How the f**k do you grow spring barley in southern France
Quarantine and idiots
- Thread starter Exfarmer
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
How the fudge do you grow spring barley in southern France
Looking quite promising. It can’t be as disappointing as most combinables have been this year.
Old McDonald
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- Harray, Orkney
In another day my wife and I will have been in quarantine for 20 weeks. She has not been more than 10 yards from the house in that time and never seen another human being except me. Way back in the 1978/79 winter she had 3 months of the same due to snow. I have seen, at a distance, people delivering our grocery orders. I have also done a bit of work around our small farm. We could take another 20 months of this with no problem. I do admit that we have never holidayed - never seen the need for it. We have had the odd few days between moving countries and a couple of visits back to the UK from Australia and here, but otherwise as @Danllan says, there is no need for a holiday, just a want.
I’m really feeling a need to get away from the heat☀☀☀
How hot has it been. Real temperatures please, not guesswork. My "proper" thermometer in a shaded position has recorded 35.9 twice this year, otherwise always below 35. That is not hot, just a tad too warm. 45 is hot. Ask Farmer Roy.
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
That was my first thought too, but it's the UK we're talking about not Syria (although some parts might be getting closer these days) Its not really that terrible and holidays within the UK are available, I could understand it more if you were in the middle of winter and needed some sun - insert UK summer jokes here - but it cant be that bad at the moment.
Best just to write 2020 off in my opinion and stay put.
I'm not planning on leaving here for a year or two.
paul&mandy
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- surrey/west sussex
2 polish workers at a place I 1work come straight of the plane and mingling with farm staff and sharing machines. Boils my blood, said f off keep 6m from me.
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Would have thought your employers should have taken more care about that, very irritating.
Mind you, just as likely to have a problem with a local home grown colleague if they've been mixing in a pub?
paul&mandy
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- surrey/west sussex
I'm not an employee but was warned, but they were mixing with the full-timers. If 1 gets it does the farm essentially get shut down? I'd be a bit more careful...
50% of the population are not the slightest bit concerned about covid , maybe they're right .maybe not
paul&mandy
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- surrey/west sussex
were definitely in the cautious 50% bracket then....
There's cautious and paranoid .
grainboy
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- Bedfordshire
Yet your going to go on holiday to France 
ollie989898
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Yet your going to go on holiday to France
If he is staying in a private residence, I see no issue. Be different going to a holiday resort packed with folks and using a mini bus to get about with sweating Brits packed neck and neck?
Hardly a holiday , 2 weeks roofing ...Yet your going to go on holiday to France
- Location
- Limousin, France
In August! Phew!!
I'm not doing it , Kate is .
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Okay, sorry,
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
Campsite dwellers in Craven Arms who are under lockdown seen walking about the town.
instead of taking from the community their giving something for a change.Campsite dwellers in Craven Arms who are under lockdown seen walking about the town.
I won’t be calling at Tuffins then, if we pass through to visit family in LudlowCampsite dwellers in Craven Arms who are under lockdown seen walking about the town.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
You’ll need plenty of lights and work at night.
Brief respite at the mo, turning hot again from Thursday
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