at Norfolk County Council plans to eject a farmer off their land at a county farm on Links Road, Hopton/Gorleston in my constituency. All to enable their council owned company to build 446 houses on agricultural land.
The land at Links Road has soil which is some of the most productive and versatile in Britain.
That land is needed to farm, not build.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council’s Development Committee granted planning permission enabling Norfolk County Council to build on this high-grade agricultural land after a heated meeting earlier this year. A shocking decision. It stinks. However, I and my local team of Restore Britain/Great Yarmouth First councillors had hoped the Reform UK administration at Norfolk County Council would take a different view…
Despite repeated attempts to privately dissuade the administration from this development, including outlining the concerns of 1,372 people who signed our petition to stop this building on prime farmland, and how Great Yarmouth has already lost hectares of prime farmland to developments across the community without the appropriate infrastructure to cope – Reform will not budge.
Norfolk has a rich heritage in farming and these farms play such an important role.
To see this high grade agricultural land cemented over and a farmer moved off this land for yet more houses in Great Yarmouth is hugely disappointing.
I had hoped for more from Reform in Norfolk. We have tried and tried to resolve this behind the scenes, but we have had no luck. They say one thing in a campaign, and then when in power behave in an entirely different manner. It's just more of the same.
So I am going public to put the pressure on and save that farm.
We have made it clear we will work with Reform on Norfolk County Council as they need our votes to govern. We have supported their sensible efforts, gladly.
But this is NOT sensible, and I am making our opposition to Reform VERY clear.
We are examining our legal options.
Restore Britain/Great Yarmouth First's aim is to stop those houses and save that farm.