diary of a comedy sheep farm

Matthew Britton · Jun 19, 2022

robbie said:
He's got to get there first.....just imagine it, he'll be late leaving so it'll be a mega rush to get to the ferry on time, then he'll probably end up causing a traffic jam loading onto the ferry, then he'll probably pull the plug and the ferry will start to sink.
Once in France.......assuming he makes the crossing, he'll set off on the wrong side of the road, then maybe a puncture or two and a few pit stops for a rollie and a flake and then 18 hours later and a couple of hundred miles extra from wrong turns he'll realise he's left poor old Mrs spin standing on the drive way at home..........I really can't wait for comedy diary of a sheep farmer, on tour!!!!!!!!!

He’s going to Limoges, he will probably fly which opens the doors to just as many comedy moments

robbie · Jun 19, 2022

Matthew Britton said:
He’s going to Limoges, he will probably fly which opens the doors to just as many comedy moments

Oh Christ, I'm really not sure Stansted or the airlines are ready for spinney!!!

yellowbelly · Jun 19, 2022

robbie said:
I really can't wait for comedy diary of a sheep farmer, on tour!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, bring it on

It could easily improve Anglo- French relations, the 'entente cordiale' or whatever it's called...

.......or spark another 100 years war

Matthew Britton · Jun 19, 2022

robbie said:
Oh Christ, I'm really not sure Stansted or the airlines are ready for spinney!!!

Or the pilot

, From what I have seen in the head lines they have got enough problems getting planes in the air over there at the moment with out chucking a spin traveller into the mix

. Having said that I expect Mrs Spin and @Izzybella_xxx will have him tranquillisée to leave the farm so the trouble probably won’t start until he wakes up to Rene Artois offering him breakfast in bed while Mrs Spin beats off Maria and Yvette and their offering of the flying helmet and wet celery

Matthew Britton · Jun 19, 2022

yellowbelly said:
Yeah, bring it on

It could easily improve Anglo- French relations, the 'entente cordiale' or whatever it's called...

.......or spark another 100 years war

Not while I am here please

Sharpy · Jun 19, 2022

spin cycle said:
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Go on holiday, the change of scene will do you good. Just back from a couple of days in Wales followed by a week in Cornwall (same place we go every year) and feel so much better for it.

Matthew Britton · Jun 19, 2022

We might have to have a consolidated effort to bully him into it! Everything he deals with he needs it before he is bugger all use to anyone. @spin cycle START PACKING!

Matthew Britton · Jun 19, 2022

By the way @spin cycle my better half has visited Limoges, before my time, and says it is well worth a visit. When are you going?

spin cycle · Jun 19, 2022

Matthew Britton said:
By the way @spin cycle my better half has visited Limoges, before my time, and says it is well worth a visit. When are you going?

rumoured to be first week in august

pre kids mrs spin and i were flying back from canary islands.....taking an interest i'd noted our plane had 3 engines....one on each wing and one in tail....so us farmers are used to listening to machines as we use them (first sign of problem right

)......anyhoo after a little flying time i detected one of the engines had stopped....i leaned over to mrs spin and 'whispered' 'don't worry sweetheart but we've lost an engine'....coupla other passengers looked at me :scratchhead:

......bit further on 'sh!t we've lost another' i thought....thinking mrs spin might get alarmed i leaned over again 'i know we've lost another engine but don't worry there's still one in the tail'....several passengers twitched.....an air hostess approached...'sir could you please stop shouting we have engine failure...please take this boiled sweet because your ears havn't popped and you've gone deaf'

Boydvalley · Jun 19, 2022

In what seems like a thousand pages ago I told you to go on holiday. seem to remember you taken about 3 days since, so

GO ON HOLIDAY. THATS AN ORDER.

by the way do you think sheep escaping traits can be spread via Internet forums.
Feel like since shearing I’ve opened the Norfolk hurdlers South West branch.
Im going away Tuesday and keep getting is that your sheep on the side of the A46 phone calls

Matthew Britton · Jun 19, 2022

Why knowing your mechanical prowess does that not surprise me

. Unless Lucie’s next op is booked for then when we go for pre op on Tuesday we will be here should you wish a visit. Either way relax and enjoy your visit, I am fortunate enough to live in this beautiful country, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

robbie · Jun 19, 2022

There was a English man and an Irish man on a plane flying back from new York.
About an hour into the flight the captain came onto the PA and announced that they'd had an engine failure but not to worry as the plane had two others and could carry on just fine but the flight would be an hour longer......

