So there I was yesterday, grappling with my magnificence while Cherie was showing off her cocktail dresses*, when the phone rings. Yet another recruitment professional offering me a job interview. Cor bleeders. Now my head is split in three.
Back at the ranch we've been sent a farm census form with a covering letter politely asking us to take the time (we know you're very busy (watching Bargain Hunt)) please please - oh and by-the-way "I do not need to tell you that the Act states that you could be fined if you do not...".
The form asks about tenure - and there are a variety of options presented - but none of them seem to apply to us because, as we were reminded by a communique from the Crofters Commission : " In law an owner of a croft that does not have a tenant is classed as 'the landlord of a vacant croft'. The Commission's current policy is not to seek letting proposals from an active, resident landlord. Once purchased the croft is considered to be vacant. In law an owner is classed as 'the landlord of a vacant croft' as the croft does not have a tenant.)" [sic]
It's-nothing-to-do-with-being-German-of-course -but- Jussi takes these forms seriously and phoned Rural and Environment Analytical Services at Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate (RERAD) to seek advice on how to complete the form. The answer they gave was to treat the owner occupied crofting land as neither owned nor rented and the owner occupied decrofted land as owned.
Phew.
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