This is Harry setting his mole trap.
We think there's only one mole at the moment but he's a sneaky little beggar because he's still at large!
An old hand at setting traps but this one is eluding capture!
I have been out this lunch time to a local village hall. A slap up buffet meal & a very interesting talk called Liverpool Cowkeepers.
In the 1800's the city of Liverpool expanded rapidly as the railway arrived & of course Liverpool was the largest port after London so ships & goods were arriving all the time.
Businesses started up feeding all the people flooding into the city but the one thing not readily available was fresh milk.
The Dale farmers bought end terraced houses, converted the yards into small shipons & transported a few of their cows to supply the people of Liverpool with milk.
They actually made a lot of money doing this & many of them were able to return to their rented farms in the Dales & buy them.
So much more to this story but that's the gist of it.
The speaker called Dave Joy was a descendant of one of these city farmers & was so interesting.
Three good things:
1. Out in the daytime for lunch & interesting talk on a subject I knew nothing about!
2. Another beautiful autumn day.
3. Fresh raspberries available still in the shops!
Good luck on catching/trapping that mole.. on a par with rabbits digging up your lawn I guess.. sounds like an interesting talk on city farmers.. just imagine if we did that now..
Fresh raspberries sound yummy.. bought my first of the season strawberries from the gardens today .. and surprisingly sweet..
What an interesting speaker you heard today. It’s so good to hear history ‘live’ like that. Must upset Harry to have his beautifully manicured lawn dug up.
This reminded me of me and jean when we were young..we caught a mole. I don't know how..i remember lots digging with our hands..mum was so shocked when we took it up to the farmhouse in a bucket!!!
@julzmaioro I love raspberries best... the b&bs love them too. The ones I bought were from Spain but very nice. Our soft fruit is co I got to an end now. I never buy foreign strawberries as they are hard & dry but these raspberries are lovely. You would have enjoyed the talk so much Julz, all about how they managed to feed them too.
@dide b. Funnily enough this isnt the lawn Dianne but the field! I know it looks like a lawn but that's what Harry does in his spare time, mows it like a lawn with his tractor & topper.
@ruthmouch You must not call them shippons in Wales then Ruth! A byre is another word used in past times too....a place they used to keep cows in. Usually tied up & they used to go along the row & milk them by hand. Very different to today's cow houses. The only time you hear the word shippons these days is when they are selling barn conversions & they want to describe the lay out in the old days!
What an interesting talk that sounded! Lovely view from your window. My cat Laddie caught a mole when we first got him. Didn't get one since then. It was a bit disconcerting to come home and find the lawn dug up, especially as we thought Laddie's parentage included a border collie ...! One confused cat but we forgave him when we found the deceased mole among the diggings..!
Another poor little creature that will soon become extinct if people keep killing them. Sorry, just needed to get on my high horse for a while. I just hate it when wild animals of any kind are killed. Moles are very cute little things and the soil of a molehill is amazing for potting plants.
October 24th, 2018
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Fresh raspberries sound yummy.. bought my first of the season strawberries from the gardens today .. and surprisingly sweet..
Sounds like a very informative lunch.