maria kitching

Healthy living, adventure and innovation. My thoughts are my own but lets share!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Over 1,300 British farms have joined a new app in about twelve weeks. It is called Only Farmers, it was named deliberately after OnlyFans, and the parallel runs deeper than the joke intends.

Both are platforms where the producer sells direct access to themselves, because the people who used to pay them stopped paying enough to live on.

Lisa Hogan built it with her son Wolfe Bentinck, after five years of farmers coming into the Diddly Squat shop to thank her for the programme and then tell her their own version of it. Her words: this is for smaller farmers who do not have a marketing budget or Amazon.

Look at what is being sold.

Farm stays. Vineyard tours. Cheese-making. Beekeeping. Weddings. Lambing days. Clarkson's own summary this week was that you could walk an alpaca or milk a cow.

Every item on that list is something a farmer does anyway. Unpaid, at four in the morning, in February, as part of a job that a government review found loses money on nearly a third of British farms.

The novelty version pays. The work does not.

A family will hand over real money to stand in a shed for two hours and watch a ewe give birth. That same lamb, reared for months and sold through the proper chain, goes at a price the farmer is not allowed to set.

The second half of the app is grimmer still, because it also runs farmer-to-farmer equipment rental. Farms hiring kit to each other, because too few can justify owning their own.

None of which is a criticism of Hogan. She has built something useful, after listening at a till for five years. Book the alpaca. The money goes where it should.

But 1,300 signups in twelve weeks is not enthusiasm for an app. It is 1,300 farms reaching the same conclusion in the same season, which is that the dependable money is in the experience rather than the food.

We have arrived at a country where a farm earns more reliably from charging strangers to watch it farm.

Nobody thought that was worth remarking on.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

They are voluntarily surrendering

From civilisation to barabarity

Traitors.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

This is the effect of DEI hiring practices in education, students failed by their professor.

This is something that would never have happened if Cambridge properly investigated Arday’s claims upon applying.

The students deserve justice and the knowledge this can’t happen again.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

"Even I was shocked at the scale of the subsidies that are energy and net zero related. I added them all up and got to £328 billion. That's the equivalent of 3 HS2s.”

- David Turver @7Kiwi - Consultant, CIO / Project Management Professional.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

I’ve travelled a fair bit and seen squat toilets in places including Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.

Britain should not be importing these standards.

Britain is not a third world country.

How on earth has a British council decided that installing squat style toilets is a good idea?

This is not the direction we should be going in.

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

Let’s not forget that Mark Rowley investigated a journalist for looking into corruption at Cambridge, but decided that it was not worth investigating a fire bomb attack on Nigel Farage’s house. Please don’t tell me we have a fit for service police force.

https://t.co/zHCNg9szDu

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

🍺 Thinking of going down the pub for a pint with your mates?

Well think again, because Westminster Council's new draft licensing policy recommends removing opportunities for ‘vertical drinking’.

London has a great culture of standing outside pubs having a pint after work. Councils need to stop being such killjoys.

[France @la_france_sur_x]

🚨🇬🇧 UN COUVENT ET LE LIEU DE SÉPULTURE DE SAINT PATRICK RÉDUITS EN CENDRES À DOWNPATRICK, LES MÉDIAS SE TAISENT

Hier, le couvent et le lieu de repos de Saint Patrick lui-même à Downpatrick ont été réduits en cendres.

Les habitants parlent d’incendie criminel. Le lieu de repos du saint patron de l’Irlande a été incendié, et les médias mainstream n’ont rien à dire. Les politiciens non plus.

Un site catholique lié à l’une des figures les plus importantes de l’histoire de ces îles brûle, et c’est le silence.

Ce silence en dit long.

🇫🇷 Soutenez-nous en nous suivant sur 𝕏 🌐 Notre Telegram en cas de censure : https://t.co/7BI2uMGmUb 🇫🇷

[Javier Negre @javiernegre10]

Japoneses vuelven a salir a la calle para protestar contra la construcción de la primera mezquita en Fujisawa.

La mezquita quiere poner rezos en altavoces 5 veces al día al lado de un templo sintónista.

Empiezan pidiendo tolerancia y terminan imponiendo su religión al resto.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

5 years ago Bill Gates told the world that people had “no choice” avoiding the COVID shot, claiming the unvaxxed would “endanger their grandparents” & the vaxxed were 100% protected.

Every single claim was false. All of it. And he walked away without a single punishment.

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

I don’t care if this is preferred by foreigners- this is Britain! Totally unacceptable. Do we Brits not matter at all anymore?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Iranian man warns that Sharia law starts with unity between the left and Islam.

Pay attention to what he’s saying. The same alliance between the left and Muslims that is taking place now in America happened decades ago in Iran. That’s how Iran became an Islamic theocracy.

[Agent P @AgentP22]

Don’t just investigate the professor.

Investigate the people who hired, promoted and celebrated him.

[Marcus Agrippa @AgrippaSPQR]

Wes Streeting poses in front of a newly built Type 31 frigate built by a British firm in Scotland bragging that this is what Labour means by ‘Backing British’.

He fails to mention it was procured by the Tories under Boris.

Labour have not ordered a single ship since coming into office.

The Labour Party is built on lies and pretence.

[FeelGoodTales @feelgoodtale]

Josh Bennett, a 13-year-old, was beaten up by a group of kids because he refused to give them his new Champions League football.** Five of them punched and kicked him, took the ball, and ran off. The whole ordeal left him too afraid to leave the house.

But, in a wonderful turn of events, Josh has now received thousands of messages of love and support from people and athletes all over the world. Hundreds of people have offered to buy him a new football, he’s been sent signed shirts and medals and has even been offered some professional football training.

Josh was also asked to be a match-day mascot for Swansea City over the weekend - and scored penalties alongside the team at halftime. After seeing so many acts of kindness, Josh told his mum: “The bullies haven’t won!”

Credit: WalesOnline

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Two years after Southport, Sudanese invader Douk Deng, 21, was arrested at a school in Manchester brandishing a hammer, axe, knife and petrol can.

Luckily, the children were away on summer holidays.

Refused asylum THREE times, he's still in the UK. No deportation. 🇬🇧

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Then the lawsuits will keep coming. Should any female patient or member of staff require funding to fight this assault on their legal rights, apply to https://t.co/iyohnrgVZN

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 AWESOME! Argentina President Javier Milei is being praised worldwide for filing a law to BLOCK politicians from getting paid if they allow the country's budget to fall into a deficit

"For the first time in our history, if politicians don't do their homework, they won't get paid. It's not the people who'll go unpaid — it's the politicians."

🔥🔥🔥

DO IT IN THE USA!

This is BASED, @JMilei! 🇺🇸🇦🇷

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

This filthy scum RAPED a pregnant woman in Glasgow and in doing so KILLED her unborn baby.. how long did he get ? 12 MONTHS!!!!!
1 murdered child and 1 destroyed life. I am SEETHING with anger !!! 😡 @JohnSwinney ??????

DEPORTATION to SAVE OUR NATION @RestoreBritain