Jane Golding

Freelance translator (French to English). Living in Dorset. Love antiques, walking, Baroque music, Georgians, Regency, crafts, homoeopathy.

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@createstreets Because planning laws were not strict enough!

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@createstreets Doesn't bode well for the architectural style of all those planned council estates ...

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@PeterSweden7 Many elderly people cannot hear very well, so it's important that care staff can be understood clearly.

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@BellaWallerstei Yes, absolute theft from families! Why should the Government take families' hard-earned money?

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Inheritance tax receipts will reach £14.5bn by 2030-31. Britain now has one of the heaviest inheritance taxes on earth - an immoral raid on families who’ve already paid their dues. Should be scrapped entirely

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@createstreets Many architects do not want to recreate the beautiful styles of the past, but would rather impose their hideous modern creations! (While their own home is probably Georgian ... )

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@JamesMelville We have an excellent local fish van and also have organic milk delivered from a local farm. We also have organic veg delivered.

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@createstreets Absolutely hideous

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@dEEN1cKers0n 40 degrees here in Dorset!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Across Britain right now, farmers are shearing their sheep, bagging up the wool, and burning it. Some bury it. Some leave it to rot in a corner of the field. The wool-burning has made the odd headline as a protest, but the truth is duller and sadder. The fleece is worth less than the diesel it would take to haul it to the depot.

The numbers are grim. In recent years a kilo of British wool has fetched somewhere between twenty and sixty pence, and hill breeds like Swaledale and Welsh Mountain sank as low as ten. A whole fleece off a mountain ewe might bring thirty pence. Shearing that same ewe costs the farmer around two pounds. One Lincolnshire farmer added it up out loud: over three pounds to shear and cart a single fleece to the depot, and twenty-six pence back. So she burns them. A great many do.

Here is the part that stings. The shearing still has to happen, every year, whatever the wool will fetch. A sheep left in full fleece overheats, struggles to move, and gets eaten alive by maggots. So the job carries on purely as welfare, a cost the farmer simply eats to spare the animal, with the wool itself going on the fire straight after.

And think about what this fibre once was. For centuries wool was the engine of the English economy, the country's greatest export and the crown's main source of tax. It raised the soaring wool churches of the Cotswolds. It turned merchants into princes. To this day, whoever presides over the House of Lords sits on the Woolsack, a literal cushion of wool, put there in the fourteenth century so nobody would forget where the nation's wealth began.

Prices have lifted off the floor this past year, the first real relief in a long while. It still does not cover the shears for a hill farmer. The fibre that built England now smoulders in a heap behind the barn, and almost nobody notices the smoke.

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@wylfcen Received Pronunciation (RP)!

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@createstreets An excellent initiative. Most hospitals do not feel like places of healing, but scary, harsh places full of bright lights, noise and artificial materials.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Absolutely ridiculous thing to say.

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@wylfcen I wonder if it's related to blesser in French (to injure)?

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@LabourfutureUK Fed up with hearing about working people. What about the rest of the population?

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@LBFlyawayhome I had that exact box!

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@Sandra55 I agree!

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@JamesMelville Ban inappropriate replacement windows in old buildings!

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@createstreets Quite right. Replacement windows have ruined the appearance of the UK more than anything else. In Brighton, some years ago, sash windows in a council estate were replaced with inappropriate windows, cheapening the appearance of the whole estate, which was previously very elegant.

[Jane Golding @Willoqueau]

@ImtiazMadmood It's the same in Switzerland. Apologies for a delay of a few minutes.