M.A.F.F.
Does not exist anymore (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ). I got a phone call from them concerning some cattle we once had, part of the conversation included me saying "Yes that's right, Sussex, we have some Sussex cattle, good cattle aren't they?" The reply from the Ministry man at the other end of the line went something like "I have no idea mate, I know absolutely nothing about farming!"
(Mackeson_drinker, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 7:06, 5 replies)

Maybe he was from Fisheries
Did he ask you about your salmon?
(Mork, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 8:44, closed)

Sorted.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 9:27, closed)

Actually he had phoned me
To query something that I had written on one of the myriad forms I use to have to fill in concerning CATTLE. Talk about square pegs in round holes. He was from the livestock section of MAFF and yet he knew bugger all about cows. It reminds me of years ago when they made Barbara Castle Minister of transport and she could not even drive a car.
(Mackeson_drinker, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 10:05, closed)

An ex of mine used to work at DEFRA
And the farmers used to pull all sorts of scams. They found out that one of them was claiming for several hundred acres in the North Sea.
(Eukanuba, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 10:17, closed)

Oh the silly bugger!
I bet DEFRA ate him alive when they found out (and rightly so) When you filled in forms for MAFF they had to be accurate to within .25 of an acre I seem to remember!
(Mackeson_drinker, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 15:34, closed)