Category: Musings From The Herd

A debt being paid

October 19, 2026

Nelson lay down flat on his side in the sun on Thursday, which nobody at that yard had ever seen him do, and Hector, a

A widowed farmer milking alone in a dairy parlour before dawn

Your Grandparents Had Feelings. They Just Didn’t Think They Were Orders.

September 8, 2026

The generation we call emotionally repressed ran a public inquiry into shell shock, paid psychiatric pensions for twenty years, and buried its dead on rails. What they actually had was a hierarchy: a feeling is real, and it does not get to issue orders.

An open ceramic butter dish of deep yellow butter with a knife across it on a pine kitchen table, toast on a plate behind

Butter Was Always Worth Taking

September 6, 2026

In the summer of 2022, Asda began putting security tags on butter. Not on the whisky. Not on the razor blades. On a block of

A slow roasted shoulder of mutton resting in an enamel tin on a farmhouse kitchen table

Mutton vs Lamb: Britain Threw Away the Animal Its Whole Kitchen Was Built On

August 27, 2026

The Lancashire hotpot is a mutton dish. So is Scotch broth, so is cawl, so is the shepherd’s pie, so is the boiled leg with

A black Icelandic leader ram, coat crusted with ice, leads a flock of sheep through a blizzard while two drovers follow as dim shapes in the whiteout

Forystufé: The Sheep That Leads

August 20, 2026

Every flock has a hierarchy, and in Iceland one animal in the flock has been bred to sit at the top of it for a

Four Papers Said Seed Oils Were Fine. Check The Author List.

August 14, 2026

Four papers landed this year. All four concluded that the case against seed oils does not hold. They are being forwarded around with the air

Five Protein Myths, And The Receipts

July 31, 2026

Six years of watching the same five myths get repeated. The anabolic window, the 30 gram cap, the kidney scare, 0.8 grams per kilo, and plant protein. Laid out, with the receipts.