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So guess who visited the national wool show :D
This show was amazing. Like I can't even describe how happy it made me. I'm sure countries with bigger populations experience this differently but this was the biggest show that actually had fibre and supplies that ive ever seen. I had yo travelling 2 days and over 800km to get to it but so so so worth it.
I've got so many types of silk (mulberry, milk), polwarth roving, Finnish roving, neon sock wool (oh God is this when I finally learn how to knit socks), covers for my carders, actual midland lace bobbins, honest to God woad seeds!
Im a little overwhelmed by it all still, many many things to play with. So i'm going back to old projects and finishing them first, which is not the choice I thought I'd be making 🙃 but oh well, gets them out from the shame pile and done.
I had such a good time I wish the local shows were anything on par with this. Will have to enter something next year.
#wool#craft#spinning#craftblr#agricultural show#wool show#spinblr#fibre#stash?#haul#silk#stuff#things to play with#shout out to my beautiful boyfriend for driving the enormous 1600km round trip with me#love that boy#see if he wants to come with me again next year
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The Norfolk County Show
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#Agricultural Show#British traditions#Bulls#CATTLE#England#English Heritage#Heavy horses#Parachutes#Pigs#Raf#Royal Norfolk Show#Sheep#Shire horses
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MID DEVON SHOW 22
MID DEVON SHOW 22
Blog by Lynne Pearl
JUNE 22
After the Devon County Show there are the local shows, we have them all, North Devon, Tavistock, Honiton and those are just the ones I know. I like to go to the ones I can, it never fails. There are the horses for one thing, those wonderful heavy horses, adorned with brasses and ribbons. They are truly a magnificent animal, beautiful with their manes plaited in ribbons and their tails fluffy. From far off you can hear the sound they make as they enter the main ring driven by their owners. It’s rather like the Morris Men with bells on their boots that tinkle as they dance.
The Mid Devon Show has rides for children, a whole corner devoted to it, under a magnificent oak tree. The site of the show is Knightshayes Court, one of our local stately homes owned by the National Trust. The Trust has its own booth as part of the show as do many other merchants and businesses. There is row upon row of stands set up in temporary side streets that I combed thoroughly to see what was for sale. There were handbags, dresses, jackets, blankets, soap, hats, all manner of things for the garden, wooden furniture, hot tubs, sheds, it went on and on.
Then there were all the service organisations of the area represented. There are the schools, the scouts, the housing charity, U3A, the police, everyone who is anyone is there. Also, if you wanted to buy farm equipment there is more and larger equipment than you have ever seen. There are the accountants, law firms and vets as well to help you on your way.
I stopped and enjoyed music. There is always good music and dancing at the Mid Devon show. I don’t know where they find them, but they always get good singers. There is the craft tent and the flowers. All the things that we otherwise would take for granted. It is a gift to be able to arrange flowers and bake beautiful things.
In the main ring there was a terrifying show of stunt riders on motorbikes, which was so exciting I had to turn away and not look as the crowd ooh’d and aah’d as they flew over an enormous black slide. I just hoped they could land on somewhere soft if need be. Very exciting.
There were collections of antique cars and buses, buses that had not been on the road since I was a child. It was very nice to see them again and say I used to ride on that bus. There even was an antique car that was an Austin Cambridge which my father had bought when my brother and I were small. It superceded a van that was rather primitive, so we were very pleased with how modern the Austin Cambridge looked when it sat in our spacious garage. It took us on picnics and holidays and we loved it. There was the same model in all its glory on the showground at Tiverton. A trip down memory lane.
Then best of all there are animals, everywhere; beautiful animals bred to be the best in their class, and of every size and shape. In the sheep class alone there were sheep of every size and shape and their coats of every density, thickness, curliness. There were black face sheep, white face and so it went on. The choice was dizzying and they were all beauties and the owners did them proud.
I drank cups of tea in the church tent at the back of the showground as the only place with tables and chairs to sit under canvas. There was free cake and there had been sandwiches too but they were all gone by the time I showed up.
