diary of a comedy sheep farm

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Livestock Farmer
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Radnorshire
saturday

dear diary...this could be my last entry.....a few minutes ago mrs spin kicked me off the telly for 'strictly'.....i was re watching 'the imitation game' having tired of 'peaky blinders' during season two....googling the episode guide and deciding there on in it was gonna be complete tosh.....anyway.... mrs spin had been cooking mince pies for church tommoz and her parting comment 'NO YOU CAN'T HAVE A MINCE PIE':(.....suffice to say ,i have particular fondness for home cooked mince pies and zero self control.....mother in law always states 'jimmy...you can resist anything bar temptation'........SOooo i'll let you guess what just happened :bag:

my impending doom apart it had been a good day(y)...had a lie in.....took beet out to ewes....finished lane repairs ....and scrounged a free crunchie bar outta arkwright all before 1pm......picked up the freezer lambs and had a sit down in afternoon:love:.......sandwiched in between was a fantastic cheque from last weeks mart in the post... £250 more than i'd hoped...the star being a cull ewe at £142:oops:

OK nils desperandum...i have two lines of defence 1/ technicality....mrs spin said i couldn't eat 'one'.....i've eaten two;).....2/ all that 'gangster prog binge' has given me an idea;).....i'm gonna 'fit up' one a the felines 😁😁😁

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edit...3 mince pies :bag:
saturday

dear diary...this could be my last entry.....a few minutes ago mrs spin kicked me off the telly for 'strictly'.....i was re watching 'the imitation game' having tired of 'peaky blinders' during season two....googling the episode guide and deciding there on in it was gonna be complete tosh.....anyway.... mrs spin had been cooking mince pies for church tommoz and her parting comment 'NO YOU CAN'T HAVE A MINCE PIE':(.....suffice to say ,i have particular fondness for home cooked mince pies and zero self control.....mother in law always states 'jimmy...you can resist anything bar temptation'........SOooo i'll let you guess what just happened :bag:

my impending doom apart it had been a good day(y)...had a lie in.....took beet out to ewes....finished lane repairs ....and scrounged a free crunchie bar outta arkwright all before 1pm......picked up the freezer lambs and had a sit down in afternoon:love:.......sandwiched in between was a fantastic cheque from last weeks mart in the post... £250 more than i'd hoped...the star being a cull ewe at £142:oops:

OK nils desperandum...i have two lines of defence 1/ technicality....mrs spin said i couldn't eat 'one'.....i've eaten two;).....2/ all that 'gangster prog binge' has given me an idea;).....i'm gonna 'fit up' one a the felines 😁😁😁

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edit...3 mince pies :bag:
No thought Spin of those who haven’t had a fresh warm mince pie today, how cruel to your readers.
 

spin cycle

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Location
north norfolk
supplemental

i've been spared....i've eaten 5......boy has eaten 2.....but he made the pastry cos mrs spin reckons he's 'the king of pastry' so he's 'allowed to' :oops: ....she's not bloomin wrong about the pastry though:love:

one problem remains.....al those mince pies have to survive the night and i fear i might go 'sister assumpta' on them😭

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seven :bag:
 

spin cycle

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Location
north norfolk
redemption sunday

the mince pies survived the night.....K came in so all i had to do was a coupla hay bales for strawbs.....i was home 10:15 ...walked in to hear mrs spin ordering a new washing machine :oops: .....E20 had come up and machine wouldn't empty....mrs spin panicked cos she's a lot of holiday let washing....of course it was my fault cos it was my work clothes in there:rolleyes:....i retire to google and an amiable irish lad explains it's a blocked filter pipe...in his example he pulls out a clean hairgrip and a tiny bitta plastic.....i attempt his solution with success(y)....cept i extract dirty hair grip...hair band...£1-05 in coin...small piece of bone:oops: and some large 'grit particles':scratchhead:......i'm a bit late for church.....in haste the afforementioned 'coin' goes into my pocket for the collection😁

a very nice simple service inspired by gerry's scottish travels...iona in this case.....afterwards we had tea /coffee but seemed bit short of mince pies......anyway gerry sidles over and starts to 'butter me up'.....'my... i think thats the smartest i've ever seen you look ...is that a new leather jacket? ...you look like an italian gangster':oops: ....turns out there's a 'congregation boosting think tank' being formed and someone suggested me cos they reckon i'm 'clever':oops:....i venture a coupla theories...none of which is much good.....the first...'start a war'...reasoning fear always fills the churches:rolleyes:....the second an observation that in days of 'yore' ppl went to church cos there was nothing else to do...it was a place to meet...gossip...discuss news and after the men went to the pub....today ,from waking up. we're bombarded by information or tech trying to grab our attention:rolleyes:

