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[Paddington]

Radio Shropshire were telling people where their local warming centre could be found. You could spend a few hours there during the day and get a simple hot meal. In Telford it was the Afro Caribbean centre run by Marlene, who was offering chicken jerky. Afro Caribbean, Marlene, couldn't be the same one as Buck House surely ?

 

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[DrWazzock]

Finally sprayed my OSR today. Temperature just cold enough to freeze the ground hard to travel but not so cold as to freeze up my sprayer. No wind either. About 0 degrees. Didn’t make a mark.
Sadly the boom fold mechanism broke just before the last run but managed to lash them straight with some heavy duty baler twine I found in the cab and got finished. Managed to get her folded up with a fair but of pushing and shoving. Can mend it at my leisure. Spraying over for 2022.

 

[Jerry]

That has to be a keeper, with a name. Sorry for your loss.

Heifer registered with breed society today.

Xiu (meaning Grace) plus mums Christian name

 

[TelesnaAg]

EU farming and environmental policies

it’s just like watch those fail videos on YouTube, make me laugh hard, eu has same affect

Ant…

 

[Cheesehead]

The look on people's faces when our neighbour we buy straw from let me use their large JD tractor and bale trailer along side my own tractor and trailer to haul the straw up the road quicker only to have the local Kubota dealers who were limping an M7153 I think back to the dealers asked a week later if they could leave it in our yard overnight. I can only imagine how many chins are wagging about me spending loads of money after my dad died given how quick one of them had to tell everyone he was sick though got the reason wrong and then when he had died.

My brother suggested getting a coat with a wind or solar company's name all over it.

 

[Nearly]

The look on people's faces when our neighbour we buy straw from let me use their large JD tractor and bale trailer along side my own tractor and trailer to haul the straw up the road quicker only to have the local Kubota dealers who were limping an M7153 I think back to the dealers asked a week later if they could leave it in our yard overnight. I can only imagine how many chins are wagging about me spending loads of money after my dad died given how quick one of them had to tell everyone he was sick though got the reason wrong and then when he had died.

My brother suggested getting a coat with a wind or solar company's name all over it.

Get a couple of mates in high viz to walk round roadside fields with clipboards.

 

[JWL]

I have a feeling we could start a thread up again about packages in the post.

Just had this through Amazon, a Td5 fuel pressure regulator kit, takes up around the size of a bag of crisps in a huge brown envelope/bag. I suppose it's harder to lose in the back of the van......

 

[Danllan]

Below is a link to a sort of Spanish version of Jack Hargreaves' Out of Town / Old Country TV series - it is subtitled (sometimes a bit dubiously). Lots of interesting subjects are covered, but this caught my eye because at our old place, when I was a sprog, there was a wooden fork very like these hanging up in one shed. Self and best friend were caught 'jousting' with it and it then disappeared, never to be seen again...

But that's in the past and this is a fascinating series well worth a view and, like Jack Hargreaves, I am very glad and grateful that some thought to record these old fellows while the skills were still extant.

 

[Cheesehead]

Below is a link to a sort of Spanish version of Jack Hargreaves' Out of Town / Old Country TV series - it is subtitled (sometimes a bit dubiously). Lots of interesting subjects are covered, but this caught my eye because at our old place, when I was a sprog, there was a wooden fork very like these hanging up in one shed. Self and best friend were caught 'jousting' with it and it then disappeared, never to be seen again...

But that's in the past and this is a fascinating series well worth a view and, like Jack Hargreaves, I am very glad and grateful that some thought to record these old fellows while the skills were still extant.

One of our favourites was Country Ways with Jim Flegg and Jill Cochrane they filmed a piece at the workshop of a woodturners just up from BWMB's Ashford depot that is now let out as offices.

 

[Gerbert]

Call me a simpleton but hey. This time of year I rarely drive a tractor for more then a few minutes, but today I had to deliver some woodchip. My JD 6930 autopower with a tipping trailer through some backroads that are quite narrow in places so you have to wait for a car in the wider spots every now and then. Boy do I love that tractor, it is so smooth and comfortable. Already 14 years old but I can't imagine needing more then what she has to offer.

 

[Danllan]

Call me a simpleton but hey. This time of year I rarely drive a tractor for more then a few minutes, but today I had to deliver some woodchip. My JD 6930 autopower with a tipping trailer through some backroads that are quite narrow in places so you have to wait for a car in the wider spots every now and then. Boy do I love that tractor, it is so smooth and comfortable. Already 14 years old but I can't imagine needing more then what she has to offer.

Ha, you spotter! You won't find anyone on here who gets emotional about tractors...

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Began shooting the new pig porn video.

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Might be able to actually make some money out of pigs at last

 

[Will 1594]

£10 for a glass of prosseco







was a pint Though

 

[Cheesehead]

I never thought I would say this but the RPA, after months of going in circles with Santander when it came to the farm account to the point that they then wanted us to each open personal accounts with them to then be able to open a business account as we needed to each have a "profile" it was such a change and so different especially given the grumbling dad used to do about waiting hours to speak to someone to get through straight away especially when they were so helpful at helping me get everything sorted and updated as well as where to send everything.

One of the only other ones that has been like that was Handelsbanken where the manager has been really helpful even when the main office has been swamped. I never thought I would say this as I think my dad rubbed off on me a bit but given how much Santander wanted all told a month we felt like we would rather pay the extra £10 to £20 more and speak to a local human without waiting 2 hours on the phone before getting nowhere.

Expect a post on the sister topic to this in the new year when it comes to dealing with the utilities.

 

[Gerbert]

Ha, you spotter! You won't find anyone on here who gets emotional about tractors...

I don't normally butI guess it had to do with having a rather hasty day, fixing a machine, having some minor problems with my milking robot, being all busy inside my head while in reality nothing all to complicated happened. It was a relief to just do a simple steady drive delevering some woodchip I suppose.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Sometimes, it’s the simplest thing.

I forgot my phone the other day. At first it bothered me but after a few seconds I thought “ I’m not bothering to go back for it”


Its daft, but those two hours just felt better. There were no missed calls, the world hadn’t stopped turning and all was well.


Like @Gerbert is saying, a simple something can feel like a breath of fresh air.

 

[DrWazzock]

The electric fire in the COOP has presumably been put there to create a community “warm space”. It’s right adjacent to the Slush iced drinks machine which is now going full throttle to keep its contents frozen as it struggles with the heat radiated from the electric fire.
Only in my town.