Hardy bogmen are a cut above us

THE days are lengthening, and it’s a time that some people head for the bogs and windy uplands, for yet another year’s supply of turf.

A bit like the recent upsurge in demand for grow-your-own vegetable allotments in towns and cities, country people who haven’t stood on a bank of turf for many moons are talking about going back to the traditional fuel.

It’s very likely that, in the coming years, bureaucrats sitting in glass-walled offices in Brussels will ban all turf cutting, for environmental reasons. The signals have been there for years and it’s something that will inevitably happen.