diary of a comedy sheep farm

spin cycle said:

Friday

finished the day absolutely mentally exhausted..tea...ibuprofen...bed...now awoken I'm akin to if i'd just walked in the door...taken 6 hours sleep just to get back to that level

I don't know if 'the world' isn't designed for me or vise versa...I'm sure I can't be alone in finding it an increasingly hard place to navigate

take my electricity fiasco...I made one simple mistake then had another made for me and 'BAM'...the 'systems machine' is set haywire

Thursday was largely spent trying to sort it out...I had previously managed to get my new supplier to accept my start meter read but I still needed to correct bionics underestimate of our future usage...I phone them...'OK.. good..I've lodged your 'case'...someone will phone you back in 1-3 days'....'WTF...I can't sit by a phone for 3 days and even by mobile god knows where/what I'll be'....I could be in a ditch..tending sheep..organising pills...how can I instantly switch my mind one to another let alone have a laptop to browse / go thru the information

part deux...I finally loose patience and decide to go to ombudsman about 'smartest'...'the cavalry' I think 'they'll ride in and sort it out'...WRONG...try communicating with them....navigating their website/submission..
it's OK.. again..if you sit in front of a computer all day and are savy but otherwise it's like climbing stairs with two broken legs....TBC

MEANWHILE....Friday morning after chores I examine the ifor brakes...I can free them off so they turn but not confidently enough for a big trip for peas...they need a little test run...except the road is flooded and they'll just fill with water ....it then dawns on me that this is how it happened...i'd parked trailer in our front yard near an empty stable whilst doing the stairs...using it as a bench for cutting sheet materials...stairs finished/guests coming into barn mrs spin requested it moved as it was near 'guest parking'....i'd hitched on and thought 'I've some outlaying sheep hurdles and troughs to pick up..might as well'....the road was flooded...short round trop...twice thru water and parked up..'bingo'...'la recipe de la fekked brakes"

THE FLOOD...
getting worse....the road culvert is fed from east and west...whilst my hand dug grup had helped the water from the east it wasn't enough...such was the pressure it was pushing the flow back past the culvert and actually forcing the westward flowing water back...bubbling back out onto the road via road drains it now threatened to block the Western approach of the road that didn't benefit from my earlier effort

I hatched a plan...just above a road drain
on the outfall side of the road that was ,by now overwhelmed trying to take the water away, was a hedge gap...tonka could dig a slit trench thru there and that would help
I was 'wracked' by indecision though...on the one hand if a car broke down in this flood we would be cut off...carers to admiral not least of my concerns...on the other feck knows what 'officialdom' I might offend...then there's h&s.. insurance etc of taking tonka on the highway.. . I could ring highways...even if they came out they'd probably just 'log an incident...pledging to do an assessment within 3 months'...over cynical??..EA?...declare ' a body of water in excess of local capacity' and promptly inspect us all??....seriously the way you naturally regard those who are supposed to be of help these days is frightening...their total lack of use even hindrance....in the end I emailed my neighbour outlining my plan and canvassing his opinion....he rang me more/less straight back with enthusiastic approval...he'd get someone else...we'd stop traffic either end whilst I dug the cut

next problem...how to get tonka the quarter mile to site...she is incredibly slow...I reckoned she'd fit in grain bucket...driven in with slew to on side and ratchet strapped....I was just struggling with this when admiral wheeled up...'you better leave me my 4pm pills in case you're late'....hassled/worried honestly what is my life....it was 2:45pm...I know she suffers from depression but talk about un needed distraction just at that moment

finally off I go.
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...arriving at the prescribed rendezvous time of 3pm...my neighbour had recruited the Eastern neighbour and the 3 farmers executed my plan ...now its

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edit.....whilst we were working someone took photo's of us....was it for curiosity? posterity? or to report us?.....and in what sort of world do we live that we think like that ......back to bed i need some sleep.....syl is arriving in 7 hours wit more peas

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Radio said:

3 farmers, working together seems to be the best way forward for most of life’s problems. Are there 3 farmers in parliament?

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spin cycle said:

i'd like to say I write for 'art ,entertainment and information'....but we all know that's a lie.....'cold hard likeys ' is my 'currency' of choice

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spin cycle said:

when i started the 'diary' the ratio was less than even......it's my only hobby really ....which is a bit sad but testament to my 'stage of life' i suppose.....even then it can get a bit 'challenging' at times.....you feel you have to account for your time and try to tell it 'warts and all'.....mainly 'warts' these days



so charlie brought some peas over this morning...i texted him at 7:30 to tell him to let me know when he left as i was still in my 'lounge wear'.....something he found amusing......anyhoo he duly arrived....a tin of carnation evap milk and some eccles cakes.....he was going to have a quick cuppa but needed to get back for a 'family day out'.....i'm thinking my house kero tank wants replacing so i got him to have a quick look.....i think he likes eccles cakes but he didn't end up partaking....they're ok but i find them slightly indigestible......took me until 3:30pm to finish them....as i said 'indigestible'....bit like city's result in their home county of lancs today

after charlie had gone i mooched about a bit....unsure what to do next.....the postie arrived and brought the mart return that i was really pleased with....they sold well.....i remember standing at mart waiting for mine to go thru.....ahead were some short ,wooly faced things from a large estate to the west....i almost 'sneered' at them....until they went on the scales....they weighed like lead.....i think they must've been hamp down x......i was suitably chastened.......anyhoo after opening the post i thought 'feck it' ...went home and had a good sit down before the afternoon stint

fish'n chips for tea i reckon......cinders had her first full shift at our local filling station today....'how did you get on 'i asked ....'good' she replied 'there's a mars bar on the table for you'.....'ah thank you' i replied (bless she's bought her old dad a choccy bar with her first earnings).......only for cinders...'oh i booked it so you paid'

