Farming Chit Chat III

biddy2013 wrote: »

tried a few user names before i got one thats not being used

Ok W1.

Jersey make sure ya writeoff the price of the phone against your farm accounts. Its a perfectly valid farm expense, assuming you use the phone for emails/farm records etc etc!

Anyways, question here for any of ya dairyfarmers. I was trying to dose a fresh calver today for fluke and worms, but she was a stubborn yoke, so I just grabbed the can of ainmec pouron and fired it on her instead. Only then did I think about the withdrawal, its not meant to be used on lactating cows withing 60days. I wiped as much of it off with paper towel, anyways, is there much chance of her milk failing the test now? I'll test her anyways to be sure.

jersey101 wrote: »

i wear boating shoes :O

Ha, don't be giving that bob chap any ammo!

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Parish pump politics is how the country works, it's the bread and butter of an awful lot of TD's. The systems designed for the "customer" (that's us plebs) do not work. My fiancee was being shouted at by a civil serpent over the phone. She qualified for a particular education grant and was being denied it. They would not tell her one iota of information on "their system". How do you solve that problem?

I told her mid call "Hang up", she didn't want to. I said "Hang up, and don't worry".

I texted my local TD and she had her grant, I'll repeat again for those hard of reading that she qualified under the terms of the grant aid, within 4 days.

Until all of these systems are fixed no one should be one bit ashamed of asking their local representatives for help.

You're right in what you did and what you are saying but it's a vicious circle. The fools spend so much time running around doing these jobs instead of what they should be doing, making sure that bills and regulations
are properly drafted that all of these stupid anomalies keep getting through which creates more jobs for them to garner more votes from and so on. The only way to fix it is that instead of saying thanks that anyone who is forced to go to a local TD for that sort of nonsense should tell the TD that if they have to contact him again for something similar he'll get no vote in the next election and that if they hear of anyone else having a similar problem he'll get no vote in the next election. He knows there's a problem and exactly how it should be dealt with so deal with it.

Personally speaking I don't want to see any TD I elect from one election to the next other than on a current affairs programme. They have no business in their constituency outside of election time at all. Their job is to ensure the country is properly governed whether in government or opposition and they can't do that if they're taking phonecalls abotut Con's partners education grant and I mean no offence Con in that comment. The system is broken and you did what was necessary to work around it.