It was a tired but happy crowd that made their way back to the free bus to Tiverton centre and the park and ride. I had met people from Somerset and all over, it had been a grand day out until the same place next year. We are grateful to be able to celebrate the work of the farmers the rest of the year.
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wanted to take some photos of my van gogh hotots (van gotots?) but my plant light makes them look very ethereal
their mom is smashbox, my severe head tilt doe. because of her neck, she can't get into a nestbox or really pull any fur, so i put her in a small solid-bottom cage for the night of her due date so she could kindle in deep shavings. however, because she can't really pull fur, the kits still chilled a little before i got to them. rabbit instincts say that if kits are going to die, they need to be disposed of, so she had already begun eating them; i actually knew she'd kindle before i got to where her cage was because i could hear the kit she was working on at the time squealing (it was not particularly pretty, the condition it was in. helios the corn snake got an extra dinner that week.) fortunately, the rest of the litter made it out unscathed except for these two, who are down an ear each.
all in all, this litter turned out as good as it possibly could have. all but one kit is alive and well, fostered off to another doe. it was a good sized litter (six live!), and there were miraculously no sports (mismarks) and no boxers (eyeliner on only one eye)! like genuinely insane odds on that.
just watch the earless ones be the nicest ones in the litter 🙄
#rabbit#show rabbits#kits#blanc de hotot#animal death /#animal injury /#i'm not gonna put this sort of stuff under cuts because i think you need to see it#you need to understand the realities of agriculture and breeding animals#sometimes it ends up with half-eaten kits and that's just how it is#that being said i try not to be an asshole so i will tag it#but like...this is what farming is. if you can't handle this sort of thing you probably shouldn't engage with ag content lol#or god forbid try to breed animals yourself
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The homo sapiens urge to be farming,
I freaking love growing corn and cultivating little guys on my cottage-core housing.
#my mid western is showing#stardew valley#farming simulator#harvest moon#agriculture#minecraft#slime rancher#ohio#corn
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Credit: Chris Bair
#tack#western#cowboy#horseback riding#farm#barn#rustic#rural#countryside#horse saddle#saddle#horse#equine#equestrian#dressage#rodeo#agriculture#stables#jockeys#horse show#ranch#rancher
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girls after an average shift
#CANT FEEL MY LEGS 🧍🏻♀️#tbh i get bad joints sometimes like not awful it is just a little achey bc my mum’s arthritis genetics Got Me#and i woke up this morning and immediately was like. oh. this is gonna be bad isn’t it#and then clocked a 9 hour shift that literally didn’t have a single slow down#like when I tell you we were slammed off our feet from the moment I walked through the DOOR#and it was just a perpetual rush from that moment on. like i haven’t stopped. close was MIDNIGHT#my legs hurt so bad I feel like there’s metal in my knees. i feel like i need oiling#I’m sweaty and gross and tired and achey and I have another close shift TOMORROW#but it’s agricultural show weekend (hence the business) so a load of the waitresses ‘snuck’ outside (we pretend to clear glasses from the#outdoor tables) to watch the fireworks and it was pretty cute. like no matter how shit my job or shift is i do still love most of my#colleagues and we always have a proper laugh together. small victories#AND I GET PAID TODAY LETS GOOOOOOO#hella slaves to capitalism
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Why is a string quartet version of the Flower Duet from Lakmé accompanying this nationalist Korean food show segment on jeotgal lmfao
#I enjoy the nationalist Korean food show but the nationalism is very funny#They have so far insisted Korea invented soy sauce and agricultural rice production#Real 'dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding' hours
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You ready to be pissed off this Monday morning? Because holy shit
This week John is talking about farmworkers, who have basically none of the protections afforded to most of the labor force and in some cases, are being subjected to LITERAL slavery. This was absolutely awful to learn about but vital to know.
#john oliver#last week tonight#last week tonight with john oliver#agriculture#agribusiness#tw child labor#tw slavery#between this and the early bit on abortion this was the maddest I've seen john on show in a while#Youtube
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I'm currently heading down to the Royal Highland show (for non-Scots, a huge 4 day country show, live music, agriculture, crafts, food and contests- well worth a visit) so brace yourselves for a photo barrage of any and every draft horse I can find. If anyone has requests for photos of specific animals or breeds of horse, cattle, chicken or sheep, let me know and I'll try to get some.
