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This is a long bank holiday.

  • 19-03-2012 1:18am
    #1
    20silkcut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else caught short?

    Creamery closed for three days.

    Had to drive 15 miles today to buy milk replacer off a calf dealer.

    The calves did not understand when I told them to calm down it was paddys weekend.

    I know I should have stocked up but I am a hand to mouth day to day operator I don't be watching what day it is .
    I would get a cold sweat handing over 200 quid for 4 or 5 bags of powder in one shot.


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  • #2
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Wow.
    Not too many didn't notice it was Paddy's weekend.
    I've let some of the other bank holidays sneak up on me, but you must live in quite a bubble not to know Paddy's weekend is coming.


  • #3
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    I went to the mart on Saturday for hay :D

    Closest thing I got to hay there were a couple of tumble weeds blowing through the place.

    I didn't expect the place to be buzzing, but neither did I expect it to be closed. I farm 7 days a week, 365 days a year, birthdays and Christmas included.

    St. Patricks has been turned into a piss and puke weekend and I feel absolutely nothing towards it besides apathy.


  • #4
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Fair enough point.
    But we both work off farm and a looong weekend is a gift and family time.
    This weekend is like any other, what you make of it. The piss and puke brigade don't own it nor do they stop me enjoying it.


  • #5
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    had a great day planned for yesterday, mothers day... kids made me breakfast and we went to see the muppets, all was fine, youngest child who is 3 started to get really sick during the film:eek: brought him outside , he became unresponsive... got him to hospital, luckily we where in drogheda so hospital was only up the road, took a while to get him back around... kept him in overnight and just home now... diagnosis was a really bad tummy bug as all tests came back clear, thank god.... so that was my mothers day:cool:


  • #6
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a great day planned for yesterday, mothers day... kids made me breakfast and we went to see the muppets, all was fine, youngest child who is 3 started to get really sick during the film:eek: brought him outside , he became unresponsive... got him to hospital, luckily we where in drogheda so hospital was only up the road, took a while to get him back around... kept him in overnight and just home now... diagnosis was a really bad tummy bug as all tests came back clear, thank god.... so that was my mothers day:cool:
    :eek: Glad to hear he's ok!


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  • #7
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    thanks all, not a bother on him now... although my nerves still havent recovered:cool:


  • #8
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    It's a long weekend when you're working the whole of it:cool:.

    All behind me now!


  • #9
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Twasnt half long enough for me, was spreading fert this morning, loaded the first 2 ton and arrived back to the yard and the bloody teleporter decided it wanted to take a bank holiday off aswell. After heavy handed persuasion and an hour of my time wasted it decided to work again. Spent the whole day cursing the bloody yoke


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