Foot & Mouth

[Ted Jackson]

On 21 Mar 2001, at 19:59, Rich Warren wrote:

> Well it's pretty bad up here, I work just round the corner from the
> main auction mart in carlisle, and next door to Maff here, it's
> swarming with troops, and they've trebled the size of the maff
> offices, the pub where that senior Government vet was getting slow
> handclapped is where I go for lunch. The whole area is on a downer.
> Our receptionist is a farmers wife, and they're one of the farms
> infected.
>
> If I go up to my mums which is a bit nearer the countryside you can
> smell the burning sheep :-(
>
> It's dire.
>
We're holding our collective breath over here--and not to avoid the
smell!

Only good thing I can see coming from it is they've stop bullfights in
Spain...


theo

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