CREATING a new apple variety for my little orchard has proved to be real hard graft. My New Year resolution as we came into 2020 was to take a walk along the Newport-Cowes cyclepath and ‘borrow’ some trackside prunings or scions from a tree that I had previously discovered produced apples of real sweet crispness. It was to be my first sojourn into the world of grafting I first witnessed some years ago at Deacon’s fruit nursery in Godshill, where, in skilled hands, it was the work of seconds to graft scions to create new trees on rootstock that would control the size of the tree.
Late last year liquidators Hall Chadwick s Ginette Muller and Marcus Watters said in a report lodged with ASIC that a dividend was unlikely to be paid to any creditor and urged them to write off any debt owed by the company. It was in their view the company may have been insolvent or likely to become insolvent from at least July 2019 . They said Total Lifestyle Builders started to incur regular monthly net losses from as far back as August 2018 but still recorded an overall profit for the year ended June 20, 2019. However, the company made less profit and larger losses afterwards leading to an overall loss in the period up to June 18, 2020.