Someone always knows

A common attitude that I encounter when communicating with other smallholders is that British regulations are stupid, nonsensical or unnecessary so therefore “any sensible person” would ignore them because “who’s to know?”

The sort of person who comes out with this usually adds something like “we only lend legitimacy to the stupidity of bureaucrats by blindly obeying the Law”.

Now I agree some regulations are stupid, knee-jerk responses to the panic of the moment, while many more are poorly worded or ill-thought through in their consequences, but I disagree that the best action is to ignore them (except in extreme cases).

The Wee ‘Un’s photo shoot

The Wee ‘Un, who’s five, asked to borrow the camera this afternoon so he could take some photos around the croft. These are the results of his photo shoot, none are edited or cropped, and all are purely his work, including focusing and settings. Over to him…
Pa unloading the Land Rover.

Display woes

I’ve been using the same Apple 17in CRT display with my computer for many years now so I wasn’t surprised when it started blinking a few weeks back.

As the problem worsened, I mentioned it to Mummy’s Little Angel, who happened to have an old CRT display sitting in a cupboard and offered to bring it up when she came to visit recently.

Her display worked with my computer, not always the case with Apple Macs and PC monitors unless you have an adapter, so it went in the corner for when the Apple display failed utterly.