"And here`s the countryside news for 8 year olds --------"Me and Mrs Ebor Forestry normally love John Craven`s Newscountryroundfile on the moving television not least because it means we`re usually eating a bacon sandwich and a nice egg after having some nice Sunday morning rumpy-pumpys.
But this morning, the producers of Newsroundfilecountry managed to include a feature of such banal brain numbing banality courtesy of our chums at Natural England, that Mrs EF left a good six inches of rind on her plate.
Apparently, Natural England employ a GP and some young post-graduate floozy who looked like she needed a good wash, to monitor the effects of being outside in the country on people`s well-being. Their research showed that seeing some green stuff in a field and being with goats lowered their blood pressure and engendered a feeling of well-being.
For fuck`s sake.
What these bone-heads failed to mention is that farming has one of the highest suicide rates of any industry due to rural isolation, economic problems, marital and familial strife, lack of affordable housing and poor employment prospects and the pressure of setting up vacuous experiments for Natural England, no doubt!
Natural England? Useless tossers!
Speaking of tossing, we did quite like Ben Fogel`s piece on the Alternative Highland Games. Now that`s what I call hard-hitting rural journalism.
It`s nearly as good as The Archers on the wireless.
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