Another hour into the flight the captain came onto the PA again and said not to panic but the 2nd of the 3 engines had failed but they still had the 3rd tail engine and it was all ok but the flight would now be 4 hours longer........at this point the Irish man turned to the English man and said......" I hope to Christ the 3rd engine doesn't fail or we'll be stuck up here forever"!!!!!!

Radio · Jun 19, 2022

spin cycle said:
sunday part one.....fathers day ......a day planned of minimum work and philosophical reflection

perhaps it's time for 'radical change' rather than the 'gradual change' i'm trying.....whatever i seem to do 'groundhog day problems' seem to come back around....i mean i've fixed the snot but here i am again, having put a lot of effort in, back in a different muddle

i could give up my rented grass...,,plough up some of my own.... ditch the sheep bar the pets.....i've css land now....strawbs is on our own pp...it'd give me a lotta time but more importantly 'headspace' to do other stuff

BUT....sentimentality gets in the way....it's my 'weakness' perhaps.....it would break the admirals heart and i'd have to let K go....she's reached 'family retainer 'status....she needs the job....the admiral .though she doesn't mean to be, is an incredible strain in terms of time and morale....TBH i justify K by having someone who in emergency can 'hold the farming fort'.....if i did let K go i could set her up on her own with grass and sheep...even a barn to lamb in.....but she's not quite ready to 'spread her wings' as yet IMO

i could ditch the wooly sheep and just have a hobby shedder flock (still got about 30-40)....again giving up rented grass but the above problems still apply

remember the great 'replacement ram debate' last autumn .....well during lambing i thought 'nz sufflok' way to go ........right now though an exlana seems attractive.....except selling them live at mart wouldn't go well.....sell dead?.....well they've been times my abbatoir have said 'bring them in tomorrow' but others 'ring back next week'...i like the flexibility of having both mart and abattoir....part of me would like to go back to wilt ......this morning i wish i had 100 mcenroes

don't know if writing it down helps or sharing it on a forum is a good idea.....but i started it

right 'duty calls'

Your a brave man to write as you do Spin and I admire you for it. Hopefully writing down your personal debate on the future, will help. Maybe someone can share similar experiences , as you say your not the only one, a good many have to face up to the fact they are getting older slower and farming is harder. Only thing is don’t rush into decisions as it’s not always easy to go back to previous ventures. If you are ticking over profit wise,then that’s better than many. Big plus is your family,which is priceless and the health to get up and work each day. Take care Spin,I always read your diary as no doubt many others do.

robbie · Jun 19, 2022

Boydvalley said:
In what seems like a thousand pages ago I told you to go on holiday. seem to remember you taken about 3 days since, so

GO ON HOLIDAY. THATS AN ORDER.

by the way do you think sheep escaping traits can be spread via Internet forums.
Feel like since shearing I’ve opened the Norfolk hurdlers South West branch.
Im going away Tuesday and keep getting is that your sheep on the side of the A46 phone calls

Oh yer, I remember...... The broads boat trip. From memory didn't old spinney get stoned and then either sink or crash into wroxham bridge!!!?????

yellowbelly · Jun 20, 2022

robbie said:
Oh yer, I remember...... The broads boat trip. From memory didn't old spinney get stoned and then either sink or crash into wroxham bridge!!!?????

Yeah, but hopefully

, this time Spin won't be flying the plane.

Actually, with his 'sea faring bent', I'm quite surprised they're not taking the ferry - I could just picture him up on the bridge of a roll on roll off ferry after persuading the captain to 'let him have a go'

Suffolksucklers · Jun 20, 2022

At least your daughter won't have to worry about looking after the Sheep spin, a break out know would probably see them in france by August ready for you to check on and bring back with you

primmiemoo · Jun 20, 2022

Chapter 94: ¿Ooo sonst me Haies? :scratchhead:

spin cycle · Jun 20, 2022

monday

had a good day

....mind you didn't do any farming

.....looking at forecast the heat is coming....i'd got a maintenance job on holiday let courtyard so i reasoned i'd get that done today then 'hunt a shady job' later in week

so the small courtyard at rear of holiday let is 6ft post/rail/ stocknet....the idea being it's dog proof and guests can let dogs out without worrying...being north it's also cool....we've had no escapes in the nine years we've been open

