The Hard Times Of Old England.

[sandyRoe]

Listening to The Archers today I was shocked to hear a decent couple out stealing timber in order to heat their home.
When poverty strikes in Ambridge is there anywhere safe from the scourge of poverty?

[bookbinder]

I suppose that it depends on one's definition of poverty.

[William51]

It is a storyline that is very topical. It is a pity the law is broken in this way and is a sign of our times.

[DTCwordfan]

They'll be falling off the church roof - which is, some Jim-like physicist calaculated is 360 feet high, following the length of the screams when Nigel Parfitter fell from the roof to commit suicide.

[elliemay1]

Hope you are keeping well, Sandy

[choux]

You can blame Peggy Woolley for this, she set up the trust that gave £500,000 for the rewilding ethos that has been going on for some time. If it is a toss up between poorly-paid people heating their modest home and bugs and insects losing a pile of cut branches I know which I favour.

[lankeela]

Haven't heard The Archers for a while, but if this is the Grundys they were always up for a scam, and this sounds like it could be them.

[douglas9401]

This heinous crime has been logged.

[sandyRoe]

DTC,
I'm sure you'll know this. Poor Nigel's fall has echoed down the years.

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.

[Barmaid]

We are out in the country and whilst we do not steal, we are currently burning an old barn on our fires. (My brother has - quite legally - dismantled an old barn a few miles away and dropped the timbers in here which Mr BM has cut up for firewood).

Dry wood is v expensive, as is coal!!!

[sandyRoe]

I thought that wood lying in a forest and rotten down wouldn't be suitable for heating a house. Too damp.