#royal highland show#highland show#scotland#farming#agriculture#equestrianism#crafts#fairs#animals#scottish culture
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the art! ✨
@bigballsacksammy
#australia#sydney#new south wales#art#cows#sydney easter show#easter show#royal agricultural society#how amazing are these#😍
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In TAZ Graduation I wanted to know so much more about the player characters and was kind of meh about the world. The world was fairly interesting but I didn’t feel like I needed to know more than they told me. I wish I had so much more information about the three player characters stories though!!!! I want to know everything!!!!! I’m sad they’re gone already!!!!!!
I’m not too deep into TAZ Ethersea yet, so maybe it will change, but I feel reverse about it. The characters are fine but I don’t feel much passion about them. The world is INSANELY interesting though! The prequel episodes went so fucking hard I’m so sad there wasn’t more. I want to read a history textbook about this world. I want to read science textbooks about their technology. I want to know about the cultures and events and everything. Tell me more about this fuckin planet
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going to local ER instead since I’m losing too much blood, way too fast! last week was bad but this is scary and I need to be monitored ASAP!
#I’ll be watching all of your recs when I’m there 🙏#I also have so many updates and posts that I haven’t felt the guts to ever say#I’m sorry I’ve been a bad mutual but I’ve been a bad friend to all the online friends and friends from my university#im lucky I live in a condo community w/ lots of extention of family + help! my coastal city - particularly our part of the city#in a particular building where we all meet up together in the front on weekends#even at my sickest - I’m still pretty involved since we see eachother physically & I love cooking + baking for everyone on a 2x monthly#and we all walk the dogs together every afternoon in our dog walking by the harbor group#even then these old people have me in a group text and drop flowers off for me and me for them#living in a community is so helpful but it open my eyes that I’m not even just sick or even a bad friend but those two factors strained#my online relationships bc the effort was so much behind the scenes w/ my health and even typing something out that it makes messaging or#even blogging but I’d like to change that bc I want to be more overt online#and I explain how that relates to Palestine and findinfing joy + $$$ in this end stage capitalist nightmare#I want to be better but I also want to show people the joys of my city (a literal hidden gem yet is a national park) and so between fusing#ideas of environmentalism - community out reach & even descalation of yt Supremacist mentalities when doing outreach + volunteer#even our coastal environmental causes to such great causes that help indigenous latinx members of our community in particular#their rights and their accomplishments in agriculture & how fruitful this place is#we have the best strawberries + berries since they are indigenous plants but anyways from environmentalism to damn farmers markets#I live in a slice of heaven so why leave to go to LA and NYC when I create such beautiful joy by the ocean every day#we have such incredible water views in our condo along with the stunning plain mountains framing the water and sea of palm trees#every sunset is like Santa Barbara (we close!) w/ pink/purple/orange skies that are so vibrant that they make you take pictures constantly#especially with the herons nested there w/ there babies - so close to#is that we watch them all day long + the other coastal birds#all this Shit is random but I realized that if I put my effort into a few things academically that I haven’t even shared in these tags -#that I can have an incredibly fulfilling life while sick as long it pays for itself and I think I can do it w/ a few different plans I’m#creating but I’m setting up a couple of businesss for passive income - go back to grad schooo but for medical research or political science#IR my old life of international relations and start publishing my research on Palestine and Jewish studies#I just need to publish either medical or political but if I do that - have my east businesses that not only highlight my life#but may help the people and animals of my city#but I feel the change finally coming and maybe it took something like this to wake me up#so many funny typos but this was just a quick way to explain that I need to be more comfortable on video + online w/ you all but on tiktok
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“HUZZOOR OF PENNEWELLS,” the Champion Shetland Pony at the Richmond Show last week.
Photographs by W. Rouch.
The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming, 18 June 1920.
#Shetland pony#stallion#Huzzoor of Pennewells#Richmond Horse Show#W. Rouch#The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming#1920
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