No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

@148multi why do you say that?

At least now his cattle are about an extra 5 meters away from mine the way he has but up his fence so that has to be of some benefit.. but yes the wildlife in the area will still be a problem.

@Anto_Meath will you have extra testing beside a controlled finishing unit

Years ago a friend died at 53 after pulling a calf, a blockage too but he was voted 'Man of the match' in a hockey match ten days before

Got away for a night last night to Johnstown Estate in Enfield. While I was gone a cow was calving. My dad was gone off with calves to a fella. A friend of mine came down and milked the cow and fed the calf and the fella who was milking stayed on to give a hand. All good and I could relax, hard beat having good friends and family. You'd be lost without them.

I’m not too far away

Some ignorant fecker left these bags of bones in our ditch , i rang litter warden and 2 people had already rang it in. Some stench from them

Next Pope.

I went back through kildare to the national stud for a look. Interesting set up and it was fairly busy with tourists.

I saw it with my own mam being sick or my OH father after he passed away, some people don't know what to say or do and the easiest thing for them is to say nothing and act like everything is fine.

Id say you’re right. Just not knowing what to say or should they just talk about ordinary stuff, or would that be wrong.

When my late Uncle was receiving palliative care at home his next door neighbour never came to see him. The neighbour would put a round bale of silage along the feed barrier either every morning or evening and kept a eye on the cattle. After my Uncle died he told me that he couldn't face seeing him so sick and thin and wanted to hold onto the memories of him when he was healthy.

Reminded me of myself years ago. We were all out for work Christmas do while one of our gang was at the hospital receiving news that he had only a month. Others visited him in hospital, I couldn't. One evening as we were finishing work, a colleague said - sit into your car, drive to the hospital, don't think about just do it. It was the best piece of advice I ever got. I stayed for hours chatting to him.

I took out a copy of his eulogy and see he lived 5 weeks from diagnosis. A funny episode on the day he received his full pension pot cheque in the hospital , was to request the same colleague to help him dress and go out for a pint. As they entered the hotel bar, whom should they see but the fellow who had earlier delivered the cheque. They saw the funny side of how it could be construed.