diary of a comedy sheep farm

[onthehoof]

We now find ourselves having a go on a flight simulator...

Talk about throw you in at the deep end, they even make you do it blindfolded

 

[spin cycle]

wednesday

felt awful all day....every effort a struggle....HH prognosis at 'close of play' is that i got dehydrated

anyhoo plan was to treat small lotta sheep at stalag but it rained......not enough to do any good but enough to make sheep wet and i don't like treating wet sheep

K and i went in grainstore instead and made a good start tidying.....after she left i put old major mower on smeg and cut HH's horse walking route.....grass to long and 'you did start cinders tackroom...what about me?'......finished and driving back to shed the assistor ram came apart....better now than in a fielda hay i suppose

talking of 'hay'.....my 'project'......still not filled with confidence i've codenamed it 'White Elephant Wilter Invention'....'WE-WI' for short......i passify myself with the thoughts that i was gonna do it...one way or another ....and 'he who never makes a mistake etc'.......anyway some 'surplus bits'...'surgically removed'

'floater gate'.....so here's a pic of a spool valve label....i'm thinking the wavy line is 'float'

 

[yellowbelly]

Does Mrs Robbie know you've posted that....

Phew, I'm pleased you said that - I was just about to say that @robbie was much prettier than I'd imagined

 

[robbie]

Did you manage to land it safely

I didn't have a go, she said if I was a good boy I could come back later and have a go.
Wife got on ok......there's no reversing in a plane but when she got to the end of the run way she did put the left hand indicator on and then turn right!!!!

Bugger it was a good show, the hospitality from business's I deal with was second to non and far better than pre COVID.
I've seen sooooo many people who it was lovely to see and have a catch up with.

 

[yellowbelly]

Yorkshire full of nutters? It wasn't a post from Yorkshire on here at 2:30am

No, but it was a post from a Yorkshireman

 

[yellowbelly]

Bugger it was a good show, the hospitality from business's I deal with was second to non

Just back at Dunston and off for a beer with some of the other judges.

The hospitality of the Norfolk Show Society has been second to none.

It's the second time I've judged here in the last 10 or 12 years and they really do know how to look after their judges. A big and thank you to them and the rest of the Norfolk farming community.

Some top livestock on show too.
This is what the inside of the fleece of today's champion Lincoln looked like...

 

[Will 1594]

had supper spin and want trailer empty so did 4 boxes of logs be another 3 or 4 to empty it

 

[onthehoof]

had supper spin and want trailer empty so did 4 boxes of logs be another 3 or 4 to empty it

Still got the blood of the last French King on it

 

[Lodekka]

Crikey, it must have been a very quiet day to have come up with all that

This 'pottering around' of which you speak, sounds very much like a bit of ' Harry Pottering'

Must say, I'm feeling rather wizard about my part in the saga.

I was lucky, he never mentioned me...

 

[spin cycle]

I was lucky, he never mentioned me...

ahh....i'm sorry...i'll think you a 'character' up today .......twasn't dehydration....got 'man flu'......had a terrible night

 

[Matthew Britton]

Phew, I'm pleased you said that - I was just about to say that @robbie was much prettier than I'd imagined

Beat me to it

 

[yellowbelly]

FLAKE UPDATE

After the sheep interbreed judging this morning, I decided it was time for an ice cream.......

......I ordered a 99.

"Make the most of that", said the bloke in the van, "I'm nearly out of Flakes and for some reason we're having trouble getting any more in Norfolk."

"Oh dear, what a carry on, " sez I.

Don't worry Spin, your secret is still safe, I didn't let on that you're the primary cause of the shortage in Narfuk.

I didn't want to have every ice cream van for miles around blockading Spin Towers in protest.

Had a bit of a detour through Wisbech on the way home to avoid a mega snarl up at Sutton Bridge.
We knew we were back in Bomber County when we had to stop at the lights at Waddinton to let an AWAC land...

..I expect he's been to Europe to keep an eye on that bu66er Putin.

Although we've had a great time in Narfuk and been regally entertained by everybody there it was good to see our cathedral as we dropped down into Lincoln..

There's no place like home

 

[Will 1594]

wednesday

felt awful all day....every effort a struggle....HH prognosis at 'close of play' is that i got dehydrated

anyhoo plan was to treat small lotta sheep at stalag but it rained......not enough to do any good but enough to make sheep wet and i don't like treating wet sheep

K and i went in grainstore instead and made a good start tidying.....after she left i put old major mower on smeg and cut HH's horse walking route.....grass to long and 'you did start cinders tackroom...what about me?'......finished and driving back to shed the assistor ram came apart....better now than in a fielda hay i suppose

talking of 'hay'.....my 'project'......still not filled with confidence i've codenamed it 'White Elephant Wilter Invention'....'WE-WI' for short......i passify myself with the thoughts that i was gonna do it...one way or another ....and 'he who never makes a mistake etc'.......anyway some 'surplus bits'...'surgically removed'

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'floater gate'.....so here's a pic of a spool valve label....i'm thinking the wavy line is 'float'

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Will the lever move ,or is it jammed up with straw and whatever

 

[yellowbelly]

Will the lever move ,or is it jammed up with straw and whatever

Looks like some 'whatever' to me
Anyhow Spin, time to put a hold on haymaking and other agric activities, saw this on the telly this morning....

.....Bee Eaters have turned up in North Narfuk.
Time to break out Mrs Spins ice cream van (Flakes or no Flakes) as twitchers from everywhere are currently typing 'N. Norfolk' into their sat navs and heading your way

 

[Will 1594]

hey doin bit of excitement this morning
fuvking muntjac barking at 3 this morning so goes out with 2 crow bangers on my home made fuse and let them go
20 mins later hear sirens and then see blue lights
old woman 86 who rents white house in yard rung the feds saying some one trying to blow her up
she losing the plot
sold her car then rings us up saying some one stole her car

 

[onthehoof]

hey doin bit of excitement this morning
fuvking muntjac barking at 3 this morning so goes out with 2 crow bangers on my home made fuse and let them go
20 mins later hear sirens and then see blue lights
old woman 86 who rents white house in yard rung the feds saying some one trying to blow her up
she losing the plot
sold her car then rings us up saying some one stole her car

Lucky you weren't arrested on terrorism charges

 

[robbie]

Lucky you weren't arrested on terrorism charges

I dread to think what I could be arrested for.....I stood in the garden stark bollock naked with my rifle the other morning at 10 to 4 and shot a fox after the call ducks on the pond.......wife did suggest next time it may be a good idea to put something on first !!!!

 

[Flat 10]

All this stuff is clearly just normal for Norfolk though?!

 

[robbie]

All this stuff is clearly just normal for Norfolk though?!

Is it not normal to go into ones garden in the early hours brandishing a powerful high capacity weapon, and a rifle??????

 

[Sharpy]

Is it not normal to go into ones garden in the early hours brandishing a powerful high capacity weapon, and a riffle??????

Is a riffle a chocolate bar like a Cadburys ripple? Norfolks nickname for a flake? Struggling to think of a situation where you would need both TBH..........