SlipSlider,
A slightly strange question ... anyway, it was very straight forward really.
I have lived for a long time in a very rural community, the sort where most people know most people and some people know everything - even before it happens! I'm sure you know the sort of thing : living around here can make the Archers seem positively cosmopolitan.
I must have flown over these fields dozens of time (taking friends and family etc), but one day it just clicked how ideal those fields down there could be, if they were as flat as they looked from up here, subject to a few modifications. After that it was simple : I knew which farmer owned the land, saw him in the pub one night, and from that point on the negotiations were done in the time-honoured, Yorkshire-aled-up manner !
Lots of hoops to jump through yet but fingers crossed.
FF
