Linda James

Live on dairy farm in West Wales and baker for local shop Bwyd y Byd in Crymych

[Linda James @cerelin]

@WelshRev @NockDeightonAg Prices sky high today

[Rate My Sausage @RateMySausage]

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?

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

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.

[Linda James @cerelin]

@RateMySausage All so pale looking. Not enticing at all.

[Jac o' the North 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JacotheNorth]

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

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

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

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'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.

[Linda James @cerelin]

Tarth yr Afon

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

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.

[Linda James @cerelin]

@RateMySausage Please please can i enter?

[Linda James @cerelin]

@CrymychWeather scorchio this bank holiday weekend though 🌞🌞🌞

[Linda James @cerelin]

2 birthday cakes over the weekend

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Of course.

[Linda James @cerelin]

@coileyparjley Feels like 3° in the wind in Crymych 💨🥶

[A. R. Peters & Son @sussexfarming]

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

[Emyr Lyn @emlynevan]

How much is it costing Wales @PrifWeinidog ???

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

🚨 UK farmers have hit out after being excluded from a major energy support scheme — warning it could impact food production and prices

READ MORE: https://t.co/HZQY1Gdmdg

[Linda James @cerelin]

@emlynevan Close up o Dylan Rowlands

[Jac o' the North 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JacotheNorth]

How @WelshLabour wastes YOUR money.

A one-mile-long riverside path in Swansea will cost £8m. Of which £6.6m will come from @WelshGovernment Regional Transport fund.

How does a path to nowhere qualify as 'regional transport'?

For God's sake - don't vote Labour on May 7!

[Linda James @cerelin]

@DerekTheWeather it certainly is feeling chilly out in the fields this evening, 7° but with the wind it feels like 3°...brrrr