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spin cycle said:

texted him at 7:30 to tell him to let me know when he left as i was still in my 'lounge wear'.

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spin cycle said:

when i started the 'diary' the ratio was less than even......it's my only hobby really ....which is a bit sad but testament to my 'stage of life' i suppose.....even then it can get a bit 'challenging' at times.....you feel you have to account for your time and try to tell it 'warts and all'.....mainly 'warts' these days



so charlie brought some peas over this morning...i texted him at 7:30 to tell him to let me know when he left as i was still in my 'lounge wear'.....something he found amusing......anyhoo he duly arrived....a tin of carnation evap milk and some eccles cakes.....he was going to have a quick cuppa but needed to get back for a 'family day out'.....i'm thinking my house kero tank wants replacing so i got him to have a quick look.....i think he likes eccles cakes but he didn't end up partaking....they're ok but i find them slightly indigestible......took me until 3:30pm to finish them....as i said 'indigestible'....bit like city's result in their home county of lancs today

after charlie had gone i mooched about a bit....unsure what to do next.....the postie arrived and brought the mart return that i was really pleased with....they sold well.....i remember standing at mart waiting for mine to go thru.....ahead were some short ,wooly faced things from a large estate to the west....i almost 'sneered' at them....until they went on the scales....they weighed like lead.....i think they must've been hamp down x......i was suitably chastened.......anyhoo after opening the post i thought 'feck it' ...went home and had a good sit down before the afternoon stint

fish'n chips for tea i reckon......cinders had her first full shift at our local filling station today....'how did you get on 'i asked ....'good' she replied 'there's a mars bar on the table for you'.....'ah thank you' i replied (bless she's bought her old dad a choccy bar with her first earnings).......only for cinders...'oh i booked it so you paid'

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carbonfibre farmer said:

Is that the filling station just on the main road from you? (They have a good stock of evaporated milk in there)

I do like eccles cakes bit gutted not to have had some

I had this vision of you wandering up the yard when I arrived in some sort of dressing gown and wellies combo with a rollie on the go, looking somewhat dishevelled

The reverser on the telehandler amused me, sounded like a strangled cat

And I came home with some buckets

No sign of errant jack Russell's either @adzy

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adzy said:

@carbonfibre farmer offered food and didn't partake? Better get him down the hospital quick. I've seen him scoff roadkill that was still twitching...

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carbonfibre farmer said:

You mean the ol fella, and deer that's lay there a couple of days

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spin cycle said:

when i started the 'diary' the ratio was less than even......it's my only hobby really ....which is a bit sad but testament to my 'stage of life' i suppose.....even then it can get a bit 'challenging' at times.....you feel you have to account for your time and try to tell it 'warts and all'.....mainly 'warts' these days



so charlie brought some peas over this morning...i texted him at 7:30 to tell him to let me know when he left as i was still in my 'lounge wear'.....something he found amusing......anyhoo he duly arrived....a tin of carnation evap milk and some eccles cakes.....he was going to have a quick cuppa but needed to get back for a 'family day out'.....i'm thinking my house kero tank wants replacing so i got him to have a quick look.....i think he likes eccles cakes but he didn't end up partaking....they're ok but i find them slightly indigestible......took me until 3:30pm to finish them....as i said 'indigestible'....bit like city's result in their home county of lancs today

after charlie had gone i mooched about a bit....unsure what to do next.....the postie arrived and brought the mart return that i was really pleased with....they sold well.....i remember standing at mart waiting for mine to go thru.....ahead were some short ,wooly faced things from a large estate to the west....i almost 'sneered' at them....until they went on the scales....they weighed like lead.....i think they must've been hamp down x......i was suitably chastened.......anyhoo after opening the post i thought 'feck it' ...went home and had a good sit down before the afternoon stint

fish'n chips for tea i reckon......cinders had her first full shift at our local filling station today....'how did you get on 'i asked ....'good' she replied 'there's a mars bar on the table for you'.....'ah thank you' i replied (bless she's bought her old dad a choccy bar with her first earnings).......only for cinders...'oh i booked it so you paid'

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adzy said:

Must just attack foresters? Maybe an anti hare coursing dog.

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spin cycle said:

so true....tbh i'm well hardened to it.....it's just a tragedy for cinders cos she's only 17....having a bit of a rough time and the pony was her 'baby'......i'm quite proud how practical/philosophical she's being at mo

anyhoo for more 'entertaining instalment' please 're tune' to 'norwich livestock market' thread

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