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Odelay wrote: »

I only ever had the flu once, anything else is just a cold. By Christ it knocked me. Like your daughter I slept for several days straight, couldn’t tell which way was up.
Thank god for mammy, don’t know what I’d do if I got it now as I live alone and far away from anyone.

Only had the flu once myself, since then its been flu jab every year, one man show can't sleep for several days

Youngest sent me this pic earlier this evening - remember farming is not confined to the land.
He is working on the RV Celtic Explorer https://www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/infrastructure-facilities/research-vessels/track-vessel?language=en

God I hate 1st calvers. One here that I have been watching on camera all night. Pin bones down, tail up since 9:30 last night. Still no progress and I am wrecked watching her. 2 mature cows that looked further away at the same time calved in the night.

Grueller wrote: »

God I hate 1st calvers. One here that I have been watching on camera all night. Pin bones down, tail up since 9:30 last night. Still no progress and I am wrecked watching her. 2 mature cows that looked further away at the same time calved in the night.

Handle her... lost a calf a couple of days ago a heifer calving left her too long on her own..

whelan2 wrote: »

Very grim news this morning 3 teenagers dead in a crush at a disco in the North. 2 dead in a car accident in Carlingford and a woman missing in Carlingford

And one killed yesterday on the m6

whelan2 wrote: »

Very grim news this morning 3 teenagers dead in a crush at a disco in the North. 2 dead in a car accident in Carlingford and a woman missing in Carlingford

Yeah it was a grim weekend, i'd have gone to that hotel manys a night for a night out. A girl that i went to school with and ended up working with a couple of years back has gone missing locally. Coastguard are looking for her.

I had a ewe lay on her pedigree lamb last night and was feeling sh*t about it until i came in the door this morning and heard all that on the news, fairly sobering stuff and puts things into perspective.

Reggie. wrote:

People that over estimate their ability to drive and not expecting the unexpected

But what can you do on a motorway when visibility drops you can slow down but it's not always possible to get off it
Then some idiot passes you by like your stopped

grassroot1 wrote: »

But what can you do on a motorway when visibility drops you can slow down but it's not always possible to get off it
Then some idiot passes you by like your stopped

Yes you can slow down but majority of people don't. I see some crazy manoeuvres in the M4 travelling to Dublin in the wee hours. Only takes 1 person to lose control to have few cars banged up

Research a few years back on the M6 motorway in the UK revealed that if you pull into the hard shoulder and stay in the car your life expectancy is 20 minutes.

Reggie. wrote: »

That's why you get behind the barrier

If the hailstones were that bad, i dont think too many would get out unfortunately

just so were clear guys it is illegal to drive or park in the hard shoulder of a motorway, Unless in an emergency or instructed to do so by the emergency services, Gardai etc. and no, needing a piss does not constitute an emergency. correct practice is to don your hi vis exit through the passenger side deploy your Waring triangle and over the barrier and up the bank until assistance arrives.

I see on the Twitter machine an unofficial claim the world Spring barley record has been broken in Kenya.

Great land out there apparently.
Bit far for a bale trailer though.

Reggie. wrote: »

Yes you can slow down but majority of people don't. I see some crazy manoeuvres in the M4 travelling to Dublin in the wee hours. Only takes 1 person to lose control to have few cars banged up

Irish people don't know how to drive on motorways - especially concerning overtaking lanes and sitting in them for no good reason forcing others to overtake on inside lane. Try that crack somewhere like Italy and you wouldn't last long!!

I says wrote: »

Fixed that for ya

Most don't know what indicators are for and as for driving on roundabouts....

keepalive213 wrote: »

As a matter of interest, the channel down the middle of old cow sheds, what would it be called?

In a tie-up byre, it would be called "the group" in Cavan/Leitrim.
In an old solid floor cubicle house, it'd be just called " the channel".

Blink and the sticky threads are gone.
Blink again and they're back.

Who was it mentioned someone employed getting six weeks off? I never heard of anyone getting that time off other than teachers. At work at 7am, still replying to emails and hiring employees at this hour, and not so much as a mouse fed, myself included.
The grass is always greener, but not sure if it is anyways easier to grab hold!
Think we could all do with a day in each others boots. Not saying either is any easier, both can be tough and disappointing..

