Went for a pub meal today in Woburn, Beds, with Cecily, Max & Thumper. On the way back pulled in to the farm where I grew up. Much more manicured nowadays than when it was a proper farm (with 30 ****holes going through the gate four times a day). Very noticeable however, how unkept the farms were in general, and the surrounding countryside, compared to 40 years ago.