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My job is totally governed by 'compliance', the mantra being, if its not written down, it never happened. You get a verbal instruction you follow it up with an email which includes everything discussed and asks for conformation, hell I even have a email dairy which I record anything that I...

I would not say I am a tenant, I have use of the grazing for a box of beef.

Cleaning! Air BNB, you may get more money per night, but the costs and time cleaning is greater, also greater turn over of plonkers. I have a friend who has three self contained units and goes for short to medium term rents, because of the cleaning and being available to people for keys etc...

Harsh. If you do not come from a farming background, you go to a solicitor and buy it like you buy a house and often a lot is missed because they only see it as buying a house. Ours missed the drainage board rates, had the wrong LR map, never mentioned SFP, I wonder where that went. The...

I have been grazing thirty acres, on not even a handshake, it was bought as an investment. I have put temporary electric fencing up, piped water from my supply, but all on the cheap, and just have a verbal agreement every year for a box of beef. Not everyone who buys land wants to farm, or even...

If you have sent written notice to leave, surely its fly grazing,if you have been maintaining the land, he has only been using the crop, ie the grass, and has not had exclusive access. I would use google earth and and photos you have as evidence that you have had access, you must have photos of...

We used to have a lot of land settlement houses near us, with a tie, mostly there is not enough land with them and also not that many people who could satisfy the tie, would want to live in them so most of the owners did not work on the land. Finally after over twenty years the tie has been...

I would look at villages that have amenities with older properties with large garden. I live in Cambridgeshire and there are still older small bungalows that can be bought at a reasonable cost, which you remodel, the advantages are there is usually existing services which could cost tens of...

We have five streaming services, I hardly watch BBC or ITV, but trying to compare is difficult. I never went to uni, and as a child I was educated by our local library, you are lucky if there is one now, and Radio 4. BBC radio is still amazing and the back catalogue that you can access alone is...

I would recommend watching 97% Owned, which explains the money 'supply', we watched it on Netflix. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2145874/ While there is 'free' money to be made, lending money, there is no reason for property prices to fall, by a huge amount. On a lighter note, the film The Big...

I have a temporary ply outside door, treated with Sadolin, but if water gets under the edges, it peels, its lasted about fives years. I would go for acrylic barn paint, and make sure you do the edges. We reuse and recycle as much as we can, old doors or often far better made than new, barn paint...

Its back to the idea, that big companies can control UK resources. Large farms with large inputs will end up by being owned by overseas companies for have whole point to to squeeze as much juice out of the orange as possible. We have lost control of our water and power supply, because overseas...

If you want a conspiracy theory, its all a part of grand plan, based on a theory from one of Rees-Moggs fathers books. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/09/mystic-mogg-jacob-rees-mogg-willam-predicts-brexit-plans What for certain they do not give a s***t about the majority of us.

I do not handle foals, and certainly wouldn't want them going through my pockets, if they get any food, it would be in a bucket. The only time they are touched are to stand for the farrier every six weeks, vet to have injections, and for worming. I tend to buy after Christmas cheap foals that...

My 'local' Coop has all the fruit and veg in fridges with doors, plus air con for rest of the store. Someone somewhere will be doing a spread sheet, on cost benefit. The food is shops unless its British is already looking tired and less of it, so we could be going back to traditional winter...

We filled it scathingly in, not worthy of a school project, and wrote to our MP and got a codswallop reply. Its dangerous to mix measurements, and in medicine just adding 0 can kill you. Mistaking 70mph and 60kph in court, but not to worry we do not have to go on the ferry and drive in the EU...

We used to get a lot around our last house, there once made a 2ft nest wrapped a soil pipe underneath the floor boards. We only bothered with them if the nest were by the front door, cheap wasp powder dusted over, and puffed the entrance of the nest when they had gone back for the evening always...

Just about anywhere is dangerous for a child of that age, if you haven't got an eye or better a hand on them. One of the most dangerous places are car parks, someone is strapping a child in or out of a car seat, or buggy and while their back is turned the other child has wandered off and is...

Over the years I have pulled acres of ragwort, usually on land I have taken over. I pull in gloves and long sleeves when it is flowering, it is at the end of its life cycle and its a lot easier to pull, and usually the lot comes out in one go, including the roots. Its a skin irritant and for the...

We get a lot of light in winter, so ours does, a cold bright day, powers our under floor heating on a air source pump, heats the slab and then it just needs a top up at night. I think in any technology, getting something to work on another power source has limitations you have work around, its...