If you see a job that needs doing..
Over the years my dogs and my best friends kitchen table could tell a lot of stories.
Came home from the Cork match today and had a great chat with our Lab/ Red Setter. He was barking mad to me about the match.Not happy with a few calls he wasn't. I agreed with him and told him to calm down, that we had a good day out and that our men in green and white played very well!!
Or maybe he was just hungry
What are you doing in front of that dog
Like the bull mac cabe in the field "it's wrong what you did to that donkey"
When we were kids my parents would bring us to Dockerals caravan park just down from clougherhead. They had wee Challets right by the sea, lovely simple fun. My dad could pop off to work and milk in the evenings before coming back for the night, neighbor did morning milking
My uncle had one of those chalets, overlooking the sea. We often went there for our holidays too. I remember one night there was a storm and the lightening over the sea was unreal.
Had a busy day yesterday. Milked and headed up to Stamullen for my aunts anniversary mass, cow started calving at home, there wasn't anyone around because of the match and a tractor run on locally. Headed back down the road, milked, cow calved but it was a stillbirth.. headed over to the local then. The tractor run was for a young lad who has a brain tumor and his currently getting rehab in Dun Laoghaire. They had a raffle and then an auction. I put in a FR heifer calf or the value of the calf. Between everything they probably raised €20k and it was a brilliant community event. Got a lift home, another cow calved and got to bed at 12.
small world indeed.
Anyone going to this Grass event on Wednesday that the IFJ are pushing strong?
https://www.grass2026.ie/
Doh.there be no-one at that sher all the contractors and farmers are broke.
Any of ye have any experience of Samasz disc mowers??
Yea have one here .bought new 4 yrs ago.
Happy with it.
Their drum mowers were one of the worst pieces of machinery that I ever bought . and I bought it new .
Is anyone else have issues with Boards like logging in, timing out etc.
Yesterday , it was timing out
ya, couldn’t get in yesterday
Slow loading and page loads timing out over last day or so.
same
Ordered diesel yesterday and it came first thing this morning. They must be quiet after all the panic buying. 709 euro for 500 litres, not bad.
15k,
The next time anyone insults a farmer, im going to claim.
To think i laugh at Callum Kicks, calling us turf munchers, when my sensitive heart is being offended
The pet calf that we took off the wicked cow is on his last days of CMR and is on OAD. He got two (20kg) bags and imo he did alright.
Oliver is a farmers son himself so he is allowed.
Payout seems big, but I'm not sure there is anyway to defend that comment though.
At kids training last night n a fella I know had a new motor, Chinese electric yoke xpeng. Impressive yoke like an id4 I suppose, white leather seats, the works - 48k. The fella is a bit of a tech nerd n he was saying the Chinese yokes are that far ahead of everyone else it wasn't funny.
Pulled the yoke out 10 ft in the middle of the carpark, got out , pressed a button on the phone n it drove n parked itself! In a couple of years they'll be doing the school run!
The Chinese state sponsor technology that they want to drive forward, EU have rules preventing that. The result is a wave of what appear to be very good very advanced affordable vehicles, but also they are putting massive pressure on the traditional world manufacturers like VW who just struggle to compete. Let’s hope their long term plan is a peaceful one because I’m not sure they can be stopped at this stage. When you see what they are showing the rest of the world and selling us, I shudder to imagine what is going on behind closed doors there.
The Chinese EV makers were given tax breaks so their market became massively over saturated so naw they're flooding the European market with them. That explains why I keep hearing ads on local radio for BYD cars all the time.
II wouldn't call it flooding because they are charging more for the ev's sold in eu, in comparison to the same ev's sold in China, but the dice is surely weighted in their favour
Sure you see the likes of temu and Ali express im not saying everything is good but you'd think twice about going into a motor factors or hardware store again.
Jasus but a lot of the stuff on temu is complete muck
I think that is the general idea. Even Amazon started off and has the majority in chinese goods. Even a GAA women's sports wear new company was interviewed a few days ago about her new start up. She designed the clothes but these are made in China. There's no fruit of the loom, etc. All manufacturing is moving to China and outside in the western world are being closed down in manufacturing and forgetting the trades in manufacturing. And the red tape is here in against manufacturing when it's not there. Convicts and oppressed people are even said to be working their factories in China. While the owners look for the holidays and splash the cash around the world and patents are blueprints to copy, not to be respected.
Then the high street shops, motor factors, shoe, clothes shops, etc close down with the online buying in the western world.
If china stops exporting for some warfare reason. The western world could be in the stone age again. And then there's the spy information they pick up from people buying chinese goods. It happens already in US software used. And that goes back to California. The hardware goods from China where it's state supported do build in information harvesting, listening, gps coordinates and that goes back to Bejing. It'll all be gathered till it's wanted to be used for each sides gain.
what are people doing for the biss application where they are renting con acre in informal agreement as in no lease or paperwork. are the dept going to very strict on it or is it more of a settlement incase two people are trying to clam the same land.
