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Please may we have a board for people with ancestral homes on 100+ acres

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MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 08/10/2024 20:40

We need a safe space to talk about estate management and issues like current hedge-shape trends and navigating planning permission for a new wing when English Heritage are interfering. The lower classes just don't understand and can make very hurtful comments.

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toomuchcardboard · 08/10/2024 21:38

JaninaDuszejko · 08/10/2024 21:36

In all seriousness, 100 acres would give you an income below minimum wage unless that land was in a famous wine producing region. You need thousands of acres in the right parts of the country to be rich.

Which is why farms and estates near me are doing weddings, music festivals, camping... Nudist camping just up the road, too.

Jennyathemall · 08/10/2024 21:39

MagentaRavioli · 08/10/2024 20:53

Could we have a safe space for people who have more than 17 captive walruses as part of their business or family home? I am struggling to connect to people who understand the challenges relating to tusk care and walrus hygiene at this scale. People who have a single pet walrus can sometimes hijack the threads without the level of empathy I’d hope for.

I was saying just this only the other day! Jinx!

fagsandwine · 08/10/2024 21:40

I really need a safe space to talk about the challenges of building a swimming pond. It's so hard being judged.

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MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 08/10/2024 21:40

Uricon2 · 08/10/2024 21:26

I know someone whose family, a good few centuries back, owned the Ukraine. And Siberia.

C'mon, surely the reflected glory is an in Grin

You're in. But the trolls making fun of my 100 acres and single hedge are banned.

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Hedgerow2 · 08/10/2024 21:43

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 08/10/2024 20:40

We need a safe space to talk about estate management and issues like current hedge-shape trends and navigating planning permission for a new wing when English Heritage are interfering. The lower classes just don't understand and can make very hurtful comments.

Get your facts straight. There's no reason why English Heritage would interfere. You mean Historic England.

SweetSakura · 08/10/2024 21:45

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 08/10/2024 21:40

You're in. But the trolls making fun of my 100 acres and single hedge are banned.

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SweetSakura · 08/10/2024 21:47

I also think we need a separate board for the younger siblings who aren't going to inherit the family estate and try really hard not to get their hopes up each time their older sibling gets the sniffles

DoreenonTill8 · 08/10/2024 21:53

SweetSakura · 08/10/2024 21:47

I also think we need a separate board for the younger siblings who aren't going to inherit the family estate and try really hard not to get their hopes up each time their older sibling gets the sniffles

They can join the religious board as clergy...

SweetSakura · 08/10/2024 21:56

DoreenonTill8 · 08/10/2024 21:53

They can join the religious board as clergy...

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Snugglemonkey · 08/10/2024 21:56

Uricon2 · 08/10/2024 21:26

I know someone whose family, a good few centuries back, owned the Ukraine. And Siberia.

C'mon, surely the reflected glory is an in Grin

I know a lady who is descended from royalty. On both sides. Actually, she is related to 6 european royal houses just in the last 150 years. Surely, if anyone gets glory off friends, it is me.

Uricon2 · 08/10/2024 22:05

Snugglemonkey · 08/10/2024 21:56

I know a lady who is descended from royalty. On both sides. Actually, she is related to 6 european royal houses just in the last 150 years. Surely, if anyone gets glory off friends, it is me.

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Should we ask for our own board?

"Friends of royalty and the royalty adjacent. Only"

2ndMrsdeWinter · 08/10/2024 22:06

MY walri have their own water maze in their pool. Have had to be very assertive with my estates manager today, as the head landscaper keeps trimming the hedges too low and I can see said walri mating from the west wing drawing room. Most distasteful.

crockofshite · 08/10/2024 22:07

This is all very triggering for me. Mumsnetters are so thoughtless and toxic.

Snugglemonkey · 08/10/2024 22:08

Uricon2 · 08/10/2024 22:05

Should we ask for our own board?

"Friends of royalty and the royalty adjacent. Only"

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I feel it would be appropriate.

workplaceshenanigans · 08/10/2024 22:09

DoreenonTill8 · 08/10/2024 21:02

I would like a board for those who don't use mumsnet, and never will because it's full of cliques and nastiness! 😭 it's so distressing when you don't get constant adulation and acquiescence.

There is one knocking around somewhere, but nobody's used it for years and MNHQ have probably lost it down the back of the chaise longue by now.

SweetSakura · 08/10/2024 22:23

2ndMrsdeWinter · 08/10/2024 22:06

MY walri have their own water maze in their pool. Have had to be very assertive with my estates manager today, as the head landscaper keeps trimming the hedges too low and I can see said walri mating from the west wing drawing room. Most distasteful.

Sorry, no, that was me and DH, we got and bit lost on our way home from the nudist camp. Easy mistake to make

Uricon2 · 08/10/2024 22:24

workplaceshenanigans · 08/10/2024 22:09

There is one knocking around somewhere, but nobody's used it for years and MNHQ have probably lost it down the back of the chaise longue by now.

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Oh surely the Louis Quinze fauteuil that someone's ancestor borrowed from Versailles during a drunken party, surely?

This is MN, after all.

workplaceshenanigans · 09/10/2024 13:51

Uricon2 · 08/10/2024 22:24

Oh surely the Louis Quinze fauteuil that someone's ancestor borrowed from Versailles during a drunken party, surely?

This is MN, after all.

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Or maybe it's in the ice house.

RailwayCutting · 16/11/2024 17:51

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/10/2024 20:59

Does it have a jacuzzi, a Mercedes and room for a pony?

Please may we have a board for people with ancestral homes on 100+ acres
PicklesOfMany2024 · 21/11/2024 14:54

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 08/10/2024 21:38

Oh darling I don't grown anything! It's all landscaped.

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Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an English gardener and landscape architect,
landscaped in his style or another style ?

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