diary of a comedy sheep farm

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SENIOR MOMENTS

first duty of the day was to bury the fat spaniel....but first i thought i'd let the last 25 treated store lambs out....which i did via hms sheep cycle....into the wrong field......16 headed off to the ewes....8 got thru horse fence into paddocks and five of those were later found rumaging in the liveries hay/straw store.....today's pic


OK ...burial party....i start to dig....the size of the fat spaniel in mind....that'll do.....go to get her.....retreat for wheelbarrow .....get to hole....of course it's to small....it starts to rain......just the dustcart arrives....thinks.....'YOU DIDN'T' i hear you cry.....no i didn't ....fekkin wished i had though as i dug in rain...thing is mum was out on the fields checking sheep and i wanted it done/dusted before she came back......as a result it maaaay not be quite optimum depth.....north norfolk is quite well known for birdwatching...we had a rare summat t'other day and twitchers flocked in......that in mind it'd be just my luck if a 'peruvian burrowing vulture' happened by and was sitting on the mound tommoz

just before lunch i took admiral to inspect the rams....mcnabs passed....carpet fitter failed (miserably) and she doesn't rate bluey the beltex anyway....'he's to short to reach anything' she says....now i was talking about another suffolk but looking at our mart reports charolais seem to be popular up there so perhaps we'll go that route.....later she's on the phone ringing round....under the circumstances i indulge her
(HH if you're reading this don't tell yer mother)

resta the day is mucking out.....then dentist for denture fitting.....FAIL....aka dwayne dibley.......send them back

back home mrs spin has sent for tanker to empty 'daddies little princess',,,,,,'garden really was smelling' mrs spin says 'you'll have to do something'.......my mind wanders back....i'm sure i read on here about someone who put a dead calf in their septic tank and swore it helped...of course i don't have a dead calf but i did have a fat spaniel earlier




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Buy a packet of muck munchers best £30 you will spend on a sceptic tank

 

[spin cycle]

I love Bazza....

miss april's heart will be broken

 

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I love Bazza....

Bazza bargains

 

[spin cycle]

Buy a packet of muck munchers best £30 you will spend on a sceptic tank

been thinking about that...do they work?

 

[spin cycle]

Bazza bargains

to late......not many bargains about i can spot yet...all the lots i liked at c&s running like feck....that irelands sale looked dear....bazza is tommoz and c&w is market day

 

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been thinking about that...do they work?

Yes, definitely. I make a 12 month pack last 2 years. Think about it if it gets you even a few extra months between empties you are quids in. Smells better if nothing else. Haven’t emptied mine in 5 years ....

 

[spin cycle]

Buy a packet of muck munchers best £30 you will spend on a sceptic tank

c'mon @AftonShepherd where are you

 

[AftonShepherd]

c'mon @AftonShepherd where are you

I only do sums, not spelling

 

[spin cycle]

SENIOR MOMENT TWO

off colour ewe first thing (blown )....bitta bicarb + jag......then carried on and finished mucking out.....discovered the yard scraper when in push mode can be used on forklift tines...bodgetastic......scraped yard ....still muddy....but you don't squelch round it just walk on top...don't finish til 1:30 pm....quick lunch and home as the 'nevs' come over for a cup of tea and discuss up coming 'DLP' project

Daddies Little Princess.....is clear.....had tank emptied yesterday + bloke stuck pipe in manhole and said he felt a 'lump' so must've cleared the blockage....still got a few drain rods down it but..meehh can't have everything...i was so chuffed i wanted to take a pic to show you but mrs spin over ruled me......can't think why......nev suggests plan of action D day 23rd Nov

boy home....city win...neighbours loose.....mrs spin goes to get bhuna cos she says it'll be quicker only for them to deliver it 15 mins after she leaves......in order to keep it warm i absentmindedly put the whole lot in the oven...only for cinders to rescue it just as the plastic outta bag is melting and the handles on the inner paper bag catch fire

right games night....brains awol.....i'm not gonna win

 

[Flat 10]

SENIOR MOMENT TWO

off colour ewe first thing (blown )....bitta bicarb + jag......then carried on and finished mucking out.....discovered the yard scraper when in push mode can be used on forklift tines...bodgetastic......scraped yard ....still muddy....but you don't squelch round it just walk on top...don't finish til 1:30 pm....quick lunch and home as the 'nevs' come over for a cup of tea and discuss up coming 'DLP' project

Daddies Little Princess.....is clear.....had tank emptied yesterday + bloke stuck pipe in manhole and said he felt a 'lump' so must've cleared the blockage....still got a few drain rods down it but..meehh can't have everything...i was so chuffed i wanted to take a pic to show you but mrs spin over ruled me......can't think why......nev suggests plan of action D day 23rd Nov

boy home....city win...neighbours loose.....mrs spin goes to get bhuna cos she says it'll be quicker only for them to deliver it 15 mins after she leaves......in order to keep it warm i absentmindedly put the whole lot in the oven...only for cinders to rescue it just as the plastic outta bag is melting and the handles on the inner paper bag catch fire

right games night....brains awol.....i'm not gonna win

Thank god for an alert cinders, a plastic melted bhuna is really going to ruin Saturday night

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

Daddies Little Princess.....is clear.....had tank emptied yesterday + bloke stuck pipe in manhole and said he felt a 'lump' so must've cleared the blockage....still got a few drain rods down it but..meehh can't have everything...i was so chuffed i wanted to take a pic to show you but mrs spin over ruled me......can't think why......nev suggests plan of action D day 23rd Nov

Mrs Spin vets your diary pictures?

