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Bought some dried beans , split peas , and soup mix today ......eight kilo total .....also eight kilo’s of pickling onions To go with my own onions I pulled this morning . Twelve packets of seeds for £1. 35 from Wilco selling them off ....all good till 2024 .

Ordered some more fermentation bins and dried yeast along with some other wine making bits , there are a glut of blackberries right now, going to pick more tomorrow enough to make three gallons of wine .

Looked in on John the farm yesterday , to find him complaining of the price of food .....and everything else .....

diesel and heating oil and the price of meat ! ( how could it be possible for things to become so bad so quickly ? ) ...easy John ...it’s called inflation ! It’s running at 10% right now and by years end it will be between 13 to 15% and those figures are from the BOE forecast .....so if you had savings account with say 10k in it ....it will be worth £8.500 by years end or that’s what your buying power would be reduced to .....trouble is people still look at the balance amount on their statements and still think they have 10k when they Do Not in reality, they just do not understand how inflation works to undermine their savings and rob them blind ! In a stealth creepy way ....it’s not that things are going up in price , it’s more their currency is loosing its value ! .

As the conversation carried on we talked about the days when women cooked meals from scratch using offal to create some of the most tastiest filling and wholesome meals anyone could eat ...and how this was achieved on a open fire or coal fired range ......( yes but hardly any women know how these days says John ) they all have mobile phones including the kids ....they can afford cigarets and cheap booze ....yet the kids need new shoes and cloths . There is no self respect anymore , they have lost their moral compass and can not find a way back even if they were looking ....they seem to think their behaviour is the norm .....I feel sorry for them kids ...where will they end up ? .....I said societal collapse has started already and like everything else going on these days it’s going to get a lot worse ! Pal . ( well I’m glad we are old .....we had the best of living a good life John exclaims) .

Sorry to banter on folks but there are lots of take aways from a good conversation especially from old folks ...they seem to know a lot more ! .