Recent content by slackjawedyokel

Bloody hope not. You know they would just nationalise farmland.

Personally I find the liberal approach to forum policing is useful. Just like in real life, if someone says something that I think is off or objectionable it lodges in the mind as ‘take that person less seriously in future’. Free speech is brilliant- say what you like think then it informs other...

Brewdog is kind of a weird company (and one that I exercise my small amount of power as a consumer against). It likes to portray itself as a modern, right-on, Wokey sort of business but it has had failings in so many areas over the years. Employees have said it has a ‘toxic culture’ and...

What would the legal situation be if you found poles/wires/other infrastructure in your field which had never been agreed and there was no way leave for? If it got ‘cleared away’ to the edge of the field, would you be in the wrong? (Obviously talking about phone/fibre; electric would be somewhat...

Same here in Northumberland- there’s generally plenty of staff in Mole but whether there is an SQP is hit and miss. This can be very frustrating if the staff have a ‘computer sez no’ attitude and won’t even allow you to know what they’ve got in stock. Sometimes the staff are more pragmatic and...

I can’t say I’ve read and fully digested the report but… if RT is so far ahead of the schemes available in competitor countries, isn’t that a really good argument for a back to basics approach; taking the rule book back 15 years, maybe less frequent inspections etc? As levy-payers, should we be...

If you just bend that end bit in so it’s not a barb, it would be fairly ineffective.

I don’t have any problem putting in clipex posts temporarily, and removing afterwards. You can usually wiggle them around a bit to get around what you’re calling the anti lift plate (presumably the barb on the back of the post?) If you’re going to be using/lifting them a lot, I suppose you could...

Never mind the UK-legal standards; what about the higher-than-legal standards we are required to meet in order to access our domestic markets?

Not necessarily. Across the valley they formalised a track into a bridleway and I regularly see posses of motocross bikes scrambling up it and through the farmyard. They don’t do that here with my footpaths. That member hasn’t been on for almost a year.

That’s interesting, and not quite what I understood. My understanding is that the Crown owns that bit between high and low tide mark, and that that they generally permit access to the foreshore. Back in the 70s-80s there were plans afoot to build a nuclear power station here in Northumberland...

I’m not watching the show but… Are the (prospective) tenants expected to be involved in ‘looking after’ / managing the beavers? If so, who will be pocketing the revenue from the many visitors that will be willing to part with substantial sums of cash to have a ‘guided tour’ of the beaver habitat?

I decided, on reflection, that I didn’t really want a fibre cable across my land and on to other properties. Sod’s Law that at some point in the future some dimwit (me) would accidentally dig it up and I doubt it’s as easy to fix as a bit of alkethene pipe would be. Would be my liability too.

Yes they are. Unfortunately we’re too rural to get FTTP (we looked into it several years ago when BT grudgingly conceded that they would allow us to run fibre from the village across our own fields, at our own expense and future liability, and they’d charge us only a piffling 60K for their...

Alncom?