Im heading towards North Wales with a delivery of herbs and alpines. If you are a Welsh plant retailer looking for something to wow your customers get in touch.

29p per litre to the farmer (some 12p below cost of production) - 4.1% butterfat. Cream removed to get down to 3.5% and retailing at £1.75 per litre… Farmer, processor, retailer….only one of them is losing money!

This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

❗️Celebrations for some, devastation for others. Balloons and livestock don’t mix

Remember Plaid's election manifesto? Fix the NHS. Create jobs. Fix infrastracture. Forget it. Plaid's real agenda is pushing Woke nonsense - and lying to do it. Wales to celebrate Trans Day of Remembrance (Fri, Nov 20). Kids to have day off school. nation.cymru/news/plaid-cymr…

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

Energy use by AI data centres in the UK could cause emissions of 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide – as much generated by 2.7 million people over 10 years. So while cow burps are blamed and farmers get punished with a carbon tax on fertiliser, the tech giants are rewarded with AI data centre contracts.

The 2026 RMS Ploughman's Lunch Competition Judges required! No previous experience needed, just a nice wig & a fancy little hammer. Help choose the winning entry! Mon 6 Jul – competition starts #PloughmansLunch #ShopLocal #ProperButcher Plse RT?

So when water companies threaten us with hosepipe bans, consider this…A single 100-megawatt AI data centre consumes about 2 million litres of water every day. The equivalent to the daily water footprint of 6,500 average households. Also, water companies in England and Wales lose an average of 2,967 million litres of water every single day through leaks, which is equivalent to roughly 1,187 Olympic-sized swimming pools per day.

Yeah, take measurements at an airport. All that tarmac, all those planes, all that glass, will give the desired result.

They just don't care about the many. . .

'This whole net zero craziness is costing us dearly. We're importing everything we could have produced here.' Farmer and activist Olly Harrison offers an honest assessment of how dire the situation is for farmers up and down the UK.

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Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud. Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block. Hundreds of jobs are at risk. And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around. It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”. That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive. This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist. You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”. You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”. You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”. You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes. But eventually the spreadsheet wins. And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close. Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast. Real ones. Local ones. The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials. The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”. This is the part Labour never wants to own. Their policies are always sold as compassion. But the consequences are brutally practical. A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making. A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”. A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters. And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”. NO. Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices. That phrase matters. Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

2 birthday cakes over the weekend

Of course.

No DEFRA headlines for the rewilders but lapwings hatching on a busy commercial farm producing volumes of food for a growing population alongside vital habitats. #farming #foodproduction #birds

How much is it costing Wales @PrifWeinidog ???

🚨 UK farmers have hit out after being excluded from a major energy support scheme — warning it could impact food production and prices READ MORE: farminguk.com/news/farmers-s…