Countryfile is a very popular programme at Barns Cottage. We especially like watching Adam on his farm spending the licence payers' money on a new rare pig before dashing off to gas some badgers. Sharkey is one of his biggest fans and unbeknown to us she has started her own farm.
"I demand a subsidy"
Just down the green towards the road is a fenced off part in which a few trees have been planted or so we thought. This evening whilst out with Darcy and DJ surveying the view across the rolling acres to the Fungi decontamination Barn at Haytons Bent (yes that is a real name) and enjoying the fumes from the Stoat Abattoir at Hopton Cangeford we spied our feline chum sitting on a post by this enclosure. She was wearing a pair of gaiters, chewing a piece of straw and complaining about the weather. She could only have become one thing...a Farmer. True enough she was surveying her field of genetically modified mice. She has been conducting experiments and now has huge megamice which she is fattening up for market. DJ was so surprised that she almost forgot where she had hidden the tripe sticks that she had purloined from Housemate's secret stash.
Up and coming trainer has been busy training his charges for the new season and today he entered Darcy Dawg for the 4 o clock at Pontefract. We risked a few Bonios each way but sadly he was tailed off in the last furlong. (He's on the far right)
And he had got rid of jockey.
Back to the magic pin for the next bet.
Does anyone have the foggiest idea what's going on in Mr Bates green jail in Downton ? Nope me neither. The new footman has started the gay or not gay debate here. If he is gay he may be sent to prison (it was illegal in the 1920s) and maybe he could share a cell with Mr Bates and let us know the score.
