Martin Revill

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Future Countryside @_FutureCountry]

Thomas Ableman of Freewheeling Associates now invites us to consider, what if the countryside had no cars: if we had a truly integrated rural transport network, so every town and village was connected by bus and then railway to the rest of the United Kingdom.

[Future Countryside @_FutureCountry]

In Switzerland, says Thomas Ableman, they have a bus every hour stopping at every village and town of at least 300 people, connecting conveniently with the railway network. This, he argues, is the best way to bridge the divide between urban and rural areas: by reconnecting them.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@Roycs @meatmansoccer Yes all well. The 'revlet' turned 30 earlier this year, to prove that time flies! All 3 kids long since left home, which is now in Durham. My cricket days ended in 2017 after turning 50, after 6 seasons playing alongside Jack in the village league at the top of this trail.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@Roycs @meatmansoccer Hello Roycs! Hope you are well. Still in Oxford?

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

A huge response to this recent programme! We spent the day meeting men and women who depend on trail hunting for their livelihoods.

Since the programme aired on GB News yesterday, lots of people have responded to oppose the government’s proposed ban on the activity. Thank you!

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

“Cow farts are destroying the planet.”

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The government gets more money per pint than the pub owner.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A solar farm just opened where a beef farm used to be.

This is a real sentence about a real place. In Lincolnshire, near Glentworth, on land that grew British food for six hundred years. 1,214 hectares of grazing pasture and cropland, the size of Heathrow Airport, now under panels for the next forty years.

It is called Tillbridge Solar. It was approved in October 2025. The locals were against it. The local council was overruled by central government. The farmer who used to graze cattle on that land will not be grazing cattle on that land in your lifetime.

Down the road, Springwell Solar got the nod the same month. 1,280 hectares. The largest in the country. Same story. Beef and arable, gone.

This is happening everywhere. CPRE found that 59% of England's biggest solar farms are on productive farmland. In one Lincolnshire district, 7% of the land is now solar panels. Three solar farms, Sutton Bridge, Goosehall, and Black Peak, are built entirely on the highest grade of agricultural land we have.

Now here is the part nobody mentions at the dinner party.

The roofs of the warehouses on the A1 are empty. The supermarket distribution centres are empty. The Amazon sheds, the MoD car parks, the industrial estates outside every town in England, all empty. CPRE's own numbers show that putting panels on the roofs we already have would meet the entire 2035 solar target on its own.

The panels are not going on the roofs.

The panels are going on Lincolnshire because leasing one field from one farmer is easy, and leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand owners is hard. The shortcut is the pasture.

You will not be told to stop eating beef.

You will simply find that the farm that produced it is now a power station, and the beef in the supermarket has come from Kansas, and it costs more, and the cow is no longer in the field, because the field is no longer a field.

Cover the roofs. Leave the pasture.

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

The important thing for any government is to keep in touch with the people itself. I notice very much—and I think this happened to us in our 13 years and I'm sure it happened to the Labour government—first, they got out of touch with their own backbenchers, and, secondly and above all, they got out of touch with the people of Great Britain.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@WG_RumblePants @YahoooverCC The dearth of opening bats with the technique to play against the new ball can't be a coincidence. Must be related to a focus on white ball cricket in the players' development.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@McGracing @horsevault I was there too as a very excited schoolboy at my local course. Dickinson brought 3: Silver Buck, Sabin du Loir, and Last Deal. All won if I recall, and while SB won the Gold Cup next time out & SdL went on to great things, I don't know what happened to the latter.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@COYQ1866 @WG_RumblePants Yes, Cuckfield is lovely. We actually lived in the village while down in Sussex, but I'd already started playing at Lewes before we landed there. Cuckfield wasn't in the County League at that point, but we had a Sunday fixture & I broke my thumb batting there 😲

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@COYQ1866 @WG_RumblePants I played there in the mid 90s for Lewes Priory in the County League. One of several wonderful grounds in that league including Horsham, Eastbourne, Preston Nomads. Such a shame to hear their first team doesn't use it anymore.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@Racingdauber Thanks.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@Racingdauber @cmoreton99 Thanks. I remember the iconic colours. I don't think we see them on British racecourses any more, though I recall reading a daughter of George Cambanis has bloodstock interests, maybe in France?

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@Racingdauber @cmoreton99 Was Tyrnavos, the Irish Derby winner, also related?

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@WG_RumblePants Great picture. Greenidge was my first cricketing hero on account of my first day at a professional cricket match: Notts vs the West Indians in 76 at TB. He scored the fastest first class hundred of the season that afternoon.

[Martin Revill @MartinRevill1]

@WG_RumblePants I'm loving these scenic grounds! I played here too, near the end of my playing days, alongside my son, more than 30 years after I played at today's ground (1985 to 2016).