The Good News Only - thread...

[mudsticks]

Me and @mudsticks don't have heavy duty hands....

Speak for yourself, young man 🙄 .

These hands have some fairly heavy duties to get done atm.

Spring rush is a bit full on right now...
But keeps me fit I s'pose...

Feels like 'fit to drop' on occasion, though ...

The silly old bugger finished with a little under 2hrs to spare. Oof.

Top effort .

Rest day tomorrow??

 

[Mr Celine]

A photographic exhibition about women farmers.

@mudsticks isn't ploughing a lonely furrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-60985943

 

[icowden]

A photographic exhibition about women farmers.
@mudsticks isn't ploughing a lonely furrow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-60985943

Let's hope Neil Parish isn't aware...

 

[winjim]

A photographic exhibition about women farmers.

@mudsticks isn't ploughing a lonely furrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-60985943

It's interesting to see the gendered terms 'shepherdess', 'farmer's wife' and 'Ms' used in that article.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Someone is not bothered about gendered job titles:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61498112.amp

 

[icowden]

It's interesting to see the gendered terms 'shepherdess', 'farmer's wife' and 'Ms' used in that article.

I think the use of "Mrs", "Miss" and "Ms" haven't changed, any more than "Mr". I imagine they asked Ms Coates how she liked to be referred to.
Similarly the article refers to Farmer Samantha and her husband as well as to Debbie a Farmer's wife. Presumably Debbie's husband does the farming whilst Debbie works on diversification projects and therefore isn't farming?

As for Shepherdess, I've never really understood why having a female version of a word is problematic unless it's couched badly. For example Policeman, Policewoman, Postman, Postwoman and not Woman Postman or Woman Policeman for example. I know actors get het up about it, but again, I can't see the issue with Actress and Actor. Neither confers a lower status.

 

[winjim]

I think the use of "Mrs", "Miss" and "Ms" haven't changed, any more than "Mr". I imagine they asked Ms Coates how she liked to be referred to.
Similarly the article refers to Farmer Samantha and her husband as well as to Debbie a Farmer's wife. Presumably Debbie's husband does the farming whilst Debbie works on diversification projects and therefore isn't farming?

As for Shepherdess, I've never really understood why having a female version of a word is problematic unless it's couched badly. For example Policeman, Policewoman, Postman, Postwoman and not Woman Postman or Woman Policeman for example. I know actors get het up about it, but again, I can't see the issue with Actress and Actor. Neither confers a lower status.

I think the correct gender neutral term is 'sheepfighter'.

I'm not necessarily judging it, it was just something that immediately leapt out at me. Personally I don't think they would have referred to a man as 'Mr Surname' and the phrase 'farmer's wife', while being a relevant and technically accurate description, could be considered a bit loaded and brings to mind images of ruddy cheeked rotund ladies in pinafores, chasing mice across the kitchen. Maybe it was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek.

 

[mudsticks]

A photographic exhibition about women farmers.

@mudsticks isn't ploughing a lonely furrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-60985943

For the avoidance of doubt .

I'm not farming women ..

S'okay, I never thought I was alone really .
We just didn't really get the recognition for our work.. Well whadda surprise ..

For years I have had gatherings of Landworking women + from all over the UK and further afield.. here at the farm


For skillshare, political work, and socialising.. They're amazingly popular, particularly with the younger crowd - which initially I found surprising, as I thought we'd got beyond needing such spaces..


I'm hoping to get other farmers who identify as women to run them, in other parts of the country too.

It makes for a very special atmosphere of understanding and solidarity..

..And loads of good food shared aswell.

 

[winjim]

For the avoidance of doubt .

I'm not farming women .

I think the correct term for that is husbandry.

 

[mudsticks]

I think the correct term for that is husbandry.

Exactly, which is why I've never been in want of a 'husband'

I know all about animal 'husbandry' and I'm not much keen on having even the half of that stuff done to me.

It seldom seems to end well for the 'husbanded'

I'll stick with boyfriend / civil* partner thanks

*Which means, of course, no profanities ever..

..we're still working on that one 😇

 

[mudsticks]

Very good news for our Antipodean friends.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...ceepts-defeat-in-australian-elections-323497/

Perhaps even more so that Labour didn't secure a landslide, so might have to form a coalition with the greens..

 

[newfhouse]

Very good news for our Antipodean friends.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...ceepts-defeat-in-australian-elections-323497/

Perhaps even more so that Labour didn't secure a landslide, so might have to form a coalition with the greens..

Pleasing to see Rupert Murdoch defeated in his own country.

 

[theclaud]

I think the correct gender neutral term is 'sheepfighter'.

I will be using it from now on.

 

[mudsticks]

I will be using it from now on.

Me too.

The rural equivalent of 'street fighter'

Hardcore rus' in rus'..

 

[Mugshot]

My veggies are coming on well, ok most of them, but good news all the same.
But I have a query for our resident expert.

I grow my spuds in big pots, and all the advice I can find is to plant them in a few inches of soil at the bottom, let them grow, once they get a few inches above ground level, add some more soil and repeat until you get to the top. Been doing it that way for a few years now, and we get spuds, but I'm all for avoiding extra work if I can.
Now, I've never seen the farmer that grows spuds in the field behind my house going around and adding extra soil as his plants grow, so I want to know if it's really neccessary when you grow in pots. Couldn't I just fill the pot to start with and whack a spud in it?

@mudsticks any chance of some free advice, or from any of our spud experts of course.