Mark Jelley

The kids are going to be thrilled, absolutely flying with the smaller presents this year and such an original idea!

Indeed, I think they've put up with living in the feed passage as they could see outside and decided they were better off roughing it in the emergency accommodation rather than venturing back to grass

Looked earlier, 10 yr average here is about 650mm, in the last 12 months we're at about 950mm so it's not surprising it feels relentless, it's be nice to get a few dry days now though.

That's a nice sight, I wish it was like that here. Instead we've spent 2 days cleaning a flooded cattle shed out, the relief this evening to finally have it bedded up again is immense! Contingency and prevention planning next on the list 🤦‍♂️

Ravensthorpe 81mm
Marston St Lawrence 81mm
Flore 78mm
Middleton Cheney 74mm
Rothwell 65mm
East Haddon 63mm
Brixworth 60mm
Daventry 60mm

A Major Incident has now been declared by local authorities for the county.

A lawn, squares of which have been dug out until a depth of 30 cm. There are bicolor length indicators (red and white) and, on the flat uneathed bottom: a wooden floor : planks on joists. The wood is black and corroded.

Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC.

📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg

🏺 #archaeology

The farmers march on Westminster

"When the government cuts farmer support, it reduces the amount of “public goods” in the country — which crudely means less hedgerows, less wetlands, less birds, and less insects. It is profoundly self-defeating." @herdyshepherd.bsky.social

#Farming #FoodSecurity #Food

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I was trying to find account weed related, but like arable weeds.. apparently people creating Feeds on weed have another type in mind! So if you can help me finding arable weed interesting content, let me know!

Lovely week last week. Nice to see some sunshine. Mascani winter oats up and flying. And some beet being lifted and drilled right behind on the farm I used to work on.

#backbritishfarming #agronomythatdelivers #wintersun

We can get all sweary and start calling each other woke and stuff if it helps ease the transition?!

Ok, so this account generally has a "no reposting pictures without alt text" policy, but I can't resist.

For those who need it, the below image features our glamorous correspondent elbow deep in a plastic cow, presumably doing the traditional "I've lost my watch" routine

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The number / year is relatively low, but none of the 70,000 know which of them will be affected in the next year, so it's an absolute lottery in that sense & harder to plan for. The BBC Verify article also completely ignores the changes to BPR which have been widely used in the past & drags more in

I've been looking for him too, no idea how he's managed to hide from us!

Breathtaking.
#WorldBollardAssociation

NEW DEFRA stats just out.

Show that in 2023/24 cereal farm incomes fell by 73%

On average cereal farms made a £26k loss on their crops, only earning an income due to direct govt subsidy & non-farming activity. Even so, 1/3 of all cereals farms made a loss despite other income.

A small waterfall in the Oregon rainforest

A young pine tree growing out of a stump

Scenic photo of a steel path alongside a river in the Oregon rainforest.

Scenic photo of a hiking trail in the Oregon forest.

Rained out on the farm today. Took a walk in the woods instead.

That's an awesome fact, right up there with a pig having a corkscrew willy, taking up to 10 minutes to complete it's ejaculation & in some instances producing about half a litre at a time 😳

For some bats we have to tell them apart in the field using willy size/shape. Remember it's wee willy Whiskered and bulbus Brandt's.

Ahh, genuinely thought you'd gone for Bonnie Tyler at #6 there to start with 🤔

Wren Janet Okell, staring at the camera with a slightly awkward smile. Fair enough - as we'll see, she did her best work hidden behind a screen...

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War.

Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

This photo has just popped up on my timeline, nothing remarkable about it but we haven't seen any blue sky or sunshine at all in November yet, it's being severely missed!

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tuxedo tabby kitten on a floor next to a black, old fashioned candlestick type telephone. The kitten is sitting up on its haunches with its paws against the mouthpiece, peering into it curiously. Another kitten can be seen a couple feet away, blurry but you can see its sleeping in the upright loaf position.

Before the internet kittens had to call everyone individually to explain how small and cute they were. Ca. 1920 - 1935. collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/597342

Good! The days when they're all flying and keep getting in what's left of my hair drive me mad but I love seeing this in autumn, it's quite therapeutic & always something I stop to look at.

Ploughed soil in a farmers field, covered in thousands of tiny cobwebs strung from the high points of the soil like tiny fairy nets catching dew.

This always amazes me, the sheer number of spiders living across the farm to cover acres and acres of ploughed soil, an apparently lifeless environment. We see it across grassland too & I've got no real idea what role they play in the environment on the farm, it's fascinating

+1 voting for the 4th one 👍

A large open span cattle building which has solar panels on the roof. The picture shows an extending lift platform being used to hang safety netting close to the roof as fall protection for contractors working above

One of the more frustrating jobs today, roof nets going up in preparation for scaffolding in preparation for solar panel strip and reinstalling next week. The original panels went up in 2011 but the installers cut corners so this time we've got the experts on the job

Amazing French blunderweapon, the presunk battleship Henri IV. There's a solid line of logic to explain why the vast majority of the deck has about half a metre of freeboard. I wouldn't say it was good logic though.

Was kept awake all night worrying that somebody in BlueSky's now 10 million users might not have heard the exciting ideas of Louis-Émile Bertin.

And the exciting ideas of Louis-Émile Bertin were not necessarily good ones.

Interesting year on the farm, 3rd & final year of SFI Pilot has bought a wonderful crop of late flowering clover & some rapidly developing scrub which we've decided to partially manage. Beans have been brilliant & off farm despite the weather our new garden is producing a surprising crop of grapes!