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Zagato
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Projectblue wrote:
Zag, this might put you off. Mrs PB went to a comedy show last night, part of it was guess which midlife crisis lifestyle change is the most dangerous?
a) fast sports car & recreational drugs
b) scuba diving instructor off a shark infested reef
c) farmer in Cornwall

Yep - you are 15 times more likely to die becoming a farmer in the South West. Not encouraging when one has just bought a tractor Laughing


Shocked Laughing

Yes farming has aways been listed as having the highest suicide rate due to the harsh hard work, very long lonely hours and the stress of losing it all in todays climate.......anyone seen a cheap farm going Very Happy Laughing

It gets me when you see people buy a few acres and get some chickens and pigs cos they're cute and isn't it romantic and call themselves farmers. I'm talking about the trendy "in set" that are playing at it not the new smallholders who are seriously trying to make a go of it Thumbs Up I'd love to see the old city types who have bought some of these bankrupt farms actually work the farms without their own outside income. Get up at 5am milk the cows. Have breakfast for 1/2 an hour then plant or harvest a crop ALL day, then at 5pm milk the cows and finish at 8pm (if nothing is calving, the tractor doesn't need fixing or the wife is not shouting at you because you have walked muddy boots in again Laughing) do it again the next day, 7 days a week, all year, year after year Thud Think I would top myself as well after that life spread out in front of me Big Cry
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No thats not modern farming at all. Mr. Green

Buy your inheritance tax exempt farm, claim the maximum set aside subsidy for growing nothing from the EU, get more subsdy for growing pink trees because the lib/lab luvvies think they are endangered. Turn one of the filelds into a rip off £1000 a day 4x4 mud hole for 15 cars @ £65 each saturday. Dont pay any council tax becuase you is a farmer now!

Hmm I wonder why there are no cheap farms for sale.....

Pom

ps I'm not cynical Rolling with laughter
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bpman wrote:
how about a bunch of us buy a farm, split up the buildings and land ?


well thats my plan B with my mate.He runs a removal company and want the storage and the house. I want the land and the out buildings for me business and build my own house.

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Zagato
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POM "ps I'm not cynical"

Laughing Thumbs Up

Have a big farm, earn a fortune in set aside and and govt compensation. Buy all the quotas squeezing out all the local family businesses, employ one person to run all the machinery that automatically works 2000+ acres, sit back and reap the economy to scale rewards Whistle Easy life Rolling with laughter
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What is a 'lifstyle' anyway ?
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bpman wrote:
Zagato wrote:
... Little darlins think how much easier it would be without sprogs!! Whistle


tell me about it ... Shocked and they don't get any easier !


May I suggest this wise Glasgow mothers answer to sprogs?

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Lorryman100 wrote:
bpman wrote:
Zagato wrote:
... Little darlins think how much easier it would be without sprogs!! Whistle


tell me about it ... Shocked and they don't get any easier !


May I suggest this wise Glasgow mothers answer to sprogs?

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Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter
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Zagato wrote:
Your all welcome on my new Island Thumbs Up


I'd like to live on Zags island! It'd be spotless, no litter or graffiti anywhere! Land Rover's would also be spotless, with so signs of any corrosion or rust! Thumbs Up

And just as I typed that I've just heard a gritter go past flinging grit into Big Black. Eurgh. Sorry Big Black Sad
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Even the mud would be polished Whistle
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JWL wrote:
Even the mud would be polished Whistle


and what's wrong with that Shocked
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JWL wrote:
Even the mud would be polished Whistle


Laughing Very Happy

Sorry Lorryman my computer is so slow my kids will have grown up and left home by the time it downloads your vid Sad

Warren Rolling with laughter painful aint it. Mine also got a low level blasting from a gritter yesterday - soooo glad I soaked it in gunk before this weather came.
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