Its been a manic 6 days for Vanessa and I (Jonathan) trying to move away the (more than) 14 tonnes plants and equipment in the 14 days at 6 hours a day we are allowed and then unload elsewhere. We are sorry the effort of doing that has stopped us from being responsive back to all the wonderful people who have supported us. We are so grateful for that support.

Thursday's Daily Telegraph article was well written. They approached us, not at our request. It's a shame that all the lovely pics of the Nursery bursting with colour from the plants, and tearoom, could not be shown. We will put one with each update. The one shown in this update is part of the Lower Shrubbery.

During the past 6 days we have received feedback from other people, and small businesses who say how they have also suffered from the hard financial action of the National Trust. We had always thought of the National Trust as benevolent and caring. If anyone reading has also suffered, please let us know by email address ngp@littleheathfarmnursery.co.uk.

We hope that our petition can also bring about a re-think within National Trust about their business policies that are, certainly in our case, wholly unnecessarily destructive, where their fund raising aims (that we support) could have been easily achieved without the harm to us that they agreed not to cause.

We see comments the National Trust have made back to members who have written to them about us. The National Trust justify their action by saying they are obliged under Charity rules to obtain best value. That is true. But they are also required to act in a lawful manner; to act in a fair and equitable manner; and in their own Charter, not bring disrepute upon their organisation.

They have failed on all three counts and denied us our right to a simple unconditional access agreement that we were lawfully entitled from 420 years of use that we asked for and they agreed we were entitled to. Then, as the do in other cases, IF we made a planning application for the additional development later on, that was the appropriate time to levy the £335k premium for access for those additional cottages.

Instead we were under horrendous duress to agree to the agreement they put forward, and placed a financial blight upon Little Heath Farm like a Sword of Damocles crashing our several attempts to get funding and killing us.

It would we wonderful if we could pass the 5,000 mark and go higher. that will give us power to achieve changes to help others. Please spread the word.