what grinds your gears

@Av Gorritt - before chucking the pan, leave it to soak in some hot clothes washing powder/liquid. Leave overnight and see if it recoverable. Alternative use is a good chicken water bowl, but dont use for turkeys as they just peck the shiny bits for hours... ting, ting, ting...
Yes , I've already done that , and what seemed like a TOTAL disaster looks like being recoverable . Hope so anyway . I have neither chickens nor turkeys , in fact I have no livestock at all that depends on me - not even a goldfish . ANY kind of livestock requires commitment and responsibility , neither of which I need - thank goodness !
 

bumkin

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
pembrokeshire
I sympathise i live on my own and try to cook for myself with varying success and failure i also agree about home cooking, On the subject of posh restaurants many years ago my wife and i were at one such place and the waiter corrected my wifes' pronunciation of some french word on the menu by saying "do you mean so and so ?" my wife was french and university educated said no i do not! then ripped into him in French i don't know what she said but we didn't see him for the rest of the evening
i forgot to say she then took out a pen and corrected the menu and handed it to the owner on the way out
 
Wire left in paddocks by previous owners...the biggest nightmare, my pet steer managed to get his leg caught tonight, found laying flat all bloated with one leg in Wire, freed it up got him some water amd he managed to stand and walk back to his shed...which i was cleaning and had just finished..

Lazy farm owners are the lowest form of scum imo.

I have shut that paddock off and will go alongbtree lines tomorrow moring in two other paddocks and make sure there is no wire, ill be doing it xmas day if i have too.

Ant....
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Christmas, it was always such a sh!t show when I was a child that even with my own kids I try and get into it but apart from buying and wrapping presents I really just cannot.

the fact we cannot have a semi normal meal, no we need 3 starters, 32 vegetables, 5 deserts. 12 variants or white wine, 18 red and 3 Prosecco. Meanwhile everyone is getting wound up as one of the 3 deserts and the stuffing aren’t perfect, 2 of the vegetable offerings might be slightly over prepared . Look go buy them from the super market, chill out and if people don’t like it then then tuff it’s family they shouldn’t care.
 

Lapwing

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
I had a brilliant idea a few years back: Christmas once a decade, & serious fines for any mention of it, Christmas trees, or Santa before mid December. The genius of my plan was the ability to “play one’s Joker” once in a lifetime & actually opt out of that decade’s festivities with no repurcussions.

Apparently I am a grumpy old sod.
 

Nearly

Member
Location
North of York
I had a brilliant idea a few years back: Christmas once a decade, & serious fines for any mention of it, Christmas trees, or Santa before mid December. The genius of my plan was the ability to “play one’s Joker” once in a lifetime & actually opt out of that decade’s festivities with no repurcussions.

Apparently I am a grumpy old sod.
A shed full of suckler cows due to calve early January is almost as good as a joker.
 
Wombat , same here no tree or decorations , 11 cards up 🙄
wanted to lift beet today and tommorow , but lifter man off 😡 and its dryed up nicely could of got another 25 acre up and drilled , fff ing rain again mid week , Got to take every oppotunity with weather as it is ,
got some jobs lined up for 25 th , sharpening drill bits with new toy ,and painting landrover roof ,
going to a mates in cumbria for 2 days seeing its wet mid week
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
My fathers side of the family in Scotland never celebrated Christmas Day and it rubbed off on me to some extent. I struggle to get into the spirit of it. I look at all the stress over buying unecessary presents for people who want for nothing and wonder if the world’s gone mad. It’s not actually because I’m a miserable old git, as actually I’m quite happy, but I just don’t get the materialistic side of things and how folk get so hung up about having to have this that or the other or think that if you don’t give them a present it equates to not caring about them. I do the Christmas thing mainly to please my wife and family but personally I could manage without it. I suppose it’s a children’s thing and nice for them to be excited about something at that age as I was. But as adults? Well I for one am over it. I’ve a tyre in the shed with a puncture to mend if I need some time away from the festivities. That will do for me.👍
 

box

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
NZ
Christmas is great for the kids. Cheap, thoughtful, useful gifts and a bit of family time go a long way and make some fantastic memories.

The way adults get carried away with the festivities is a bit silly, almost childish.

It's a good time to take a little bit of time out and unwind. No need to make a big "thing" out of it.

Now as for new years celebrations.....don't get me started.

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Fellstoflats

Member
Livestock Farmer
Fattening cattle broke their maize bin last night. rubbish.

Never mind, I'll dig the spare out, and we'll fix that in the New Year.

Only that's the spare.. the other broke month back and got hoyed in the nettles, presumably for fixing post shooting season..

Double rubbish.
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Wilksy

Member
Location
East Riding
My fathers side of the family in Scotland never celebrated Christmas Day and it rubbed off on me to some extent. I struggle to get into the spirit of it. I look at all the stress over buying unecessary presents for people who want for nothing and wonder if the world’s gone mad. It’s not actually because I’m a miserable old git, as actually I’m quite happy, but I just don’t get the materialistic side of things and how folk get so hung up about having to have this that or the other or think that if you don’t give them a present it equates to not caring about them. I do the Christmas thing mainly to please my wife and family but personally I could manage without it. I suppose it’s a children’s thing and nice for them to be excited about something at that age as I was. But as adults? Well I for one am over it. I’ve a tyre in the shed with a puncture to mend if I need some time away from the festivities. That will do for me.👍
The trouble is that everyone gets everything they want all year round , I remember as a lad wanting certain toy and I had to wait till birthdays or Christmas for it but it made it special
 
I've eaten out at some so-called expensive fancy eateries , and I've NEVER had a meal better than the ones the OH used to put out , (or my mother for that matter ) I do really try for myself but sometimes I fail ! I planned on having a beef stew with suet dumplings yesterday . I got my meat out , with a nice piece of beef kidney and an onion for basics , put them in a pan with water on the hob -- and promptly fell asleep . only to be awakened by the smell of frazzled meat and onion - burnt to a cinder , pan probably knackered too !. Finished up with a "Pukka - pie " out of the freezer instead ! It's a steep learning curve is this culinary thing .
I was left with the simple task of watching over the Christmas pud yesterday. Mrs Fred put it on the Aga at 3pm and all I had to do was keep an eye on it and top up the water every now and then for 8 hours so it would be ready to take to her brothers' today. Come 10 O'clock, I decided to just sit in the comfy chair for a few minutes and rest my eyes until the pud was ready, and before I knew it, it was 2am. It hadn't run dry, but I think it might be a little overdone. :unsure:
 

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