diary of a comedy sheep farm

Lodekka · Aug 1, 2020

spin cycle said:
pot and kettle

You know me so well...

Lodekka · Aug 1, 2020

Also, I never knew you had written a book about your exploits...

Not much mention about sheep though!

spin cycle · Aug 1, 2020

now i write it down it doesn't sound a frantic day....but it was :scratchhead:

mrs spin had got behind with her barn changeovers after yesterdays ice cream frenzy so first up i helped her by hoovering her holiday barn in bale.....checking both lots of sheep....both water ibc s nearly empty

.....back at farm main flocks ibc the same

.......so rest of morning spent hauling water...checking sheep....two lambs struck

.....i must admit i've 'dropped the ball' worming wise....they were due the week i was after sowing rape and now i'm suffering with last stragglers still untreated

back at farm bitta tidying on our holiday barn as mrs spin catches up post ice cream run

3pm boy turned up to take me to lowestoft to fetch his nearly new vw 'up'.......on the journey down i made the following observations
1/ inland beet were wilting badly
2/to many roundabouts on norwich's northern distributor road....whats the point of 2 ish miles of dual carriageway then roundabout

3/ two fisherman in a boat.....fishing right at the sewage treatment outlet other side of city

4/ few fields of horrible looking wheat east of the city

5/ only saw 2 combines working and 1 corn cart on road.....harvest looks like nothing to these big arable outfits......small doers seem extinct

we got to garage 4;30.....boy inside for ages :scratchhead:

.....finally emerges and we both drive over the road for coffee and donuts at greggs

......mid donut boy's phone rings....the dealer....havn't taken full deposit.....now boy knew this prior....you'd expect the dealer to know....i mean WTF were they doing

....i was just about to berate him when a large blob of jam hits my shirt

....i give up on my lecture

,,,,,after all how can you take a donut stained man seriously

back home HH is having another gathering c/w with small bonfire + bbq.....agin my better judgement but i'm 'outgunned'.....boy + lush 'in charge'

me with clean shirt ready to pounce if necessary

Lodekka · Aug 1, 2020

spin cycle said:
....i was just about to berate him when a large blob of jam hits my shirt ....i give up on my lecture,,,,,after all how can you take a donut stained man seriously

me with clean shirt ready to pounce if necessary

You jammy bugger!

Chopsy Varmint · Aug 1, 2020

spin cycle said:
now i write it down it doesn't sound a frantic day....but it was

mrs spin had got behind with her barn changeovers after yesterdays ice cream frenzy so first up i helped her by hoovering her holiday barn in bale.....checking both lots of sheep....both water ibc s nearly empty .....back at farm main flocks ibc the same.......so rest of morning spent hauling water...checking sheep....two lambs struck.....i must admit i've 'dropped the ball' worming wise....they were due the week i was after sowing rape and now i'm suffering with last stragglers still untreated

back at farm bitta tidying on our holiday barn as mrs spin catches up post ice cream run

3pm boy turned up to take me to lowestoft to fetch his nearly new vw 'up'.......on the journey down i made the following observations
1/ inland beet were wilting badly
2/to many roundabouts on norwich's northern distributor road....whats the point of 2 ish miles of dual carriageway then roundabout
3/ two fisherman in a boat.....fishing right at the sewage treatment outlet other side of city
4/ few fields of horrible looking wheat east of the city
5/ only saw 2 combines working and 1 corn cart on road.....harvest looks like nothing to these big arable outfits......small doers seem extinct

we got to garage 4;30.....boy inside for ages.....finally emerges and we both drive over the road for coffee and donuts at greggs......mid donut boy's phone rings....the dealer....havn't taken full deposit.....now boy knew this prior....you'd expect the dealer to know....i mean WTF were they doing....i was just about to berate him when a large blob of jam hits my shirt ....i give up on my lecture,,,,,after all how can you take a donut stained man seriously

back home HH is having another gathering c/w with small bonfire + bbq.....agin my better judgement but i'm 'outgunned'.....boy + lush 'in charge'

me with clean shirt ready to pounce if necessary

Excellent entry for today

Agreed on the NDR roundabouts. They are also stupidly small and curvy for having two or three lanes.

