Christmas_Kate
Well-Known Member
This is something which has been in the forefront of my mind recently.
We have a farmer locally, who is quite quiet and reserved. Wouldnt say Boo to a goose. He was rather upset because "someone" had been walking their dog over his freshly drilled fields. He had a contrator in to drill this field and it had been trashed with human and dog foot prints, and the tyre marks of a child's quad. He wanted to say something as he knew who'd been doing it but the person guilty of this is a bit of a bully so the farmer was concerned about confronting him.
Word was passed around the village that he wasnt pleased, and person concerned heard about it.
Next thing there's a group of 6 or 7 children setting up a cricket pitch in the middle of said drilled field and running around! The parents even helped them do it!!!! It's beyond belief that people can be so blimmin arrogant and downright thick. Some of these kids are sent to play there by their parents, parents who then turn up at church and act all lovely nicey to said farmer (who i expect is silebntly seething).
Round here we're quite welcome to go in fields that have no legal footpath status but we stick to the headlands or edge of the field and generally don't let dogs cr*p everywhere. Give respect and you get it back. I said not so long ago about the guy I found freewheeling on his bike down the field ponio was in... if he'd done it a day earlier a spirited welshy would have been in there and most likely tried to take his head off. This guy had come through a crop field , broken through a hedge, and apparently was "lost"
I would agree with sticking signs up, you have the law on your side concerning dogs worrying stock etc, so you can put that in your signs. But yes, generally fields seem to be a playground for the public.
We have a farmer locally, who is quite quiet and reserved. Wouldnt say Boo to a goose. He was rather upset because "someone" had been walking their dog over his freshly drilled fields. He had a contrator in to drill this field and it had been trashed with human and dog foot prints, and the tyre marks of a child's quad. He wanted to say something as he knew who'd been doing it but the person guilty of this is a bit of a bully so the farmer was concerned about confronting him.
Word was passed around the village that he wasnt pleased, and person concerned heard about it.
Next thing there's a group of 6 or 7 children setting up a cricket pitch in the middle of said drilled field and running around! The parents even helped them do it!!!! It's beyond belief that people can be so blimmin arrogant and downright thick. Some of these kids are sent to play there by their parents, parents who then turn up at church and act all lovely nicey to said farmer (who i expect is silebntly seething).
Round here we're quite welcome to go in fields that have no legal footpath status but we stick to the headlands or edge of the field and generally don't let dogs cr*p everywhere. Give respect and you get it back. I said not so long ago about the guy I found freewheeling on his bike down the field ponio was in... if he'd done it a day earlier a spirited welshy would have been in there and most likely tried to take his head off. This guy had come through a crop field , broken through a hedge, and apparently was "lost"
I would agree with sticking signs up, you have the law on your side concerning dogs worrying stock etc, so you can put that in your signs. But yes, generally fields seem to be a playground for the public.
