Re: pony grazing rents

Thus spake Derry Argue <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" Jill" <newsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1140900845.7880.0
@lotis.uk.clara.net:

This may reflect more on the farmer than the pony owner!

The compliments are flying tonight!

Would you prefer the owner who thought the rent too low and offered to pay
MORE? Not only did she pay in cash by post, every Friday, but never missed
a payment. I heard later that the timing was because she sent off the rent
when she went to the Post Office to collect the Family Allowance -- and she
could afford to be generous because her husband was the local drug dealer!
(She defaulted when the olice caught up with hubbie!). Another one left to
go back into the local mental institution! But I have had the good ones
too.

Much depends on the area you live. Many of the umemployed from the Central
Belt were relocated here in expectation of the Invergordon aluminium
smelter coming on stream. That turned out to be a typical Highland fiasco
when the reactor at Dunreay developed a crack. The unemployed are still
here but the smelter was dismantled long ago, whereas all Oban seems to
have to offer is midges.

Most farmers in this area will not touch ponies with a barge pole.


As you wander around parts of the Surrey Weald it seems that most
farmers will not touch anything else. A healthy rent from a wealthy
commuter indulging his daughters is far more profitable than
agriculture. OTOH in another place, you will find women who believe they
love horses and will die/kill to keep them in any state of neglect they
can ill afford. Such people are shunned by the horse world to which Jill
refers. But they are not such a small minority.



Regards

--
Charles Francis
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