Moor Hopper

Caradon Country, South East Cornwall: A moody Sunday Morning dodging the rain showers. I actually got away with it this time 🙂

The negative reality for the Cornwall Holiday Trade isn't the threat of a proposed tourist tax, it's the awful wet weather. Visitors are choosing elsewhere, they've had enough. Take this week, it rained all of Saturday & it's forecast to carry on raining until next Wednesday ☔🌧️

@markt2606 @iseki_uk Bloody hell, how big is your garden? That's bigger than the one at our old golf course (Tandle Hills). We could've done with that monster at Springy Park Cricket Club 😆

Good bye #toromower we had a blast. Hello @iseki_uk .

Windswept day amidst Cornwall. Plenty of shelter if you choose the leafy narrow lanes for your trek. Lots of colourful delight in the deserted May sunshine. Last 4 miles I've passed 2 cars & 0 pedestrians 😎 #Walking

The steady decline of what was once known as Twitter.

The sleepy small town of Pauillac. Rural harbour stop-off for the French Chateau Bordeaux wine region. Rustic back streets & some pricey restaurants. #France 🇫🇷

The Cherbourg Cheese Van 🧀

@Amy_90_x 69 to 77 🎸

For me the 80s

The secrets & wilderness of Rust Hedge Brow: Deep beyond Bodmin Moor #Cornwall

At long last the Cornwall bogland that's affected our fields is slowly starting to diminish. Some respite for all the animals. A few dryer days recently 🙂

@Ron_ejuleff You've been lucky with the weather, timed it just right 👍

Little wander around #BerryHead #Brixham on our last day 2day. Stunning! #Devon 👌😎☀️

@TamarSports @Argyle @OfficialECFC @TUFC1899 @TCFC_Official @PlymouthPFC @tafclambs Hot topic on the Cornwall grapevine is how the Truro City antics have repulsed the Counties Non League fraternity. Appalling antics from the club regards dumping their Reserves structure 🏐

What a dismal day for #Devon clubs @Argyle @OfficialECFC & @TUFC1899 all pumped! And it's pretty much all over for @TCFC_Official across the Tamar too :-( @PlymouthPFC & @tafclambs lost too! Grrr!

@Ron_ejuleff @LiskeardAthlet1 @ElburtonVilla @swpleague @swsportsnews @NonLeagueCrowd Shocking sitter missed from Ryan Richards 😕

Ft. @LiskeardAthlet1 1-0 @ElburtonVilla fair result overall. Good, proper game. One complaint, both teams crowding the Ref every challenge/free kick expecting a card 2 b shown. Grow up the lot of ya. @swpleague @swsportsnews @NonLeagueCrowd

Bright day in Cornwall shocker (after morning rain). The meadows above Altarnun, amidst another Lane Walk 🙂 The fields are just quicksand.

@CGSLtd @SamaHoole I've heard Cornwall Council are investing in the extensive new paddy-fields around Minions & The Cheesewring. The new Caradon Bogland is perfect for rice production thesedays 🌧 #Rain #Rain #Rain

@SamaHoole I live on Caradon Hill in Cornwall which is all common land, and yes its definitely sheep & cattle country, but I am told that potatoes were grown on Foredown during the war years. Not sure you could grow anything else mind

"Just grow crops on that land instead of raising cattle." Right. Yes. Absolutely. Have you been outside? Not outside in a city. Outside outside. Countryside outside. Have you looked at what 65% of Britain's agricultural land actually looks like? It looks like the side of a mountain in Snowdonia with soil the depth of a paperback novel and an annual rainfall that would make a rainforest feel overdressed. It looks like the Scottish Borders at 400 metres elevation, where the wind comes in horizontal for nine months of the year and the frost doesn't fully leave until June. It looks like the Devon coastline on 40-degree slopes where no tractor has ever successfully operated without becoming a story people tell in the village pub for generations. It looks like the Brecon Beacons, where the peat bog comes to meet the acidic grassland and the nearest thing to an arable field is someone's daydream. These are not fields that have been selfishly hoarded by farmers for cows while perfectly good crop-growing sits unused. These are fields where the cattle ARE the only possible food production. Where the grass grows because it evolved to grow there, and the cow eats it because it evolved to eat grass. Plant quinoa in mid-Wales and it will stand briefly in the wind, look confused, and die. Plant wheat on a Cumbrian fell and the sheep will watch it fail with the quiet satisfaction of animals that know how this works. The people saying "just grow crops instead" have confused a topographic map with a menu. The land does not offer what the spreadsheet requires. The cow is not blocking a better option. The cow IS the option. It is, in fact, the ONLY option. Go outside. Have a look. Bring a coat.

@TheHouseof08 The Clash were an actual band, not one of Malcolms' pretend products.

You can only pick one... SEX PISTOLS - I WANNA BE ME or THE CLASH - 1977 What's it going to be?

Living in Cornwall I have to mention how utterly crap the new #MetOffice App is. Numerous suggested predictions that it's a dry day, or it'll stop raining for a few hours at such a time? It's ALWAYS inaccurate. Waste of funding 🤦‍♂️😖🌧

A rather annoyed John Jackson of #CrystalPalace It seems Brian Joicey of #CoventryCity has bugged him 😳😆 71/72 Season 🏐 #CPFC #UTP

Bunnymen Cassette 🎧 #Alternative #NewWave #Echo

Bremner 🏐 #LUFC #Scotland