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He said the other day that he bought Home Farm aged 31? How did he have enough money to buy hundreds of acres of an active, productive farm at that age? Anyone remember?
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On 27/09/2025 15:59, Ben Blaney wrote:

He said the other day that he bought Home Farm aged 31? How did he have enough
money to buy hundreds of acres of an active, productive farm at that age? Anyone remember?

Vague idea that he sold a farm elsewhere in order 'to get a fresh start'
- but meringues are always in season.
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:05:22 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

On 27/09/2025 15:59, Ben Blaney wrote:

He said the other day that he bought Home Farm aged 31? How did he have enough
money to buy hundreds of acres of an active, productive farm at that age?
Anyone remember?

Vague idea that he sold a farm elsewhere in order 'to get a fresh start'
- but meringues are always in season.

I wouldn't want you to think that I just reached out my hand and The
Archers Encyclopedia fell into it and then opened itself at p11 so
I'll tell you what really happened. I had thought it had been in one
of my bookshelves but after combing though them, I eventually found it
in the fourth box of unshelved books that I happened to open: I
suppose I ought to have kept it a bit more handy than that.

The answer? The book just says his parents both died when he was
twenty-eight but without being more specific, I presume an inheritance
must have been involved. No reason I can think of why that inheritance
might not have been spent in purchasing a different farm which he then
sold to buy Home Farm: the book just said that he saw his future in
large-scale agriculture so I suppose he could well have sold a
different type of farm elsewhere to raise the cash.

Nick
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On 2025/9/27 22:44:12, Nick Odell wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:05:22 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

On 27/09/2025 15:59, Ben Blaney wrote:

He said the other day that he bought Home Farm aged 31? How did he have enough
money to buy hundreds of acres of an active, productive farm at that age? >>> Anyone remember?

Vague idea that he sold a farm elsewhere in order 'to get a fresh start'
- but meringues are always in season.

I wouldn't want you to think that I just reached out my hand and The
Archers Encyclopedia fell into it and then opened itself at p11 so
I'll tell you what really happened. I had thought it had been in one
of my bookshelves but after combing though them, I eventually found it
in the fourth box of unshelved books that I happened to open: I
suppose I ought to have kept it a bit more handy than that.

(-:

The answer? The book just says his parents both died when he was
twenty-eight but without being more specific, I presume an inheritance
must have been involved. No reason I can think of why that inheritance
might not have been spent in purchasing a different farm which he then
sold to buy Home Farm: the book just said that he saw his future in large-scale agriculture so I suppose he could well have sold a
different type of farm elsewhere to raise the cash.

Or, some other business or inheritance - or even, given his parents died
in the same year, an insurance payout (were they killed in a car crash,
say, or just life insurance policy/ies).

Nick

John
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Eddie [Waring] underook elocution lessons in Leeds. After four weeks he
was asked to leave - all members in his class had begun to speak like him. Stuart Hall, RT 7-13 August 2010
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:44:12 +0100, Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca>
wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:05:22 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

On 27/09/2025 15:59, Ben Blaney wrote:

He said the other day that he bought Home Farm aged 31? How did he have enough
money to buy hundreds of acres of an active, productive farm at that age? >>> Anyone remember?

Vague idea that he sold a farm elsewhere in order 'to get a fresh start'
- but meringues are always in season.

I wouldn't want you to think that I just reached out my hand and The
Archers Encyclopedia fell into it and then opened itself at p11 so
I'll tell you what really happened. I had thought it had been in one
of my bookshelves but after combing though them, I eventually found it
in the fourth box of unshelved books that I happened to open: I
suppose I ought to have kept it a bit more handy than that.

The answer? The book just says his parents both died when he was
twenty-eight but without being more specific, I presume an inheritance
must have been involved. No reason I can think of why that inheritance
might not have been spent in purchasing a different farm which he then
sold to buy Home Farm: the book just said that he saw his future in >large-scale agriculture so I suppose he could well have sold a
different type of farm elsewhere to raise the cash.

Hmmm... Browsing umra from novabbs.pugleaf.net this morning (it's back
up again: I suspect it's a weekend project which might explain why it
often seems to fall over during weekdays) I see that I mentioned my
boxes of books way back when we were discussing Larkrise to Candleford
as @Brritski unearthed the other day.

Yes, they are the same boxes and the same books and all that has
happened is that I seem to have acquired even more books and created a mezzanine shelf in one of my book cases to accommodate (some) of them.
There was an unreasonably large space between the fixed top shelf and
the top of the bookcase so I decided to fill it.

So, more shelves, more books on shelves but the other books are still
confined to their boxes.

Nick
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On Sep 27, 2025 at 5:44:12 PM EDT, "Nick Odell" <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:

The answer? The book just says his parents both died when he was
twenty-eight but without being more specific, I presume an inheritance
must have been involved.

And he's quite posh, so it's easy to imagine that they left him a pile. Well, there it is.

I don't know why more people don't pull themselves up by the bootstraps by the one simple step of ensuring that they're born to wealthy parents.
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On 29/09/2025 11:56, Ben Blaney wrote:

On Sep 27, 2025 at 5:44:12 PM EDT, "Nick Odell" <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:

The answer? The book just says his parents both died when he was
twenty-eight but without being more specific, I presume an inheritance
must have been involved.

And he's quite posh, so it's easy to imagine that they left him a pile. Well, there it is.

I don't know why more people don't pull themselves up by the bootstraps by the
one simple step of ensuring that they're born to wealthy parents.

Few people manage to do some simple planning prior to birth.
Slackers, the lot of them.
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Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:05:22 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

On 27/09/2025 15:59, Ben Blaney wrote:

He said the other day that he bought Home Farm aged 31? How did he have enough
money to buy hundreds of acres of an active, productive farm at that age? >>> Anyone remember?

Vague idea that he sold a farm elsewhere in order 'to get a fresh start'
- but meringues are always in season.

I wouldn't want you to think that I just reached out my hand and The
Archers Encyclopedia fell into it and then opened itself at p11 so
I'll tell you what really happened. I had thought it had been in one
of my bookshelves but after combing though them, I eventually found it
in the fourth box of unshelved books that I happened to open: I
suppose I ought to have kept it a bit more handy than that.

The answer? The book just says his parents both died when he was
twenty-eight but without being more specific, I presume an inheritance
must have been involved. No reason I can think of why that inheritance
might not have been spent in purchasing a different farm which he then
sold to buy Home Farm: the book just said that he saw his future in large-scale agriculture so I suppose he could well have sold a
different type of farm elsewhere to raise the cash.

No one expected umrats to exist all these years later!!

Mrs McT





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