hirons11
Player Valuation: £10m
Found this on another forum, seems to sum things up rather well if you ask me.
"So for a number of years, we’ve kept horses and ponies in a shared field of which we own a 20% stake. This makes us one of the bigger owners. It would be great if we could afford our own piece of land and not have to share with others. However, whichever way I look at it, if we had our own field, things would cost much more as we’d need to do all our own fence maintenance and buying hay and straw would be much more expensive as we’d only be buying a small quantity. Currently we get great prices buying in bulk for all the owners. It’s not perfect but it makes sense.
Anyway, things all began to change when I started listening to this fella, Nigel Barrage, whilst drinking down the local.
He’s been down there for years going on about how much better life is when you have your own land and how much better unicorns are than normal horses and ponies. For almost as long as I can remember, everyone sort of ignored him as a bit of a nutter. Over the last few years though, it seems every Tom, Oleg, Harry and Abdul are getting horses and there’s definitely a few more in our field. Some of them even look a bit different from the high quality we like to see. Other people started saying how his ideas about having your own land really do sound quite good and the unicorns are apparently awesome. Eventually, I even found myself talking to him. I have to admit, he caught my interest.
Cutting a long story short, the Unicorns do sound bloomin awesome. They do everything a horse does but they don’t shoot. All the good, none of the bad and they can even fly. He also gave me some advice on how, rather than sharing the whole field, I could fence off my share that I owned as it is much better to look after unicorns in a controlled area rather than sharing with lots of other ponies.
I told my daughter all about the unicorns and she was sold on one completely so we agreed to get one. I told the wife and let me tell you, she did not share my enthusiasm. It’s not unusual to have a disagreement now and again but she really wasn’t happy about our decision to get a unicorn even going as far as to suggest they don’t exist. She also keeps shouting at me asking how on earth I thought we’d be able to get our own horses out of the field when the gate wasn’t in the bit of the field I’m fencing off. Turns out, we can’t even fence one side of our plot due to some old agreement. I’m pretty sure fencing off 3 sides will be enough to stop the other ponies entering our section though.
I have told her that even though their horses will no longer be allowed in our bit of field, we’ll still be able to use their land to get to the gateway because that is what I expect. They’ll be fine with that I’m sure.
Back to the unicorn though and it turns out they’re damned hard to find. I’ve had to stay strong though and keep looking, it’s just a matter of perseverance. The problem is, the daughter is getting a bit agitated because she’s wondering what the heck has happened to her unicorn? The slight upside for me personally is, she’s kind of put her mum on the hook for the lack of her unicorn because mum was pretty anti from the off. My daughter thinks (and I’m inclined to agree) that if her mum would pull her finger out and help me, we’d have found one by now. I’ve got to be honest though, I can’t recall the relationship with my wife ever being quite so hostile and the daughter is really pulling no punches when talking to her mum.
My own mum has only added to the confusion to be honest. She originally agreed with my wife about stupid the unicorn scheme was but once her granddaughter was so excited by the prospect of a unicorn in her own private field she begrudgingly came round and sort of took over a bit like mums can do.
Now, much as my mum is making all the right noises, I’m not entirely convinced she’s fully on board. She keeps going unicorn shopping but has lots of private conversations with the other part of owners of the field and not finding a unicorn. A few weeks back, she suggests to me that we stick a horn on a ponies head and simply tell my daughter that we are now unicorn owners.
This has proven to be the final straw for my wife. My mum was going to try to sell the horned horse to my daughter a few weeks back but neither the wife or I agreed with that. My mum continues to insist it will work despite nobody agreeing with her. Now the wife has turned round and said if our daughter doesn’t accept the horned pony, my mother has 3 days to solve the whole mess. "
My elderly uncle who is a bit of an odd character that nobody ever took seriously says he has a perfect solution to all our problems. Trouble is, he won’t tell us what it is until my mum goes away. He’s got loads of kids that think he’s awesome but nobody is quite sure why.
