I just do simple stuff, because it keeps me grounded, It’s hard being grounded without becoming negative. 
I watch a lot of quiz games on telly, and they ask the contestants what they do…They are mostly none jobs, Admin, bean counters, actors and a few teachers, who never seem to do very well, the young university students are the dumbest, but probably due to their age, lack of experience of life, and the subjects they are studying. I’ve never heard of one Engineer, plumber, electrician, mechanic, bricklayer or joiner.
Lots of charity workers.
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Foxy, I have tried to find the lowest common denominator and turn it into a profession, I think I have succeeded, that’s amazing!
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No AnnieS thats fallow fields your talking about, the EU paid farmers not to grow anything, thus allowing French Spannish farmers to get good money for their crop…
just like the UK fishermen who sold their boats to the EU, but they didnt want their boats the wanted the fishing, they burned the UK boats, and to get the upper price the fishermen signed that they wouldnt build any more… again to leave the continental fishermen open seas.
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EU Setaside payment scheme stopped in 2008.
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lol swimfeeder i did use the past tense 'Paid"
Muddy, if you get slugs or snails in your garden, the next time you get an icecream tub, leave a little in the bottom and put a couple of inches of water in it the sink it to ground level and the tub will soon fill with drowned slugs
To return to to the original question of accepting being poorer.
I do not consider myself being any worse off than before the pandemic, BUT I do resent the personal tax threshold not being adjusted in line with inflation🤬
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The head of the London Stock Exchange says we are not paying senior management enough.
Perhaps only the average and lower paid should take the hit?
a very good point LD
and returing to the poor folk…lol
why cant they get folk to pick their fruit ect.
back in the day when poor folk were really poor
the farmer used to send a lorry into our village and people [mainly women ] would climb on the back of said lorry and be taken ten or fiften miles to where the fruit or also potato’s were, then you got paid in hand and taken home…
but to get people to work down the coal mines, the coal owners or coal board built houses in the area of the mine, and if you worked down the mine you were entitled to a house…
its just a suggestion… lol
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Many of the British fruit growers have ceased all fruit production in favour of more lucrative crops. Even the orchards are being torn up and ploughed.
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OGF only about 40% tops of young people go into further education. What are the other 60% doing?
I’m not sure why they don’t plant fruit trees kerbside instead of other types of tree. People could just help themselves.
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Forget the water, use beer instead.
Slugs love booze.
Apologies if I was mistaken in the use of the term. I have a friend who was a strawberry farmer and explained how essential it was to rotate crops so that the land set aside (rested) recovers and retains its fertility. I’m not an expert but I just assumed it was standard practice. Perhaps it’s just a strawberry technique.
I tried this a few years ago. All it did was to encourage every slug in a mile radius to turn up on the veg patch and drown in the beer. It was like a slug magnet. Those that survived had the munchies.
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That was done as early as in the eighteenth century.
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Ah!
Point taken, so much for hospitality.
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not sure why it was stopped. I haven’t seen any fruit trees in the UK. just cherry trees because of the pretty blossom, but the trouble with those is that birds later eat the cherry fruit and leave purplepoo on your car.
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I only know why it was stopped here. Fruit trees have ceased to be an economic factor. Another reason is road safety.