what grinds your gears

[bumkin]

We brought the lambs in for weighing yesterday evening, sunshine, warm,blue sky. The lambs came skipping down the field with their mums and into the pen, no problem, it was going to be an easy job !

Sorted out the lambs but a couple of ewes must have been crouching down and ended up in the lambs pen, no worries, they could wait until the end and we could let them out. First lamb walked into the spring balance, which was in the corner of the pen. We don't use a race as only a few lambs but once they get used to the weigher they almost queue up to go in. Isn't nature wonderful, aren't sheep clever ?...

First lamb, so full of energy started to bounce up and down so scale was going all over the place. This upset one of the captive ewes, who realising her baby was caged, shot across the pen and started head butting the crate, scale now going ballistic, only it wasn't her lamb who had tagged on her rear for a quick drink. We renumber the lambs at this time. How many tins of stockmarker do you have pick up before one that works, when holding a lamb ?

The holding area was put in by the previous people, probably over several nights as it consists of small sections of concrete at slightly different levels and angles to its neighbour, oh yes and the whole thing is on a 1 in 6 slope, which when covered in sheep excrement could be used as a summer ski slope.
The headbutting ewe did her best to stop the lambs being weighed, if I left the weigher door open she pushed it closed, or somehow was always across the entrance. Nozzles fell off the full aerosols, lambs pee'd down my leg or cr*pped in my boot. Hinged gates which had worked for years became seized. The weigher needed zeroing every time, as every lamb was now a bouncing lamb, but "we" can't afford load bars. The other captive ewe decided to do a headstand while sticking a horn through and round a hurdle. The weight chart fell off the weigher into the forementioned cr*p and pee before a lamb danced a highland jig all over it.

I am having a fortnight of meditation and tranquillity exercises before going through it again.

thats sheep for you in fact most live stock we like to run our cattle through the race just to get them use to it but then when we tb test its bad enough there is a stranger there , but the reading is fraught they look at the vet and its as if they say feck this for a game of soldiers

 

[DrWazzock]

We had to put cattle hurdles at the end of our fat lamb shedding holding pen this year as for some reason they just bounced over the sheep hurdles and off they went.

 

[RushesToo]

Caught a brief glimpse of BBC Breakfast today which discussed Times article about vegan "cream" being available at Wimbledon. They showed a quick picture of the article c/w phrases such as "animal friendly" and "cruelty free"

Why the hell are they allowed to get away with such ridiculous, unfounded statements? No newspaper would ever get away with statements like "made by slave labour" when talking about imported goods, so why is it OK to slag of UK food? If only farmers had some sort on Union to represent them, or even a Board to promote the high standards of UK food.

I will always refer to the content of food. In the case of cream, it is milk, milk from cows, full stop end of.

A popular form of vegan pretending to be like cream contains this:

I don't know what some of those things are and I am not prepared to eat them.
I will stick with cream thank you. I understand the ingredients - milk, just simple straight forward milk.

 

[melted welly]

I will always refer to the content of food. In the case of cream, it is milk, milk from cows, full stop end of.

A popular form of vegan pretending to be like cream contains this:

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I don't know what some of those things are and I am not prepared to eat them.
I will stick with cream thank you. I understand the ingredients - milk, just simple straight forward milk.

All home grown with minimal environmental impact of course......well the water at least. A lot of the other stuff is byproduct of maize, highly refined/processed. Got to wonder what the “natural flavouring “ is, maybe milk?!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

All home grown with minimal environmental impact of course......well the water at least. A lot of the other stuff is byproduct of maize, highly refined/processed. Got to wonder what the “natural flavouring “ is, maybe milk?!

Food description law is such that it is probably a laboratory made equivalent of the natural compounds creating the flavour in real cream.

"Natural" has a perverse meaning in food description law.

 

[melted welly]

In laws visiting. Every time Dai comes up here, something ends up broke. Chainsaw, chainsaw sharpening kit, dismantled garden hose reels and lost the bits, helped build the greenhouse -the door went on upside down and most of the clips to hold in the glass ended up 400 mile away in his pocket, hired a mini digger for some gardening - it lasted 2hrs, got it fixed and he then buried all the top soil under rubble and clay.

Soooo, this time all gardening was done prior to arrival and strict instructions left that he was not to be let near the mower.

They left this morning, a successful visit, discussing with with wife how got on fine and nothing got broke this time.......

