I would imagine the need for farmers to diversify to maintain income has played a role. My experience of more intensive farming practices, aa a FLO, has been it reduces access to land a little. Direct drilling of seed means less ploughing, and two crops a year, so less fallow time for access.

It is! Thank you. The colours in your paining are exactly what come into my mind when I think of my birthday! A real treat to see it this morning!

How lush! I'm counting that as a birthday prestige! So beautiful.

Start again!!

Another own goal and they're not even playing any serious opposition.

You know you are welcome!

..with a lot of rally organisers perhaps making a tax free living from a finite resource. What is to be done?

My host institution does not appreciate nor understand what I do, or capitalise on the people I bring into the museum; all of whom want to engage with the heritage and culture that metal detecting can be a part of informing. We can see the cliff edge of an increasingly commercial hobby...

I'm am FLO, approaching retirement, and agree with all of this. Arguments about how fit for purpose the PAS is rest on defining what that purpose is. We are constantly on the rack between archaeologists and metal detectorists. My job is amorphous, neither one thing or the other.

The problem is, he is living amoung is and we just don't know anything about him. He seems to be sexual predator, but we just can't find any reliable information. He flies the flag, but has he ever had a patriotic bone in his body?

Every football match in England: No Room for Racism

English media and politics: Very Much Room for Racism

If only they waited for archaeological help, it could have been an amazing find.

Well, I could have guessed that - don't we all, with grim regularity, at this stage?

On the bright side, you could be writing it long hand and you'd have got through another pair of glasses. That there zoom costs nowt!

Oh, those first two albums. What a time!