Not very hidden agenda to get more and more state bale outs...

[coppice cutter]

5 minutes ago, difflock said:

All local hedges are hanging heavy with blackberries, after a glorious hot sunny week of weather.

Yet I have seen zero impoverished food hungry people picking them, and these blackberries are only a 1/4 mile from the village.

But local foodbanks cannot cope.

Someone help me understand this paradoxical  conunderum?

The real question is, are we going to have a particularly harsh, and early, winter.

 

Is that what nature is preparing for?

 

The swallows seem to have buggered off early this year too.

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, John Skinner said:

 

First you'd need to educate folk to the fact that fruit grows on trees/bushes. Most these days think it grows in plastic containers or ready made into deep fried fruit pies

You don’t need to educate anyone. The World Wide Web is available to every single person in the U.K. and often free of charge. Anyone can educate themselves if they so wanted. Stop making excuses for the dross of society. 

[sime42]

9 minutes ago, John Skinner said:

 

Yeah. That and other things. Hell ... in a minute i'm going shopping, and yes, while i do that i'll still be at work  😉  Hell ... i might even post on this forum while in the shop, all while still being at work ... i'm just that good 👍

Careful, you might end up boasting about being paid obscene money for eating lobster at work every day or having two brand new cars on the drive next!

[sime42]

2 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

The real question is, are we going to have a particularly harsh, and early, winter.

 

Is that what nature is preparing for?

 

The swallows seem to have buggered off early this year too.

I've noticed oaks are heavy with acorns round here, maybe another Mast Year on the way.

The energy crisis aside, we could really do with real winter this time around.

[John Skinner]

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

Grants do not cover the full cost. The cover a portion. 
 

The oxymoron of people on low incomes but also homeowners. 🙄 
 

You are utterly clueless. Being on an “ample wage” is a lifestyle choice. A choice that requires a huge amount of time and effort to be in that position. Then you’re taxed accordingly. To then be denied the same funding as those who a to lazy or stupid to achieve anything in life is grossly unfair. 
 

If you’re a homeowner but chose the easy path in life you should have to pay the price for that. Not be rewarded.

 

Again, you continually come across as a freeloading blagger who is utterly clueless. 

 

It's means tested. You get what you are due dependant on your situation. I think that's already been said.

 

It's not only for homeowners, tenants can apply too with the approval of their landlord/housing association.

 

Homeowners can also have changes of circumstances; illness, loss of job, death of a partner, etc, etc. Homeowners can sometimes need a little help too.

 

I'm not asking for a grant, i'm merely passing on the info to others in an open discussion between polite forum members.

 

Freeloading blagger 🤔 Aww thank you 😂🤣

 

 

 

 

[GarethM]

Could be drought stress, that being said the acorns weren't any smaller than usual.

[trigger_andy]

4 minutes ago, John Skinner said:

 

It's means tested. You get what you are due dependant on your situation. I think that's already been said.

 

It's not only for homeowners, tenants can apply too with the approval of their landlord/housing association.

 

Homeowners can also have changes of circumstances; illness, loss of job, death of a partner, etc, etc. Homeowners can sometimes need a little help too.

 

I'm not asking for a grant, i'm merely passing on the info to others in an open discussion between polite forum members.

 

Freeloading blagger 🤔 Aww thank you 😂🤣

 

 

 

 

So not free then is it? 

[John Skinner]

19 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Careful, you might end up boasting about being paid obscene money for eating lobster at work every day or having two brand new cars on the drive next!

 

Boasting, god no.

Lobster - er ... no thanks.

Two brand new cars on the drive - er ... no. Just a brown bin and a cube bag of waste to go to the dump.

[Bob_z_l]

30 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Thinking about the sub-topic here; free or not as the case may be, firewood. I've noticed that a lot of construction timber gets thrown out during renovation work. Largely softwood, granted and likely to be contaminated by various things, but still, it would make good firewood. Free I'm sure for those willing to collect and process it. It'll save the builders on skip or tipping fees after all. It could also perhaps be a workable business model if people wanted to go around collecting it at scale, and then selling it on as cheap firewood

Done it a few year back. Between the preservatives added there was a fair amount of fire retardant in there. Without reading the codes on the wood...if they were on that offcut it was a fruitless task. ~~Happy to be proven wrong. 

p.s.  I'm at work too!

 

[John Skinner]

Just now, trigger_andy said:

So not free then is it? 

 

For those that qualify, i.e. the low income families etc as mentioned - Yes.