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The Importance of Listening about Health and being Listened to.
I have just been listening to Barbara Bray’s podcast about Women Positively Ageing and the first episode is about gut health. Now it may...
Jul 10, 20222 min read
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Lonely
I know many farmers, several tweeters, and a few friends that all express the same feeling at different times. Loneliness. Regardless of...
Jun 26, 20222 min read
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Inertia of Farming
Beware the inertia of farming. It is perhaps the most commercially and emotionally hazardous factor of farming. It is the tendancy to...
Jun 13, 20225 min read
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What Bank Manager?
In July 2021 I posted a detailed description on how a Bank manager views a farm for lending risk purposes. The advice in it still holds...
Jun 1, 20224 min read
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KEEP YOUR BLOODY DOG ON A LEAD!
In my third post looking at problems farmers have with dogs and people I look at livestock worrying. This is intended to be a view of the...
Mar 11, 20223 min read
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Principles of Self Defence
This is the second of three posts where I look at problems farmers have with dogs and people. The first post looked at Coursing and some...
Mar 9, 20227 min read
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Coursing and Poaching – a problem old and new.
In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...
Mar 5, 202210 min read
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The Identity Trap
All of us can fall into the trap of identifying ourselves by our job. The longer you are in a particular job, whether it be in a food...
Feb 15, 20224 min read
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Fraud and the Vulnerable
“There is a sense the victims of fraud feel abandoned.” Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird. (BBC Radio 4 MoneyBox 22Jan 2022) The crime...
Jan 24, 20229 min read
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Succession - The Need to Talk and Listen
Once upon a time there were two brothers, very healthy and in their late sixties, one had no children, the other had a son who was in the...
Jan 8, 20222 min read
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Who's your "Julie"?
As a volunteer for LRSN I am lucky, I have a whole army of Julies and I have needed them. But I never thought I would. Farm Community...
Dec 2, 20214 min read
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FARMING FOR NOWT – (Part 4 TAKING CONTROL OF CASH)
On this fourth of 4 posts for small family farms I examine ways you may consider improving your situation. It's not easy.
Aug 15, 20218 min read
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FARMING FOR NOWT (Part 3 – Tracking your money).
In this 3rd post designed for small family farms I give some simple guidance to track your cash and calculate your net wealth.
Aug 14, 20215 min read
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FARMING FOR NOWT (Part 2 – how you feel about your farm? and Sources of help)
This second post designed for small family farms encourages you to ask the difficult question, "How do you feel about your farm?"
Aug 13, 20215 min read
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FARMING FOR NOWT (Part 1 Your attitude towards money).
In this first of four posts designed for small family farms I ask you to consider your attitude towards money.
Aug 12, 20215 min read
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How a Bank views my Farm?
In the following I make no apology for the simplicity of what I have put. What seems obvious to one person is not to another. Indeed it...
Jul 19, 202112 min read
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