[taddy]

My original post was in support of hill farmers where ever in the U.K. they farm, if they in turn, as the farmers of Pontbren suggested, were willing to replant the tree cover on their upland farms.

This of course would need the backing of the leather arm chair brigade from the U.K. Cardiff (AND) Brussels to issue grants from the common agricultural policy or a change in the grant system to encourage the planting, (re-planting), of the tree cover.

Then again, I am only one of the many millions of plebs who pay their taxes in order to keep the backsides of the priviliged sat confortably in their leather arm chairs, so what do I know ? Your's, as ever, stay happy, Taddy.