Charlie Flindt Book Collection (All 4 books)
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Charlie Flindt Book Collection (4 books)
Want to delve deep into the world of Charlie Flindt - why not buy all four of his books detailed below.
Sweet Home Hinton Ampner - the tenant farmer's diary from 2015
- Charlie and Hazel Flindt farm 920 acres of heavy land on the National Trust-owned estate at Hinton Ampner, in central Hampshire. They run a conventional farm - it's not organic, it doesn't have rare breeds, and they use all the modern chemical and mechanical tools of the trade to try and make a living out of farming. In late 2014, it dawned on Charlie that no-one has kept a decent record of the goings-on of just such a farm. So in 2015, he did. Somehow, the daily recordings spread from just farming and weather and rural crime to daily life away from the tractor: playing in a fifth-rate covers band, medical matters (he's getting old, you know), and adjourning to the Flowerpots pub in Cheriton on most Tuesdays with his neighbour, where they say most of the things thay said the week before, but they can't remember after four pints of Perridge ale. Join him and his long-suffering family as they journey through 2015.
Hinton Ampner - Farming's End
Charlie and Hazel Flindt farm 920 acres of heavy land on the National Trust-owned estate at Hinton Ampner in Hampshire.
"On Michaelmas Day 2021, Charlie started his third warts-and-all farm diary – a daily record of life while running a conventional mixed 920-acre farm with his wife Hazel as National Trust tenants And then, in late Autumn, there was a phone call that changed everything."
Farming Hinton Ampner - the Brexit/Virus Year
Charlie and Hazel Flindt farm 920 acres of heavy land on the National Trust-owned estate at Hinton Ampner in Hampshire. In February 2020, Charlie decided that someone should record, in the finest detail, the consequences of the biggest thing to hit British farming in generations: Brexit. He had two reasons for this: first, Manor Farm is a traditional, non-organic mixed tenant farm, just the sort of family agricultural business predicted to suffer the most from leaving the EU. And, second, Charlie has always been an ardent and vocal Brexiteer. It seemed only right that he should chronicle the imminent ‘farmageddon’.
Curiously enough, Brexit turned out to be the least of anyone’s worries. |
'Did we REALLY do that?'
If you farmed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, you may remember how food production was the number one priority, how government interference was minimal, and just how much fun it was. Stubble burnng, helicopter spraying, simple machinery....Then again, you may well be of an age where these memories are fading..... Don't panic! In semi-retirement, Charlie Flindt has been combing the farm diaries and cleaning up the familly photos, and has compiled fifty stories of life on and around the farm in those glory days. And what did he keep exclaiming as another scarcely believable tale unfolded from the pages of farming history?
"Did we REALLY do that?" - The perfect Christmas present for farmers of a certain age! |
