Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

AntrimGlens

Our school opened on Monday for a fortnight for a “summer school” from 9.30-2pm. Our two are back and loving it except they have to sit beside each other as they are in the same bubble. Only the top 4 classes were invited back and nearly all the kids have came back. The government is giving grants of £10k for any school that opens up for a summer school to pay wages, food etc. The kids take nothing with them in the morning, not even a pencil. They start back full time on the 26th and the whole school is back everyday, with a half day on Wednesday for a deep clean. You can see the benefit to them already and it’s only been two days. The teachers are actually using it as a means of seeing how well kids progressed or not during lockdown and what remedial measures they need to put in place for when they all start back properly. That’s the benefit of a small rural school of 85 pupils, yet we’re fighting to keep it open beyond Sept 21.

kollegeknight

_Brian wrote: »

Eldest is very worried about heading back into leaving cert. they have missed a massive amount of school time and god knows what’s to come. School has about 800 students and was packed to capacity before this. I think they are a bit forgotten in the whole thing, they will be expected to sit a regular leaving cert but will not have had anything close to a normal two year run in to it.

She worked extremely hard at her schoolwork during the lockdown, harder than I’d ever have been able to. I’d say allot of the lads in her year are in a worse place having spent the lockdown out on tractors in the good weather.

I know one family where neither 3rd or 5th year kid was returning any work at all and the principal had to phone the parents about it.

We spent few quid on access to online resources with one of the Dublin based specialist colleges catering for leaving certs, and Easter revision session. It was a combination of online videos and notes they sent out by courier. I recorded the videos for her to have. Have to say after seeing them myself they were great and she has them to look back over when needed. Think it was €200 for five subjects.

I reckon there will Be a lot of leeway for the LC for both years. If normal service resumed in sept, she will be grand. More anxious but ok. But if there is more disruption, the dept will have to protect those students.

blue5000

I think there will be more choices on the LC papers next year.

kollegeknight

blue5000 wrote: »

I think there will be more choices on the LC papers next year.

Or they’ll have to reduce the number of questions answered. There will be a rush on all project work for fear of lock down.

Lime Tree Farm

Gardaí launch appeal to trace owners as 10 suspected stolen dogs recovered

https://www.thejournal.ie/dogs-seized-limerick-appeal-5168099-Aug2020/

emaherx

Is Boards under attack? or just broken?

Cloud flare looks to be turned up to max this morning, Had to click a lot of pictures of buses to prove I'm human....
and have to admit I struggled on a few of them

Say my name

emaherx wrote: »

Is Boards under attack? or just broken?

Cloud flare looks to be turned up to max this morning, Had to click a lot of pictures of buses to prove I'm human....
and have to admit I struggled on a few of them

I got trains yesterday with the tablet.




I was proved a human.

emaherx

Would have been real upset if I failed a human test this morning.

Seems quite around here today, Im begining to suspect some of the "others"

Siamsa Sessions

Seems to some kind of attack being managed alright. I got a DDOS message before being allowed in, which if I remember from the off farm job is Distributed Denial of Service. Could be as simple as someone using loads of IP addresses to try to connect at the same time.

Hopefully the boards.ie security team get on top of it

blue5000

Touch version on the phone was dodgy earlier on alright, ok on laptop.

I says

To the pig ignorant cnut who scraped my car this morning without acknowledging it while you were trying to park. I have it on dash cam you cnut.

whelan2

I says wrote: »

To the pig ignorant cnut who scraped my car this morning without acknowledging it while you were trying to park. I have it on dash cam you cnut.

Youngest lad was playing ball with his friend at a game the other night. They hit the wing mirror of a van and the cover of the mirror fell off. They came and told me and were near crying. I found the owner if the van and he laughed and said sure that's always falling off .

Buford T. Justice XIX

Things will be a bit slower than normal today, folks. There's some work being done on the back end (whatever that is:D) so hopefully will be nearer normal tomorrow.

_Brian

I says wrote: »

To the pig ignorant cnut who scraped my car this morning without acknowledging it while you were trying to park. I have it on dash cam you cnut.

I had my new van three days when some crettin dinged it with their door.

Bullocks

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Things will be a bit slower than normal today, folks. There's some work being done on the back end (whatever that is:D) so hopefully will be nearer normal tomorrow.

But of hydraulic oil and a filter, she'll be grand again!

Odelay

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Gardaí launch appeal to trace owners as 10 suspected stolen dogs recovered

https://www.thejournal.ie/dogs-seized-limerick-appeal-5168099-Aug2020/

Begawd. Stolen dogs found in Rathkeale. Amazing how they all wound up there.

patsy_mccabe

Odelay wrote: »

Begawd. Stolen dogs found in Rathkeale. Amazing how they all wound up there.

Well, I never..........Rathkeale of all places.

Grueller

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Well, I never..........Rathkeale of all places.

