Farmers Weekly have been running a competition to find the best poem about the lonely welly. The poem was in support of National Welly Week, which is just one of hundreds of initiatives going on during
Welly Week, a nationwide event raising funds for the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution.
The winner, as chosen by Author, Pam
Ayres, was Maggie Chaplin. Maggie's winning Poem goes like this:
Farmer
Tustian's welly has walked for countless miles,
Squelched through muddy gateways and clambered over stiles
It's been polished by the morning dew and
clarted up with dung,
And up till now its merits have largely gone unsung.
It's pushed the spade and turned the sod, heeled in the winter kale.
It's climbed the hill and scaled the fence or lingered in the vale.
On shingle nearly lost its grip and slithered on the brash,
Been stiff with cold and slick with oil or caked in bonfire ash.
It's been streaked with grease at shearing, splashed with herbicidal spray
And doused with disinfectant to keep
FMD away.
It's trampled dock and thistle and scuffed the autumn leaves,
Stamped on irksome molehills, been trodden on by
thieves.
It's paced both recent furrow and swathes of new-
mown hay
And cracked the ice on puddles on a frosty winter's day.
It seemed this life was endless till its partner split its sole
And was no longer watertight so had no useful role.
The worthless boot was thrown away, but what then of its mate?
Its walking days were finished. It had another fate.
The farmer's trusty welly now no longer shields his tread,
Transported by an engine, it sheathes tractor parts instead.
Well done Maggie!
FRED
Online now, we have the last few items from the Freds Winter Sale. Fred came into the office today and said we need more room in the warehouse for a fantastic new brand we are taking on very soon.
Well February has been snowy, so much so that one morning when we arrived at Freds HQ, the camera had to come out to get some cute photos of the office puppy. Young Freddie sat patiently in the snow as we took some adorable pictures of him.
LEDGENDARY footwear design, Jimmy Choo and classic wellington boot firm Hunter have teamed up to offer festival goers somthing special this summer. 
Farmers Weekly have been running a competition to find the best poem about the lonely welly. The poem was in support of National Welly Week, which is just one of hundreds of initiatives going on during Welly Week, a nationwide event raising funds for the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution.
We couldn't go another day without mentioning one of the most talked about subjects in the news last week! A Pig in wellies!
Congratulations to Helen from Edinburgh who ordered 16 pairs of wellingtons for her wedding.
Good to see Glastonbury Festival is doing it's bit. I read today that Michael Eavis is sending five tonnes of used wellington boots to Africa to help farmers. He said on the BBC website that 'he was delighted the mountain of boots had been found a new lease of life'. 
Evening, 
