No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Anyone have a blue washing setup that is more nuanced that brush and a hose? I've used the air compressor at times to clean soles - good job.

Be careful with the oil boiler and clothing. Overalls set ours on fire in placement many years ago. Lucky we were around when it went on fire...life lesson learnt

Must be something wrong with my nose, I can't smell a thing !

I'd get depressed togging on and off in a garage or shed. We've a boiler room with its own door in especially for the job.

Our house is our home.

It's mainly when I go visiting after a shower I smell the boots at the door, generally the working clothes you're wearing at work stink anyway and mask the smell when you go into your house. You wouldn't want to smell the interior of my jeep during lambing when we had all the sheep.

Not many now have dirty working boots and work clothes in the house nowadays

Just watching Late LATE Show about kidney transplants reminded me of a local that got her mothers kidney when she was a child, she's in her fifties now and her kidney packed in and her daughter then gave her a kidney.

Ray darcy interviewed her and she told him that her daughter only had the kidney borrowed as she gave it to her daughter in the first place when she was being made in the womb

Listening to Jordan Petersons book at the moment, 12 rules for life. Rule number two care for yourself as youd care for someone in youre care. How many times have most of us not finished out an antibiotic programme or similar? Well the said reality is despite the hardship of dialysis and poor quality of life pre transplant for recipients, the most common cause for failed transplants is not taking the immunity blockers as prescribed after the transplant i know two fellas aroubd the 30 mark at present soon to start dialysis due to neglect of their diabetes long road ahead for them.

No problem, I always say there was some child spared when I didn't have them.

My wife was very disappointed and then she had a hysterectomy in her thirties which didn't go well and dealt the final no, I thought I was going to lose her at one stage.

I lost my only brother and my parents shortly after in my twenties,

Since that I've learnt there's just some things you have no control over

Sounds like more than a sprain , did you get an xray

11 days is much time. How bad a sprain, they can take months to recover fully. Plenty ice will help.

Skylight has gone thanks to Kathleen.

Are the new ones much of a muchness? Not looking forward to getting it replaced - round roof.

They reckon the reason so many kids have asthma these days, is down to ultra clean houses. Their immunity doesn't develop right.

A farm i visited a few years ago the woman said she throws a few buckets of water on the kitchen floor and uses the yard brush...I'd love to see it.

Spent a couple of hours today picking stones in a few spots I reseeded last year. And by reseeded I mean fired loads of clay onto drains that were previously filled in and had sunk down. Should of picked it last September or whenever I fixed it up but wasn't arsed. Not much else to be at these days in fields and needed to be done. Still no slurry or fert out here. Father is panicking about it but not much point in that.

Away from the weather I've been flat to the mat doing stuff to the new house. Spent the last week or more doing floor insulation and all that entails. Ready for underfloor pipes now and then the actual floor itself. Slowly getting there

Got a robot cleaner few months back great job would definitely recommend

Up da Banner!

Delighted for Clare, 'twas a close thing in the finish, but the goals had given them a cushion.

It's nice to see the silverware being shared around...

Best of luck Siamsa!

He came across as a real laid back fella with a great sense of humor.

Though him a bit dull when he does the commentary on soccer

@Siamsa Sessions wouldn't want to be in a rush now would ya

Adrian @IFarmWeFarm7615 on "Raised by a village" RTE 1

For any of ye interested in fishing. Youngest sent me this pic of a skate a few mins ago. Caught off the West coast of Scotland. It's a big fish measured at 170lbs (they measure the width of the fins and length from nose to tail) but not the largest he has caught. He caught one last year that measured 208lbs. For those that are not familiar - skates are protected in Irish and UK waters - the fish was returned to the water and swam away.

Edit to add - youngest is a Marine Scientist working in Scotland.

Magnificent - such a shame we so under value the Marine Environment in this country in terms of protections and flawed fishery policies(badly designed like CAP were the interests of industrial operators are prioritized over Artisanal Fishers)

Well it's time to bite the bullet today and go for it, full new time/English time it is, and it's fairly black outside. As if the days weren't long enough, and I'm half wrecked after the spring as it is.

I'd a tough week of it but meal times have adjusted and I'm starting to get to bed on time too. I'd a ta-raa with the milk lorry driver early in the week over it. He normally calls around 9, which is grand, but the clock in the parlour normally isn't changed at all. Didn't my mother pass a comment on it and then I saw it some evening I was abit late, thought she had put it forward, and in a fit of pique, I put it back again. This of course made me late for the lorry but I started giving out to him for coming at 8! anyway, we're all good again.

I remember doing my 3 month placement and didn't the farmer go cold turkey, clocks turned the full hour in one bang. That was some shock to have him banging at the door and I only in bed a few hours. It didn't help that we'd been out racing buggys in the forestry til 4 that night. Time to crack on now.