I'm guessing that she therefore approves of Miss April?

Jeez. If the poor woman thinks Miss April passes muster she must have seen some terrible things

 

[Matthew Britton]

Mrs Spin vets your diary pictures?

I'm guessing that she therefore approves of Miss April?

Jeez. If the poor woman thinks Miss April passes muster she must have seen some terrible things

She has clearly lived with Spin for many years and has been desensitised!

 

[Lodekka]

I'm sorry but there is not a chance I'm starting at the beginning, I've read this 3 times and haven't worked out a quarter of it If I have to print it to use as a reference note it'll be Christmas before I catch up. Who knows @nithdale may be married by then

Think again my boy, Spin is a demanding fellow and expects us all to know who is who.
Think of it as a TFF version of The Archers. ... dum de dum de dummy dum,
It gets quite intense at times and you’ll need the background knowledge...
Typical Spin, he missed out the important bits...

• Holiday lets
• Poor fencemanship
• Dodgy drains
• Conglomerate ice cream empire
• Lack of adequate moisture meter
• Part time clergy replacement
• Accountancy skills - lack of...
• Location of Vital supply establishments... aka curry house.
• Other odd names he dreams up and doesn’t declare
• Etc etc.

But all in all it is a ‘right riveting read’.
Best get to it now - took me three days and there were only 60 pages then.
You’llthank me for it later...
Regards

 

[yellowbelly]

Think again my boy, Spin is a demanding fellow and expects us all to know who is who.
Think of it as a TFF version of The Archers. ... dum de dum de dummy dum,
It gets quite intense at times and you’ll need the background knowledge...
Typical Spin, he missed out the important bits...

• Holiday lets
• Poor fencemanship
• Dodgy drains
• Conglomerate ice cream empire
• Lack of adequate moisture meter
• Part time clergy replacement
• Accountancy skills - lack of...
• Location of Vital supply establishments... aka curry house.
• Other odd names he dreams up and doesn’t declare
• Etc etc.

But all in all it is a ‘right riveting read’.
Best get to it now - took me three days and there were only 60 pages then.
You’llthank me for it later...
Regards

Yep, I've even heard that he BBC are saying thst it qualifies as a specialist subject for the next series of Mastermind

 

[Lodekka]

Wow 7 likes on my last post - i’ll have to stop or Spin will feel i’m stealing his thunder...
Perhaps i’ll try eating Bhuna...

 

[Matthew Britton]

I think it is the Bhuna that causes the thunder normally

 

[spin cycle]

sunday

bit regulation....K came in cos she's having coupla days off this week...we move cull/screw ewes to new pen so i can get to work cleaning out barn for strawbs......boy home...roast lunch .....game of catan....think about cat for admiral

monday

decide to reweigh lambs after thursdays fiasco.......admiral interrupts just as switching lots....leave hurdle open....you know the rest.......got some rams and some ewes/wethers ready.....keep them separate in pens...can do same on trailer....but not in lairage at abbatoir....SO tell admiral to book them in for a morning as they kill lambs first....she books them in for thursday afternoon......perhaps i'll take ram lambs only then other fats with culls to mart sat....local butcher also phones up wanting a cull ewe weds morning...bit of a pain but they're good to me and it's a customer so look after them

move hay outta strawbs barn......midway thru have heavy thunderstorm......coupla bales a little 'distressed' so move on forks.....one falls off middle of front yard near holiday let......feck did it rain.....barn i've to clean out not the most accessible + planings i put down have not really settled....gonna be feck of a job.....finally notice a tile broken and another slipped on farmhouse extension so thats toppa list tommoz

all in all pretty regulation stuff

cinders says i should 'prioritise' starting with some cat kill entrails she's found

 

[Matthew Britton]

Nice to see you are keeping up to your usual standards

 

[primmiemoo]

So good, I clicked on the download this thread icon by accident on reading about entrails.
Dear senses ... !

 

[adam_farming]

Just finished reading this from the start, once started I couldn't "put it down" so to speak! Took about a week in snippets here and there.
It made particularly interesting reading as for a time I was assistant manager for the "large local estate" mentioned and lived in the next village. I would pass the driveway to Spin Towers most days and enjoy looking at the sheep bordering the road which I have to say were always behind a fence when I saw them, but I now realise it might not have been the right fence!
It has been enjoyable as new places and people crop up trying to work out who or where they are.
I even think we once shared "the stage" at a harvest festival at FD church (pre the diary era) for a sort of "farmers report" type thing. Being less than a year out of university at the time and very much out of my depth in all aspects of life and work, I'm glad the diary wasn't around to report my brief and vague report about trying to farm in 37 parishes at once.

Anyway, myself and mrs a_f regularly come back to Narth Naaaarfulk for long weekends etc so I'll now excitedly point out Spin Towers to her when we have a ride round.