whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
I've noticed that some rings in some marts don't have the sound working on the playback. I pointed it out to one mart a few weeks ago but it hasn't yet been rectified.
I think of Galway as "the city of the roundabouts". I don't suppose the ring road will cut down the number of them to be navigated getting into the centre.
Ah stop, they had junctions that didn't work, so they were all replaced by roundabouts that do work, which are now being replaced by junctions which aren't working. There's no proper parking, or long term planning nor enough bridges. It's a proper clusterfcuk of a town in terms of roads.
All's I want is the ability to travel East or South or back West again without being held prisoner by the nonsense in the city.
It's a city I can never get my head around. Still like it though. Both my boys went to uni there and are still local.
I always got the impression there's an element in power in the city that, in a way, want to starve things to change. That if they make the traffic or car use just so awful that they think they'll force people onto public transport or bikes. Which totally excludes anyone who lives a distance away or is passing through, it's all navel gazing about the city and now how the city - which sites on a choke point between the lake and the sea must interact and relate to the regions around it.
It’s a shame if they let the online option slip.
its a boon to the mart, even a bit of bidding online keeps things ringside honest.
Great to be able to drag and drop sheep and head home again, do the selling over the phone rather than wasting a day just hanging around.
This lady was on Today FM this morning, I didn’t hear the full interview but it’s a credit to be playing GAA competitive and successfully so at 62
BTW, I liked the pic of the pudding and custard. The pudding looked really rich and dark like my Mam used to make. I assume it was home made and Guinness used with lots of fruit.
Homemade surely.
Not a drop of Guinness.
Loads of fruit soaked in Bulmers cider and plenty of brandy for 24hours.
We make 3 every year, cooked overnight in the slow cooker which is a boon to cooking them compared to trying to keep a saucepan simmering for hours without going dry.
What’s the name of the Irish co making them?
Think you’ll need a breathalyser for Christmas
Super bakers in your house
Only ever done in a pressure cooker here, served with pouring cream and ice cream.
Mam and my Sister used to make about 10 Christmas puddings & cakes to give to family and friends. I used to help them mixing the fruit and dry ingredients and mixing the icing sugar in the mixer. I always hated the smell of the almond paste that covered the Christmas cake before it was decorated with the icing. Mam used to use Guinness in the puddings but Brandy in the cakes. We used to flambe the pudding with Brandy on Christmas day.
half the galvanised roof came off the sisters mobile and landed on her windscreen . I had it well banded down, it came off in one massive piece. All salvageable once nobody was h
Need plenty of alcohol in a pudding, helps them keep. If we were putting some pudding away to keep we would pour a glass of brandy over it. Before storing.
only herself eats cake so it’s not worth making one for one person.
Soaking fruit in cider, hadn't heard of that one - must try it
I'd say 10 hours help with their jobs would be the most thoughtful present.
Always thought a tunnel would have been the obvious solution for Galway - probably would have saved years of planning issues too
I think it's Boru, I have an 8kw one a few years now and can't fault it. Iirc Stanley started making them in China and the quality deteriorated
They'd find something to object to about that as well. Kinda why I'd prefer if we just had a bypass type road around the city, the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with their in city dithering then.
Mam used to pour brandy over the pudding before wrapping them up in layers of parchment/greaseproof paper, tying them up and wrapping them again in tin foil.
Since Mam became more unwell in 2017 and before she died in 2018 I haven't had any proper Christmas pudding. She always kept a couple in storage. If the weather got bad and the electricity went that she would open one (1982 and 2010/11) or for Easter.
Difficult to believe, or I find it difficult at least, but I've read some comments online tonight complaining about ESB not having power restoration time estimates. I was out on the farm just before 9pm and it's properly nasty out, I was glad to get back into the van and home. Presume these people are in a warm house with full bellies. They out be pegged out in this weather for an hour or two as an education instead of moaning about others who are out in it. Believe it or not, there's a few things I won't give out about and the engineers who repair our power lines (no connection to them at all) are one of those. Well remember them going to other countries even to help there after storms.
You only realise how we need electricity for so many things when we don't have it. I hope those people complaining are off for a few days....
What happens when we need it for transport?
With climate change halted, there won't be any more storms.
The power was off here Monday for planned replacement of insulators on poles and from their inspection pre day visit I got them to replace a pole that previously had mushrooms growing from it. It was an awful day here Monday and on going into one paddock their pickup got stuck a hundred yards in. So to that pole they lumped it by foot and climbed the pole instead of the basket. Digger came in then and pulled the pickup and trailer out ..backwards. Mess was made (a little) but everything was done to limit damage in the fields bar the date picked for maintenance..
Yesterday the power went out again just after dinner and the estimated time back was 20.45. It was hooked back up just before 18.00.
Would I complain about them? Not on your Nelly. You wouldn't get me up a pole.
There's solar and wind home generation options now for people who want to try it themselves.
I went through Ophelia and five days without power and estimated time of power back was always 19.45 or 20.45 that evening.
The esb crews have my full respect. Shows too that there's non Irish accents now in those crews. Lots of Irish are being spoiled in life and becoming infantile.
That's the problem people feel they have to complain about little things. It just makes them look like a gobshite. While they think they are great
Maybe microgeneration is the way of the future. Along with hopefully much better/cheaper battery storage in vehicles and possibly within houses too.
Or we'll be on the big dirty fossil fuel generator with our own home brew fuels, while others Flintstone it 😁
My kids have learned to rough it for a few hours.
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