Women in charge of agricultural machinery! Tweed safety gear! Helicopters! Driving home from the pub trashed!

Earlier this arvo I was outside Ma's, pretending to be a bicycle repair-person, when a strange man hove into view in command of a vintage Fordson Major. Strange man turned out to be Uncle Will, showing off his most recently restored tractor ( Read more... )

I like to avoid 'Today I did...' posts for much the same reasons that I avoid the Telegraph supplement - in certain broken states of mind they're just no fun at all ( Read more... )

Rather inspired in exactly the wrong direction by steer opining that children have no business understanding the mechanics of flax production, I discovered the following Youtube gem.

In no particular order: Ploughing! Bicycles! Roadless 4WD Fordson Major! Boiler suits! Startling bobble hats! Roll bars are for silly feckers!

That sodding Nature Valley advert, right?

i) World's worst alleged Welsh accent.
ii) Tractor used without roll-over bar in clear contravention of relevant legislation[1].
iii) Carrying passengers in that trailer's pretty dodgy, too.[2]

You useless townie shitwits ( Read more... )

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Watched the new year arrive through a haze of odd beer in the absolute quiet of the Cotswolds. (Well, just off the edge of the escarpment. I've mellowed in my old age) Very fine indeed ( Read more... )

"And what is it you do for a living?"

"I'm, um, in computers."

"Oh, dear."

... Which is a just and appropriate reaction.

Odd but excellent sort of a day. Pottered round a set of fields, one somewhat oddly-shaped because it was going to be the site of a service station on the M5 and one with lumps in where a bomb had hit it; inspected a variety ( Read more... )

'Boasts' or 'sports' when used to signify that an object has or contains another object.

As in 'This PC boasts a gigabit ethernet interface'

Have I bothered the populace about uk_jon's internet-wireless-thingy, Brierly Hill 90201 recently? Probably not. Choice cuts from Sevs, TRS-80 and someone/thing called 'Asobi Seksu' which is just bloody marvellous. 'Shimmering' and 'Epic' are two good words, and 'pliers' a bad one. They're probably all over the popular press and doing children's AM telly ( Read more... )