Odelay wrote: »

Who was it mentioned someone employed getting six weeks off? I never heard of anyone getting that time off other than teachers. At work at 7am, still replying to emails and hiring employees at this hour, and not so much as a mouse fed, myself included.
The grass is always greener, but not sure if it is anyways easier to grab hold!
Think we could all do with a day in each others boots. Not saying either is any easier, both can be tough and disappointing..

I think 20days is the minimum, but 25 would be common enough. I have heard of people on 30 days, after a good few years service in some places...
Also, some very old civil service contracts had up to 30days hols I believe...

Agree about a day in everyone’s shoes though.

Just looking at the news about the cyclone in Africa...
It makes our shoes look very very comfortable..

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Sorry about this, there's some testing of new software going on atm so there's some peculiar stuff happening on and off. Hopefully it'll be ready for roll out fairly soon.

So they're finally replacing the moderators with board bots.
Imagine all the free time you'll have now.

I was just watching a tv program about silicon valley on bbc4 and the new tech and information gathering, corporate controlling, automated, capital controlled by a few, decision making elimination, future that awaits us all.
The disrupted power of silicon valley.

One of the things that hit me is that this new automated world doesn't gel well with livestock farming.
A human is still needed to herd the animal, spot problems and mind that animal.

In the veg world. Tractors, machinery, fertilizing, spraying, harvesting can be fully automated and controlled by the few.

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I think 20days is the minimum, but 25 would be common enough. I have heard of people on 30 days, after a good few years service in some places...
Also, some very old civil service contracts had up to 30days hols I believe...

Agree about a day in everyone’s shoes though.

Just looking at the news about the cyclone in Africa...
It makes our shoes look very very comfortable..

A physio in a cork hospital told me she had 29 days, and they wouldn't exactly be run off their feet. She got that job less than ten years ago as well, so it was well into the recession, wasting money in the bad times even
I've never met a physio that could cure anything

MeTheMan wrote: »

You think it's bad having no shoes, until you meet a man who has no feet.

I was out in Nairobi one time and a lad came up asking would I give him my sandals when I was going home. He had flip flops on and took them off to show how badly he needed new shoes. The poor fecker had no sole left on them, he had a bit under his toes and the strap between his toes and bit of sole at the back. They were purely there to look like he had something on his feet only!

wrangler wrote: »

I've never met a physio that could cure anything

I spend most of last year with a frustrationing hip injury, I'm a competitive enough track runner, it completely knocked me out of that, and made many days on the farm barely bareable (I'd be in bits after 10mins of anything strenuous like herding stock). I went to my gp, got an mri, referred on to a hip consultant, who booked me in for a hip injection, and told me if that doesn't work then come back in 6wks and we'll consider surgery options. By that stage I'd already spent 2grand (I didn't have health care insurance then ugh), and the problem was no better. Long story short I went to a very good local sports physio, who over the space of about 4 weeks helped reduce tightness, and build up the muscles all around the hip area, and now finally after a year I'm back pain free and to where I was a year ago. Like all professions you get good and bad but you got a very shallow outlook there wrangler.

Timmaay wrote: »

I spend most of last year with a frustrationing hip injury, I'm a competitive enough track runner, it completely knocked me out of that, and made many days on the farm barely bareable (I'd be in bits after 10mins of anything strenuous like herding stock). I went to my gp, got an mri, referred on to a hip consultant, who booked me in for a hip injection, and told me if that doesn't work then come back in 6wks and we'll consider surgery options. By that stage I'd already spent 2grand (I didn't have health care insurance then ugh), and the problem was no better. Long story short I went to a very good local sports physio, who over the space of about 4 weeks helped reduce tightness, and build up the muscles all around the hip area, and now finally after a year I'm back pain free and to where I was a year ago. Like all professions you get good and bad but you got a very shallow outlook there wrangler.

Maybe so, I presume your physio was selfemployed, TBF I never went to a physio that had to get results to stay in business.