Bet he does not have any livestock to worry about!!!!

Around here in S Wales you might get a very different response and find
yourself looking down the wrong end of a tube much more dangerous than a
down tube<G>

All the best--


Richard

Richard Kenward
01873 890670



"sniffer" <nospam@any.com> wrote in message
news:9dqceq$rf8$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk...
> Due to Foot and Mouth I've been staying off the farmers land. However, I
> was driving past his place the other day and I saw him building a wall so
I
> stopped for a chat. He didn't seem to know who I was, so I reminded him
> about my paragliding (Parmotoring) on his land and told him that I have
not
> been on his
> land since F&M broke out. This was his response;
>
> *I think the F&M is at it's back end anyway, but I'm not bothered about
you
> coming on my land to fly. It's OK by me, you can use any of my land
anytime
> you want as long as you don't use my fields if the grass is long until I
> have had time to cut it.* He went on to point out that he was not
concerned
> about me going on his land as long as I don't go fly from his farm to
other
> farms to land on farm-land that is not his land. He pointed out that he
> considers that there is virtually no risk of infection from me just using
> *only* his land. I was amazed by his generosity and level headedness.
> There had been a new outbreak of F&M about 20/30 miles away only the day
> before I spoke with him.
>
> What an amazing guy.
> Has anyone else had any similar reactions from farmers?
>
>
>
>
>

View index by [date] [author] [subject]
Previous message: Re: "Phoenix" hangglider, red
Next message: Re: Lincoln City, OR, Floyd A. Rogers
Next message in thread: Re: Farm say's OK no problem, sniffer
Previous message in thread: Farm say's OK no problem, sniffer