http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog A blog about rural life in the UK, our countryside and my country life. It's all here, farming, gardening, wildlife, animals and rural dating. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:41:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/red-tape-forcing-farmers-to-quit/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/red-tape-forcing-farmers-to-quit/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:48 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=698 Have a read of this: “This means farmers will have to calculate the level of available nitrogen already in the soil, the N requirement of the crop, the available N from planned spreading of livestock manures and calculate the remaining level of manufactured nitrogen they can apply. Accurate record keeping is also a requirement.” Is [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/red-tape-forcing-farmers-to-quit/feed/ 4 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/eu-and-cap-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/eu-and-cap-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:55:30 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=634 Isn’t the EU and CAP just a way to rob Peter to pay Paul, leaving the UK billions poorer so we can have a badge saying we’re in the gang? Sorry but I was looking up a statistic regarding the common agricultural policy and came across an article about the UK and EU and felt [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/eu-and-cap-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul/feed/ 9 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/british-wildlife-advocates-that-go-too-far/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/british-wildlife-advocates-that-go-too-far/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:31:46 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=272 The further I read into Simon Barnes’ article Is killing birds just a part of another culture? in the Times Online a few days ago, the madder I got. The second paragraph sets the scene “It is a small part of English culture to sit under a tree on an afternoon in June, to close [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/british-wildlife-advocates-that-go-too-far/feed/ 4 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/countryside-culled-from-junior-dictionary/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/countryside-culled-from-junior-dictionary/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:19:13 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=206 The Oxford University Press has removed dozens of words relating to the British countryside from their junior dictionary. Ms Saunders, a mother that spotted words were being removed while helping her son with his homework, has compared the dicionaries from 1978, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 and found a vast list of words relating [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/countryside-culled-from-junior-dictionary/feed/ 2