Will's World

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: Fresh perspectives on a Roman holiday

It’s a miracle I brought them all back home with me. First there was the policeman at the airport who checked our passports. His tailored uniform was designed to show…

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Will's World: We can all relate to going 'full Greenwood'

A folk hero, the Oxford English Dictionary tells us, is simply “someone who is admired by the ordinary people of a country or region because of something special they have…

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Will's World: Jobs can wait for harvest festival recital

I’d said I couldn’t go. We had cattle booked to go to the abattoir that morning, it was forecast to pour with rain all day, and I had a million…

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Will's World: Why I've made a temporary return to tillage

There’s something about ploughing. I don’t know if it’s the smell of freshly turned earth, the satisfaction of the straight lines and level surfaces, or the solitude and time to…

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Will's World: The most valuable thing on your farm is you

A few years ago, I was honoured to be asked to be an ambassador for the Farming Community Network, and I readily accepted, for several reasons. First, I obviously assumed…

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Will's World: How Mrs Evans brings me out of my shell

As I write this, I’m sitting in my man-shed, shivering in about 17 layers of clothing. The rain is falling even faster than Keir Starmer’s approval rating, and I am…

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Will's World: Rough season brings mental health reflection

Dark nights and dark thoughts tend to go hand in hand and, as always, I find myself feeling melancholic at this time of year. Another summer’s gone, I’m exhausted after…

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Will's World: 'Trouble' stubble turnips prove a bum deal

Do you have a field that routinely makes a fool of you? I suspect that most of us in farming do. I’m talking about one of those fields that’s a…

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Will's World: Trolls take a toll when farming meets Facebook

I don’t subscribe to the “everything was better in the good old days” way of thinking, though I realise it’s easy to fall into that seductive trap. Nostalgia for a…

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Will's World: Back to school after a summer of farm learning

Suddenly it’s September. The Evans girls have gone back to school and, after the noise and chaos of the past six weeks, the house feels as silent and still as…

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Will's World: Things that go bang at harvest time

I call this time of year “injury season”. Farming’s a hazardous job as it is, but add the physical and mental exhaustion that comes with weeks of harvesting, and you’ve…

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Will's World: Bokashi – a brilliant solution to food waste

There are three things that get the present Mrs Evans up on her soapbox. The first of these is bad customer service. Several months back, at a popular children’s attraction…

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