Baldrick

Sold to Triman.

Download Google Earth Pro on a 7-day trial if you also want to the area mapping function (and the ability to print images in high resolution).

Bear in mind that good-quality arable land trades at between £6,500 and £7,000 per acre (in East Anglia) and land values show no sign of diminishing. Also consider that you would be bidding against farmers, most of whom have very deep pockets. Small blocks of land are always snapped up by large-scale operators requiring land to use up spare machinery capacity. Farmers enjoy lending rates that you would never be offered unless you already owned land. You would also be depriving yourself of the means to make a decent income from the land if you just scattered a few handfuls of OSR seed around, rather than letting the land out to a farmer for a market rent. It's a nice fantasy, but not one you'll be able to realise in this economic climate.

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Sorted it (I found inspiration in a bottle of Margaux). For anyone that is interested, it requires saving each each shape and each parcel, and then dragging and dropping each of these saved files into one 'master' file to then be saved as a KMZ file. Geek-tastic.

KW, thanks, but you're thinking of saving it as a JPEG, not this sodding KMZ format (which takes anybody opening the KMZ file back to the drawings/annotations I have made, in Google Earth). I've drawn all the shapes, but I can't consolidate the various bits into a single file. I have literally spent all afternoon cocking around with this...

Thanks, Paul, but I have no choice other than to send this data in Google Earth format. The data is going to a renewable-energy specialist who is trying to identify sites on Google Earth, for 'solar farming' (interesting and topical stuff). He wants to see it in GE, so that the site can be shown in a wider context.

I thought I was pretty adept with Google Earth (Pro), as I use it all the time for basic work-related tasks like field mapping. I now need some help, ASAP. I need to draw individual outlines around a cluster of separate fields and then annotate each field with a placemark/push-pin, so that it looks like the data in this image: http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm19/Ba...ck__2008/GE.jpg I then need to be able to email this data as a single KMZ file. So far, I can create a KMZ file containing either the outline of a single field, or the placemark. Not both. And certainly not one KMZ file giving all the info I need. I imagine there is a set order in which to save the outlines and placemarks, but it's absolutely stumped me. If there are any Google Earth experts on PW, I'd really appreciate your advice.

Thanks for the interest, everyone. I've now found a PWer who fits the bill for this opportunity.

OK, noted.

Thanks, J_R. PM me if your mate is interested and wants to talk to me.

Thank you for the various PMs, which I will consider.

*** PLEASE DISREGARD - OFFER NO LONGER AVAILABLE *** I intend to give up the permission I hold for rabbit control over a 250-acre arable farm near Braintree, Essex. The farm is owned by my boss. I have shot it for 2 years, taking a bag of approximately 2,000 rabbits in 2008-09 and 1,600 rabbits in 2009-10. It's a cracking permission, one that I am sorry to walk away from. I have been asked by the farm manager to recommend a reliable and safe FAC holder to take on the responsibility. The permission is for rabbit control only, using rimfires and/or FAC air only, for one individual only. You must be local to Braintree. You will need your own 4x4 on AT tyres. There are a lots of houses bordering the land, and there is a history of problems with difficult neighbours complaining about legitimate pest-control activities. You will be expected to visit at least once per week, preferably twice or more. Your reasonable ammunition and fuel costs will be paid by the owner, once you've proved you meet the criteria of safe, reliable and consistently useful. As this farm is part of a larger farming business, a good service from you may open up permission on the owner's other farms (and other farms that I manage), where there are less restrictions. Genuine enquiries welcome. Time-wasters, please look elsewhere. If you fit the bill, both the farm manager and I will want to speak to you.

Sold to Lazza.

I have the following .22-250 Rem factory ammunition going spare, having ditched my centrefires long ago: - 10 rounds Remington 55gr PSP (plus 10 once-fired cases) - 34 rounds Norma 50gr V-Max (plus 6 cases) - 53 rounds Federal 55gr Nosler Ballistic Tip One green MTM Case Guard is included. £20, available for collection only in Essex. Please PM me with any interest/offers.

Steve, Dimensions are: Height: 1,245mm/49" Width: 265mm/10.5" Depth 230mm/9.25" Inspecting it more closely, it's finished in a hammered green paint, not powder-coat. Balders

For sale: A police-approved (but unbranded) full-size shotgun cabinet, with ample space for 4 guns. The cabinet is of mid-1990s construction but in excellent condition, with the green powder-coat finish in very good order. The removable door lifts slots into the base of the cabinet, locking at the top. Two keys supplied. The buyer must collect (Chelmsford/Colchester, Essex) £40

Please disregard.

There is a healthy market in manorial titles (e.g. Lord of the Manor of some random village). You can spend £20k-£50k on such a seemingly meaningless title, on the basis that many titles are often accompanied by very lucrative rights, e.g. the right to all the gravel and sand deposits in an entire parish (possibly several million tonnes of minerals at £1.50 per tonne), or the right to levy random taxes on all the residents in the 'manor'. It can be a licence to print money if you play your cards right.

Yes, Griffin has a glass left eye. And yes, I too thought his hands seemed to be shaking a lot. Griffin came across as badly as I'd anticipated - he just looks and sounds like a sales rep in a cheap suit, with no viable policies to mention, and nothing other than immigration to discuss. He just makes me think of the PG Wodehouse character 'Sir Roderick Spode'.

Those burgers you wolfed down on Sunday definitely looked like they had a bit of mechanically-recovered Spaniel in them.

Most of the beef shipped in from Africa and Argentina is chilled, not frozen. It would literally take days to thaw out a side of beef. Like Mungler, I would view your dodgy Namibian bushmeat with some trepidation. However, if it does look, smell and feel OK, I'd eat it. I would suggest feeding some to the dog, to see if the meat causes any hideous bouts of vomiting and squits. However, that would be unfair on the dog, so I would test it on the mother-in-law instead.

The decade of strife comment is me wearing my farmer hat, having read a lot of industry comment in recent weeks about the impact of a potential withdrawal from Europe would cause for Britain's agricultural industry. There's obviously the superficial impact of losing funding from the Common Agricultural Policy (which is the profit element for many British farmers). More worrying would be the longer-term legacy of the currently exorbitant costs of food production in the UK. British farming would go bankrupt overnight if someone in Brussels pulled the plug, as there is simply no way Britain could export produce to Europe at competitive prices. Only the most shrewd owner-occupiers would keep on an even keel. Tied in to that, although I appreciate that it is at a provincial level, are issues regarding unemployment and housing outside of city centres. BFG, I agree, something is definitely not right about Cameron, but I believe he's the lesser of two evils.

That is almost as good as firing burning pianos from a trebuchet.

I've never struck the header on the weighbridge, in fact. I will check it out next summer. We only use the 4x4 for header moves when all the tractors are carting or on cultivations. It's hardly an ideal solution, but at least the option is there with the Defender. We had a pimped '09-plate Hilux for about two months, with a big 3-litre engine. It had a heck of a lot of grunt, much more than the Defender, but it just couldn't hack it in really sticky boulder clay, pulling diesel bowsers. It got chopped in for a new Defender.