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F&F Chitchat a hocht, an feirmeoir bocht

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  • #62
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,555 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    6 small planes in formation just flew over the house. Heading to the Foynes air show, I'm told.


  • #63
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    6 small planes in formation just flew over the house. Heading to the Foynes air show, I'm told.

    It's the department scanning your land. :)


  • #64
    Shpudnik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭Shpudnik


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    6 small planes in formation just flew over the house. Heading to the Foynes air show, I'm told.

    If you're under the flight path keep an eye out for the F-18s due here at half one.


  • #65
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    6 small planes in formation just flew over the house. Heading to the Foynes air show, I'm told.

    That post reminds me of the time a few years ago when two people lost their lives in a small plane crash on Blackstairs Mountain. There was about 5 planes in total I think flying from Meath to a strip in Wellington bridge. It was a misty Sunday morning and two planes flew over the yard here one following the other and very low because of the mist. Those two made it over but one plane never made it over Blackstairs Mountain and crashed only 15ft below the summit of the mountain. This same mountain claimed another light aircraft and then a German bomber in WW2. But it was on the news there lately that the maps or electronic information that flyers have didn't have the height of the Blackstairs Mountain on them. The same as the accident at Blacksod lighthouse. They were effectively flying blind in the mist and didn't know the height of the mountain.:(


  • #66
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    http://m.independent.ie/business/farming/agri-business/farmer-calls-for-investigation-after-cattle-mowed-down-by-car-in-field-35956677.html?

    Some gobshi went joyriding in a field killing calves


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  • #67
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,555 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    It's the department scanning your land. :)

    Fella across the road with 2 young boys was supposed to go to the air show but couldn't because some guy came to do work on the house. Yer man 'rings the airport' and asks them if they could fly over his house instead. Two kids delighted outside in the lawn looking up at the planes.:D


  • #68
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Shpudnik wrote: »
    If you're under the flight path keep an eye out for the F-18s due here at half one.

    Spanish ones


  • #69
    Shpudnik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭Shpudnik


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Spanish ones

    It was amazing. Absolutely breathtaking.


  • #70
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Shpudnik wrote: »
    It was amazing. Absolutely breathtaking.

    Any boom?


  • #71
    Shpudnik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭Shpudnik


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Any boom?

    No sir.


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  • #72
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,293 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Was on a trip to the Highland show years ago, sponsored by a local feed mill. One of the days we went to see the famous Hunday herd of cows. 50 lads and lassies standing in a paddock listening to John Moffat when a Tornado (I think) came up the valley flying low. He was gone a quarter of a mile when the boom hit us. 50 micks ducked to the ground as John Moffat and a couple of hundred cows looked on in amusement!


  • #73
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    The new thread title reminds me of an irish saying.
    Na bac le mac an bhacaigh agus ní bhacfaidh mac an bhachaigh leat.
    Don't bother with the beggarmans son and the
    beggarmans son wont bother with you.
    Bit of a tongue twister in any language.


  • #74
    Shpudnik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,581 ✭✭✭Shpudnik


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    6 small planes in formation just flew over the house. Heading to the Foynes air show, I'm told.

    That was probably Team Raven.


  • #75
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Enroute back from pairs ui caoimh. Fine job done on the build/set up.

    More upbeat today than the Munster final.
    Jersey back on the hanger for another year.


  • #76
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    More upbeat today than the Munster final.
    Jersey back on the hanger for another year.

    Plenty of club hurling ahead for you now.

    It looked a fabulous stadium on the TV.


  • #77
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Plenty of club hurling ahead for you now.

    It looked a fabulous stadium on the TV.

    Clare fm for those for me. It'd be close to the impossible to get to another.


  • #78
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Enroute back from pairs ui caoimh. Fine job done on the build/set up.

    More upbeat today than the Munster final.
    Jersey back on the hanger for another year.

    That's the pitch bedded in now for Wexford tomorrow.;)

    Long studs in the boots for the match tomorrow would seem to be a good choice based on today.


  • #79
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    That's the pitch bedded in now for Wexford tomorrow.;)

    Long studs in the boots for the match tomorrow would seem to be a good choice based on today.

    Fair slippy underneath the big stand alright.


  • #80
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,555 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Fair slippy underneath the big stand alright.
    In the old stadium that area was always boggy.


  • #81
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    In the old stadium that area was always boggy.

    Two cork boys were saying exactly that.


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  • #82
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Mayo were lucky at the end


  • #83
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,002 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Donegal being well bet now


  • #84
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Fashion houses buying the farms to guarenttee quality of material and supply.

    https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/global-currents/how-luxury-brands-are-snapping-up-farms-to-control-their-supply-chains

    Kerrygold will be approaching me next for a share in the farm.;)


  • #85
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Fashion houses buying the farms to guarenttee quality of material and supply.

    https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/global-currents/how-luxury-brands-are-snapping-up-farms-to-control-their-supply-chains

    Kerrygold will be approaching me next for a share in the farm.;)

    in ireland farmers build the brands then sell them...the latest was the truly irish brand that the farmer group sold to supervalue


  • #86
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    ganmo wrote: »
    in ireland farmers build the brands then sell them...the latest was the truly irish brand that the farmer group sold to supervalue
    I didn't know that.

    The one thing that peeved me off about the Truly Irish brand was the spiel about that this was a brand owned by farmers selling their own farm produce through that brand to take out the middle man of processors and get some more of that retail price. That was fine when they were selling their own pork and ham products (it was pig farmers that set it up after all) but then they started selling selling butter and dairy products and becoming the thing that was putting down the value of their pigs in the first place. A secondary processor.
    Pig farmers selling dairy produce under the guise of the original purpose of the venture to cut out the middle man.

    I'm not sure Supervalue have made such a wise move here then. Maybe the move by the pig farmers to sell dairy products was to make the brand more appealing to a potential buyer?
    But at the end of the day consumers will now know this to be a supermarket brand and not an Irish farmer led brand that established the business and so Supervalue is back to square one.
    (Also the pig farmers are back to square one again too but with a few euros extra in their back pocket for the time being).


  • #87
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    i'm certain i heard it a while ago but google isn't throwing up anythin so i'm starting to doubt myself


  • #88
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,339 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    ganmo, you are correct.


  • #89
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    I hope your ok.

    http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2017/07/22/new-zealand-weather/



    Seems appropriate for the Irish lads out there.:rolleyes:


    Thanks for asking
    -4'C this morning day off today and tomorrow like a summers day back home here now. Place has dried up well now to be fair. Sure look as i say myself theres no such thing as bad weather just match the clothes to the weather. We were advised to stay put friday night with the weather area where the local is was fairly bad last 2 nights well make it there tonight though please god.

    Better living everyone



  • #90
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,162 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    How long again before I can graze anfoeld with topped ragworth. 3 weeks?


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  • #91
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,002 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    How long again before I can graze anfoeld with topped ragworth. 3 weeks?
    Walk it and see if they are dead, I topped a field 10 days ago and they are still as they were before they were topped. 3 weeks should be plenty, always check they are dead before you let stock in


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