For your esteemed readership, who may not know of wot you write, I take the liberty of attaching a Naawfuk news report - apparently there have been 54 accidents on it since the first bit opened in November 2017. Mind you, having watched the included video clip, some people's lane discipline is awful.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/motoring/ma...e-norwich-northern-distributor-road-1-6454143

Glad to hear you were fortified with jammy donuts and a bit of takeaway on your shirt for emergencies on the way home

Flat 10 · Aug 1, 2020

spin cycle said:
now i write it down it doesn't sound a frantic day....but it was

mrs spin had got behind with her barn changeovers after yesterdays ice cream frenzy so first up i helped her by hoovering her holiday barn in bale.....checking both lots of sheep....both water ibc s nearly empty .....back at farm main flocks ibc the same.......so rest of morning spent hauling water...checking sheep....two lambs struck.....i must admit i've 'dropped the ball' worming wise....they were due the week i was after sowing rape and now i'm suffering with last stragglers still untreated

back at farm bitta tidying on our holiday barn as mrs spin catches up post ice cream run

3pm boy turned up to take me to lowestoft to fetch his nearly new vw 'up'.......on the journey down i made the following observations
1/ inland beet were wilting badly
2/to many roundabouts on norwich's northern distributor road....whats the point of 2 ish miles of dual carriageway then roundabout
3/ two fisherman in a boat.....fishing right at the sewage treatment outlet other side of city
4/ few fields of horrible looking wheat east of the city
5/ only saw 2 combines working and 1 corn cart on road.....harvest looks like nothing to these big arable outfits......small doers seem extinct

we got to garage 4;30.....boy inside for ages.....finally emerges and we both drive over the road for coffee and donuts at greggs......mid donut boy's phone rings....the dealer....havn't taken full deposit.....now boy knew this prior....you'd expect the dealer to know....i mean WTF were they doing....i was just about to berate him when a large blob of jam hits my shirt ....i give up on my lecture,,,,,after all how can you take a donut stained man seriously

back home HH is having another gathering c/w with small bonfire + bbq.....agin my better judgement but i'm 'outgunned'.....boy + lush 'in charge'

me with clean shirt ready to pounce if necessary

Is the VW UP (does it give itself an exclamation mark?

) white?
if so they look more like trainers than automobiles...

Flat 10 · Aug 1, 2020

spin cycle said:
now i write it down it doesn't sound a frantic day....but it was

mrs spin had got behind with her barn changeovers after yesterdays ice cream frenzy so first up i helped her by hoovering her holiday barn in bale.....checking both lots of sheep....both water ibc s nearly empty .....back at farm main flocks ibc the same.......so rest of morning spent hauling water...checking sheep....two lambs struck.....i must admit i've 'dropped the ball' worming wise....they were due the week i was after sowing rape and now i'm suffering with last stragglers still untreated

back at farm bitta tidying on our holiday barn as mrs spin catches up post ice cream run

3pm boy turned up to take me to lowestoft to fetch his nearly new vw 'up'.......on the journey down i made the following observations
1/ inland beet were wilting badly
2/to many roundabouts on norwich's northern distributor road....whats the point of 2 ish miles of dual carriageway then roundabout
3/ two fisherman in a boat.....fishing right at the sewage treatment outlet other side of city
4/ few fields of horrible looking wheat east of the city
5/ only saw 2 combines working and 1 corn cart on road.....harvest looks like nothing to these big arable outfits......small doers seem extinct

we got to garage 4;30.....boy inside for ages.....finally emerges and we both drive over the road for coffee and donuts at greggs......mid donut boy's phone rings....the dealer....havn't taken full deposit.....now boy knew this prior....you'd expect the dealer to know....i mean WTF were they doing....i was just about to berate him when a large blob of jam hits my shirt ....i give up on my lecture,,,,,after all how can you take a donut stained man seriously

back home HH is having another gathering c/w with small bonfire + bbq.....agin my better judgement but i'm 'outgunned'.....boy + lush 'in charge'

me with clean shirt ready to pounce if necessary

Yesterday I saw 8 combines in 5 miles and only 2 were lesbians. Then I had ta go anovver 6 and I saw a MF and a Deutzee Fahr

Chopsy Varmint · Aug 1, 2020

Flat 10 said:
Yesterday I saw 8 combines in 5 miles and only 2 were lesbians. Then I had ta go anovver 6 and I saw a MF and a Deutzee Fahr

I clearly need to up my spotter game. I only recognise yellow ones, green ones, red ones, and those two-tone peely-wally* ones.

