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Jan 6, 20238 min read
New Year, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Commercial Oilseeds Producers Association (COPA)
New Year Wow, the start of yet another year. When you get to my age you wonder how many more? Not the fear of the number, rather the hope...
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Dec 30, 20227 min read
Year-End Thoughts and Mede Farm
Year-End Thoughts I do not know about you lot, but the days between Christmas and New Year as a child seemed to be a time of peace on the...
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Dec 23, 20229 min read
Reflection. Thanks For Comments. First Visit to Zambia with a Passport.
Reflection. Thanks For Comments. It is still raining! As the year draws to a close it always seems to be for me, a time of reflection....
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Dec 16, 20229 min read
Where is the Criticism? The Rain. Showtime!
Where is the Criticism? I follow the artist Craig Bone on Facebook. Craig is a very successful Zimbabwean-born artist who in my eyes...
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Dec 9, 202212 min read
Leaves and Contemplating the Ego Generation. The Introduction of Cattle to Diandra.
Leaves and Contemplating the Ego Generation. “Every generation blames the one before. And all of their frustrations come beating on your...
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Dec 2, 20229 min read
Discord at ‘Old Farts’ and My Roots. A Big Bang and Entry into Farming Politics
Discord at ‘Old Farts’ and My Roots. Every Thursday we, the ‘Old farts’, meet for a drink and a chat to resolve all the problems of the...
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Nov 25, 20229 min read
Braai. Community Duty. The Golden Years.
Braai. Community Duty. Finally, almost a year after Covid-19 restrictions in Portugal, last weekend Rozanne and I decided to have a...
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Nov 18, 20229 min read
Gout. Name and Shame? Kariba Fun.
Gout. Name and Shame? I rarely drink now, half a glass of red wine at lunch and the odd whisky at night. This Sunday, Siobhan Franklin, a...
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Nov 11, 202210 min read
Homegrown and The Climate Band Wagon. An Uncomfortable Peace and the Birth of My Second Daughter
Homegrown and The Climate Band Wagon Why is it that anything you eat from your own orchard, garden or field always tastes better than...
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Nov 4, 20229 min read
Reflections, Return to Europe.
Reflections It is two years this week since I was diagnosed with my second bout of cancer having suffered multiple heart failure brought...
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Oct 28, 20229 min read
Oh Shit! Not Once, Many Times. Benefitting from Stolen Goods. Rae and Whaley
Oh Shit! Not Once, Many Times I start with the explanation “Oh Shit!” repeated many times. After collecting the Jag last week from the...
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Oct 21, 202210 min read
Leadership and Life-Changing Friendships
Leadership As I get older I feel the world is becoming crazier and crazier by the day. Just look at works of art being sprayed with...
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Oct 14, 20228 min read
Gay Zombies and Disappearing Friends
Gay Zombies You are reading this as Rozanne has obviously driven us across Spain through Portugal and back again safely. The Citroen C5...
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Oct 7, 20228 min read
Too Much Travel and Independence Trepidation
Too Much Travel I have been advocating living one's life to the full but personally have sort of hit a brick wall, physically and...
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Sep 30, 20227 min read
Life in Perspective, Scotch Dynamite and The Lancaster House Agreement
During our trip away from Besterio, our home village, we were informed by telephone there had been a severe storm. Zulmira, the lady who...
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