The village has regular quiz evenings to raise funds for the local church. Food is provided at half time while a raffle takes place. Can't imagine any official daring to apply the law. they'd be lynched.
The village has regular quiz evenings to raise funds for the local church. Food is provided at half time while a raffle takes place. Can't imagine any official daring to apply the law. they'd be lynched.
So they should be lynched. Everything would be hypersafe, all the same and dead boring if officialdom had it's way
I ask? who would know, a brown paper packet a quick shuffle up to said plant a shake of said plant, a faint rattle of seed in brown paper packet as it disappears into copious pocket of baggy gardening trews, or North of the border under the Kilt. Who would be brave enough to go searching under a Kilt I ask. There are how many million gardens in the UK, not enough Police to catch the local criminals so who is to watch you sneaking seed off your own plants. It would of course be a good idea not to fall out with your neighbours, they could grass you up (using seed I hope), A couple of old gardening mates have told me the stuff on my garage shelves was outlawed twenty years ago, well they ain't caught me yet. I say B@##@ to the Europeans and carry on as normal, I would have a field day if I was caught, standing up in Court explaining how the prevailing winds scattered the seed with no help from me so it must be the hand of God.
I really don't understand why people get so exercised about the EU before informing themselves about what is really happening. It is to do with seed varieties having to be registered in order to be sold, a process which costs a lot of money. Seed companies only register varieties that sell well, those that don't are dropped from catalogues and may disappear. The EU's argument is that registration ensures the quality of seeds being sold.
It is not going to interfere with gardeners swapping seeds. It will make it harder to get unusual varieties of seeds but Garden Organic already has a way round that problem for saving old vegetable varietties. Others will, i'm sure, find ways round the new rules.
It should not be forgotten that there is a British officialdom menatlity that means rules are applied in the UK to excess as the Jobsworths over interpret regulations. EU rules are there to try and bring equality of standards and competition across many countries of diverse incomes, productivity, character and customs. There is, for example, no Health and Safety department at my local council here in Belgium. People are expected to use common sense.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Mother in law is secretary in the local WI. She can very animated about this!
G1l, she sounds like a good woman!
The village has regular quiz evenings to raise funds for the local church. Food is provided at half time while a raffle takes place. Can't imagine any official daring to apply the law. they'd be lynched.
So they should be lynched. Everything would be hypersafe, all the same and dead boring if officialdom had it's way
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think us wrinkleys should be the new revolutionaries
Such so called laws are just asking to be ignored. It's the only way we get to "vote" on what the bureaucrats are doing.
I ask? who would know, a brown paper packet a quick shuffle up to said plant a shake of said plant, a faint rattle of seed in brown paper packet as it disappears into copious pocket of baggy gardening trews, or North of the border under the Kilt.
Who would be brave enough to go searching under a Kilt I ask.
There are how many million gardens in the UK, not enough Police to catch the local criminals so who is to watch you sneaking seed off your own plants.
It would of course be a good idea not to fall out with your neighbours, they could grass you up (using seed I hope), A couple of old gardening mates have told me the stuff on my garage shelves was outlawed twenty years ago, well they ain't caught me yet.
I say B@##@ to the Europeans and carry on as normal, I would have a field day if I was caught, standing up in Court explaining how the prevailing winds scattered the seed with no help from me so it must be the hand of God.
Frank.
Frank, I would blame the birds
I really don't understand why people get so exercised about the EU before informing themselves about what is really happening. It is to do with seed varieties having to be registered in order to be sold, a process which costs a lot of money. Seed companies only register varieties that sell well, those that don't are dropped from catalogues and may disappear. The EU's argument is that registration ensures the quality of seeds being sold.
It is not going to interfere with gardeners swapping seeds. It will make it harder to get unusual varieties of seeds but Garden Organic already has a way round that problem for saving old vegetable varietties. Others will, i'm sure, find ways round the new rules.
It should not be forgotten that there is a British officialdom menatlity that means rules are applied in the UK to excess as the Jobsworths over interpret regulations. EU rules are there to try and bring equality of standards and competition across many countries of diverse incomes, productivity, character and customs. There is, for example, no Health and Safety department at my local council here in Belgium. People are expected to use common sense.
Wonder what the penalty for distributing Weed would be and would the drug squad be involved?
not worth worrying about in my humble opinion.