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Great read, thank you for writing it up.

The thing that no one wants to talk about is that farmers do us the favour. The population needs to eat. We can't always rely on cheap imports of food and if we relied wholey on them we would starve. What happens if something happens and imports are no longer possible? War, environmental changes, anything out of a John Wyndham book. Then again farmers are being slightly disingenuous. If you set your farm up in a trust so it may only be a farm and it is protected so you may never sell any part of the land, it must always remain a farm then you can't just sell off a few acres for a couple of houses every time you want to marry off a daughter or buy a new milking parlour. They want that autonomy. And that would mean having it both ways.

I'm usually inclined to let the FEO say whatever unchallenged, because who needs the trouble? But now they are causing me issues. I have a shotgun cabinet I share with my other half. Other half has one gun. I have guns. Last FEO insisted that every gun I own should be listed on my other half's licence as they have access via our shared shotgun cabinet. Previously the 72 hour rule was enough. Now I have let some guns go, I did all the paperwork to take them off my licence and put them on someone else's. Do I now have to do that again for the other half's licence? Trouble is, other half's licence is not yet renewed and I have had to confiscate the gun cabinet keys. I really think this is heading for a big mess up. Are Firearms now saying that guns are shared marital property and must be listed as such? Which bit of what the FEO claimed was untrue?

It was all ladies too. Mr Tightchoke was out getting the charm on, left me for a lady whose need was greater than mine To be fair, he had already kicked me into shape, I got some beautiful high partridge, highest I've ever seen on the last drive.

@FilLove that you think we might ever get a home visit.

Gun claimed.

@McSpredderHmm, what's more likely? The law has changed or an FEO doesn't know the law?

Last year the FEO said that "lent" wasn't an option. I argued, but you can't argue with someone who doesn't have a box to fill in.

Would anyone like a side by side? It was given to me by a lovely PW fellow, I passed it on and it has come back to me. I have a Wabbitbosher special that I prefer. This gun is marked "Spanish" and that's all I know. It's a pigeon gun. You can have it for free. Collect Cambridge, although I do leave the county occassionally.

Thank you for posting again, @Wombatfeatures. It's really important that we keep talking about mental health, and I really appreciate you being honest with everyone here. It's the kind of sharing that may well be the example that leads someone to seek help themselves and in turn saves a life. So I'm sorry about the loss of your guns, I hope you get them back, but the community owes you gratitude for showing us what a really responsible gun owner does.

Mmm. I don't know. I think generation porn have a different attitude.

Something that just adds to the disgust: There were 80 local men involved in this. I now wonder if M Tuvignon was one of them. Yet more proof that an awful lot of men don't see women as real people.

Bargain! My pa had his done for twice that at Spire. Best investment ever though. Can't muck about with your eyes.

The water company will spot leaks but they usually take six months. My dad got a phone call. We had to get the pipes between the meter and the house dug up and replaced. Luckily the leaked water had mostly gone back via a different channel. He thought he was using a lot of water through hour long showers after a shoulder replacement. Not that much!

Shed has been ordered. So have the slabs - went for slabs rather than groundscrews. Waiting for both those to arrive. Hopefully up by the end of the next month. I also found out that Ridgeons are no longer called Rigeons, and that if you know someone who knows someone you can get a much better price on slabs.