Phil's UK TV Viewing Sinks To Unbelievable Lows!

Phil, who normally watches only F1 racing on TV at home as well as the occasional soccer game, managed to find some trash TV in the UK that somehow manages to make KUWTK look like high quality, Emmy Award Winning drama.  For those of you poor chumps who may be out of the loop, KUWTK is the acronym for "Keeping Up With The Kardashians"!

First up - "Council House Crackdown"!  While no joke, as the people who take advantage of social housing cost the British taxpayers 800M GBP every year, the people that perpetuate these scams are unbelievable!

Phil's favourite episode was about a couple - he was in his 30's and his girlfriend was in her 60's.  Neither one of them worked, but were demanding a larger council unit as they wanted to have a baby!  WTF!!  Seriously?

Next up:  "Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords".

Lastly (until he arrived home and discovered yet another trashy British TV reality show on Netflix!),
"Benefits, Won't Work".

Meanwhile, Janet is compiling a study of British farm animals.  When you trudge across many a farmers field on your walk from Oxford to Bath, you get a feeling for their personalities.

Cows:  They always come to the fence to say hello.  They start out slow, but once one starts to come, the others follow.

 Horses:  sometimes they come to the fence and sometimes they don't.

This really beautiful guy did!

Sheep:  almost always run away from you, but will sometimes then start to follow you.

Pigs:  indifferent!

Janet thinks this is a Gloucestershire Spotted Pig, that at one point in time was close to extinct. 

This is Kentwell Manor.  It was purchased in 1971 by a man, who appears to be slightly on the eccentric side.  Back then, it was nearly impossible to sell an old Manor House, let alone one that was in complete disrepair.  Over the years, he and his wife have chipped away at it and have done an incredible job of restoring the Manor.  According the sales clerk in the gift shop, they paid 250,000 GBP and the house sits on 10 acres.

They also have some rare breed farm animals.  Check out these incredible donkeys!  Janet can't remember the name of the breed, but it was French and there are only about 800 left in the world.  Generally speaking, donkeys will also bust a gut to get up to the fence to say hello, but Janet guesses if you are a rare bread, you don't need to waste your time visiting with stupid tourists.

Goats:

This really cute little guy says "Good Night"!