@Jwallace2627@Soroush_1403@Dr_TheHistories There’s a fantastic book called Ancestors by Professor Alice Roberts that goes into this along with burial sites and funerary. It’s a really interesting read.
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.
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@HBOMax_UK Can someone sort out my subscription? Paid last Friday, raised dispute when I couldnt stream sending evidence of payment but yet still no response.
@drkeithsiau@shundeshagen Not human but I had a dog with lymphangectasia. Vets said he sustained permanent crypt damage due to lymphangecteal cells being affected by meat proteins. Imaging looked like grey holes & presented as a protein loosing entropathy. He was an outlier in that he recovered.
@drkeithsiau Think if active IBD suspected, IVS and IHS please. I was on the ceiling when they biopsied ulcerated area. Anyone using Remimazolam in endoscopy? Works well in dentistry with select cases of short duration.
@mrdavinder@AMAZlNGNATURE@grok It’s an Asian Water Monitor (location & pattern help ID) We have an African Nile monitor - similar but different nostrils as he doesn’t primarily swim although he does like to use his pool daily. AWM’s are also quite tame & friendly, unlike Nile’s.
@DisabledDoctor@ManserSuzie Could be masking the scent of eugenol as the potent scent could be triggering for patients who are anxious. Some percolate coffee.
@hib343434 Had camaro LVT installed 4 yrs ago . It's quiet underfoot, warm & absolutely bombproof. We have a large marine tank & 2 large monitor lizards with pools. None of it has even blemished let alone lifted. 👍
@ParaAndy90 In 2005, I was hit side on by a bus that ran a red light. Fire brigade spent 30+ mins cutting me out. I remember people standing in front of vehicle with their phones as I was going into shock. Local newspaper also published a photo that they must of acquired from the perverts.
@carolvorders He’s going for Temu, Shein etc & it’s something UK should be doing too. UK exports are high end quality items. No fan of Trump but Reeves was dumb not to slap custom charges on junk.
@AMAZlNGNATURE Calling BS. 1) Teeth will move from forces (orthodontics) 2) mouths are wet, wood would flex.
Found photo from another angle, remaining teeth were removed. Skull must of been mounted & wood acted as means of displaying.
@FIONAELLWOOD@wesstreeting Watch the #dispatches A&E episode. Very informative, albeit upsetting.
There's been some excellent journalism from #Panorama & #c4dispatches about care services that I urge politicians to watch. Corporate PEF Social care & MH services need addressing urgently. #notforprofit