”yeah, about that.....he broke the mower”

 

[DrWazzock]

In laws always visit at the busiest time. Last time they rolled up I had the walkers out of the combine mid harvest after a major self destruction episode. And you are expected to sit in the house all afternoon talking about nothing in particular to people who have been retired for 46 years.

 

[Tomr10]

This Is my absolute number 1 hate and avoid taking it up with the people that do it because it happens infrequently.

When a smoker comes to your house and thinks it's ok to put fag ends in the drain I feking hate it

 

[melted welly]

In laws always visit at the busiest time. Last time they rolled up I had the walkers out of the combine mid harvest after a major self destruction episode. And you are expected to sit in the house all afternoon talking about nothing in particular to people who have been retired for 46 years.

I got 2 sets due to divorce/remarriage!

Other set are real townsers, “oh yeah, we’re up at about 5 most days”

b*ll*cks, I had 15ac of osr sown before they woke up last visit, 1st thing in the morning at 10am.

 

[7610 super q]

My bone of contention with visitors is, there always has to be the " Grand tour " of the house on arrival. This requires " Spring cleaning " about 15 bloody rooms which despite not being used get surprisingly dirty. Then as said, there follows an afternoon of small talk with folks you've absolutely nothing in common with. They tell me tales of their 3 exotic holidays this year to India, Switzerland , and Nam ( I presume Vietnam , not Cheltenham ) I tell them about my holiday to the Canaries in ..... 1980. Then there's the perplexed looks from folks when you try and explain " farming ". Yes, I work 7 days / week , 12 hour days, and earn £ 9835 per year.
Oh....delightful. Must be lovely working outside in the fresh air....

 

[Tomr10]

My bone of contention with visitors is, there always has to be the " Grand tour " of the house on arrival. This requires " Spring cleaning " about 15 bloody rooms which despite not being used get surprisingly dirty. Then as said, there follows an afternoon of small talk with folks you've absolutely nothing in common with. They tell me tales of their 3 exotic holidays this year to India, Switzerland , and Nam ( I presume Vietnam , not Cheltenham ) I tell them about my holiday to the Canaries in ..... 1980. Then there's the purplexed looks from folks when you try and explain " farming ". Yes, I work 7 days / week , 12 hour days, and earn £ 9835 per year.
Oh....delightful. Must be lovely working outside in the fresh air....

15 rooms , no money in farming

 

[7610 super q]

15 rooms , no money in farming

But the acreage of my house is bigger than the farm.

 

[Wombat]

15 rooms , no money in farming

The butler cleans the other 10

 

[melted welly]

My bone of contention with visitors is, there always has to be the " Grand tour " of the house on arrival. This requires " Spring cleaning " about 15 bloody rooms which despite not being used get surprisingly dirty. Then as said, there follows an afternoon of small talk with folks you've absolutely nothing in common with. They tell me tales of their 3 exotic holidays this year to India, Switzerland , and Nam ( I presume Vietnam , not Cheltenham ) I tell them about my holiday to the Canaries in ..... 1980. Then there's the perplexed looks from folks when you try and explain " farming ". Yes, I work 7 days / week , 12 hour days, and earn £ 9835 per year.
Oh....delightful. Must be lovely working outside in the fresh air....[emoji50]

My bother in law once started a sentence with “my tailor in Shanghai..........“

Tit

 

[Celt83]

Just had a packet of crisps sizzling steak flavour “suitable for vegetarians “

What’s the world coming to?

 

[storming]

Grrrrr.

Wot is it machinery dealers ??? Emailed two in last fews day on their fancy pants websites which says “ your enquiry has been received and our friendly staff will be in touch .............................................................................yes that was a tumble weed just rolled by.

S

 

[Tomr10]

Grrrrr.

Wot is it machinery dealers ??? Emailed two in last fews day on their fancy pants websites which says “ your enquiry has been received and our friendly staff will be in touch .............................................................................yes that was a tumble weed just rolled by.

S

Still waiting for a trailer ordered 12 weeks ago on a 6 week lead time

 

[George from SJM Planning]

My bother in law once started a sentence with “my tailor in Shanghai..........“

Tit

Who doesn't have a tailor in Shanghai? Mine just sends stuff via eBay

 

[melted welly]

Who doesn't have a tailor in Shanghai? Mine just sends stuff via eBay

Ha! Hadn’t thought of that reply!

 

[Robert K]

Lorry drivers that don't listen to simple instructions on where to park up [emoji849]