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My Non-Fishing Fishing Trip. The Importance of Integrity When in Office.
I am writing this in my hotel room at 10 am on Monday, overlooking the marina at Olhão. We booked a Bluefin Tuna fishing trip last year...
Jul 12, 20248 min read
Unanswered Questions and Some of the Tasks in My Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) Role.
Following my writing, Angus Selby answered some of the legal issues around the proposed Farmers Compensation Agreement (FCA) and,...
Jul 5, 20248 min read
Yet Another Hospital Stay, Good News and Congratulations and Good Luck to the New ARAC Board
This blog will be short as I am still confined to my hospital bed. It is now Wednesday, and while I’m sure I may get out before Friday,...
Jun 28, 20247 min read
I Would Rather Be Fishing.
I am starting to write this before I go to the hospital, as I may not have access to my computer before the normal publication time on...
Jun 21, 20246 min read
Reminisces and Commercial Farmers Union (CFU). Invited to Participate in New Blackfordby and Notice of Further Stomach Cancer Surgery.
As always, when I touch on the compensation issue for the farmers who got their farms confiscated in Zimbabwe in my blog, I always get...
Jun 14, 202410 min read
Frustration in Trying to Achieve A Common Goal and An Enjoyable but Wasted Trip to The World Economic Forum in Cape Town in 1994.
Just to let you know, I wrote this blog before I received the update from the Compensation Round Table Group on Thursday. I thank them...
Jun 7, 20248 min read
Relocation, Restructuring and Agrichange.
I have been a bachelor this past week or so as Rozanne had to go to Edinburgh to sort out some family business matters. How things...
May 31, 20249 min read
Correction and Shenanigans, Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) and Land Matters 1994.
Following last week's blog, Tim Henwood, president of the CFU from 1999 to 2001, who is now a resident in Australia, corrected me on the...
May 24, 20246 min read
Sad Week, Goodbye Nick, Nick and Gavin.
Every now and again, you have weeks with little cheer. Last week, in my joyful oblivion, while visiting farms with friends in the...
May 17, 20246 min read
Combatting the Descent into Depression and The Start of 1994.
I was texting an old friend, Beth Bedford, who, in her past life, was an English teacher before becoming a very successful cattle farmer...
May 10, 20246 min read
Ignore Your Constituents At Your Peril. The ZIG and Carnation Revolution Festivities and a Trip to the Alentejo.
In the past two weeks, we have seen a change in leadership in Scotland and so I am informed the formal withdrawal of the Commercial...
May 3, 20246 min read
Animal Encounters.
My youngest daughter, Janine, who resides in the United States and edits my blog, suggested as a blog subject, ‘Animal Encounters’. She...
Apr 26, 202411 min read
Sun and Pig. Cold Switzerland, Chilly Chicago and the End of 1993.
Sun and Pig. It is funny, but when the chilly rainy weather disappears and the sun comes out, all our spirits are lifted. At a wild boar...
Apr 19, 20248 min read
Waiting Game Anxiety. The ZIG (Zimbabwe Gold) and the Scottish Hate Crime Bill.
I was meant to have a midweek consultation with my stomach surgeon following my latest CT scan, which unfortunately did not happen. The...
Apr 12, 20246 min read
Some Positive Health News. Scotland's New Hate Crime Law. Istanbul.
After eight months of negative news yesterday, Monday, my consultation with my urologist surgeon was more positive, with a clinically...
Apr 5, 20248 min read
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