Look forward to it being picked apart
"So for a number of years, we’ve kept horses and ponies in a shared field of which we own a 20% stake. This makes us one of the bigger owners. It would be great if we could afford our own piece of land and not have to share with others. However, whichever way I look at it, if we had our own field, things would cost much more as we’d need to do all our own fence maintenance and buying hay and straw would be much more expensive as we’d only be buying a small quantity. Currently we get great prices buying in bulk for all the owners. It’s not perfect but it makes sense.
Anyway, things all began to change when I started listening to this fella, Nigel Barrage, whilst drinking down the local.
He’s been down there for years going on about how much better life is when you have your own land and how much better unicorns are than normal horses and ponies. For almost as long as I can remember, everyone sort of ignored him as a bit of a nutter. Over the last few years though, it seems every Tom, Oleg, Harry and Abdul are getting horses and there’s definitely a few more in our field. Some of them even look a bit different from the high quality we like to see. Other people started saying how his ideas about having your own land really do sound quite good and the unicorns are apparently awesome. Eventually, I even found myself talking to him. I have to admit, he caught my interest.
Cutting a long story short, the Unicorns do sound bloomin awesome. They do everything a horse does but they don’t shoot. All the good, none of the bad and they can even fly. He also gave me some advice on how, rather than sharing the whole field, I could fence off my share that I owned as it is much better to look after unicorns in a controlled area rather than sharing with lots of other ponies.
I told my daughter all about the unicorns and she was sold on one completely so we agreed to get one. I told the wife and let me tell you, she did not share my enthusiasm. It’s not unusual to have a disagreement now and again but she really wasn’t happy about our decision to get a unicorn even going as far as to suggest they don’t exist. She also keeps shouting at me asking how on earth I thought we’d be able to get our own horses out of the field when the gate wasn’t in the bit of the field I’m fencing off. Turns out, we can’t even fence one side of our plot due to some old agreement. I’m pretty sure fencing off 3 sides will be enough to stop the other ponies entering our section though.
I have told her that even though their horses will no longer be allowed in our bit of field, we’ll still be able to use their land to get to the gateway because that is what I expect. They’ll be fine with that I’m sure.
Back to the unicorn though and it turns out they’re damned hard to find. I’ve had to stay strong though and keep looking, it’s just a matter of perseverance. The problem is, the daughter is getting a bit agitated because she’s wondering what the heck has happened to her unicorn? The slight upside for me personally is, she’s kind of put her mum on the hook for the lack of her unicorn because mum was pretty anti from the off. My daughter thinks (and I’m inclined to agree) that if her mum would pull her finger out and help me, we’d have found one by now. I’ve got to be honest though, I can’t recall the relationship with my wife ever being quite so hostile and the daughter is really pulling no punches when talking to her mum.
My own mum has only added to the confusion to be honest. She originally agreed with my wife about stupid the unicorn scheme was but once her granddaughter was so excited by the prospect of a unicorn in her own private field she begrudgingly came round and sort of took over a bit like mums can do.
Now, much as my mum is making all the right noises, I’m not entirely convinced she’s fully on board. She keeps going unicorn shopping but has lots of private conversations with the other part of owners of the field and not finding a unicorn. A few weeks back, she suggests to me that we stick a horn on a ponies head and simply tell my daughter that we are now unicorn owners.
This has proven to be the final straw for my wife. My mum was going to try to sell the horned horse to my daughter a few weeks back but neither the wife or I agreed with that. My mum continues to insist it will work despite nobody agreeing with her. Now the wife has turned round and said if our daughter doesn’t accept the horned pony, my mother has 3 days to solve the whole mess. "
My elderly uncle who is a bit of an odd character that nobody ever took seriously says he has a perfect solution to all our problems. Trouble is, he won’t tell us what it is until my mum goes away. He’s got loads of kids that think he’s awesome but nobody is quite sure why.
Look forward to it being picked apart
