Copsework

Privileged to earn a living from #Woodmanship-Working Hazel Coppice & Hedgelaying. More graft than craft.#veganpowered

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The house where I was born.

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@arusbridger He definitely doesn’t know what his job is if he thinks that you are actually left wing.

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@redrumlisa You go to work, try to be a good person and pay your taxes and bills and when there’s a potential crisis the only thing the government does is tell you to buy extra food and candles 😫

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@fbuner @TrooperSnooks @p4rus If I can just add my view- There are ecological records of the decline in biodiversity/wildlife during the last 50 years. No government has tackled this and as 69% of the UK land mass is farmed, we need farmers on board and this means funding nature recovery.

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@TimHarford Just heard the claim that topsoil loss means we only have 60 harvests left on The Life Scientific @jimalkhalili on Radio 4. This was debunked by botanist James Wong. Good one for @BBCMoreOrLess

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@GDladlin You conveniently missed the point about the natural world. Chasing a fox and watching hounds tear it apart is hardly displaying ‘a love for the natural world’ is it ?

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@TrooperSnooks I hear you. The coupe of perfect Hazel I was planning to cut this winter has been trashed by fallow deer. Fortunately I have other options but I’m yet to meet a landowner/manager who actually wants to reduce deer numbers.

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@fionaharvey Putting a bell on a cat will encourage it to move more stealthily and quietly and thus become a more successful hunter.

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@TrooperSnooks FWIW My neighbour keeps hundreds of sheep and constantly checks them and makes sure they’re in good health. Unfortunately I’ve had to rescue other people’s sheep on numerous occasions. Lambs and sheep on roads/stuck in hedges and fences and cast on their backs.

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@johnnyjmils Local authorities give former members of HM Forces priority in housing. Homelessness is complex but to be housed, it’s often necessary to be alcohol and drug free. Obviously this is not easy for a homeless person.

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@MhairiHunter Obviously wearing a lanyard in your workplace is understandable but to wear it outside the workplace seems weird to those of us who don’t need a lanyard. I would find a plastic gadget dangling from my neck very irritating.

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@TrooperSnooks That’s grim but perhaps if there was a wider margin the deer would have alternative vegetation to browse and the owls would have more vole hunting opportunities ? Cultivating the soil right up to the hedge is not great for the hedge either.

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@pete_ar_fryn Yeah. His main interest in conservation was making the argument that every single habitat could only thrive if men with guns were involved. 😬

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@pete_ar_fryn That bloke blocked me because he couldn’t argue his case. I’m not missing anything because he mainly posts pics of himself posing with fancy rifles and military camo 😬

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@BenGoldsmith @EssexWT_Annie This is in the story behind the headline

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@CliveWismayer @PaulWelters I remember when Cantona said that his hero was Rimbaud and the press reported it as Rambo. Man United Fans sent him Rambo action figures and chanted, ‘Rambo!’ at matches.

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@pete_ar_fryn Yes and this highlights my point: Making clothing is arduous skilled maual labour and if you’re paid a fair wage it’s very expensive. Significantly,turning sheep fleece into clothing also requires loads of water and then treating the waste water or just polluting.

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@pete_ar_fryn I would also like to know who would want to work in those *dark satanic mills* in 2026 🥴

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@pete_ar_fryn The only reason that this wool is burned is because it’s not viable to pay the skilled workers for the hours that it takes to make it into clothing. Obviously some Tweed is still made in the UK but it’s very expensive as a result.

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@SamaHoole To make wool into clothing requires hundreds of hours of skilled labour which would be economically impossible in the uk. That’s why most wool products are made in developing countries where wages are low.