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Batteries and perennials.

22nd April 2011 | Charles' Rants, Food, Southlands Farm News | No Comments

These rather difficult times when the only thing that is for sure is that we can’t take anything for granted. However I have come across a couple of things in the last week that have really given me a sense of  hope for our future. Both come from revisiting past ideas and asking why? Read the full post

Audio Boo

13th February 2011 | Charles' Rants, Southlands Farm News | 1 Comment

In the world of social networking, I have just discovered this rather fun gizmo where I can record and post sounds via my phone, lots of fun, here’s the link to my Boo page; http://audioboo.fm/SouthlandsFarm Read the full post

Hedge Bashing at Middleton

31st January 2011 | Charles' Rants, Food, Southlands Farm News | 1 Comment

The day was spectacular, I was in two minds camera or shotgun, I can’t do both. Read the full post

More Puppy pictures………………….

21st June 2010 | Charles' Rants, Southlands Farm News | 1 Comment

The puppies are very now three and a half weeks old and beginning to explore their new world, huge fun. Their grandmother Sprocket has always been there silent sort, infuriating if she is stuck somewhere and you can’t find her so I was always pleased that her daughters have a more vocal approa Read the full post

Blackbird fledgling

7th May 2010 | Charles' Rants, Southlands Farm News | 2 Comments

If the TV and radio are anything to go by you’d think that the world had changed overnight, however I was brought back to sanity when I went to feed the lambs, pigs and hens this morning. In the shed where we keep the feed life was going on as normal; no politics, no hung ... Read the full post

Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows

11th April 2010 | Charles' Rants, Events, places to go & things to do., Food | No Comments

The Show season in Northumberland starts at the end of  May with the Northumberland County Show I always enjoy shows, it’s when farmers get a chance to show what they have achieved after months of hard work in the cold and mud. the tempo of the countryside moves to a slower pace and there is Read the full post

Meat Free Monday

8th January 2010 | Charles' Rants, Food | 2 Comments

It’s hard enough getting up to feed the animals in the middle of a freeze, without listening to am ill-informed zealot spouting about cows killing our planet by farting. Read the full post

Photographic days out at Southlands

4th December 2009 | Charles' Rants, Events, places to go & things to do., Southlands Farm News | 1 Comment

Roger Clegg and Andrew Whitaker are Northern Horizons Photography , Roger has taken many of the photos used to promote Hadrian’s Wall while Andrew specialises in the coast and Tyneside. Roger met  Hector and I this morning at Housesteads to show us how he takes spectacular sunrises. It was v Read the full post

The earth was not given to us by our fathers, it is lent to us by our children.

31st October 2009 | Charles' Rants | No Comments

This is an old Kenyan proverb, and never has it been truer. Climate change divides us and once you get past the interests and the heads in the sand there are debates going on in households, bars and over dinner tables all over the country. Eloquent and intelligent folk argue the toss from both sides Read the full post

Well done Jenson Button

28th October 2009 | Charles' Rants | No Comments

Well done Jenson, some of us had faith in you, that drive really showed why you are the one to beat. Photo: Mail online Read the full post

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