things that make you smile

[Bury the Trash]

Everything's for sale.

sheep/lambs are a bit like children i guess in that they are great for awhile but good to hand back to their guardians at the end of the day..

 

[Will 1594]

tulip girl . fund raisers from tapping house just rung
upto now and donations still coming in
they have £322.000 and still counting
from 27 k 4 years ago to over 322000 some job

 

[Robt]

Followed this old country bumpkin. See him most days in local town of Woodbridge . Zero fuxks given. The glass in his cab is so dirty he can barely see out of. No lights on trailer….. happy as can be. Today he was also leaking some sort of fluid… dear god

 

[JP1]

Cyclingmikey at Gandalf Corner ; this one in particular of the angry doctors has achieved legendary view status on YouTube

 

[ladycrofter]

Sounds like my daughter
She's a little older but would pass for 20.
Knitting is cool again I believe. Not that it would worry her if it wasn't.

Knitting is cool for sure . Sleeve of OH's jumper. The blue is our cheviot, old-school urine-dyed indigo, so that's his contribution . A long and smelly process, but the boiling indigo smells even worse than fermented urine . Then the yarn soaked in vinegar, washed and hung in the shed for a year to air out.
Interesting fact - urine was a valuable commodity for dyeing, and fulling/felting wool fabric to tighten the weave. It's the ammonia they were after. Families would have a pot to pee in and sell it. Hence the saying "So poor they don't have a pot to pee in".
The dyers lived downwind of the village, with the other smelly families, like the tanners. No doubt looked down on although everyone benefited greatly from their work. ( Hmm like farmers . . . )

Once the smell goes, all the baby boomers would recognise the remaining indigo aroma - Levi's blue jeans. Before chemical dyes came in. There was a scam in India for a while, dyers throwing stale urine in the chemical dye vat to make buyers think it was genuine. They would sniff the fabric to check, you can't mistake the aftermath of boiling 100% stale urine . Years later, the indigo dye pot still lives outside. High quality stainless still was beaten by it .

 

[DrWazzock]

Heard the cuckoo this morning. And the blackbird has managed to get its youngsters fledged without the cat getting them. Result.

 

[ladycrofter]

My 10 year old cactus flowered!

 

[Will 1594]

Knitting is cool for sure . Sleeve of OH's jumper. The blue is our cheviot, old-school urine-dyed indigo, so that's his contribution . A long and smelly process, but the boiling indigo smells even worse than fermented urine . Then the yarn soaked in vinegar, washed and hung in the shed for a year to air out.
Interesting fact - urine was a valuable commodity for dyeing, and fulling/felting wool fabric to tighten the weave. It's the ammonia they were after. Families would have a pot to pee in and sell it. Hence the saying "So poor they don't have a pot to pee in".
The dyers lived downwind of the village, with the other smelly families, like the tanners. No doubt looked down on although everyone benefited greatly from their work. ( Hmm like farmers . . . )

Once the smell goes, all the baby boomers would recognise the remaining indigo aroma - Levi's blue jeans. Before chemical dyes came in. There was a scam in India for a while, dyers throwing stale urine in the chemical dye vat to make buyers think it was genuine. They would sniff the fabric to check, you can't mistake the aftermath of boiling 100% stale urine . Years later, the indigo dye pot still lives outside. High quality stainless still was beaten by it .

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when saw that i thought it was a willy warmer for him 🫣

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Lots of young lapwings around now

 

[ladycrofter]

This fat boy. We thought there was something wrong with him. Looked them up, they are just . . . very round.

 

[Sals dad]

A very emotional short walk

 

[grainboy]

Proudest day,
to walk my daughters down the aisle,
One more to go,

 

[cia72]

Made me chuckle

 

[Pan mixer]

Pleased to find this young Tawny still around the yard last night, it can fly as I have seen it doing that.

 

[JP1]

 

[JP1]

 

[Getnthair]

My daughter's pony died back in Dec'23 - it was old and had a good life.

Never got around to tidying out its box and the haynets were flung over the door.

Went to tidy up today and (luckily) spotted a wren fly out of this net. I can hear chicks inside too - but can't see into the nest so I don't know how many there are.

So - no hurry to tidy up the stable yet, then?

 

[Nearly]

 

[Pan mixer]

The only puddle in our immaculate yard.

 

[JP1]

Brother and I suggest to Dad he cuts back a bit on his acre and a half garden



































So at 88 he buys a new mower .....................