I'm keeping all this year's baby dahlias in their pots and tucked up in the polytunnel @Nanny Beach but the big jobs, 2 or more years old are all staying in the ground this winter but will get a blanket of our own wildflower meadow hay.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
What I am really struggling to understand, is why so many wealthy pensioners object to having to pay their license fee, but thing it is fine that poor young people should.
whilst watching the value of their mortgage free home rise year on year when virtually nobody under 40 can afford to get on the property ladder
Value increase on the property somebody lives in is a theoretical 'profit' only. Unless they sell up and downsize it's no help to anybody, pensioner or otherwise, rich or otherwise. That younger people can't get on the property ladder is not the fault of people who have lived in their family home for decades. It's more often than not 'buy to rent' landlords who snap up homes which would be withing the scope of first time buyers.
What I am really struggling to understand, is why so many wealthy pensioners object to having to pay their license fee, but thing it is fine that poor young people should.
whilst watching the value of their mortgage free home rise year on year when virtually nobody under 40 can afford to get on the property ladder
Value increase on the property somebody lives in is a theoretical 'profit' only. Unless they sell up and downsize it's no help to anybody, pensioner or otherwise, rich or otherwise. That younger people can't get on the property ladder is not the fault of people who have lived in their family home for decades. It's more often than not 'buy to rent' landlords who snap up homes which would be withing the scope of first time buyers.
I take one board the theoretical profit, but many DO downsize. I feel more sympathy from SOME older people to the predicament faced by most younger people wouldn't go amiss.
I’m on holiday in the Lake District at the moment and went to Ashness Bridge today. There I found a rucksack containing some expensive camera equipment and, possibly more significantly, a holder rammed with memory cards. What to do? Nobody in the nearby car park owned it and it was starting to get dark. I thought if I left it some low life might steal it or it would get drenched if it rained so I took it with me, ostentatiously waving in front of all passing cars.
Quite what I would then do I don’t know. Do police still take in lost property and would the station be open? Take it home and look for an address on one of the memory cards? Fortunately it did not come to this as a car abruptly stopped as it was passing me and a very, very relieved owner was reunited with his possessions.
Here’s another reason to be cheerful: the view from our holiday apartment
Many young people who say they are hard up are actually better off than were my wife and I and a lot of other people in the sixties. We were in a two bed privately rented flat with running water..down one wall in what should have been the baby's bedroom. No chance of council accommodation. There were no social services handouts in those days apart from family allowance after you had a second child.
But we saved hard, didn't have a holiday for years and made do with second-hand furniture, until I managed to secure better jobs and eventually we bought our own home. I made a long term plan to pay off my mortgage and be debt free to be able to retire before I was sixty, which took a few sacrifices but not by our kids, I managed it just before my 58th birthday.
I do feel sorry for young people but many manage to succeed and get their own homes by sheer hard work.
I don't feel guilty in enjoying a good standard of living in my old age, I've earned it.
Well done you @BenCotto, and what a smashing apartment.
I don't think the police deal with lost or stolen goods any more, I think I would have done the same as you and taken it home. I believe people post on Facebook of items they have found.
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Value increase on the property somebody lives in is a theoretical 'profit' only. Unless they sell up and downsize it's no help to anybody, pensioner or otherwise, rich or otherwise. That younger people can't get on the property ladder is not the fault of people who have lived in their family home for decades. It's more often than not 'buy to rent' landlords who snap up homes which would be withing the scope of first time buyers.
I feel more sympathy from SOME older people to the predicament faced by most younger people wouldn't go amiss.
Here’s another reason to be cheerful: the view from our holiday apartment
I don't think the police deal with lost or stolen goods any more, I think I would have done the same as you and taken it home. I believe people post on Facebook of items they have found.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.