The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

mardatha

It wasn't aimed at you nursemaggie, just thought it was funny reading it when this discussion was ongoing in here

mardatha

I absolutely love butter and pay extra for the unpasteurised French stuff.

Witless

nursemaggie wrote: »

How can they justify it.

Simples.

The don't even try to justify it.

We pay it, and until the shelf stock stops moving .... they'll squeeze as much as they can.

fuddle

I was reading a piece in one of DH's fishing puplications about Spam getting a revival as households are buying more. Nope, it's the fishing contingent. Spam is used as bait. The 'people who know' our shopping habits don't know everything. :rotfl:

nursemaggie

well I'm not paying that much for butter I was paying 85p a few months ago. Milk has not gone up, and wages have not gone up. I'll do without.

VJsmum

karcher wrote: »

And to add to that, not all LL's are are uncaring, money grabbing, selfish, property rich multi millionaires.

Many just want a tenant who pays their rent and feels at home.

The LL deals with any problems asap and trust the tenant will respond in kind by not causing £1000's of damage before they leave!

I've already got me coat!

Take your coat off, . I agree. We are landlords, it's how we have invested our pension. We have student tenants and a private tenant. The private let has been far worse than the students, and last year we lost a lot of money on it.

Hard_Up_Hester

Absolutely knackered here, I've been up at 5 every day, done both my jobs all week, visited Ds's cats twice a day, last night I sat for dd2 until almost one, then got up early this morning to watch the GP. I'm now at dd1 looking after 4 of her 5 kids. She should be back at two, then I will go home and cook dinner.

pollyanna_26

Hester love try to take time to breathe . You'll be crawling into "retirement" at this rate . How many days now until you leave the day job?
polly

Hard_Up_Hester

Pollyanna, it's fourteen working days, woohoo.

pollyanna_26

It wont feel like it to you Hester but that seems to have flown by . I'm very much looking forward to your last day

Now to Butter, Milk etc . ( I've learned from Karcher and me coat is ready!) Those familiar with my posts on the previous Preppers thread will already know my views on this subject .
I'm in the minority as my milk is delivered in glass bottles to my doorstep as it has been since I was born . The huge dairy companies aren't my concern but the traditional local dairy farmers are . We have a dairy farm a short walk away which has been in the same family since 1939 . It is run with good animal welfare and fairness for all employees . A couple of months ago they hand delivered a letter across the wide area they serve . Everyone got a copy as they didn't have time to sort customers and non customers .
I don't cry easily but it made me cry . They were begging those who buy the supermarket milk to try at least 1 pint a week to keep local suppliers going .
The giant power of the supermarkets has reduced the true value of certain products to use them as loss leaders to get people through the door and producers have long been over a barrel to the point many are running at a loss .
Traditional farming methods are being lost and some farms now resemble the prairies as hedgerows are ripped our .
We are losing the things we could trust and rely on .
Milk can come from many sources , anyone remember the Polish milk a while back in the supermarkets? That particular brand wasn't safe for human consumption .
Veg is a loss leader as the poor growers .know to their cost . Bread also .
If you cost butter per gram it isn't a lot but there is a whole chain of production and employees behind that pack in the chiller .
I'll shock you now and say at the moment I pay 59p for a pint (remember those?} of milk in a glass bottle which the dairy uses again and again . I never need to go and buy milk as it's on the step early morning . A lot of people go for milk and return with shopping they don't really need . Impulse buys .
Like the postman a milk man keeps an eye on his or her patch . They know their customers and keep an eye on the old and others they know are struggling . Many a life has been saved by that .
At the end of the day it's choice , you can do a lot with a bottle of milk and people complain more about it than the price of wine .:D
I have never had a milkman that failed to turn up whether snow , flood or sunshine . The wind is rising here now but if the weather warnings are correct my milk will still turn up tomorrow .
polly
i know I've spoken mainly about milk but the lowered price applies to butter a product that needs the milk .