Bull in field/public Right of Way: is it allowed?

[jonny jeez]

We got out of dairy in the late 1960s, when I was about 5, the pigs went in about 1980 and the beef herd was probably 5 years after that.

So I guess a few anguished memories of favourite cows being led away to "market".

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The sign above has pictures of two big slathering dogs and the message "WATCH OUT - German Shepherd About" which I took as a clear attempt to put you off going through the gate! The footpath in question goes through someone's back garden and they clearly don't like it, but if you buy a house with a public R.o.W. through the garden then tough!

On the other hand, when we got our first dog, my Dad as a joke at the time put up a

'Be Aware Of The Dog'

Sign.

It is still there now, and you have no idea the amount of postmen and delivery people who, it appears cannot read properly..... and it's their JOB!!

'Oh I didn't want to come it, it says Beware Of The Dog'

Well, actually, you burk, it says....

Sometimes I wonder how the mail ever gets delivered to the right places at all.

 

[Norm]

So I guess a few anguished memories of favourite cows being led away to "market".

Nope. The two that I mentioned we resuscitated were going to market just a few weeks later and one day, if you are very lucky and we've had a few pints, I'll tell you the tale of my two sheep who got taken to the abattoir when I was... oh, I must have been 10 or 11. Best meat I've ever tasted and we've still got the fleeces.

I've never found a way to explain it to anyone else, the work that you put into animals, doing what you can for them, almost treating them like pets (we used take the sheep for a walk on leads) despite the knowledge that they won't see the season out.

My Mum used to be the Milk Recorder for one of those herds when I was in my teens!

Smaller world, my mother has only recently (2 years ago) retired from milk recording. I don't think she ever did that herd, though, and I'm not sure they are milkers.

 

[summerdays]

We are talking about 30 years ago , can't remember which farm ... she also did the farm near Bray Lock ... you accessed it just after the railway bridge over the A4 (near what is now a Harvester I think), and one of the Royal herds - she had a very big key to let herself in, in the morning. (I can't imagine they would give out the key these days).

Edit: wrong lock!

 

[gambatte]

Well, actually, you burk, it says....

I love this 'mild' insult... How many people realise it's rhyming slang. referring to the Berkeshire Hunt

 

[Norm]

... and one of the Royal herds - she had a very big key to let herself in, in the morning. (I can't imagine they would give out the key these days).

My mother did the herd at Shaw Farm for many years - are you sure we aren't related.

I love this 'mild' insult... How many people realise it's rhyming slang. referring to the Berkeshire Hunt

For which reason it's berk not burk, just like it's Berkshire not Berkeshire.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I love this 'mild' insult... How many people realise it's rhyming slang. referring to the Berkeshire Hunt

I thought it would be more tasteful than twat

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

We are talking about 30 years ago , can't remember which farm ... she also did the farm near Bray Lock ... you accessed it just after the railway bridge over the A4 (near what is now a Harvester I think), and one of the Royal herds - she had a very big key to let herself in, in the morning. (I can't imagine they would give out the key these days).

Edit: wrong lock!

After writing that, I realised it was Magheramorne, not Magherafelt.

 

[Globalti]

ColinJ, I used to live about 100 yards from the end of that path over Newcastle town moor. Country pancakes were just one hazard my brother and needed to check for when cycling or riding my moped across the moor.

Love Norm's reminiscences about cattle. We have a field at the back of our house now and quite soon the farmer will bring out the cattle to calve. It's great to be shaving while you watch a cow drop her calf right in front of you! One or two of the older members of the herd have learned the sound of my electric lawn mower so if they're in earshot, as soon as I start mowing they charge over for a snack of nice fresh grass clippings. This is okay if there are only a handful but when the entire herd follows and it turns into a stampede it can be alarming, especially as our fence isn't up to much. I'm pretty sure that the curiosity stampede is what is often mistaken for hostile behaviour.

 

[subaqua]

We got out of dairy in the late 1960s, when I was about 5, the pigs went in about 1980 and the beef herd was probably 5 years after that.

I wouldn't have been, there's nearly always a fair sized herd of cattle on Dorney Common. I led the CCers across there last year, the cattle grids are always a giggle on 23mm tyres but it can seem strange to have cattle grazing on unfenced common land about 7 miles from Heathrow.

until the foot and mouth outbreak earlier this century they used to be regular sight on wanstead flats and epping forest land inside the north circular. regularly had them wandering down towards leytonstone high road before the "new road" was put in and millions of cattle grids went in

 

[ColinJ]

ColinJ, I used to live about 100 yards from the end of that path over Newcastle town moor. Country pancakes were just one hazard my brother and needed to check for when cycling or riding my moped across the moor.

Small world!

We have a field at the back of our house now ...

You certainly do - I'd like a view like that from the back of my house!

I don't have a garden - I just have a small back yard with a dustbin in the corner, and a big gap where the outside lavvy used to be!