January 12, 2026 at 7:31 AM
It was a bright and frosty Plough Monday and the air was sweet with birdsong. The farmers, old and bark-worn, young and bright-eyed, from every farm and gainery around the village and the hamlet had paid their visits to Old Fox's cottage.
They bade Old Fox a solemn good morning & winked at Wolf,
They bade Old Fox a solemn good morning & winked at Wolf,
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Unable to participate in Plough Monday wassailing of an apple orchard, I am at least eating a spiced apple donut from the Krispy Kreme drive-thru #PloughMonday
January 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unable to participate in Plough Monday wassailing of an apple orchard, I am at least eating a spiced apple donut from the Krispy Kreme drive-thru #PloughMonday
Not sure if this year’s Plough Monday would be last week or tomorrow but here’s a rather lovely 20th century window at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
Inscription reads:
‘He that ploweth should plow in hope’
#StainedGlassSunday #ploughmonday
Inscription reads:
‘He that ploweth should plow in hope’
#StainedGlassSunday #ploughmonday
January 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Not sure if this year’s Plough Monday would be last week or tomorrow but here’s a rather lovely 20th century window at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
Inscription reads:
‘He that ploweth should plow in hope’
#StainedGlassSunday #ploughmonday
Inscription reads:
‘He that ploweth should plow in hope’
#StainedGlassSunday #ploughmonday
January 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Stained Glass, 1903 by Arthur Joseph Dix (1861-1917) at St Michael Penkridge.
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday #stainedglass
#ploughmonday "God spede the Plough and send us, ale corne anow, our purpose for to make"...
January 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#ploughmonday "God spede the Plough and send us, ale corne anow, our purpose for to make"...
January 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today is #PloughMonday and here are Molly Dancers outside Holy Trinity Church in #Cambridge.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Today is #PloughMonday and here are Molly Dancers outside Holy Trinity Church in #Cambridge.
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
January 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On #ploughmonday the first Monday after 12th night, the plough came out of the church, and women took the greenery from spinning wheels. Back to work.
My 📷Sampford Courtenay church + Museum of DartmoorLife greenery my own
#Medieval #tudor
My 📷Sampford Courtenay church + Museum of DartmoorLife greenery my own
#Medieval #tudor
January 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
On #ploughmonday the first Monday after 12th night, the plough came out of the church, and women took the greenery from spinning wheels. Back to work.
My 📷Sampford Courtenay church + Museum of DartmoorLife greenery my own
#Medieval #tudor
My 📷Sampford Courtenay church + Museum of DartmoorLife greenery my own
#Medieval #tudor
A special plough for #PloughMonday. This belonged to Miss Julia White, who farmed Manor Farm here, 1941-1955. She'd pull it up the church aisle to be blessed each year, with her partner Doris, also a farmer. It was pulled by Julia's grey mares, Dolly & Sylvie. Sometimes, I unearth their shoes.
January 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A special plough for #PloughMonday. This belonged to Miss Julia White, who farmed Manor Farm here, 1941-1955. She'd pull it up the church aisle to be blessed each year, with her partner Doris, also a farmer. It was pulled by Julia's grey mares, Dolly & Sylvie. Sometimes, I unearth their shoes.
January 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Miss Julia White learnt to plough with horses, aged 40, from Jack Tucker in wartime, in the fields I know & love. I learnt (in theory) from her words, & as I recreated & reanimated them, & walked those furrows. Here’s an extract & a song for #PloughMonday from #GhostsoftheFarm, & a photo of Jack 1/4
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Miss Julia White learnt to plough with horses, aged 40, from Jack Tucker in wartime, in the fields I know & love. I learnt (in theory) from her words, & as I recreated & reanimated them, & walked those furrows. Here’s an extract & a song for #PloughMonday from #GhostsoftheFarm, & a photo of Jack 1/4
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Today's the day - back to the fields/the concrete jungle. At this rate, we'll need to have a lie down 😴
#PloughMonday #January
#PloughMonday #January
#LegendaryWednesday the first Monday after Twelfth Day was Plough Monday, the start of the agricultural year. An old rhyme urged tenant farmers to return to the fields to prepare spring crops: "Plough Monday, next after that Twelfth tide is past/Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last"
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Today's the day - back to the fields/the concrete jungle. At this rate, we'll need to have a lie down 😴
#PloughMonday #January
#PloughMonday #January
It was #ploughmonday yesterday & I forgot to tell you all that I wrote a piece for the January issue of BBC Countryfile magazine all about it, with recipe for #ploughpudding
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
It was #ploughmonday yesterday & I forgot to tell you all that I wrote a piece for the January issue of BBC Countryfile magazine all about it, with recipe for #ploughpudding
The whole of Birmingham City centre is jingling and there is a plough ( #PloughMonday I assume)
January 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The whole of Birmingham City centre is jingling and there is a plough ( #PloughMonday I assume)
January 12, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Some old plough drawings I did a while ago for #PloughMonday. All are early tractor-drawn ploughs. The first one was at Carreg Cennen castle in Wales, t'others at the east Kent Museum of Farming. All drawn with Rotring pens.
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Some old plough drawings I did a while ago for #PloughMonday. All are early tractor-drawn ploughs. The first one was at Carreg Cennen castle in Wales, t'others at the east Kent Museum of Farming. All drawn with Rotring pens.
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
#PenArt #drawing
#ArtYear
It’s Plough Monday, the traditional start of the agricultural year. Noel Dumbrell who grew up in West Sussex, talks about life as a carter boy.
#ploughmonday #sussex
#ploughmonday #sussex
January 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s Plough Monday, the traditional start of the agricultural year. Noel Dumbrell who grew up in West Sussex, talks about life as a carter boy.
#ploughmonday #sussex
#ploughmonday #sussex
"To speed the plough... raise the wages"
A 'Land Worker' front cover to mark #PloughMonday
Find out more about working conditions of agricultural workers through online editions of the National Union of Agricultural Workers journal, 1919-1950, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
A 'Land Worker' front cover to mark #PloughMonday
Find out more about working conditions of agricultural workers through online editions of the National Union of Agricultural Workers journal, 1919-1950, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
January 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"To speed the plough... raise the wages"
A 'Land Worker' front cover to mark #PloughMonday
Find out more about working conditions of agricultural workers through online editions of the National Union of Agricultural Workers journal, 1919-1950, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
A 'Land Worker' front cover to mark #PloughMonday
Find out more about working conditions of agricultural workers through online editions of the National Union of Agricultural Workers journal, 1919-1950, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...