Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

GDB2222

Davesnave wrote: »

Now, ten years on, we muddle along on my pension of about £12k pa, running a smallholding which makes no money at all, so we dip into our savings, but that’s what they’re there for.:)

As a business plan, that stinks. You put all that work in and make nothing from it. Is that expected to improve?

Pobby

Well what a lovely bunch of friends and thankyou for you very kind support.

Dave, I think you once mentioned where you used to live. So you sang in rock bands? Did you know my old mate Bob Pedrick , used to play at The Towns Talk and played with the Hot Dogs. Manager of Duck, Son and Pinker which closed its doors for the last time around a week ago.

The only time I played there was at Moles. However that is a story I willtell another time.

Again folks, cheers.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

As a business plan, that stinks. You put all that work in and make nothing from it. Is that expected to improve?

lol, not so different to our little business. Its costing a bomb. But much of it helps offset costs we'd have anyway, which would cost a bomb and a landmine without the little income.

tomterm8

GDB2222 wrote: »

As a business plan, that stinks. You put all that work in and make nothing from it. Is that expected to improve?

Smallholdings, as a rule, don't make money. They cost money. This is the reason there are very few real commercial smallholdings left. Often, things called smallholdings are actually... petting zoos, or restaurants, or any of another hundred retail businesses with six acres and a duck attached to attract customers.

Or to put it another way: smallholdings are not businesses. They are hobbies. If someone like Dave is making a profit, even a minute one, on a smallholding he is doing really well.

The smallholding I live in has cost our family a load of dosh, and will never break even. We live here because we like it.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

PN can't recall, do you like reading? I thought you only read online stuff? The book is worthwhile, & I'd definitely recommend it to you...

No. If I read, the minute I put it down I've forgotten it all. Also, (aspie thing), I can't visualise the characters, so it's tough going. I have to really sit and read a whole book in one go else I'll forget what's going on and who is who.

It's quite often the same with telly - I can't tell a lot of people apart, so it gets confusing in some films.

PasturesNew

Pobby wrote: »

Just thought I would pop in and say hi .

We luffs U.



*waves*

PasturesNew

Been to many beaches today and on long wooded coastal footpaths to find unexplored beaches. You meet some lovely fluffies near beaches. Dogs are inquisitive and non-threatening... and a lovely kitty followed me from one beach to the car park.

Bought a tool I need to do something ... just £5, but it completes the "set" I needed.... every time I thought about doing something I was always a tool short; well I think I've the lot of that sort now (well, the minimum set).

Sooo tired. But tomorrow's going to be another brilliant day, so I am toying with the idea of getting up at Ridiculous O'Clock tomorrow morning to drive 60 miles to somewhere on my list of places to check out. It'll rain Wednesday/Thursday, so if I don't do it it'll be next week at the earliest. So easy to be lazy ...

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

As a business plan, that stinks. You put all that work in and make nothing from it. Is that expected to improve?

Yes,it will improve, but as others have pointed out, the taxman helps with stuff we'd do anyway, and then there's the adding value bit....
We bought this place in a neglected state from a 'motivated' seller, so we'll spend a few years sorting the land & house out. Even as it is now, with only about £10k spent, it would go for considerably more more than we paid, because the fences have been reinstated to retain animals and there aren't weeds and rubbish everywhere. Even painting the living room and bedrooms quiet shades, instead of orange, cerise and purple has helped a lot!:rotfl:

But the main reason at least three of us live on farms/smallholdings is probably because we enjoy it, simple as that. It is both a pleasure and a privilege to have all this space, but there's a responsibility there too, which is why we share our land with a local farmer, who needs every half acre he can get to survive against the competition from the big boys.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am toying with the idea of getting up at Ridiculous O'Clock tomorrow morning to drive 60 miles to somewhere on my list of places to check out. It'll rain Wednesday/Thursday, so if I don't do it it'll be next week at the earliest. So easy to be lazy ...

Have you checked-out this place yet? Haven't been since I was a kid...:)
http://www.northdevon.com/Woolacombe-Barricane-Beach/details/?dms=13&nearby=1&w=660&h=420&GroupId=2&venue=4337817

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Have you checked-out this place yet? Haven't been since I was a kid...:)
http://www.northdevon.com/Woolacombe-Barricane-Beach/details/?dms=13&nearby=1&w=660&h=420&GroupId=2&venue=4337817

I've rarely gone into North Devon - in fact, only once briefly.

That one's 90 miles from me... so just going there/back'd be 180 miles round trip - and I rarely go there/back anywhere as I try to visit several spots per outing