On 15 Aug 2003 20:33:37 GMT, (Bill Pritchard)
wrote:

I suspect that in ten years time the countryside will be covered in grass with
holes full of sand dotted around. The grass will be cut short and have flags
sticking out of it. Of course the farmers will then be subsidised according to
how many golf carts they can fill. This will mean moving golfers around the
country at dead of night.

It's been like that in Bavaria for a decade/
--
Martin

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JennyC wrote in message ...


So how will the countryside look in, say, ten years time ??
Will it all be reverting to the wild :~))


Dunno. My little bit of the countryside will see probably
see further hayfield depletion in favour of fruits and nuts,
though. Last winter I smuggled a load of hazelnuts and
cherry plums and a few more stone fruit past the Finance
Committee, disguised as hedging. However, this winter
the Finance C'tee will still be recovering from the planned
Major Edifice which will be replacing the Fallen-Down Shed,
so any fruit planting might cause a Diplomatic Incident.

Still living dangerously, I see :-)

I trust the Major Edifice plan includes an underground bunker.

Janet.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:31:00 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

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JennyC wrote in message ...


So how will the countryside look in, say, ten years time ??
Will it all be reverting to the wild :~))


Dunno. My little bit of the countryside will see probably
see further hayfield depletion in favour of fruits and nuts,
though. Last winter I smuggled a load of hazelnuts and
cherry plums and a few more stone fruit past the Finance
Committee, disguised as hedging. However, this winter
the Finance C'tee will still be recovering from the planned
Major Edifice which will be replacing the Fallen-Down Shed,
so any fruit planting might cause a Diplomatic Incident.

Still living dangerously, I see :-)

I trust the Major Edifice plan includes an underground bunker.

Is the Major Edifice a memorial to John Major or what?
--
Martin

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"anton" wrote
martin wrote
Quitting the rat race of urban stress and heading for a new life in
the countryside is becoming increasingly popular. Research by the
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors shows nearly two-thirds of
farms sold between April and June were bought by non-farmers. Rob
Jeffrey, founder of NewLandOwners, says: "For them, it's living the
dream, but in many ways they are the saviours of the
countryside."...............


There's a legal farce going on at present concerning the
Common Agricultural Policy which means that farmers who
sell or buy farms at the moment don't know exactly what they are
selling or
buying. The result is that the market is dominated by
those who are getting out of farming and those who are not buying
farms for
the purpose of farming them.

Presumably when those legislating get their act together,
farmers will be able to buy and sell farms again.
Anton

So how will the countryside look in, say, ten years time ??
Will it all be reverting to the wild :~))
Jenny


Now that would be the CAP approved "set aside" policy, leave the land alone
for a while, let the wildlife use it and reap the benefits from the
subsidies. The "old" subsidy system meant that farmers had to maintain
fields in a state fit to produce crops, which meant they tended to poison
everything once a year, and plough it at least once.

The farmer behind us does this, and this year we thought maybe he'd been
given money for "set aside", then out came the poison machine and down went
every living thing in the field. It's all so pointless, we see pheasants,
partridge, hares, deer and they are all simply passing through looking for
some land that will still be able to support them.

Duncan