what grinds your gears

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
One particular ewe getting into the walk in creep feeder, scoffing all the feed, then cr*pping in the trough. Of course, she has forgotten how she got in and stands there bleating to be let out, so I undo the bar in front of her and she promptly turns around and tries to get out somewhere else. After several more bars have been removed, she decides to leave for the third time this week. I have spent today drilling more holes to move the bars closer together. If this does not work, the lambs will be penned and the creep feeder wired to the electric fence. :mad:
 

waterbuffalofarmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Penzance
Sugar deprivation kicking in, foul mood!! To cop it all off having lunch, the lads are eating Jaffa cakes in my company. I go to kitchen to get some water and see the tin of doughnuts I made yesterday, go to fridge for an apple (no apples) instead what's facing me is a rich chocolate cake I made yesterday! Second days always the worst!! :cry:(n)(n)
 

Cheesehead

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Kent
Digging down to find a leak in a mains pipe that runs to the yard and our neighbours through road planings and clay only to find that the leak isn't where the water was bubbling up but is in actual fact three feet away from where you've been digging. Then on feeding the ewes this morning see the little old Massey bucket that I walk past every day and think to myself well bug... Leading me to dig down and find it in five minutes :banghead::facepalm::banghead:
 

Shovelhands

Member
Location
Sunny Essex
Sugar deprivation kicking in, foul mood!! To cop it all off having lunch, the lads are eating Jaffa cakes in my company. I go to kitchen to get some water and see the tin of doughnuts I made yesterday, go to fridge for an apple (no apples) instead what's facing me is a rich chocolate cake I made yesterday! Second days always the worst!! :cry:(n)(n)

Keep going(y), it’s hard, I know it is, but worth it:)
I’ve kicked the sugar and carbs now, feeling much better:cool:
 

Mac10

Member
Location
SE
Chuffing bloody parking wardens :mad::mad:

Went to town at 8.30am to do the shopping, no ticket as parking charges start at 9am. Got stuck behind a bloke paying for his shopping with pennies. Back to car at 9.04, parking warden there, no leeway, £25 please. :banghead:
 

bovrill

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East Essexshire
Chuffing bloody parking wardens :mad::mad:

Went to town at 8.30am to do the shopping, no ticket as parking charges start at 9am. Got stuck behind a bloke paying for his shopping with pennies. Back to car at 9.04, parking warden there, no leeway, £25 please. :banghead:
I had that situation once, digital parking meter in London didn't fire up until 8, and I was clamped by 5 past. I happened to have a paddys motorbike with me though, and was on my way in five more minutes!
 

sawdust

Member
Location
Argyll
Chuffing bloody parking wardens :mad::mad:

Went to town at 8.30am to do the shopping, no ticket as parking charges start at 9am. Got stuck behind a bloke paying for his shopping with pennies. Back to car at 9.04, parking warden there, no leeway, £25 please. :banghead:
But you could still have bought a ticket for about 40p to cover your back, 40p is a lot cheaper than £25. I landed in Edinburgh
on a Sunday afternoon, parked and seen a parking meter, thought I'm not taking a chance,:nailbiting: so stuck in £3 to be safe,:angelic: ticket came out valid from Monday 9am the next morning :banghead:
 

Mac10

Member
Location
SE
But you could still have bought a ticket for about 40p to cover your back, 40p is a lot cheaper than £25. I landed in Edinburgh
on a Sunday afternoon, parked and seen a parking meter, thought I'm not taking a chance,:nailbiting: so stuck in £3 to be safe,:angelic: ticket came out valid from Monday 9am the next morning :banghead:

I've managed to be done and out every week by 9am for about 6 years so I can't complain too hard I guess...
 

waterbuffalofarmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Penzance
Found out yesterday I'm allergic to my wonderful sheepies. Tried to tip ram over to do his feet and my skin erupted and inflamed. Picked lambs up to take them from pen with their mother and my arms erupted and inflamed. Here I am covered head to toe in blummin skin cream, which admittedly helps a lot, feeling like tearing my whole body of skin off!!! :cry::cry:(n)
 
Found out yesterday I'm allergic to my wonderful sheepies. Tried to tip ram over to do his feet and my skin erupted and inflamed. Picked lambs up to take them from pen with their mother and my arms erupted and inflamed. Here I am covered head to toe in blummin skin cream, which admittedly helps a lot, feeling like tearing my whole body of skin off!!! :cry::cry:(n)
That'll be the Lanolin. I get like that when shearing but other times I'm not too bad
 

Old Boar

Member
Location
West Wales
Found out yesterday I'm allergic to my wonderful sheepies. Tried to tip ram over to do his feet and my skin erupted and inflamed. Picked lambs up to take them from pen with their mother and my arms erupted and inflamed. Here I am covered head to toe in blummin skin cream, which admittedly helps a lot, feeling like tearing my whole body of skin off!!! :cry::cry:(n)

If you have some hay fever pills in the cupboard, take one. They are anti-histamine and will get rid of the burning. Lanolin allergy is common, so common they do not have it in hand creams any more.
 

Pilgrimmick

Member
Location
Argyll
6 months ago I bought a armfull of new summer work shirts. All in the sale, all same colour and design. £6 each.
Result.
I put them into cupboard to await better weather.

Now I put one on and it doesn't even have a top pocket. Where is the phone supposed to live? :(
In your hand next to your ear, especially at 40kph on a windy road! Have you not been paying attention to the other threads!
 

Pilgrimmick

Member
Location
Argyll
Chuffing bloody parking wardens :mad::mad:

Went to town at 8.30am to do the shopping, no ticket as parking charges start at 9am. Got stuck behind a bloke paying for his shopping with pennies. Back to car at 9.04, parking warden there, no leeway, £25 please. :banghead:
Do you not have to be parked for ten minutes to incur a charge? Ie the earliest tyou could get a ticket would be 09:10. I would appeal it, it costs nothing.
 

bovrill

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East Essexshire
Do you not have to be parked for ten minutes to incur a charge? Ie the earliest tyou could get a ticket would be 09:10. I would appeal it, it costs nothing.
I'm pretty sure that's why I heard nothing about cutting a clamp off. The parking ticket was something like 8.04, and the clamp timed at 8.05. I was there a couple of minutes later, and I think was on my way by 8.12.
I did look into it a bit afterwards, and there was something like ten minutes before they can ticket you, and another period before they clamp, quite long I seem to remember, 20 minutes or so.
Had they made a fuss, I'd have been in a good position to make a bigger one back!
 

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