[doganjo]

Actually, although I am no longer a smallholder as such I still have a few hens and quail. My next door neighbours (I moved up here two years ago) called me a few months ago to say they'd seen a rat down on the roadside and was I aware chickens caused rats 

I told them that my hens get their allocated food amount in the morning and that they snap it up pretty quick, that they are cleaned out regularly, and that their food bag is inside a metal bin inside my shed.  I also reminded them that in Scotland we're never more than a few feet from a rat, so it was unlikely to be specifically my hens that caused them to see a rat.  There are three farms at the  end of our road leading out of the village

They are however happy to receive eggs when my hens are laying.

They've been in their home, just outside the village, for about 40 years, so I tend to think it was a case of me being reminded I was the 'incomer'. 

So it's not always 'toonies/toonsers' who complain 

[Forestlens]

Very disappointed for you [member=178404]Citrine[/member]. I understand your caution but I too suspect that this is a rather naïve precaution against complaints in the future from “incomers”. Either way it does underline the need to use a solicitor well versed in land transactions rather than one used to more straightforward conveyancing. I think your sellers were poorly advised too because it will put others off. I’d keep an eye on it as they may reconsider the clause.
It seems shortsighted to antagonise new neighbours before they have even moved in however we experienced such antagonism when we moved as our sellers retained some land and we were bracing ourselves for conflict as they did their best to make life difficult for us. Fortunately they have subsequently sold the land they retained so we no longer need to deal with them!

[arobwk]

[member=24672]harmony[/member] - SmallholdingForSale is not a new member (joined 2012).  Their 1st post as far as I'm aware was the thread advertising a 2 acre plot for £200k (which thread has now been deleted).  Thereafter they also deleted their plagiaristic post on this thread !  Not sure why ShFS chose to slide back into the shadows rather than answer the question about where they lived !

Why is ShFS not defending themself ?

And anyone paying £310k for 3ac of agri' land (even if poor and limited ) is just speculating hoping for development permission in the long term - they can obviously afford to wait or have in mind to go for the £2m lake-side designer home that Planners do let through if they have architectural merit (subject of course to the environmental assessments and any required mitigations).  At this rate there will be no room/hope for smallholders just like there are no affordable homes left for true country folk.  It will be a nation of "landed gentry" and their serfs and tenants.

No regrets here.

 

[harmony]

Maybe ShFS doesn't feel very welcome hence their lack of replies [member=152775]arobwk[/member]?

[arobwk]

And perhaps ShFC forgot they were a member until they thought it would be a great idea to advertise 2ac for £200k on a smallholders' forum !!! We don't even know the land was theirs !  Does that not make you wonder ?

[harmony]

And perhaps ShFC forgot they were a member until they thought it would be a great idea to advertise 2ac for £200k on a smallholders' forum !!! We don't even know the land was theirs !  Does that not make you wonder ?

Make me wonder what?

[arobwk]

You are just being obtuse [member=24672]harmony[/member] - so over and out.

[harmony]

You are just being obtuse [member=24672]harmony[/member] - so over and out.

Good job I got that dictionary for Christmas! 

[landroverroy]

Actually, I was also unsure of what one was meant to wonder.


I also had to look up obtuse in the dictionary.   It can mean slow to understand.


I also read somewhere that if someone doesn't understand what you have said it is because you haven't explained it properly.
Possibly it is of minimum importance anyway - so just saying.

[harmony]

Actually, I was also unsure of what one was meant to wonder.


I also had to look up obtuse in the dictionary.   It can mean slow to understand.


I also read somewhere that if someone doesn't understand what you have said it is because you haven't explained it properly.
Possibly it is of minimum importance anyway - so just saying.

I felt so much better this morning when I read this and realised that perhaps arobwk had been obtuse in his posts and that had reflected poorly on my intelligence. 

[Fleecewife]

I think we may have wandered somewhat off topic here. Enough now?