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Yes 2nd June 1975sure we had snow on 2nd june , stopped spud planting.
Yes 2nd June 1975sure we had snow on 2nd june , stopped spud planting.
Those were the best days of my life....
And they were.
Had a family holiday in cotswolds, it was like the sahara, not a blade of green anywhere .....................
I well remember the grass fields all looked like they had been sprayed off with Gramoxone, I do hope none of you have to see grass fields like that again.
So I believe......Mum and Dad got married 1st June 1976. First night of their honeymoon was in a caravan in the Lakes, sat on the toilet with food poisoning while rain lashed down on the roof Decided to come home the day after, and Dad went mowing for someone for silage.....didn't rain again till September ish?
Ok so anyone up for a guess when Roundup first used 1977?Note i said gramoxone, as roundup was not yet invented .
You must have too much spare time!Nostalgia kicking in now...... I vaguely remember the water board cutting off supply for a few hours a day ?
Dad filled churns when the water was on, and carted them out to troughs in the fields. Uncovered an old well to see if there was any water in it, which there was, but never got round to organising a way to pump it out.
If it turns 1976 ish again, I'll bet some folks will regret filling in ponds / draining springs......
Anyhoo.....my 10,000th post.
They think it might get wet towards the end of next weekEast wind in kernow today drying the devil chance of some drizzle tomorrow
Typical I'm away next weekend!They think it might get wet towards the end of next week
East wind in kernow today drying the devil chance of some drizzle tomorrow
thats 8.74 posts per dayNostalgia kicking in now...... I vaguely remember the water board cutting off supply for a few hours a day ?
Dad filled churns when the water was on, and carted them out to troughs in the fields. Uncovered an old well to see if there was any water in it, which there was, but never got round to organising a way to pump it out.
If it turns 1976 ish again, I'll bet some folks will regret filling in ponds / draining springs......
Anyhoo.....my 10,000th post.
Well....put like that, doesn't sound so bad....thats 8.74 posts per day
My shocking memory of Roundup was my Uncle telling me about being at a meeting , where the rep actually drank some , to show it was unlike paraquat !! I wonder if it really was the chemical.Ok so anyone up for a guess when Roundup first used 1977?
Here I recon I used it in 1979 did one heck of a good job spraying off Couch grass in Wheat on some ground taken over the previous year.
Edited when this found
http://www.roundup.ca/en/rounduphistory
We are near Newquay nr a village called st Newlyn EastBlowing a hooley up here in SE Cornwall. Cold as charity, no chance of any spraying today.
Which end of the county are you?
I remember when I started on the farm at 16 before I went to college I was about to cultivate a couchy stubble when my uncle said leave it as he was going to try a new spray to kill it. That was 1973/4.