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Déjà vu, Visiting Old Friends in the Algarve, Labelling People and Groundnuts.
The clouds were building up on the night of our return from the Algarve. Despite the red sky, sure enough, as was forecast the next day,...
Feb 78 min read
Archaic Information Collection, Back to the Farm and Tobacco.
A view of the Darwendale Dam from our house. We had ten kilometres of frontage with the dam as we were originally bounded by three...
Jan 319 min read
Comments, Some Thoughts on Leaving the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) and Back to the Farm.
Moody skies this week and plenty of rain with it. There are no interesting pictures ; rather pictures of the citrus in the garden as of...
Jan 247 min read
Lisbon Trip, Leadership and Crashing Out of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), so to Speak.
A beautiful sunset shot this week by our brave neighbour, Dan, who is in the middle of chemo treatment for cancer. Keep up the good...
Jan 178 min read
Touch of Melancholy, Farmers Under Siege and My Final Months at the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU).
Moody skies here in Penela this week reflected in three inches of rain. It will be the envy of many of friends in Zimbabwe and Zambia...
Jan 108 min read
Out With the Old in With the New, No Resolutions. Parking Charges Give Us Parking Relief. Let's Be Heard.
The firework display we enjoyed at Nazaré bringing in the New Year I am writing this a few days later than usual so I can make a record...
Jan 36 min read
New Titles? Surveys and JV Representation Conflict Regarding Zimbabwe Farmers. Looking Forward to 2025.
Christmas Day lunch smoke break between courses. Myself, Margaret Tidey, Rozanne, Storm and her partner Duncan, John Tidey and Mike...
Dec 27, 20247 min read
Another Christmas. A Time to Reach Out to Friends and Family and the Lonely.
The Castle of Penela lit up for Christmas Next week it is Christmas again. Although I am seventy-five years old, it will be my...
Dec 20, 20245 min read
Mortality and Old Age.
Despite the clouds, our morning temperatures are as low as 1C this week. Nappy liners on young fruit trees. “How old is 75? So old that...
Dec 13, 202410 min read
Entitlement In Government, and the 'Old" Compensation Steering Committee and PROFCA, Huge Personal Decision.
“The entitlement mentality is defined as a sense of deservingness or being owed a favour when little or nothing has been done to deserve...
Dec 6, 20247 min read
Tension Mounts, Rains, Ground Breaking For New Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) Headquarters, CFU Restructuring Saga.
The farmers' demonstration and lobbying meetings have come and gone in the UK with little heed, at least outwardly, by government. They...
Nov 29, 20246 min read
Farmers Protest, Toilet Woes and Final Roundup of 1995.
So, as I sit writing this on Monday, I look forward to tomorrow's farmers’ demonstration in Westminster on Tuesday almost with as much...
Nov 22, 20248 min read
Medical Update, So Much Rugby, World Cup 95 and the Illogical Treatment of UK Farmers.
As I start this as usual on Monday morning, I am awaiting a consultation on Wednesday to discuss my blood markers from the tests carried...
Nov 15, 20249 min read
Friendship, Opening the Agricultural Show at the Trade Fair and British Family Farms Under Siege.
It was my birthday this week and I have been inundated with birthday wishes from friends and family around the world. White Zimbabwean...
Nov 8, 20249 min read
Positive Medical News, Memory and Farmers' Wives. What a Surprise. Good and Bad News in April 1995.
It is Monday afternoon once again as I commence this blog after spending the morning at the Coimbra University Hospital (CHUC), mostly...
Nov 1, 20248 min read
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