things that make you smile

[melted welly]

Me and kids been up for an hr, done breakfast and dishes, I now need to go to work, wife still snoozing........ boys found an old portable radio and are investigating how to tune between channels, specifically the obscure foreign am stations, volume on max. Think sleeping beauty be up getting shortly

 

[JP1]

 

[Old Tup]

Great that the advertiser has hope, though

Surely the advertiser in this case has “Faith”!

 

[primmiemoo]

Surely the advertiser in this case has “Faith”!

Yes, both ! One clearly stated, and the other quietly in the background.
Hope the advert worked.

 

[melted welly]

Got a speckled Sussex hen, youngest lad can’t pronounce that and calls her his “special sockets”

“mummy! I can’t find my special sockets”

 

[JP1]

Love the BBC take on the Fastly Worldwide outage :

One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown

The unnamed customer was not to blame but changing settings triggered a software bug, Fastly says.

www.bbc.co.uk

"The outage, which lasted about an hour, hit some popular websites such as Amazon, Reddit, the Guardian and the New York Times"

Maybe they meant the Farmers Guardian or China's most popular online portal in English

 

[JP1]

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Had to smile today....

I sold a Hampshire Down shearling ram to a local farmer last summer. A bit daft I know, but I was really fond of that ram, he was a real smasher. A little bit plain but looked great, good growth rate and very friendly. We called him EverReady.

I went to the farm soil sampling today and there was the ram in a paddock by the drive. On the way out I went into the paddock and after calling him he came ambling over for scratch, just as he always did. We had a good chat and as I walked away he bellowed at me.

The customer is chuffed with him. He’s not plain now, he’s a bloody monster and is throwing great lambs getting away early.

Very satisfying.

 

[Cowmansam]

Had to smile today....

I sold a Hampshire Down shearling ram to a local farmer last summer. A bit daft I know, but I was really fond of that ram, he was a real smasher. A little bit plain but looked great, good growth rate and very friendly. We called him EverReady.

I went to the farm soil sampling today and there was the ram in a paddock by the drive. On the way out I went into the paddock and after calling him he came ambling over for scratch, just as he always did. We had a good chat and as I walked away he bellowed at me.

The customer is chuffed with him. He’s not plain now, he’s a bloody monster and is throwing great lambs getting away early.

Very satisfying.

Nothing better than seeing your stock doing you proud for somone else

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I was really pleased with him. Old breed holding his own against the continentals.

I’m going to be very sad when our oldest ram has to go. I definitely won’t be smiling about that. We’re good mates me and Geoff.

 

[betweenthelines]

Had to smile today....

I sold a Hampshire Down shearling ram to a local farmer last summer. A bit daft I know, but I was really fond of that ram, he was a real smasher. A little bit plain but looked great, good growth rate and very friendly. We called him EverReady.

I went to the farm soil sampling today and there was the ram in a paddock by the drive. On the way out I went into the paddock and after calling him he came ambling over for scratch, just as he always did. We had a good chat and as I walked away he bellowed at me.

The customer is chuffed with him. He’s not plain now, he’s a bloody monster and is throwing great lambs getting away early.

Very satisfying.

What may seem quite innocent to you, could well be interpreted differently.


Welshman walks along a lane, spots a lone sheep in a paddock and shouts "Are you ever ready for some personal attention!"

 

[Cowmansam]

I was really pleased with him. Old breed holding his own against the continentals.

I’m going to be very sad when our oldest ram has to go. I definitely won’t be smiling about that. We’re good mates me and Geoff.

I had a soay ram called Ramaseas as a kid did 11 seasons only soay I’ve ever been able to actually touch without having to pen first great animal he was no idea what age he was found Running around all the gardens in the local village for a week or so before we eventually went and got him as people kept ringing thinking it was ours as knew we kept rare breeds

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Now that brings back a tale.....

30 years ago my Dad had a Soay tup get in with his ewes. No idea where it came from and, of course, it was autumn. He was seen to serve a ewe.

My uncle got to hear about it and, to cut a long story short got his mate to ring Dad one evening and wind him up , saying he was a champion ram and worth an astronomical stud fee. Dad lost his temper and was about to put the phone down when the chap chuckled and Dad guessed the game.

He came and told us about it and we all had a good laugh. Then something occurred to me.....

I was working for my uncle at the time and a couple of weeks before he had taken delivery of a brand new Ifor Williams trailer. I knew it was parked at the top of the yard when I left a few hours before so we went out, lobbed the Soay tup into Dads old van and drove over there at about 9pm.

Pitch dark, we went in stealth mode, approaching uncles farm with no lights. We bound the tups legs and carried him all the way up the yard to the trailer. We cut a fresh bale of hay and found a bucket for water and sniggered to ourselves all the way home.

I wasn’t working for uncle the next day but I heard him shout when Dad answered the phone, expecting him to call. He was roaring with laughter and loved the joke, but he wasn’t so chuffed with all the horn marks made from the inside of the trailer!

 

[Cowmansam]

We ended up with about 30 the things scattiest livestock I’ve ever handled
Twice we come out in morning to a fox mangled where the tups done them over hit like a train for a small beast with them horns

 

[Cab-over Pete]

He was vicious that little tup. I don’t recall exactly where he ended up.

 

[thorpe]

hanging up i hope!

 

[britt]

When the dairy herd went in 84 dad kept 2 house cows.
Too much milk for us, so he bought 2 pigs to fatten on it.
One Sunday afternoon a couple of his friends called round for a drink to find no one home. So they put the pigs in the pony trailer and left the door open, putting muck out on the yard to look like the pigs had escaped.
When parents and my sister returned home they soon found the pigs (they were hungry and ready for tea by then) and knew exactly who would be behind it.
The next time my sister tried to get the pony into the trailer it wouldn't go due to the smell of pigs.
A few weeks later said friends were here for a drink and my sister sought revenge. She bedded a 7 series BMW with barley straw ! The awns were still stuck in the seats and carpet years later when he sold it.

 

[melted welly]

2 unrelated things made me smile today..,.

 

[Pan mixer]

Arriving a bit late to give the calf whose mother has mastitis his bucket of milk and spied the little devil stripping her out, she must be getting better.

 

[Mark the shepherd]

72. The cow not just the number. Find her to give her a bit of fuss and she spends more time fussing over you. Can't help but Smile

72? I have it in my head that is the answer to all questions in the world and everything from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". To that end whenever my boys ( 11 and 7) ever ask me a question I tell them 72. I then spend the next few hours a bit at a time telling them how this is the case. Maths is easy. Some other subjects not so! But it keeps us amused!