Just sold a field, I think (fingers crossed) for £15k an acre. Now I have to avoid spending the money. It's meant to go towards supporting me in my old age but, knowing me, that will only work if old age is defined as "within three years hence" !
Worries? Same as anyone in business. I closed a shop this year and have only just sold the premises, after 6 months, having made four staff redundant in the process; retail is in a bad way, though picking up slightly; and also closed a garage business with the loss of 20 staff; if you think retail is in a bad way, the motor trade is the worst I have seen it in in 30 years. Those premises cry out for redevelopment, but buyers are very thin on the ground. Whatever they say, banks aren't financing anything.
Still, for all that, I'm not as badly off as the skilled people who I had to lay off. Some are middle-aged, the redundancy money won't go far, and their prospects of re-employment in the midlands, or anywhere, are not good. At least I have more capital either now or in prospect.
Worries are comparative. My late father opened a new garage in the 1930s, when he was only in his twenties. He advertised for a petrol pump attendant. When he arrived next morning after the ad appeared, 83 men were on his forecourt, all after the one job. Many were older than his own father, let alone him, and highly skilled engineers. He never forgot that.Times have been harder.