Hyperthetically speaking... if you won

Tigerhair · Post: # 10412Post **Tigerhair** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:14 pm

Ã‚Â£10m (or equivalent) on the lottery...

What woud you do?

ina · Post: # 10428Post **ina** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:03 pm

Buy a smallholding, stop working for money (thereby doing somebody else who's desperately looking for a job a favour)... Not much else, really. Don't want to see the world - I'd probably go to Shetland again for a holiday, would like to go in summer to see all those birds and other wildlife, but it's really too expensive without the Ã‚Â£10m, or a bit less!

Edited to add: I'd offer my brother some help - it would depend on what he thinks best. He's just had to give up his business (due to cutbacks in Government spending), and at his age he'll find it difficult to find a new job. He'd probably love a smallholding, too! Well, he could do farm sitting for me when I'm off to Shetland.

Wombat · Post: # 10450Post **Wombat** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:12 am

Yep, me too - help out the family, buy a smallholding; see a bit more of the world though, Id like to come to the UK again, and invest in this site so Andy and Dave could spend a bit more time working on it!

Nev

Millymollymandy · Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:21 am

Probably stay in my house as I really couldn't be bothered to move house for the umpteenth time but get someone in to take it all apart and insulate it properly!!

Then buy lots of land and have horses! (and get a gardener in to do all the hard work

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hedgewitch · Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:39 am

I would buy a farm somewhere on a little plot of land that backed on to a forest or woodland, I would be totally self sufficient and get myself well and truly out of the rat race.
I would buy houses for all my family that doesn't have one and I'd probably buy a castle somewhere just because I could

Andy Hamilton · Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:49 am

Wombat wrote: invest in this site so Andy and Dave could spend a bit more time working on it!

Nev

Cheers mate

Firsts things first I would have a huge party that lasted a weekend.

Then I would buy a smallholding nothing huge, just enough to keep me busy. I would employ a couple of boffins to do much of the tech stuff that I would like to do with the site. Then I would put the rest on a horse.............. not really. I would buy a bit of brown field land, two or three wind turbines and some solar panels and start a green car share and taxi company. I would like to own a pub as well, perhaps one that was set on the small holding so that all the food was grown around it. I could even have a micro brewery so that it could be britains only self sufficient pub.

The rest of the money I would just waste

Wombat · Post: # 10476Post **Wombat** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:04 am

Britains only self sufficient pub.........................I like the sound of that!

Nev

Tigerhair · Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:09 am

I was browsing on a website the other day and found 200 acres of land - half wooded, this set me thinking... If I had the money, I would build a variety of wooden homes (with the wood taken from the forest).. then I would invite you lot to come and stay for free, with your own piece of woodland and "garden" and we could all work together to be self sufficient - doing stuff for each other and selling our products from a little shop. Stay as long as you liked... and show others how it worked. A few animals... different skills....

How would that work?

Wombat · Post: # 10485Post **Wombat** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:30 am

It would work bloody well!

Nev

Tigerhair · Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:51 am

Would you move from Aus, Nev? You'd be missed if you didn't!

Wombat · Post: # 10493Post **Wombat** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:59 am

You let me know, I'll be there.....

Nev

Tigerhair · Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:20 am

Sure thing!

Right... how many houses should I build? How many people would 200 acres support? Would 100 acres of woodland be enough/too much? How would we create energy? Water? Heat? Would we want a swimming pool (like the one in permaculture magazine - self cleaning/natural)? Would we want public buildings for us all to use as well as our own houses? What would these be? (I would suggest one would be a shop). What animals would we have? What wouldn't we be able to do? How would we organise ourselves without having a hierarchy?

Millymollymandy · Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:32 pm

Tigerhair wrote: What wouldn't we be able to do?

Have composting toilets.

Tigerhair · Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:35 pm

This'd do... http://www.ab-real-estate.com/result_if ... d_num=0527

Composting loos - why couldn't we have these? I'm sure we could manage disposal of waste....

Tigerhair · Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:40 pm

Ohh this is pretty... http://www.ab-real-estate.com/result_if ... d_num=0545

Oh dear... I'm dreaming again!