roast lunch....chicken AND lamb :oops::love:...overindulged😗 ...but think i might just manage a mince pie just now😁
 

carbonfibre farmer

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Arable Farmer
redemption sunday

the mince pies survived the night.....K came in so all i had to do was a coupla hay bales for strawbs.....i was home 10:15 ...walked in to hear mrs spin ordering a new washing machine :oops: .....E20 had come up and machine wouldn't empty....mrs spin panicked cos she's a lot of holiday let washing....of course it was my fault cos it was my work clothes in there:rolleyes:....i retire to google and an amiable irish lad explains it's a blocked filter pipe...in his example he pulls out a clean hairgrip and a tiny bitta plastic.....i attempt his solution with success(y)....cept i extract dirty hair grip...hair band...£1-05 in coin...small piece of bone:oops: and some large 'grit particles':scratchhead:......i'm a bit late for church.....in haste the afforementioned 'coin' goes into my pocket for the collection😁

a very nice simple service inspired by gerry's scottish travels...iona in this case.....afterwards we had tea /coffee but seemed bit short of mince pies......anyway gerry sidles over and starts to 'butter me up'.....'my... i think thats the smartest i've ever seen you look ...is that a new leather jacket? ...you look like an italian gangster':oops: ....turns out there's a 'congregation boosting think tank' being formed and someone suggested me cos they reckon i'm 'clever':oops:....i venture a coupla theories...none of which is much good.....the first...'start a war'...reasoning fear always fills the churches:rolleyes:....the second an observation that in days of 'yore' ppl went to church cos there was nothing else to do...it was a place to meet...gossip...discuss news and after the men went to the pub....today ,from waking up. we're bombarded by information or tech trying to grab our attention:rolleyes:

roast lunch....chicken AND lamb :oops::love:...overindulged😗 ...but think i might just manage a mince pie just now😁
Your still alive then 😂😂
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
Ken,ell.....you really are the last of the big spenders @spin cycle , £1 and five pence!!!!!🙄

As you'd blagged a free jacket and it being the season of good will and all that old cobblers, I thought you'd be a tad more generous 😯

Around here they make the slot in the top of the collection box only wide enough for notes😰 they had a purple one out of me last time as that was all I had😭😭😭😭
Hopefully it should get me entry upstairs with the big man🙏 😇although it's probably more fun down below 👿👹🔥
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
Few questions.

Did mrs spin order a new washing machine?
Did you put all the 'coin' in the collection?
Do you want to go pub after church?🤣🤣
Surely you had enough mince pies last night....?😳
I'll answer then for him....
*No, spinney bodged, oops fixed the old one.
*Yes, but spinney tied a piece of string to it so he could pull it back out again when no one's watching so he's got it for next time.
*Yes, but he's a lightweight and he'd be buggered till wednesday, atleast!!!!!
*You can't have too many mince pies!!!!
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
I'll answer then for him....
*No, spinney bodged, oops fixed the old one.
*Yes, but spinney tied a piece of string to it so he could pull it back out again when no one's watching so he's got it for next time.
*Yes, but he's a lightweight and he'd be buggered till wednesday, atleast!!!!!
*You can't have too many mince pies!!!!

FECK ME :rolleyes: ...you're gonna 'ace' the christmas quiz 😁 😁
 

spin cycle

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Location
north norfolk
just woke up :oops: .....came in shattered...had tea....went up to change and flaked out.......house was quiet cos cinders + mrs spin wrapping presents for a neighbour.....had a weird dream:rolleyes:.....probably won't get back to sleep now :banghead:

it'd been a busy day.....2 hours mopping floors first up as i try to straighten up admirals quarters

usual sheepy chores

took lambs in to abattoir that shoulda gone last week......on the way out a guy queing in a silver discovery gave a big friendly smile.....don't think i know him :scratchhead:...i have a bandanna mask so looked pretty 'dangerous' :oops: perhaps he's heard about my 'gangster connections'😁

on the radio driving home they were talking to a gp about the coming vaccination drive....her practice doubling up from 1000/day .....got me thinking how many we sheepy ppl could do with a sterimatic😁......it musta filtered into my 'weird dream':oops:.....i'd gone up to our local vaccination centre....K had come with me and i'd taken two sterimatic guns....the vaccine only came in 25 dose bottles so K was going to switch bottles/needles/caps etc to keep me going......anyway after about an hour a gp comes over and hails K 'we're getting complaints from some of the more frail patients about the blob of purple spray mark you're putting on the back of their necks'....K is shocked/crestfallen....i'm mid vaccination but call out 'it's ok i told her to do it'.....vaccination done i pause....gesture to the gp to come closer and whisper 'once the withdrawl is up you want rid of those' :bag:
 

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