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David Hill

@hillscountry.bsky.social
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Estate Manager. Rider of Bikes. Photographer. Farming, Forestry and Conservation Meddler. Director: Oxford Farming Conference Trustee: Action for the River Kennet

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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A free-world country’s president berating the president of a country fighting invasion by another country many times more powerful than it. Then publicly trying to hold them ransom for significant proportions of their minerals in return for protection against an invasion they provoke. Wow. 🤦🏼‍♂️
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I see in the White House, a whole load of guys who either severely bullied as kids; or they were the bullies. They certainly are now and hardly any more grown up.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Felicity (9) just announced that in looking up “cute things” in Amazon, was surprised to learn that she’d actually typed “cute things”…..
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We're hiring!
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So much to reflect on from Oxford Farming Conference. The highlight had to be chairing the debate at the @ox.ac.uk Oxford Student Union with these great folk. Thank you so much Jude Capper, Rob Havard , Colin Ferguson and henrydimbleby.bsky.social A brilliant evening of debate and laughter.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Really looking forward to the People sessions at Oxford Farming Conference today. I think we are about to have our eyes opened wide! #OFC25
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The day farmers’ protest came to Oxford. 36 tractors line the street outside the Oxford Farming Conference in protest and govt policies around UK farms. #OFC25
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
British food sales to Europe have plummeted by a fifth since 2018, farming minister has admitted. Govt HAS to slash Brexit red tape with the EU. Daniel Zeichner admitted that leaving SM and CU has “had an impact on the export of agri-food products”. 1/2 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
UK food sales to EU slump by a fifth after Brexit, minister reveals
Exclusive: Food sales to the EU have crashed by a fifth since Brexit, a minister has revealed, as Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure to slash red tape for UK firms selling in Europe
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Here's my review of 2024 in Photos. Happy New Year All x vimeo.com/1043141791?s...
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2024 Review in Photography
This is "2024 Review in Photography" by David Hill on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Sound life advice.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Extraordinary @theipaper piece: Ofwat has fined water companies a total of...£2 since 2021 for breaching regulations. “Failure to regulate has contributed to catastrophic underinvestment in our sewage infrastructure & destruction of our rivers." (Nick Measham) Damn right. inews.co.uk/news/water-c...
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Water companies fined just £2 for rule breaking despite record sewage
Ofwat has been accused of not acting quickly enough to issue fines against water companies for sewage dumping
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This has been done a couple of times already and many have been left in serious debt. These half-baked schemes are rarely thought through to conclusion.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It was one of those rides. Very pleased with my Christmas changing mat.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is over simplistic but I actually agree in principle. I think farmland should provide alternative access to, say, busy roads, but farmers/land managers should be paid a proper compensatory payment to cover loss of use costs and things like fencing costs.1/3
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Campaigners call for right to roam on edges of private farmland in England
Group says people in rural areas have to walk on roads without pavement, which can be very dangerous
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Christmas Day walks used to be about me irritating the children by making them stop and pose frequently for happy family festive photos. Now the tables have turned as Annabel tries desperately to get her feral sister to pose for photos with the dogs on our family walks….
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The Dogness Monster. Roxy seems to have an obsession with wading into water and just standing there. Almost trance-like. Until someone throws a stick….
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Coexisting hoping for food from the bird feeder….
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Reach up to the Sark….
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Time to start thinking about Easter, apparently…..
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Strava tried to give me a visual overview of my “year in sport”. A few muddy bike rides and a LOT of lengths of our local swimming pool is going to be hard to dress up in visuals….
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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Your regular reminder that the root cause of traffic is too many cars, not the occasional cycle lane or an LTN. London is still dominated by private cars
Graph showing the amount of journeys in London done by Underground vs Bus Vs Car in London
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Found this in an email I sent to my mum a few years ago. Had completely forgotten about it.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yesterday was a good day, as it involved riding bikes with friends.