* really they are more of a snot-green but since 'snot' is a trigger word and Spins says he's got a clean shirt on to frighten The Boyfriend into compliance, 'peely-wally' will have to do instead.

Flat 10 · Aug 1, 2020

Chopsy Varmint said:
I clearly need to up my spotter game. I only recognise yellow ones, green ones, red ones, and those two-tone peely-wally* ones.

* really they are more of a snot-green but since 'snot' is a trigger word and Spins says he's got a clean shirt on to frighten The Boyfriend into compliance, 'peely-wally' will have to do instead.

There were arguments in the car about whether the MF was in fact a Case or if the Deutz was a John Deere. But thankfully both were going on the way home to allow confirmation....

Flat 10 · Aug 1, 2020

Chopsy Varmint said:
I clearly need to up my spotter game. I only recognise yellow ones, green ones, red ones, and those two-tone peely-wally* ones.

* really they are more of a snot-green but since 'snot' is a trigger word and Spins says he's got a clean shirt on to frighten The Boyfriend into compliance, 'peely-wally' will have to do instead.

Lesbians are peely wally as is @ spin cycles predictably....

(his combine, all those sniggering at the back...)

yellowbelly · Aug 1, 2020

Chopsy Varmint said:
I clearly need to up my spotter game. I only recognise yellow ones, green ones, red ones, and those two-tone peely-wally* ones.

Perhaps some 'light bedtime reading'???..............

............or maybe a dvd????...........

Chopsy Varmint · Aug 1, 2020

yellowbelly said:
Perhaps some 'light bedtime reading'???..............
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............or maybe a dvd????...........

Green ones and yellow ones!

Do I get a prize?

yellowbelly · Aug 1, 2020

Chopsy Varmint said:
Do I get a prize?

Look out for one of Spin's calendars in your stocking

(at Christmas, obviously

)

spin cycle · Aug 2, 2020

Flat 10 said:
Lesbians are peely wally as is @ spin cycles predictably.... (his combine, all those sniggering at the back...)

so 'lesbians' are lexions?....and 'peely wally'.....claas in general :scratchhead:

anyhoo

.....coupla bitsa 'housekeepin' from yesterday.....forgot to mention the bat bridges over the NDR....i'd been puzzling but boy knew what they were

....seems a do they/don't they work debate

....also seeing those fisherman by the sewage plant reminded me why cromer crabs are so 'good'....it's the seaward sewage outlet at west runton

blink and you'll miss it

...the wheat next to me has gone.....i round up some confused snot and they traipse back to the field

....decide to take rest of the morning off and have a late 'lay in'

.....not to be

...as i retire the resta the household gets up.....boy rounds up the bonfire but puts some boxes on...cue smoke....cue neighbour BT complaining...i'm oblivious but just as i'm drifting off mrs spin arrives home...hears of BT and chastens me for not defending 'her little' boy

...FFS he's 6ft and black belt/numerous dans karate...i mean i'm old fat and toothless (still)...how am i more scary

...plus she used ti get upset when i did trim the neighbours up

.....you can't win

....she is scathing about BT though...'he's odd...next door neighbours gardener saw him running round the lawn in his underpants one morning'....probably cos i knicked his trousers

next HH had done her usual good job clearing up after her do

.....and had gone to work at pub

.....mrs spin cajoles me into helping carry chairs tables back in....but thats it...there's no rest/mooching for me so i decide to go pasture topping.....i've had to 'modify' my broken linkage

....some chains+ d shackle lend support...it works and pasture topper + me chug along on my grazing marsh...it didn't get cut last autumn cos it was to wet and the alder took full advantage....K says it's good winter horse food :scratchhead:

my late dad's favourite film was 'ice cold in alex'....he would often say when we fixing something 'what would you do if you were in the desert?'.......i was often tempted to say 'not grow barley+ beet for a start'.....but i knew what he meant

