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    Why Are Young People Not Learning Trades/Skills?

    The process of dumbing down exam results started, from my experience, in the 70's. The year i sat my 'O' levels , there were 5 pass grades - A = 75+pts, B = 70-74pts, C = 65-69pts, D= 60-64, and the minimum pass was E 55-59pts. The following year the pass grades were reduced to 3 - A = 70+...
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    £5 coffee

    True - read an article which stated that our MP's will earn around 90k, about 3 x times the national average.
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    £5 coffee

    I WANT ONE !! where from ???
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    Overdraft Interest Refund

    i was watching "The Martin Lewis show" on Itv, a few weeks ago, and the Financial regulators have been made aware that Customers, when buying cars, were automatically offered finance at a higher rate, earning the salesman/car dealer extra commission. It's going to be like the PPI scandal from a...
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    Turnover vanity profit sanity….what a load of tosh

    You could argue that this is when "Turnover is vanity".
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    Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

    We will have "New Masters" after this election. The trouble is that they will be depending on the same Civil Service mandarins to get things done.And if the Mandarins don't agree with their "Master's views", then they just place plenty of spanners in the works to slow things down.
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    Greenhouse Gas Emissions Article

    Thanks for posting this article. No doubt the Welsh Senedd, or any other group who want to blame farmer's for global warming, will use smoke and mirrors to discredit this information. I will post this article to my Senedd member, and if we all do the same, maybe it'll pierce their thick skulls...
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    Yellowstone TV series

    I'm not sure how many suckler cows John Dutton has on his ranch, but his daughter is definitely the biggest bulling heifer on the place.
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    Yellowstone TV series

    You have to remember that this is a FICTIONAL drama series and it's written so that at least every other episode has a "cliffhanger ending" in order to get the viewers back. Happy to admit i'm a fan and, maybe this is a bit sad to admit, i'm watching a total re-run of all the series via the...
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    Turnover vanity profit sanity….what a load of tosh

    But - the problem with farming is that there is a limit to how much you can squeeze out of an acre. Either the weather shortens the growing at both ends, or the wrong weather reduces the growth in the season, or , it comes to a point where you cannot put on any more ferteliser ,because it'll...
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    How do you …. Get out of farming?

    We are all different. I know one farmer, turned 70 at the beginning of winter, and his "get up and go" and being able to do the work in-between 2 milkings, are definitely down from when he turned 69. Will he see 83 ????
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    How do you …. Get out of farming?

    Well - we are all different. I know of one farmer, turned 70 at the beginning of winter, and he has definitely been going "backwards" as far as get and go, and putting the long hours in, since his 69th. Will he see his 83rd ????
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    How do you …. Get out of farming?

    60 this year, my advice have a look at those around you in their 70's who are still farming, because that'll be you in 10-12 years time.
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    " We can do both .......

    Tractor ???? what Tractor!!:D
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    Advice for Son Before Returning Home to Farm

    My advice is before travelling/ getting a job farming somewhere else/ broadening your horizons - all 24 carat advice, find out if your father is paying all he can into a pension scheme. It'll be better alround if , when he comes to handing the reins over, he'll have a good , independant income...
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    Sad looking farms

    It was reported in the papers last week that a couple in the East Midlands had received a letter from their council, which stated that their house was going to be purchased by the Council ,and used to house immigrants. The Council then stated that a mistake had been made and apologised to the...
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    Welsh dairy farming.

    Probably bevause they don't want American type beef feedlots in this country.
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    The only thing about "only Fans" that pisses me off.............. is that i wish i'd come up with the idea. The owners of the site skim 30% of a members earnings i.e if you had a 1000 punters paying £10 a month for your photos/videos, then they'd take from that 10k the princely sum of £3000 ...
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    The sudden increase in friends, those trying to be friendly and those wanting jobs.

    The "policies" of the Labour and Conservatories are both various shades of grey.
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