grenfell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:26 am
How do they afford it? Probably by remortgaging and being constantly in debt. Well that's how my sister in law works anyway. I've told the story of how when her marriage broke down she moved from Scotland and lived with us and then later got her own place. We paid for 2/3 of the house she lives in and paid it off as quickly as possible. Sil now owes more than the original amount of her share. Despite working at a bank for all of the time she says she can't manage on her wages and so just keeps extending the mortgage again and again.
Going back on topic there are now grants available for "rewilding" which could take marginal land out of production or if one is cynical a nice little earner if you have land that has been intensively farmed to the point of being almost useless without the injection of huge amounts of expensive and probably chemical fertiliser.
To be fair,when I asked “how do they afford it?” I knew the answer.
Vitamin c wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:23 am
Britain a wealthy country. .. well 1% of us yes because if your Rich where would you live invest not in Sudan in a stable western country you can afford to jet of to the sun and pay sly accountso to legally avoid tax unlike the rest of us.
Most in the UK have a good standard of living but are not rich .
If all that iffy Russians (add corrupt country of choice )money who are allowed to invest here .
Rich is ,of course ,a relative term. Here in the UK ,we live a life of luxury in comparison to most of the world.Ok,stuff is getting dear,and there are income disparities,but we have access to power,clean water,plentiful food etc. You get the idea.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
izzy_mack wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:25 am
Maybe scare mongering here but I fear that food production in this country ( which is a pathetic amount of what we need) is likely to fall off this year and at the same time global supplies are struggling. Prices have risen so much that for many farmers it's just not worth the cost of planting and that's assuming that harvesting, storing and delivery costs don't go sky high in the autumn. Fertiliser, seeds, diesel. machinery costs have made it almost impossible to be economic sense. Farmers aren't like grocery stores, they can't just charge more, they have to take what they're offered by market forces. I have a shed full of last years sheep fleeces, it was going to cost my son as much in fuel costs to deliver them as he was getting in payment, so not worth the effort. I had an empty shed so he stored them in hope of better prices but I expect he'll end up burning them like many did last year.
I've just seen this post. There is a resurgence in people learning traditional crafts such as peg loom weaving, spinning etc.
I am always on the look out for fleece, however I have no way of washing and drying. If he could offer that I am sure he could sell a few to people for their hobbies. Mind you, it's probably a hassle he doesn't need!
There also those building sustainable housing on the cheap. Might need fleece for insulation.
I should imagine he's already though about this as well though.
