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If you’re interested, they also have some Canary Yellow paint going cheep.

I tried to loan a book out of the local Library, its title was, “A thousand ways to commit suicide”. The librarian wouldn’t let me take it out of the building in case I didn’t return it.

Had wasps in the ground earlier this year, right where we sit down at the BBQ, they had to go. Thought about petrol and fire, but memories of a previous experience in my youth, where things didn’t end well, persuaded me to back off. I put a large bucket of kiln dry sand over the entrance at night, leaving the bucket on top. I could see the wasps trying to excavate an exit but only gaining access to the clear plastic bucket for nearly a week later. They died off in the end whilst I managed to cut my grass and ate on the patio without being stung.

‘Military age’ is the new racist slang for ‘Working Age’ you ignorant foreigner, and you only emigrated from a country that was formed in 1830, disgusting 🤮.

So on 50 acres and single you may pay something, married probably not. It all just looks like another sound bite bollocks headline do distract from more pressing issues, the IHT will probably disappear when the next shower come in, there will be a few unfortunate people who inherit in the next 5 years and lose out. That’s for the future, In the meantime, farmers can look forward to being poor right now.

Below 50 acres is still more than a million in value? What if the farm has debt including equipment on the drip, surely this lowers the value also?

20% rather than 40%, wouldn’t you take it? So it’s a sweet deal. I would expect all the farm debt to be involved in the valuing, so highly likely it would bring the farm under the IHT threshold for a married couple. Farms have been struggling for decades and currently are now, this has nothing to do with IHT that may or may not be applied at some point in the future. Supermarket record profits and cheap imports, (30% of UK food is grown in Spain) is what is keeping farmers poor right now.

How much is this farm worth exactly? From what I understand, a farm has to be worth more than a million to qualify, a married couple would be 2 million/up to 3 million to pay IHT that everyone else in the country has to pay, which is a tiny amount of family farms in the UK. Farmers will be taxed at 20% rather than the 40% we would have to pay. Sounds like they are still getting a sweet deal compared with the rest of us. The way I see it, It’s not the government that is screwing the farmers, it’s the supermarkets with their record profits.

So why don’t you do us all a favour and simply ignore all his posts, everyone else does. 👍

When I was a kid I had a whippet that would bite and simply crush hedgehogs in spite of the spines and the pain it would cause, I had to walk him in his racing muzzle on his nighty walk in the end. He had some serious wounds/scars on his chest over the years from chasing rabbit and hares through barbed wire fences.

Loads of the old mills and factories in Manchester where repurposed by the universities as lecture buildings or halls of residence/student digs, I’ve been inside some of them, decent places to live rather than the usual rental hovel. Im currently in Kent, staying in Deal and travelling up to Whitstable each day. The amount of new house developments currently underway is astonishing, all on farming land. These are 4-5 bedroom homes in an expensive part of the country, only one out of about a dozen developments have solar panels on the roofs.

It does have a look of Sweet chestnut, and the minimal sapwood is a good indicator. Did you notice any smell whilst milling it, I usually get a hint of vinegar and it smells nothing like Elm, nice boards. 👍

Foook that!!

A mixed bag to end week before heading over to Kent to do some training. Two reasonable sized Blue Atlas Cedars and a Small Leaved Lime to remove, a large lapsed Lime pollard to knock back to restart the cycle. Two small Ornamental Cherry Trees shading out the solar panel. All material suitable for firewood was cut and stacked in-situ, all branches chipped and left for future use as wood mulch. The property is going through extensive renovations, including a complete refurb of the patio and pool area. Final tree, just a stunning old Sweetchestnut I drive by a few times a week. IMG_5622.mov