Pull the Other Leg .....

It takes a special kind of person to swallow the nonsense that gets posted up on gates around Blacka. The true term for what sheep and cows do, as I've pointed out before, is Crop 'n Crap. The idea that this has anything to do with conservation is not even Hans Anderson but the Disney version.

We apparently need to be careful of the cows and sheep here, doing a sterling job in covering the place with their ordure and wool litter leaving the grass looking more like a bombed site than the car park. 

Immense sums of public money have gone into the reconstruction of a boring stone wall, caring not for the disturbance of small mammals that live in it, supposedly to keep the sheep from escaping.

Yet the site has been left in such a state that fences are easy for the white plague to get out and through a wall section that's left open. Dog walkers who have avoided the enclosure for obvious reasons are then confronted with farm animals their pets would love to chase.

I'm told that the farmer who uses this land has recently been in argument with groups of recreational users who have been carrying out their activities in accordance with the conveyance which gives precedence to recreation. Meanwhile his animals are wandering around on the moor outside the enclosure or if inside devastating the wild flowers. All goes on in the name of nature conservation. Sanity is in short supply around here.