what grinds your gears

DrWazzock · Jul 20, 2020

HSBC unilaterally closed our partnership business account when my dad passed away without giving any good reason. We had 2 months to find another bank. The partnership was not dissolved and carried on. We had never borrowed any money and were well in credit. The “manager” even had the nerve to tell my mother she was too old to continue in the partnership. He was somewhat surprised to learn that my mother had worked in banks for more years than he had. Absolute strokers who put the boot in at our lowest ebb. They have gone from town now but we are still here with a different bank that was happy to have us.
Don’t put up with belligerence. Change banks. It’s not as difficult as you might think.

Pan mixer · Jul 26, 2020

This sort of thing is a PITA.

A question for sheep experts - will that sheep come into the yards on her own to allow herself to be caught and the bucket removed?

Or will you have to get her and the other 400 sheep in that field in to allow you to catch her and take the bucket off its' head?

You already know the answer.....

Lofty1984 · Jul 26, 2020

Get your gun out

to shoot the bucket handle obviously

Sharpy · Jul 26, 2020

You get the dog to catch it and hold it?

britt · Jul 26, 2020

Shake a similar bucket with some food in, it might come to you.

Robert K · Jul 26, 2020

They love the attention

Pan mixer · Jul 26, 2020

The amount of grass our sheep have got at the moment, shaking a bucket out there would be a very dangerous thing to do.

CollCrofter · Jul 26, 2020

Odd numbers of bacon in a pack of bacon. It's just insanity.

Danllan · Jul 26, 2020

Been there... the projecting lip on lick boxes that holds the handle down beneath it is a fine invention.

CPF · Jul 26, 2020

it's better round her neck , then kicking the bucket !

Hfd Cattle · Jul 27, 2020

Wait till it rains, she will be easier to catch with the bucket full of water !!!!

Pan mixer · Jul 27, 2020

This is not the west country, the rain will evapourate or she will have drunk it before it is too heavy.

DrWazzock · Jul 28, 2020

The one inward delivery of the week has now crept to exactly the same time slot as the one outward delivery I need to make this week.

JP1 · Jul 28, 2020

Keswick Mountain Rescue TeamLike Page
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A plea for help............Please share
Message from Richard Warren Chairman LDSAMRA
Cumbria Police and the Lake District’s Mountain Rescue Team’s have seen a tidal wave of avoidable rescues that is putting a real strain on our volunteer team members and is unsustainable. Since last Friday evening we have had 19 callouts in the Lake District with a focus on the Wasdale team with 9 of these incidents. Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team cover Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England and a magnet for walkers and climbers. Many of our walkers and climbers are very experienced and know exactly what they are doing. However, 11 of the callouts were truly avoidable with inexperienced and ill prepared walkers finding themselves in serious, life threatening trouble being either missing or lost.
The Cumbria weather which was accurately forecasted this weekend has caught out many but Cumbria Police have also commented that many are dialling in ‘999’ calls with as little as 1% battery remaining on their mobile phones. This means that after the initial call their battery dies and the mountain rescue team cannot get back to them which makes finding them a bigger challenge requiring more numbers of the volunteers. Many are relying on smart phone mapping apps which drain batteries and no back up.
The rescue on Scafell Pike late on Saturday night in forecasted atrocious conditions for a family group of three lasted 12 hours and involved five rescue teams.
Stay vacation holidays are introducing a new type of visitor to the National Parks and the current quarantine rules has the potential to make the matter worse. North Wales is experiencing a similar problem and we are sure that the same is being felt across many of the UK’s outdoor holiday destinations, great for the economy but a real issue for the volunteer rescue teams.
What can you personally do as a new or even regular visitor to help our volunteer teams?
Exercise within your limits and avoid taking risks. Know your level of skill, competence and experience and those of your group. Make sure you have the right equipment for your trip to the hills and valleys noting that many of our callouts are low down in the valley bottoms. Learn how to navigate, take a waterproof map and a compass, don’t rely on smart phone technology, it can let you down. Take a torch, even on the longest days, you never know when your activity will catch you out or you go to the help of a fallen, cragfast or lost walker. Take a power bank battery charger it will save you a lot of grief plus allow you to take even more of the memory photos.
Be kind to our volunteers and respectful to our emergency service, our rural communities and to our farmers.
There is good and essential advice on the website Adventure Smart UK So Stay Safe: #BeAdventureSmart make your good day better.
For further information about the LDSAMRA, the 12 teams and the work they do, please visit www.ldsamra.org.uk and follow the links
Also visit the national MREW website www.mountain.rescue.org.uk

Hfd Cattle · Jul 28, 2020

Half of them get lost walking through our farm ......no hope for them on Scarfil Pyle !!

Pilatus · Jul 29, 2020

People/ staff that can’t except change when the son takes over, and shakes the estate into the modern age.

Danllan · Jul 29, 2020

Everyone with cattle knows it will happen, but... every time I move a herd onto a beautiful piece of grass, the first thing the b*stards do is have an 'oh-be-joyful' and trash a decent sized patch of it.

I know it will happen, I'm used to it, I even expect it but, still, every f^cking time it really p!sses me off...

Scrapjockey · Jul 30, 2020

The cows did that twice today,when they have tramped over the fresh grass and reached the end fence they look back at you and start bawling as if they haven't been fed in weeks

Hfd Cattle · Jul 30, 2020

Built a workshop for my Father In law. He loves it and spends hours in there making things which is good but in the evenings we have to put up with him moaning and groaning about his aches and pains . Last night it drove me mad so I told him to shut up or I would stop him going in his shed till he learns to stop being so miserable . He was quiet for about ten minute then started again ....I never said a word but this morning this is how he found his workshop .

DrWazzock · Jul 30, 2020

A fertiliser salesman would say......The grass looks alright but is unpalatable. Do you ever apply sodium (salt) or trace elements such as iodine, selenium or cobalt? Imagine eating plain potato crisps all your life.
We did actually find that small applications of salt to grassland increased intake and reduced wastage. The other elements were too expensive to apply as a fertiliser so we bolussed them.
Probably ought to mind my own business but both your posts triggered this info from my memory.

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