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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7746499" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>covid has changed our lives in many ways, people have restarted cooking at home, staying in etc, which is actually slowing down the hectic speed of modern life. Will it last ? I hope it does, but somehow l don't think it will last.</p><p> In this affluent society, there are very definitely the haves, and have nots, and that will always occur in every society, but l suspect our definition of poverty, some countries would consider affluent. A few years ago, when out with a group, one of whom worked in africa, for a charity, as things do, conversation got on to immigration, and the desire of so many, to get to the UK. His reply has stuck with me ever since, basically, everyone had heard of the British Empire, with fairly positive views, and as we were walking through hereford town centre, with baskets of flowers on poles, and flower beds, bright colours etc, he said, if they saw a picture of this, compared to their towns, this looks like 'streets paved with gold', couple that with fairy tales of handouts, who wouldn't want to get here, and take huge risks to do so.</p><p> It's peculiar that many think the empire was 'bad', and yet some people have a very different view, and their country, was in it, and now, 50+ years on, we are the 'go-to' place. I wonder if reality, and their aspirations, match up, when they do get here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7746499, member: 86168"] covid has changed our lives in many ways, people have restarted cooking at home, staying in etc, which is actually slowing down the hectic speed of modern life. Will it last ? I hope it does, but somehow l don't think it will last. In this affluent society, there are very definitely the haves, and have nots, and that will always occur in every society, but l suspect our definition of poverty, some countries would consider affluent. A few years ago, when out with a group, one of whom worked in africa, for a charity, as things do, conversation got on to immigration, and the desire of so many, to get to the UK. His reply has stuck with me ever since, basically, everyone had heard of the British Empire, with fairly positive views, and as we were walking through hereford town centre, with baskets of flowers on poles, and flower beds, bright colours etc, he said, if they saw a picture of this, compared to their towns, this looks like 'streets paved with gold', couple that with fairy tales of handouts, who wouldn't want to get here, and take huge risks to do so. It's peculiar that many think the empire was 'bad', and yet some people have a very different view, and their country, was in it, and now, 50+ years on, we are the 'go-to' place. I wonder if reality, and their aspirations, match up, when they do get here. [/QUOTE]
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