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wednesday
nice day today
....the sort that make up for some of the the sh!tty ones
first thing.....how long is ewe gestation.?...i thought it was 140 days
....TBH being an ayr lambing type i don't take much notice but it's day 140 and my lot don't show much interest......two wilts and mcnabs jumped out today....the former have disappeared down the field ...the latter put in odds/sods ram lamb pen where he had 'handbags' with bhuna
early start and nowt doin so retired to computer and submitted my cs claim form and emailed some bits to agent who does bps...K fettled sheep then we checked stalag fence....put a coupla clipex eco posts in.....they're excellent for replacing rotted posts.....might need a strand of barbed along southern boundary
back at yard HH had turned up and offered help.....but i decided we'd have a little go in house...to wit a short beam next to a chimney.....spent the rest of morning cutting and drilling a steel post to reinforce...fits a treat....just got to decide how to secure it nicely
lunch was late and shortened by a commotion in yard....i emerge and fd is circling a chap whilst agronomist arrives to have a look around...the chap turns out to be the new brinnicombe rep....agronomist returns whilst we are chatting.....i confess i 'held court'.....sitting in the fox endlessly trying to re light my rollie and generally hamming it up
.....'bit dry' says agronomist.....'really?' i say 'we had a rain last week'.....'ah yes you got THE RAIN' he replies almost biblically....apparently we got 7mm but it fizzled out elsewhere....he also asks me if triticale is for grain....i reply if sheep don't eat it first
HH returns as they depart and paints some fence posts for me.....we're painting bottom 2ft of conventionally treated posts with black bitumen as a sort of post saver experiment......i trundle off and roll some spring barley
the admiral is raving about the 'new green pills' (tic tacs) and how they're helping her sleep...i've had to invent a complete back story to cover it....saying they're probably a more easily absorbed version of the others cos their made with sucrose rather than chalk and how i've had to sweet talk the gp into letting her switch....i actually ran outlast night so she's been on about getting more all day
nice day today
....the sort that make up for some of the the sh!tty ones first thing.....how long is ewe gestation.?...i thought it was 140 days
....TBH being an ayr lambing type i don't take much notice but it's day 140 and my lot don't show much interest......two wilts and mcnabs jumped out today....the former have disappeared down the field ...the latter put in odds/sods ram lamb pen where he had 'handbags' with bhunaearly start and nowt doin so retired to computer and submitted my cs claim form and emailed some bits to agent who does bps
...K fettled sheep then we checked stalag fence....put a coupla clipex eco posts in.....they're excellent for replacing rotted posts.....might need a strand of barbed along southern boundaryback at yard HH had turned up and offered help.....but i decided we'd have a little go in house...to wit a short beam next to a chimney.....spent the rest of morning cutting and drilling a steel post to reinforce...fits a treat
....just got to decide how to secure it nicelylunch was late and shortened by a commotion in yard....i emerge and fd is circling a chap whilst agronomist arrives to have a look around...the chap turns out to be the new brinnicombe rep....agronomist returns whilst we are chatting.....i confess i 'held court'.....sitting in the fox endlessly trying to re light my rollie and generally hamming it up
.....'bit dry' says agronomist.....'really?' i say 'we had a rain last week'.....'ah yes you got THE RAIN' he replies almost biblically....apparently we got 7mm but it fizzled out elsewhere....he also asks me if triticale is for grain....i reply if sheep don't eat it firstHH returns as they depart and paints some fence posts for me.....we're painting bottom 2ft of conventionally treated posts with black bitumen as a sort of post saver experiment
......i trundle off and roll some spring barleythe admiral is raving about the 'new green pills' (tic tacs) and how they're helping her sleep...i've had to invent a complete back story to cover it
....saying they're probably a more easily absorbed version of the others cos their made with sucrose rather than chalk and how i've had to sweet talk the gp into letting her switch....i actually ran outlast night so she's been on about getting more all day
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