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I’m sitting at my computer thinking about what I can write that’s topical, interesting, and keeping you wanting to read on!
I start on a subject most of us would probably rather forget about – the 20th anniversary of foot-and-mouth, which was so sensitively covered last week.
I had hoped ... New Year, new scenario!
Like many of you, I cannot believe we are near the end of yet another year and I don’t need to remind you, it’s been a year like no other.
I FEEL like a moan – but it’s a bit like the weather, it won’t change anything.
It makes worrying reading that a number of the country’s largest dairy herds are likely to go bust over the coming years after calls have been rejected to add dairy workers to the Shortage Occupation List.
I CAN’T believe we’re in September already – how did that happen? The months are just flying in at a rate of knots and there’s still a huge amount of winter fodder lying in fields up and down the country, waiting for a decent weather window. Fingers crossed we see an improvement in the weather to finish silage and harvest.
What a shame we aren’t blessed with more Waitrose and Aldi supermarkets in Scotland.
Like thousands of you, I am missing the local shows, but more so than any other, last week’s Royal Highland.
It goes without saying and it's been said before, but you cannot get away from the fact that we are still living in very strange and unprecedented times.