Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

They would be short of money to repay bank loans, though

 

I just been scamed, i had to pay my TAX

 

Personally I really don't want to see more panic buying, we had enough of that with covid.
What do the farmers want, I know they want higher prices but they could end up pricing them selves out of business, it's already cheaper to buy apples from New Zealand and ship them halfway round the world.
Lamb is very expensive but there are sheep everywhere.
Admittedly pork and chicken are cheaper but the way they are reared it's not surprising.
I know supermarkets make big profits and hammer farmers over prices, but it's called competition. It's how it works.

 

Let’s get rid of the big supermarkets and get back to the days of auntie Betty’s sister’s corner shop that sold uncle Fred’s chickens’ eggs and grandad John’s cabbages.

I still remember the first “supermarket” arriving in our village. It was the size of somebody’s front room. What a shock to see help yourself introduced to shopping.

 

I had to phone someone this morning and they use the VOIP (internet phone thingy) well i'm not inpressed,
Started ringing as normal then moved to a different ring (which sounded like a demened woodpecker) then back to the normal ring, got through and the person was so quiet and was very hard to hear, got put through the the person i needed to speak to and he was just about right to hear, but in speaking there must have been some time delay as we were speaking over one another all the time

Well, if this is progress then they should have to have another thinking sesson, it's bleeding rubbish (i should use another word)

I'm think i'm in grumpy mode today

 

I've bought from farm shops and apart from veg, everything is sky high price wise and often just quirky stuff that you buy once just to try, it must be better because its expensive is the thought that goes through you head at the time.

There is a so called local butcher in the area but I cant say anything they sell is any different to supermarket stuff, in fact I dont like the way its presented or handled. Its all raised to modern standards so its basically the same stuff, nothing like it was years ago..But then I dont eat much meat, so its not a problem.

I get most of my stuff from supermarkets and I waste very little, I only buy what I want or need, i rarely buy very processed stuff and never buy ready meals or that kind of stuff, I also pretty much ignore dates on packaging if I know how its been stored, I also use my nose.

I think the choice is up to the individual, maybe if you pay more you are less likely to throw it away, I dont know.

 

Many farmers can't afford to stop supplying. They live pretty much from hand to mouth anyway. Not the big ones, but the big ones aren't the majority. If farmers blockade supermarkets they have already sold their produce.

 

Yes it does work like that but it can't continue to do so. I've seen it in practice here. The farmers quite simply throw in the towel or commit suicide because the only way for them to break even, let alone make a profit, is by being subsidised up to the hilt. Which leaves them at the mercy of bureaucrats and governments. The younger generations, understandably, don't want to know. So there simply won't be a choice between imported or home produced. That leaves any country in a vulnerable position....relying on other blocs for food, energy, water.....

 

There is definitely something major wrong with the system when farmers can make more money by not producing food than by producing it!

 

@pete I thought lamb was only expensive here and would be cheap over there because when I flew in that time, there was a dearth of farmer land full of white little "pillows" which I am sure were sheep.

Buying from small local businesses or farmer's markets here is more expensive than the big box store. I'll do that once in awhile but I don't feel I can afford to spend extra money just on principle.