Today at work

[glasshouse]

Just to appease the junior management ( he’s 10 and loves Blackies !), got 20 gimmers at the blackie sale at Ayr today .
And as the Seller assured me , they are as not just wild , the are holy feckin wild ! View attachment 986150

How much?

 

[Pan mixer]

Cows seen something that they have never seen before in September in Essex.

Fresh grass.

Load 1.

 

[glasshouse]

Daughter helping dad stack bales

 

[Bill dog]

How much?

190

 

[glasshouse]

190

What???
Gold plated??

 

[Jerry]

Ripping out tramlines ahead of grass going in for a few years as a break.

Then nearly ran this young chap over only to realise it’s been dead for a while going by the stench.

 

[Fendt516profi]

190

Not so bad £9.50 a piece

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I did a lot of it as a youngster, dad had a woman heavily pregnant picking, next morning she couldn’t pick as she’d given birth, by lunch she was back picking @JLLM may remember the family - they still visit us every so often

Back in the 70's there was a team of 'gypsie' type woman (notice the careful wording) picking spuds behind a ransomes potato riser not far from here . There was a bit of commotion on the headland and it turned out one of them had given birth .
An hour later using water from the water tank mum and baby were all cleaned up and picking resumed !
I was only about 12 at the time earning a bit of pocket money ....it was a bit of an education !!

 

[Norfolk Olly]

 

[wrenbird]

Back in the 70's there was a team of 'gypsie' type woman (notice the careful wording) picking spuds behind a ransomes potato riser not far from here . There was a bit of commotion on the headland and it turned out one of them had given birth .
An hour later using water from the water tank mum and baby were all cleaned up and picking resumed !
I was only about 12 at the time earning a bit of pocket money ....it was a bit of an education !!

When my other half was small his Mum used to earn a bit extra money fruit picking, spud picking, hop picking etc. His Dad worked full time, but with five children, any extra cash was very gratefully received, in a lot Herefordshire families back then the women would be supplementing the family income with this sort of farm work.
He can remember, as a small child, being in the hop yards of Davies of Dormington and there being a bit of a fuss because one of the romany gypsy ladies had given birth. This would of been back in the fifties.

 

[glasshouse]

When my other half was small his Mum used to earn a bit extra money fruit picking, spud picking, hop picking etc. His Dad worked full time, but with five children, any extra cash was very gratefully received, in a lot Herefordshire families back then the women would be supplementing the family income with this sort of farm work.
He can remember, as a small child, being in the hop yards of Davies of Dormington and there being a bit of a fuss because one of the romany gypsy ladies had given birth. This would of been back in the fifties.

Those were the days
Look at the fuss now for childbirth.
I was born on the farm too, in the house

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Those were the days
Look at the fuss now for childbirth.
I was born on the farm too, in the house

Same here...... mother was stacking bales ready for the perry loader the night before .........that might explain what's wrong with me

 

[Hfd Cattle]

When my other half was small his Mum used to earn a bit extra money fruit picking, spud picking, hop picking etc. His Dad worked full time, but with five children, any extra cash was very gratefully received, in a lot Herefordshire families back then the women would be supplementing the family income with this sort of farm work.
He can remember, as a small child, being in the hop yards of Davies of Dormington and there being a bit of a fuss because one of the romany gypsy ladies had given birth. This would of been back in the fifties.

We were getting 5p a bag for picking . Brother and me managed to pick 144 bags one day ..... £3.60 each for the day. We were docked 1p per bag the next day cos we earn the too much !!

 

[Christoph1945]

Back in the 70's there was a team of 'gypsie' type woman (notice the careful wording) picking spuds behind a ransomes potato riser not far from here . There was a bit of commotion on the headland and it turned out one of them had given birth .
An hour later using water from the water tank mum and baby were all cleaned up and picking resumed !
I was only about 12 at the time earning a bit of pocket money ....it was a bit of an education !!

An education in life, eh? Just recently our ten year-old grandson attended a life class at school and as they were told how babies were made he was heard to gasp out loud and say that is disgusting, I aint ever going to do that! Only time will tell!

 

[Gerbert]

We were getting 5p a bag for picking . Brother and me managed to pick 144 bags one day ..... £3.60 each for the day. We were docked 1p per bag the next day cos we earn the too much !!

Early lesson on progressive tax for ya

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

How much?

New record down here at Hay today @glasshouse . Pen of 407 sheep from Booligal sold to $510/head. Heavy ewes at 65kgs.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Filling the last of the former swamp /silage stack area. From this 3 days ago...

To this , this morning

All finished by lunchtime. And just started raining after tea

 

[holywell farmer]

Some photos of the Denbigh moors were i do some work

 

[Hfd Cattle]

JD ready for her life ahead

 

[Bill dog]

JD ready for her life ahead
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Does the poor J D know she’ll never get a lie in again!