Magnificent men in their frying machines

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:13 PM | add or read comments (0)

SOME 23,000 visitors attended last weekend’s Royal Welsh Smallholder Festival, around 2,000 less than last year.

I was slightly surprised: when I visited on the second day, the place was packed to the rafters, with thousands of red-faced punters hauling vintage spades and clematis plants backs to their cars.

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Tut-tut for mutts at sheep show

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THOUGH I say it with gritted teeth, it was good to be back in Nefyn for the opening agricultural show of the North Wales season.

It’s in a great location, is sound underfoot and has accommodating section secretaries (my thanks to Anwen and Gwen, as always). So why do I always regard the event with a certain dread?

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Smallholders should gets their clogs on

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 4:58 PM | add or read comments (0)

A FEW people have asked me why the annual Wonderwool Wales festival has been split from the Royal Welsh Smallholders Festival, Builth Wells.

The two events were, after all, a perfect fit.

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Nasty shocks lie in store for renewable energy pioneers

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:25 PM | add or read comments (0)

ORGANISERS OF last night’s Producers’ Forum in Mold should have checked their diaries before proceeding with the event: for goodness sake, didn’t they realise a Champions’ League semi-final was being played?

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ALF tool up for badger cull protests

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:17 PM | add or read comments (2)

MONTY has been in touch again: the last time he called, four years ago, Special Branch interrogated me in a dingy basement at North Wales Police HQ.

Since then the Animal Liberation Front has been strangely silent. But this morning Monty was back on the phone; and threatening mayhem in the Welsh countryside.

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