...i do often stretch the maxim to it's limits though

clod hopper · Aug 2, 2020

spin cycle said:
so 'lesbians' are lexions?....and 'peely wally'.....claas in general

anyhoo.....coupla bitsa 'housekeepin' from yesterday.....forgot to mention the bat bridges over the NDR....i'd been puzzling but boy knew what they were....seems a do they/don't they work debate....also seeing those fisherman by the sewage plant reminded me why cromer crabs are so 'good'....it's the seaward sewage outlet at west runton

blink and you'll miss it ...the wheat next to me has gone.....i round up some confused snot and they traipse back to the field....decide to take rest of the morning off and have a late 'lay in'.....not to be...as i retire the resta the household gets up.....boy rounds up the bonfire but puts some boxes on...cue smoke....cue neighbour BT complaining...i'm oblivious but just as i'm drifting off mrs spin arrives home...hears of BT and chastens me for not defending 'her little' boy...FFS he's 6ft and black belt/numerous dans karate...i mean i'm old fat and toothless (still)...how am i more scary...plus she used ti get upset when i did trim the neighbours up.....you can't win....she is scathing about BT though...'he's odd...next door neighbours gardener saw him running round the lawn in his underpants one morning'....probably cos i knicked his trousers

next HH had done her usual good job clearing up after her do.....and had gone to work at pub.....mrs spin cajoles me into helping carry chairs tables back in....but thats it...there's no rest/mooching for me so i decide to go pasture topping.....i've had to 'modify' my broken linkage....some chains+ d shackle lend support...it works and pasture topper + me chug along on my grazing marsh...it didn't get cut last autumn cos it was to wet and the alder took full advantage....K says it's good winter horse food

my late dad's favourite film was 'ice cold in alex'....he would often say when we fixing something 'what would you do if you were in the desert?'.......i was often tempted to say 'not grow barley+ beet for a start'.....but i knew what he meant...i do often stretch the maxim to it's limits though

Quite a day there Spin! And thanks . . . You've put me off

never been much of a fan of sea

. . . Shivers!!

Chopsy Varmint · Aug 2, 2020

spin cycle said:
so 'lesbians' are lexions?....and 'peely wally'.....claas in general

anyhoo.....coupla bitsa 'housekeepin' from yesterday.....forgot to mention the bat bridges over the NDR....i'd been puzzling but boy knew what they were....seems a do they/don't they work debate....also seeing those fisherman by the sewage plant reminded me why cromer crabs are so 'good'....it's the seaward sewage outlet at west runton

...she is scathing about BT though...'he's odd...next door neighbours gardener saw him running round the lawn in his underpants one morning'....probably cos i knicked his trousers

Another busy and productive day getting stuff done

Matters arising:

1 Yes, Claas look peely wally. Well, to me anyway.

Definition of peely wally

2 There are also bat bridges (6 of 'em) over the Thetford bit of the A11 but back in 2015 they were reported as being a waste of £350k as the bats weren't using them so I was surprised to them on the NDR. Apparently the A11 bats were either no longer crossing the road, or flying too low amongst the traffic.

3 I have second thoughts about langoustine. Those big fat prawns are partial to the offerings from a sewage outlet, but they are so juicy and tasty and hard to resist.

4 Nothing too odd about nipping into the garden in your pants although I have never had my trousers nicked. Is there a story to the Stolen Trousers? Apologies if you've already told your dear readers, I think I must be too new here to have heard it.

Cowslip · Aug 2, 2020

Thankyou for the combine video it has just sent my 3year old to sleep after a 2 hour long battle

Lodekka · Aug 2, 2020

Cowslip said:
Thankyou for the combine video it has just sent my 3year old to sleep after a 2 hour long battle

My kids (22,27,29!!) glaze over as soon as I start talking about

buses or moisture meters...

Spin has such an interesting lifestyle that the odd bit of running around in your undergarments could be excusable or passed off as pacifying the snottage...

Only he can confirm - might work on HH or Cinders too...
Mrs Spin would probably laugh then have a mental picture of a cocktail sausage and two pickled walnuts...

God knows what Lush might make of it though....

yellowbelly · Aug 2, 2020

Chopsy Varmint said:
Matters arising:

Matters arising from 'Matters Arising'................

1. Thanks for clearing up the 'peely wally' thing - I couldn't work out WTF you were on about

2.

BAT BRIDGES

Are the chuffin' Norfolk bats not capable of flying over a fudgin' lorry :scratchhead:

The world's gone mad or at least the East Angular bit of it has

yellowbelly · Aug 2, 2020

Cowslip said:
Thankyou for the combine video it has just sent my 3year old to sleep after a 2 hour long battle

Pleased to be of assistance - it's all part of @spin cycle's remit to bring peace, joy and harmony to the TFF community, we all try to help if we can

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