Recession cost cutting and affordability

[centralbeltstalker]

Hi,

Following a long hard debate today with my wife i have opted out of one of my syndicates.
Its unfair i pay for a place as we struggle to make ends meet.
Granted works busy but pay is not as steady as it should be.
Also all extra monies are been swallowed up with building costs.
Man it was hard.
Dont get me wrong i didnt go there often but when i did i always seen plenty of deer.
With a 75% take home average it was worth it.
I hope the lease holder will fill the space and you will be one lucky person. enjoy.

Times are hard and i for-see harder ones on the horizon.

f,

 

[widows son]

Hi,

Following a long hard debate today with my wife i have opted out of one of my syndicates.
Its unfair i pay for a place as we struggle to make ends meet.
Granted works busy but pay is not as steady as it should be.
Also all extra monies are been swallowed up with building costs.
Man it was hard.
Dont get me wrong i didnt go there often but when i did i always seen plenty of deer.
With a 75% take home average it was worth it.
I hope the lease holder will fill the space and you will be one lucky person. enjoy.

Times are hard and i for-see harder ones on the horizon.

f,

what a shame shjt happens frank at least you making a pound

 

[The Singing Stalker]

+1 with you on that one. My missus is complaining about the fact that we haven't had a holiday for 3 years, but looking long term I don't see an early end to our problems (the country, not me and the missus). There are a few other threads on here about how difficult it is and how people are suffering. But it sounds that you at least have some other land to keep you going.

 

[dean]

things cant be that bad a heard u just picked up another 200 acre of new plant just 2 miles from ur house

 

[centralbeltstalker]

things cant be that bad a heard u just picked up another 200 acre of new plant just 2 miles from ur house

I have shooting of a farm on this farm (700 acres) is a small plantation of 200 acres of fenced trees (oilmanjd has been here seen it and knows this story) i have permission from the farmer to shoot on these trees but they belong to a company in England who use them as an offset against their green foot print. I know whom else shoots the land via the opposite landowner who shares another 200 or so acres of other trees with this firm and although i have the farmers ok the company Representative has not given me a formal ok thus i have never actually shot it, nor will i. i did however walk it yesterday as planned and seen no signs of deer in or around it and no fresh fraying. No diseased trees and no wind fall. My two dogs didn't spook anything either and its safe to say that yesterday there was nothing there. I reported this to the farmer and in due course he will return that to the firm with a request that i get written permission to manage the land unlike the other person.

The decision to relinquish my syndicate place has nothing to do with 200 acres of fenced trees. it was a financial one and time constraints.

I do hope that clarifies things and if you have any more thoughts on the matter i am happy to hear them dean, do ask as i will get back to you.

regards f,

 

[davidm]

Yup f know how you feel had to sell my beloved audi because work just isn't constant, not had a full week since November.
David

 

[philross]

things cant be that bad a heard u just picked up another 200 acre of new plant just 2 miles from ur house

I have shooting of a farm on this farm (700 acres) is a small plantation of 200 acres of fenced trees .........
i did however walk it yesterday ...........
............
regards f,

Wow, news travels fast in this game.... I think you're under surveillance Frank

Oh - It was great to have you in our syndicate and you'll be welcome back anytime.

 

[centralbeltstalker]

Wow, news travels fast in this game.... I think you're under surveillance Frank

Oh - It was great to have you in our syndicate and you'll be welcome back anytime.

Hi Phil,

The pleasure was mine, thanks for a great year, wish the lads luck.

thanks for everything,

yours franks.

 

[The Croc]

Like Frank I've had to pull the plug on some things this year.

I think times a trying for a lot of folks at the moment, and belt tightening is happening everywhere.
I was hoping that we'd seen the worst of it, but I'll reserve judgement on that till later on this year.

Brian

 

[finnbear270]

Frank, for me, the pulling in of the horns & the tightening of belts began around two years ago, working for myself ceased & agency slavery took over, the beloved Land Rover defender pick-up was sold on & replaced by the petrol sipping midget Jimny,, things are just starting to improve for us, agency has been replaced by induction to full time working, cards in, at the place I have been at for around 18 months on & off, contrary to the eejits on the telly & in the newspapers, talking the country down, I have seen a resurgence of confidence at lots of firms where I collect from, some also taking in apprentices again (proper old fashioned indentured ones!), some have also recalled workers laid off over the last two years,........... maybe it's going a bit slow at your end, but chin up mate! (& proper family type holidays, as opposed to me just stalking,... the last hols "We" had, I was listening to the radio in the truck while travelling down to Barmouth, & Lady Di had just been killed.)

 

[basil]

Like Frank I've had to pull the plug on some things this year.

I think times a trying for a lot of folks at the moment, and belt tightening is happening everywhere.
I was hoping that we'd seen the worst of it, but I'll reserve judgement on that till later on this year.

Brian

We haven`t seen the worst yet, there`s another 3p going on fuel duty in August for starters................

 

[RED-DOT]

£1.70 ppl for diesel is forecast for the summer and i am trying to sell a 7mpg/ 44t artic.....

 

[The Croc]

£1.70 ppl for diesel is forecast for the summer and i am trying to sell a 7mpg/ 44t artic.....

Ouch, good luck with the sale

 

[Scots_stalker]

its gonna be a violent summer i think

 

[bobthedug]

its gonna be a violent summer i think

Do you mean as in civil unrest, rioting kind of summer?

 

[Si]

I'm having to cut the number of trips down to W.Sussex this year due to cost of fuel, it costs me £50/week just to get to work and back

 

[Double four]

Things are tight for me too i had to let a couple of wildfowling clubs go this year, with the increase in fuel price not only diesel but lpg for our domestic heating im cutting back on the trips up North too,
1200 miles four times a year wasn't too bad in a astra van but now i just have a fuel gobling defender its not viable.
Just managed to save up for a local pheasant syndicate, then missus points out we havnt had a decent holiday since our honeymoon !
I tell her i take her away when im shooting in Norfolk, but she assures me a caravan parked in my mates yard that resembles a breakers is not really her idea of paradise !

 

[Scots_stalker]

Do you mean as in civil unrest, rioting kind of summer?

yeah , things are grim for 90% of folk in this country while the top 10% carry on unabated, people queing for red cross food parcels in towns across the UK,while politicians live a life of luxury ,and either are so out of touch with the common man or dont care, ie the 3p rise in duty

 

[Muir]

Here we have 47% of the population paying for programs that support the other 53%; and those people are demanding more. Fuel here is going to hit an astronomical high this summer and things will get ugly. Yes, I know you pay more but we have huge oil reserves in this country that our beloved President -God grant him a long and happy life- won't allow us to drill. Instead, he gave several billion US tax-payer dollars to Brazil to aid in their oil exploration in hopes, as he put it, "... that we will become your best customers!" They found the freaking oil, alright, and contracted to ship it to China. People here are fed up.~Muir

 

[bambislayer]

I think most folk are in the same boat but at least you are doing the right thing, curtailing expenditure, many would just use the credit card!
Although I returned to being a wage slave last year, it's not been easy for self employed folk. I've cut my weeks fishing to 1 day [was yesterday, cold wind no use! although good company, food and luxury fishing hut] The wildfowling has ceased over the last 3 years, I'm still keeping my pheasant syndicate place but no hols!