diary of a comedy sheep farm

[spin cycle]

Ace of spades on the other cheek

France's national emblem surely??

like the ace of spades idea....fave motorhead song

national symbol is 'cock'.,,,,,dangers in translation????

 

[johnb5555]

PLEASE PLEASE check the urban dictionary first

 

[Lodekka]

Latest reports from La belle France indicate that Spin may have 'gone native'......................

Ici le plonker...

 

[spin cycle]

cor ta he'll you lot a slow....just checked City score an come across stories in edp

panther spotted an oi can't be a blame an some perv med 'lewd' comment to lass nr City....polis a looking for a bloke in an animal mask carrion a gorse bush

 

[spin cycle]

so we've moved on and the dynamic has changed...before it was more my friend and Mrs spin was the +! and now vice versa

I was wrong.....again....about the birdlife....here in more familiar territory it,s more like home...where we were ...with more woodland...perhaps it was more woodland birds

I was gonna leave my plans for my return until I got home but I think I,ll drizzle them out over the next couple days cos .....once home....I,ll be back into maelstrom....it might be a bit random/eclectic for which I apologise

ok another cafe de large et fumee de smelliest and je makes le start

 

[spin cycle]

up until 2015 the farm had done pretty well but looking back it had come at a price....specialist malting barley and ad maize had done well but it came a cropper in 2015....thebarley contracts offered nearly halved and we lost ad maize...we had blackgrass and indices had plunged to zero...add in my father passing and it was not the best scenario...add in the fact we,d been spe nding profits on doing a barn Conversion unborowed at the expense of machinery replacement

the period 2016 to 2020 we lost quite a lot of money...we had it but no e the less..to me..it was a personal shame..I beat myself up...until now...I,ve realised half those losses would have occurred anyway and the other I can mitigate because the farm needed it...if I can draw a line under that I can perhaps move on

more coffee and rollie

 

[spin cycle]

so the central problem is iht relief...a small acerage to turn a farming profit to justify...my accountant doesn't add bps to farming side....something I find strange..I mean I can see why...but bps is central to cf agreements?

I,ve been trying to maximise out put but I have to admit this is wrong area for arable grass really

the case has also altered...strawbs now uses the farms pp...something that doesn't,t help iht but valuable doversification...anyway farm wise it weakens the sheep's position...all the sheep pp is now rented

our new Cs agreement will be counted as farm output...priority thus is that it doesn't get wasted chasing sheep profit

I,m starting to ramble...time to get ready for bordeuax trip avec le hunt de la tattoo parlour

 

[onthehoof]

Spin, most farms will show a loss without bps, at least you've got some diversification so better than us for a start, maybe a bit early but one way to avoid IHT is to pass things down, never too early to plan, dad died in 2018 it was expensive but he took good advice a few years before, needs to be someone you trust though (not your accountant!)

 

[onthehoof]

add in the fact we,d been spe nding profits on doing a barn Conversion unborowed at the expense of machinery replacement

But would you rather have a heap of depreciating machinery or an appreciating barn conversion, glass half full

 

[spin cycle]

ok whatever B"STARD invented the saying "better to travel than arrive" had never spent hours...in the heat...on a motorway....In the back of a cabriolet

 

[onthehoof]

None of my business but... if your accountant doesn't put BPS down as 'farm income' was does he put it down as?? It would make the 'perceived loss' greater than it should be which is not good as you say for IHT, it sounds like the farm paid for the barn conversion and maybe the farm receives the income from it?? the problem would be if the letting makes more than the farm?? which is why you need the BPS including in the profit/loss as well as CS money

 

[Estate fencing.]

Whoes taking the photos? Have to got an official photographer travelling with you for the trip?

 

[spin cycle]

Whoes taking the photos? Have to got an official photographer travelling with you for the trip?

bloody paparazzi on moped....sigh

 

[Estate fencing.]

bloody paparazzi on moped....sigh

Watch that tunnel

 

[primmiemoo]

Shades, Spin? Headscarf?

 

[spin cycle]

Shades, Spin? Headscarf?

left at home...doh

baseball cap backwards cos would defo loose

 

[primmiemoo]

left at home...doh

baseball cap backwards cos would defo loose

Mais, les sunglasses Francaise sont everso chic, Spin. When you stagger stroll to la pharmacie from the tattooist for your creme Bepanthen pour le pain excrutionaire, you might spot a display of them.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Am I the only one who doesn’t speak French?

 

[primmiemoo]

Am I the only one who doesn’t speak French?

Bet you know, more Franglais than you think

 

[Estate fencing.]

Bet you know, more Franglais than you think

Sadly not, don’t think my brain can work it it out.