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Alice Groom @alicegroom.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
THREAD🌾Defra latest announcement claims they have injected £343M into UK Farming last week, are working on a 25 year roadmap and are relaunching Higher tier in 2025🌾BUT whats behind the headlines - lets get into it 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Rural boost: Government injects nearly £350 million into farming in boost to Britain’s food security
Government injects £343 million of funding into the rural economy last week, benefiting more than 31,000 farmers.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So sweet. One of our tenants is a child minder/carer. Earlier she popped in to the office with a few of the kids who’d made us some mince pies as well as some for some of the elderly neighbours. That’s proper Christmas spirit!
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Council has been on to say we have a tree down over a footpath…. If only it were the only tree to deal with after the weekend storms.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Folly. Couldn’t quite get the whole of the Giant Redwood in shot.
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Dan Challis @globalpeloton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Professional cycling’s push for diversity requires investment from all angles. Perhaps the most progressive collaborators in that effort are Canyon//SRAM Generation I spoke to their DS, Adam Szabo on what it takes to run a team that provides opportunity. open.substack.com/pub/globalpe...
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'We create an entry level' - Canyon//SRAM Generation providing a pathway for those who have none
Interview with DS Adam Szabo on how the team is developing riders from under-represented backgrounds
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
No mention of food or the environment in his priorities. Spose neither are really important. 🤔
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Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming @sustainweb.org · 05/12/2024
Parent Ambassadors want food education at the heart of curriculum review buff.ly/3BdjX1V @barbscrowther.bsky.social
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Parent Ambassadors want food education at the heart of curriculum review | Sustain
Responding to the call for evidence, Children’s Food Campaign parent ambassadors have submitted key recommendations and an open letter, urging policymakers to place food education at the heart of an…
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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The term ‘milk’ is reserved for dairy milk, except in defined circumstances, the England & Wales Court of Appeal has found. www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/oatly-b...
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Oatly bemoans court ruling reinforcing ban on use of dairy terms
This week the Court of Appeal concluded a case into the use of dairy terms in trademarks, ruling in favour of the dairy sector
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One month out from #OFC25 the Directors are running through the programme and the venue finalising details. Looking excellent and will be sold out very soon!
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Love trees.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#purplesockday
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
That presidents so commonly have so many close friends and family serving criminal convictions, is quite extraordinary. That they, on a whim can simply pardon them and routinely do, really is beyond comprehension. Justice does not seem to apply to those with friends in high places.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This applies too regularly. I’m a common tartler.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Went to a carol service that eldest was singing. Far too early for a carol service; but feel slightly levered into Christmas spirit now. Meanwhile. The advent calendar of little woolly hats, my Mum knitted for the girls, is installed for another year.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This piece is good. Lack of food and land use policy direction is causing chaos for all managers of land. Farmers have a plan. Environmentalists have a plan. Often they’re aligned. Govt meddling is a dangerous foot on the hosepipe causing both to wonder what on earth they are supposed to be doing.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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A picture showing a bike lane with the words superimposed: This Lane Fights Climate Change
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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If you read one thing today… www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
We need to talk about capitalism. Why won’t Labour do it?
The government has its five missions. But the deeper cause of Britain’s malaise is the unhealthy and unhappy nature of the modern eceonomy
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@bsky.app please can you make Bluesky properly functional (ie full scree) on an iPad? Can’t imagine that it’s that difficult, but it’s a bit tedious; the constant screen readjustments….
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Those campaigning against assisted dying have presumably never been close to someone suffering at the end of life; just wanting to be able to slip away quietly. That being the case; they do not have an informed view.
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This:
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Ah the beautiful sounds of the English countryside. Incessant droning of leaf blowers and jet washers. 😡
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Good piece from @willpenrievans.bsky.social I can never quite understand why a landlord would not want their tenant’s business to thrive. A tenant’s business is ultimately part of a landlord’s business. God forbid they should also have a cordial relationship….
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Brushing up on the, erm, skills…..
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This clock has been on our kitchen wall for about 10 years. 9yo daughter pipes up this morning that there is something wrong with it. Can you spot it?
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Redsky on Bluesky
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