- Location
- roe valley
things that make you smile
- Thread starter rob1
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primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Lambs that are sharp enough to train their jumpy hogg dams to stand still to feed them 
- Location
- roe valley
Thanks Iike the chunky look myself, they are a bit more substantial if they get a run when walking stock out the lane. Never heard of Q Barn, it was an old apple loft.
- Location
- S. Staffs
God that seems a long time ago now. She is coming up 19 at the end of the year!
She was due to go to Uni last September but deferred a year due to Covid and not being able to get the real uni experiance.
Over the years her real interest in media production came to the for and she has a place at Brighton Uni to do that rather than Harper.
Im not upset in the slightest about it as we have talked lots about things and she is adamant she will be back home or near home when kids are on the horizon. She wants them to grow up around the farm. She has also said that she would like to help run the farm at some point to allow me to semi-retire.....fingers crossed!!
She has been working in the local market 2 or 3 days a week helping to run the sheep side of things and working with me 1 day a week on farm. She has enjoyed both immensely and I know the auctioneers will miss her and have said a job is always there for her when not at uni.
- Location
- S. Staffs
That’s a good approach, keeping options open, she must have been taught well!
Thanks, I wont put pressure on either of my kids, have always said do what youo enjoy as if you enjoy it you tend to be good at it as well.
I also want them to see the world away from farming.
I did much the same when I left uni with my degree, ended up working in ag but in Kenya and then the USA for a few years before coming back to the UK to work for Cargill and then Unigate. Has fate would have it that led to me working in the City for a good few years before I got fed up with the stress and came back to take the farm on so Mum and Dad could retire.
It has worked well for me, I have various skill sets unrelated to farming directly but that have helped me build the farm business and increase diversification to make the farm more resilient and profitable. Its taken a few years to correct 20 years of under investment, whilst Dad was effectively semi retired, but starting to get there now.
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
Wife found a dead ewe alongside a footpath (classic sheep sh!ty trick 
), too heavy to lift into her rav4, so she left this note to stop the numerous phone calls or FB posts on local group
), too heavy to lift into her rav4, so she left this note to stop the numerous phone calls or FB posts on local group
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Random suggested post on Twitter
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- DD9.
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Coming from the nearest shop with one of my boys, we saw a van and he said it's the vet, I corrected him, telling him it was the AI man. Short pause... then he asked if only cows had AI; I said lots of animals could have AI, including humans, a shorter pause... then: 'UGH! You mean they put their hands up a girl's bottom?!'
I had to pull over for a couple of minutes because I was laughing so hard it just wasn't safe to drive; even then I couldn't bring myself to say more than 'no, it's done a bit differently for them'. Innocence...
I had to pull over for a couple of minutes because I was laughing so hard it just wasn't safe to drive; even then I couldn't bring myself to say more than 'no, it's done a bit differently for them'. Innocence...
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I just thought as it was a mate's truck and I was posting publicly I should do something to mask it
- Location
- Yorkshire
- Location
- N.Lincs
Birthday today - I must be very predictable but it certainly makes me 'easy to buy for'......
16 bottles of beer, 3283g of chocolate and 1050g of various types of nuts
Should see me through to next weekend.............
..........oh, and 2 pairs of socks and a packet of highlighter pens
16 bottles of beer, 3283g of chocolate and 1050g of various types of nuts
Should see me through to next weekend
.......................oh, and 2 pairs of socks and a packet of highlighter pens
Did better than me yesterday then, 75g chocolate, a mug, new windproof lighter and a 10lb long handled lump hammer.Birthday today - I must be very predictable but it certainly makes me 'easy to buy for'......
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16 bottles of beer, 3283g of chocolate and 1050g of various types of nuts
Should see me through to next weekend
..........oh, and 2 pairs of socks and a packet of highlighter pens
- Location
- N.Lincs
- Location
- YO42
These little terrors all cute and mischievous until your back is turned
They seem to like biting my toes
They seem to like biting my toes
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
You know you are getting old when you're given socks... (I get them tooBirthday today - I must be very predictable but it certainly makes me 'easy to buy for'......
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16 bottles of beer, 3283g of chocolate and 1050g of various types of nuts
Should see me through to next weekend
..........oh, and 2 pairs of socks and a packet of highlighter pens
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Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I'd be happy if someone bought me some socks -- as long as they weren't "foot size 6 to 11 " . Whoever dreamed that up needs eradicating , or of course educating . If they fit size 6 , HTF do they fit size 11 ? Or conversely .