....to hide the fence we use willow screening but this needs replacing regularly.....we'd done this recently but accidently ordered 'reed' instead of 'willow'....the 'reed' was ok cosmetically but not strong and you could see thru it to the rather untidy yard beyond

.....the solution was to put the old willow back up on the outside to shelter the reed and fix it's transparency......job went well + worked a treat

....i also tidied a bit of the yard up....'dog can see rabbit' now as i really must get yard sorted

the yard itself was the old cow yard....cows stood in it and went into the parlour where strawbs now has her stables....cows went when i was little and yard was used foe sugar beet until 2008 when we packed them up.....the messy part of the yard is a bit of an historical tour of works done in last 15 years....stuff dumped there as projects were done...there's a few tyres from beet days that held covers down...some little bits of scrap saved cos they might be handy

after a barn clear out....bitta wood....pallet of stuff from an old pigeon club from norwich i stored til i needed the space ....an extremely heavy footbath that i got nev to make outta chequer plate but never use

..pile of flints from re pointing buildings and the 'piece de resistance' a small heap of rubble from the barn conversion build

.....NOW...this woulda been recycled years ago except my old dad ,in his wisdom, instructed a readycrete driver to put any surplus left over from installing holiday lets drain build over that rubble......result

.....a fekkin 'tanktrap'

....wouldn't have been quite so bad but famous 'muddy puddle' was only 20 ft away

...a much better home

......anyway thats a 'battle for another day'

.....whole area is only 100m square but that fekkin 'tanktrap'

shearers coming tomorrow

.....HH got very exited cos she got her first 'trophy' for 100 'likieys'

spin cycle · Jun 20, 2022

spin cycle said:
monday

had a good day ....mind you didn't do any farming.....looking at forecast the heat is coming....i'd got a maintenance job on holiday let courtyard so i reasoned i'd get that done today then 'hunt a shady job' later in week

so the small courtyard at rear of holiday let is 6ft post/rail/ stocknet....the idea being it's dog proof and guests can let dogs out without worrying...being north it's also cool....we've had no escapes in the nine years we've been open....to hide the fence we use willow screening but this needs replacing regularly.....we'd done this recently but accidently ordered 'reed' instead of 'willow'....the 'reed' was ok cosmetically but not strong and you could see thru it to the rather untidy yard beyond .....the solution was to put the old willow back up on the outside to shelter the reed and fix it's transparency......job went well + worked a treat....i also tidied a bit of the yard up....'dog can see rabbit' now as i really must get yard sorted

the yard itself was the old cow yard....cows stood in it and went into the parlour where strawbs now has her stables....cows went when i was little and yard was used foe sugar beet until 2008 when we packed them up.....the messy part of the yard is a bit of an historical tour of works done in last 15 years....stuff dumped there as projects were done...there's a few tyres from beet days that held covers down...some little bits of scrap saved cos they might be handy after a barn clear out....bitta wood....pallet of stuff from an old pigeon club from norwich i stored til i needed the space ....an extremely heavy footbath that i got nev to make outta chequer plate but never use..pile of flints from re pointing buildings and the 'piece de resistance' a small heap of rubble from the barn conversion build .....NOW...this woulda been recycled years ago except my old dad ,in his wisdom, instructed a readycrete driver to put any surplus left over from installing holiday lets drain build over that rubble......result.....a fekkin 'tanktrap'....wouldn't have been quite so bad but famous 'muddy puddle' was only 20 ft away...a much better home......anyway thats a 'battle for another day'.....whole area is only 100m square but that fekkin 'tanktrap'

shearers coming tomorrow.....HH got very exited cos she got her first 'trophy' for 100 'likieys'

fekkin 'ell how can i write 300 odd words about a small untidy yard

......that has to be my 'dullest' entry like EVER

i'll try harder tomorrow i promise

onthehoof · Jun 20, 2022

spin cycle said:
fekkin 'ell how can i write 300 odd words about a small untidy yard ......that has to be my 'dullest' entry like EVER

i'll try harder tomorrow i promise

Dull??? I found it interesting

Perhaps we could have a ‘most interesting item in your yard’ thread

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