This week in Parliament we had the mass lobby by the NFU and a number of local farmers travelled up to meet me and tell me how the Government's new taxation proposals would impact them.

I think it was last summer I spent a day with the Commoners Defence Association and some farmers in the New Forest talking about the challenges of convincing the next generation to go into farming.

Farming in protected landscapes is hard, with many more constraints than other areas, and the way of life of New Forest Commoners is hard.

Just because something is a family tradition that has survived for generations doesn't mean that it will necessarily survive in perpetuity, and some of us appreciate that our food, our environment and our landscape are dependent upon agriculture in some form or other.

This is not just a rural issue, as some have suggested to me. Our food has to come from somewhere, and I would prefer it was grown and raised here, to the highest standards than imported from abroad.

You may like chlorinated chicken and hormone beef, but I do not.

I also know the UK has led the way in animal welfare standards, and that things like veal crates and the production of foie gras have long been banned here.

Whilst we all might like a strawberry in December, which undoubtedly will have been imported through Southampton docks, we all also know nothing tastes as good as an English strawberry in June.

Without support for local farmers and growers that will simply no longer happen, and our reliance on imported foodstuffs will increase.

Later this week I am at the University in Southampton doing some follow-up work on misogyny in music, which was one of the inquiries my Select Committee did in the last Parliament.

It is fair to say I miss being Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, but I am working hard at not interfering in the work of the new Committee.

But revisiting issues I really care about and can talk on for hours will hopefully be of some interest to this year's students at Southampton.