Lady Haywire wrote: » Spring/Summer must have arrived, not only did i spot a swallow today but the curlews (or one curlew anyway) is calling there now.
Grueller wrote: » All jobs done. In the yard since 5:30 so I can get away to a 10 mile run. Stop for dinner on the way home with the wife and kids and maybe a pint or three. Half an hour to check everything when I get home and thats it.
whelan2 wrote: » When's the due date?
kollegeknight wrote: » Moo call is no good in this situation.
Snowfire wrote: » Keep the calving ropes close by just In case....
kollegeknight wrote: » Long time since I posted. Trying to finish the house. Had a few cows calves and kept busy. At a wedding today. Oh had a false alarm yday... down to maternity ward. Today then, had to bring her to shannondoc during the starter/soup for another one. He said no baby tonight so I’m having a pint, nerves are wrecked.
Base price wrote: » Thanks for the link, I enjoyed reading it. Getting back to the swallows - one wonders how they managed to find their way back home (to their original nesting sites) prior to the Plantation :rolleyes:
Say my name wrote: » Final answer?https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/the-swallow-has-landed-10-birds-to-spot-in-ireland-in-spring-1.3449442 Doesn't mean they don't use them as motorways with grub on route. They just get off the motorways on different points for their final destination and the same swallows always return to their birthplace.
Base price wrote: » I wouldn't bet on the canal theory. Stupid as it may be we (our family and close friends) phone each other as soon as we see our first swallow - its a kudos type thing I have seen swallows in Longford 10 days before my siblings saw them in NCD/Dub City and Donegal.
Say my name wrote: » I'm liking the canals theory. They fly over to Dublin and follow the royal canal up to your place. There was a swallow spotted in loais two days ago. Probably followed the grand canal.
Lady Haywire wrote: » They can smell the bogs and midges here from down your way....
Say my name wrote: » They must come into the south of England from France and then follow the canals up to Liverpool and come across that way.
CHOPS01 wrote: » Was up the yard this morning and had left wellies here at home. Stuck on the old pair which were near all the empty feed bags. Only after i came back down home i realized how dirty the socks. Mouse ****. Dirty fcukers must have been living in the wellies.
Lady Haywire wrote: » The same reason i bypass Mullingar to go to Dublin.....the end product is worth travelling for :D
Say my name wrote: » How the hell do the swallows arrive in Leitrim before they do in Wexford??
foxy farmer wrote: » Does the outer skin have a drain plug? Going to suggest something daft here. If you could drain the outer bund would it be possible to fill it with water and maybe the lid might float. Let the water go when you've retrieved the lid.
whelan2 wrote: » Got a delivery of kerosene this morning. I have a new bunded tank. The delivery man dropped the inner lid down between the two tanks. I can see it at the bottom on top of the outlet. My options are try to fish it up, dont think this will work. Try and source a lid off someone's old tank. Open the screws that hold the outer lid on and take up the lid, would this mean the seal wouldn't be as affective when I put the screws back in? Or ring the manufacturer and ask for a new lid.....
Reggie. wrote: » And give the delivery driver a kick up the hole
CHOPS01 wrote: » Freaky. Clicked on there a minute ago and not sure how but was back about 100 pages without realizing it. Talk of Foynes airshow Kollegeknight in a Clare jersey and a quote from Pedigree 6. Confused to say the least until i cop where i was.
Lady Haywire wrote: » Was a super day alright, dug two ridges with the old loy (fcuk dad and his left handed loy, pain in the hole for me to use) and stuck onion sets in them. Also planted a heap of flowers around the old house so hopefully they'll come up.