Settled people dumped them there to put the blame on them don't you know.

kollegeknight

whelan2 wrote: »

Youngest lad was playing ball with his friend at a game the other night. They hit the wing mirror of a van and the cover of the mirror fell off. They came and told me and were near crying. I found the owner if the van and he laughed and said sure that's always falling off .

Great lesson in honesty though. Like if they got a bollocking or a hiding, they might not be as quick to own up again. And we all make mistakes and something small where nobody’s hurt is solvable.

kollegeknight

Lads doing work on pylons on the land- Esb job. Have a bit of damage done to a shared road. My phone is red receiving calls off neighbours complaining.

Every time the answer is: I don’t work for them, they aren’t doing work for me, nor am I gaining from it.

The lads were sound, said they’d photos taken before and will have it sorted again after. They are in area a lot with other jobs so know well enough to sort it out.

foxy farmer

On the subject of roads the road passing my place had a big resurfacing job done about 3 weeks ago. But the fact that the council were involved meant it wasn't all plain sailing. Apparently the head engineer wouldn't sanction a full machine laid tarmac road so they only did 4 sections in tarmac. The rest was done with just a layer of 806 with a skin of tar spray and chips. Today a nice wet day they're back again patching sections and the road will be closed all next week.
Why couldn't they just do the whole thing in tarmac. The tar and chips is a pure joke- just a skin. Any heavy machinery turning in a gap in hot weather will tear it up. I have 6 gaps along a section of it and I dread how it will fare with trailers later on in the year with maize coming out. Like KK above I'll probably be getting phone calls
The local council area was ever known to be miserable for road maintenance. 20 yrs ago was the last resurfacing job. Cleaned off grass margins lobbed it up on and over ditches burying wire and knocking poles. They didn't give 2 shytes.

farmersfriend

foxy farmer wrote: »

On the subject of roads the road passing my place had a big resurfacing job done about 3 weeks ago. But the fact that the council were involved meant it wasn't all plain sailing. Apparently the head engineer wouldn't sanction a full machine laid tarmac road so they only did 4 sections in tarmac. The rest was done with just a layer of 806 with a skin of tar spray and chips. Today a nice wet day they're back again patching sections and the road will be closed all next week.
Why couldn't they just do the whole thing in tarmac. The tar and chips is a pure joke- just a skin. Any heavy machinery turning in a gap in hot weather will tear it up. I have 6 gaps along a section of it and I dread how it will fare with trailers later on in the year with maize coming out. Like KK above I'll probably be getting phone calls
The local council area was ever known to be miserable for road maintenance. 20 yrs ago was the last resurfacing job. Cleaned off grass margins lobbed it up on and over ditches burying wire and knocking poles. They didn't give 2 shytes.

We've clay coming up through our road, no hope of getting it done. Drives me mad ripping goid tar off main roads all the n back roads in bits. We pay road tax for what

ganmo

farmersfriend wrote: »

We've clay coming up through our road, no hope of getting it done. Drives me mad ripping goid tar off main roads all the n back roads in bits. We pay road tax for what

for mains water and cyclists :P

_Brian

farmersfriend wrote: »

We've clay coming up through our road, no hope of getting it done. Drives me mad ripping goid tar off main roads all the n back roads in bits. We pay road tax for what

They changed the name from “road tax” to “motor tax” maybe 20 years ago so people would stop expecting the money to be spent on the roads. It’s now a lifestyle tax.

Say my name

Well I've the car to match the roads. :pac:

New purchase today. 152 Dacia Duster 4wd.



Just in case you didn't know what you were sitting into.

Duster leather seats. :pac:

Mossie1975

Say my name wrote: »

Well I've the car to match the roads. :pac:

New purchase today. 152 Dacia Duster 4wd.



Just in case you didn't know what you were sitting into.

Duster leather seats. :pac:

Well wear

Say my name

Mossie1975 wrote: »

Well wear

Thanks.

It came equipped with it's own driving prayer as well.
The proddies here are scratching their heads on that one.

I'll leave it in the boot.

Reggie.

Say my name wrote: »

Thanks.

It came equipped with it's own driving prayer as well.
The proddies here are scratching their heads on that one.

I'll leave it in the boot.

Well wear. We are on out 4th dacia here atm. Good wagons

Lime Tree Farm

Say my name wrote: »

Thanks.

It came equipped with it's own driving prayer as well.
The proddies here are scratching their heads on that one.

I'll leave it in the boot.

Restricted only for high day's and holy day's, Well wear.


I remember a van my Dad bought, it came complete with a motorist prayer, which I used to know by heart, I have forgotten the words, but it ended

"Just in case you are in doubt, press the two big pedals out"

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

Well wear. We are on out 4th dacia here atm. Good wagons

Bought a new Logan in 2014 and a new duster in 2017, still have both, there is 265,000 KM on the Logan with no issues.