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This diary will be written about twice monthly
during the summer by Clare to keep you updated with what is happening with the crops, people and wildlife on the farm and
anything else we feel maybe of interest.
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Our farm is located directly opposite the back lot for Shepperton Studios
and from January they have been building a huge set and now they are in production we had a request to turn
of our gas banger when they are filming scenes because of the noise!! A very nice man from Makin Movies came to see us and
fully understood when we turned down the request. His offer of a solution was to send a human scarecrow to run round
the field of Kohlrabi scaring the pigeons when they needed to film (only in movie land!!). But we also got the chance to look
round the sets which was amazing.
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| Kohlrabi pigeon damage |
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A farmers life is never dull one lovely Saturday at the end of July
I had a call from Charlie can you go down to the farm as some fleece has got caught round the overhead power cables
and do not go within 100 metres as it may still be live!! Well this is what greeted me and was told by the lads
on the farm that there had been a mini tournado.
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| fleece around power cable |
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I phoned National Grid and they came out in force to try and rectify
the situation which involved turning of the power and waiting for enough men to arrive to deal with it. In the end we had
to leave it until the next morning when they would have the right equipment for a man to go along the cable in a cage and
unwrap the fleece. My land rover was deployed in a very unusual way to ensure the fleece did not blow onto the other cable!!
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| New use for a land rover!! |
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