Have a giggle
- Thread starter Jdunn55
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Where do you start, it's just not worthy of giving her a reply
But I’d love to read the replies….for extra giggles.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Indeed.
However, MrsNeilO has history of watching me squirm from a distance with her friends, when said types have had a few sherries at parties and their standards have dropped sufficiently. I’m just a country boy, terrified of man-eating cougars.
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- somerset
we ran a DIY livery for 7 years, introduced a whole new peculiar set of girls to our rather staid life. Been very well briefed on handling the girls, before we opened, very thankfully, so managed to avoid the cat fights, bitchiness, propositions, tears etc.Years ago, my good lady and I ran a DIY livery yard back home. We had some excellent clients, who became firm friends, as well as a majority that filled all the stereotypes of livery yard types, and who were enough to stop us being so foolish again.
It turns out that we had a few through the yard who had a history of sleeping with the yard owner/owner’s husband and then being moved on. I was dismayed to only find this out afterwards, it would have been nice to at least have had the chance to turn them down.
The worst day, someone failed to shut a gate properly, ending up with 4 horses being hit, and killed by traffic. One sees all the wailing and screaming in foreign countries, after a calamity. I didn't expect to hear it in rural Somerset !!
phased it out, when we started milking again, have no regrets about finishing it, only the loss of cash. Having said that, there were some really nice girls that rented of us. The bitchy ones understood, 1 warning, then pack your hay, and feck off.
son misses it for some other reason
l didn't enquire to much, some things are best left as 'unknown'.
- Location
- Cheltenham
Is his name trigger?He must love telling that story as he told us all in the pub the other day.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
we ran a DIY livery for 7 years, introduced a whole new peculiar set of girls to our rather staid life. Been very well briefed on handling the girls, before we opened, very thankfully, so managed to avoid the cat fights, bitchiness, propositions, tears etc.
The worst day, someone failed to shut a gate properly, ending up with 4 horses being hit, and killed by traffic. One sees all the wailing and screaming in foreign countries, after a calamity. I didn't expect to hear it in rural Somerset !!
phased it out, when we started milking again, have no regrets about finishing it, only the loss of cash. Having said that, there were some really nice girls that rented of us. The bitchy ones understood, 1 warning, then pack your hay, and feck off.
son misses it for some other reason
You did well to avoid it, maybe my ‘handling’ wasn’t good enough…
I have a theory that horsey girls are herd animals. Ours definitely formed themselves into two packs, who would regularly fall out over a missing feed scoop, a bag of feed that had moved, or something equally trivial. If it really blew up then one pack would go, en masse, leaving was with several vacant stables earning no rent.
Above that ‘hyena’ tier were the older horsey ladies, equally bitchy but devious with it. They would orchestrate half the trouble with a bit of a stir before standing back.
The older, gay man would just keep his head down and try to ignore them.
Miss the money but not the constant hassle.
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- somerset
advice came from wife's cousin, who still runs a 50/60 horse livery business, and l listened !
the bitchiness never really got a hold, new girls were told straight, it wouldn't be tolerated, and it wasn't !
l do wonder, where the bigger profit was/is, with the building full of hay/straw, cattle and machinery, or the horses.
Why do you ask that as a question?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
You regularly post in a similar vein but, a couple of weeks ago, you wrote about developers and options, seemingly from experience.
Land is only built in if farmers sell it to the builders, and not many turn it down in order to preserve their bit of countryside.
That winter of 1962-63, i was about 3, people were alot "tougher", knew no different? no cental heating, most had coal fires, no double glazing, many had no cars, lucky to have a motorcycle or bike for transport? that picture of those tractors in the snow, aca 1962-63, with no cab? not alone a heated cab? but just look at the pictures of the people, dont they look fit, not like our present "crowd"?
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- Location
- East Mids
A lovely couple I used to do a bit of work for diversified into livery in a big way, a long time ago (they were really into horses themselves). They always did a high quality building conversion, yards looked lovely. One of their tips was to set up 3 or 4 'sub yards', each with its own little rest/tack room if you are having 15-20+, so that they can separate into their 'tribes' and move round the corner if Maisie falls out with Molly. They were always full, with a waiting list and it was far more profitable than farming on their 100-odd acres.
I can think of easy half a dozen fields within a few miles of me in last ten to twenty year that have become horse paddocks. Sad to to see what was once nice green grazing ground now destroyed to bare weedy ground by horses and no land management.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Ride just like their horse do they?
Invite me to your next partyIndeed.
I’m just a country boy, terrified of man-eating cougars.
- Location
- somerset
the speed with which horses degrade pasture, is nearly unbelievable.
the time it takes to get it back to a sensible pasture, is unbelievable as well.
where we had the paddocks, 12/14 years later, still will fill up with docks and buttercups, if grass is stressed.
the 'main' area, has been cropped every year, a mix of hybrid rye/maize, or wheat. Finally put down last autumn to IRG, grass stressed this year, full of fecking docks. The other bit, not so intense, docks and b-cups.
both have had glyphosate twice, the main bit, herbicides pretty well every year, and judged as 'sorted', till this years mini drought. The other has been grass, red clover and maize.
l really am not sure anybody can convince me, that horses don't have a peculiar digestive system, that converts grass to weed seeds.
both pieces you can see exactly where horse paddocks finished, and 'normal' field starts, by the dock density. And that's 12/14 years after they went.