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Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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  • #102
    Say my name
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Came upon this little chappie when taking the last load off the bog today. Ye all know the story about licking the first mankeeper you see on the belly to get the cure of the burn. So I did that of course.
    Dad then told me that I'd need to lick the belly of every single one I see after, in order to keep the cure. Of course I scoffed at him, gone 30 years before this without seeing one!! :D

    Seen four more under the last heaps of turf. May have rabies now :pac:

    Is it a newt? Never seen one of those before.

    There's a wildlife poster on Twitter in my area posts up pictures of wild lizards. I've never seen one of those either.

    I wouldn't be bringing your newt licking tendencies up in conversations if you're looking for a man...:p


  • #103
    Lady Haywire
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Is it a newt? Never seen one of those before.

    There's a wildlife poster on Twitter in my area posts up pictures of wild lizards. I've never seen one of those either.

    I wouldn't be bringing your newt licking tendencies up in conversations if you're looking for a man...:p

    :p

    Mankeeper/Salamander! Bright orange belly on them.
    Are they the same as newt?


  • #104
    Say my name
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    :p

    Mankeeper/Salamander! Bright orange belly on them.
    Are they the same as newt?

    Seemingly are the same.
    Common newt.

    https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2016/04/09/news/take-on-nature-ireland-s-only-newt-a-real-mankeeper-474743/

    You're still weird though! ;)


  • #105
    Lady Haywire
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Seemingly are the same.
    Common newt.

    https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2016/04/09/news/take-on-nature-ireland-s-only-newt-a-real-mankeeper-474743/

    You're still weird though! ;)

    I'm just from Leitrim, there's a difference :D


  • #106
    Lady Haywire
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    Here's the little group of them I found. Loads of frogs as well


  • #107
    Water John
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    Yellow bellies from Wexford. Orange bellies from Leitrim.


  • #108
    148multi
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Is it a newt? Never seen one of those before.

    There's a wildlife poster on Twitter in my area posts up pictures of wild lizards. I've never seen one of those either.

    I wouldn't be bringing your newt licking tendencies up in conversations if you're looking for a man...:p

    Would depend on wether he had a burning desire or not😉


  • #109
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    148multi wrote: »
    Would depend on wether he had a burning desire or not😉

    It wouldn't be long curing that burn anyways! :D


  • #110
    whelan2
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    Heading into the fleadh with the kids.


  • #111
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I'm just from Leitrim, there's a difference :D

    Hang on ta feck for a minute!!

    This burn cure. Say someone gets a burn and goes to another person with the cure. What exactly does the person with the cure do to the other person?


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  • #112
    Lady Haywire
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Hang on ta feck for a minute!!

    This burn cure. Say someone gets a burn and goes to another person with the cure. What exactly does the person with the cure do to the other person?

    Licks them :D:D:D


  • #113
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Licks them :D:D:D

    On the belly:eek:


  • #114
    Lady Haywire
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    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    On the belly:eek:

    On the burn. How's that for an ick factor :P


  • #115
    Say my name
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Licks them :D:D:D

    Leitrim is not a dull place anyway!! :pac:


  • #116
    Lime Tree Farm
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Here's the little group of them I found. Loads of frogs as well

    I have only seen two in my lifetime, and reported the sighting to this organisation online.

    Just yesterday, I found one stranded in a bucket, with some water at the bottom. I rescued it, I don’t know whether it would have managed to get out by itself. Do they live in water.

    http://www.biology.ie/home.php?m=lizards


  • #117
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    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    I have only seen two in my lifetime, and reported the sighting to this organisation online.

    Just yesterday, I found one stranded in a bucket, with some water at the bottom. I rescued it, I don’t know whether it would have managed to get out by itself. Do they live in water.

    http://www.biology.ie/home.php?m=lizards

    Lady Haywire's were newts.

    Are you descibing a lizard? Cos they're two different species.


  • #118
    Lady Haywire
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Leitrim is not a dull place anyway!! :pac:

    We just like to lick people.


  • #119
    Odelay
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    We just like to lick people.

    Lovely Leitrim Lickers. Must call up.

    How badly do I need to be burnt?


  • #120
    Say my name
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    We just like to lick people.

    :D

    That'd be a great title for a novel..

    Or a bord failte advert!


    I'm beginning to wonder whether the title "mankeeper" should have been given to a woman with the burn cure instead of some Pleurodelinae? :p


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  • #121
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    Odelay wrote: »
    Lovely Leitrim Lickers. Must call up.

    How badly do I need to be burnt?

    You'd probably end up getting Katherine Lynch.


  • #122
    Lime Tree Farm
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Lady Haywire's were newts.

    Are you describing a lizard? Cos they're two different species.

    I really don't know which one I saw yesterday. It's body was submerged, the head above water. I didn't think it would manage to get out from the bottom of a plastic mineral bucket.

    Of the two sightings in the past, I photographed both, each a different colour, They were identified as lizards, that live in dry stone walls. They were identified by the number of toes.


  • #123
    kollegeknight
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    We just like to lick people.

    #metoo


  • #124
    Lady Haywire
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    Odelay wrote: »
    Lovely Leitrim Lickers. Must call up.

    How badly do I need to be burnt?

    Apparently any burn. my grandfather had the same cure & every so often someone would appear for him to perform the cure. Outdated codswallop but still, I find these piseogs very interesting :o


  • #125
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    Seems "what3words" is the new essential app for your smartphone.

    Basically it assigns 3 words to every 3 x 3m grid square in the world.
    So say your front gate could now be "dog, murder, pineapple" or the top of Mount Leinster could be " pizza, fork, mouse".
    So then if you need the emergency services or just Paul to fix the ballcock. You just tell them "what3words" and they'll know that exact spot by looking at their phone. Instead of messing around with coordinates numbers.


  • #126
    Water John
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    That's one prescise locator, another in Ireland is Loc8. Two big problems with Eircode are, it only applies to houses and also if you make an error in any of the last 4 digits numbers you may not be near where you want to be.


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  • #127
    Muckit
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Seems "what3words" is the new essential app for your smartphone.

    Basically it assigns 3 words to every 3 x 3m grid square in the world.
    So say your front gate could now be "dog, murder, pineapple" or the top of Mount Leinster could be " pizza, fork, mouse".
    So then if you need the emergency services or just Paul to fix the ballcock. You just tell them "what3words" and they'll know that exact spot by looking at their phone. Instead of messing around with coordinates numbers.

    What about the language barrier?


  • #128
    emaherx
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    Muckit wrote: »
    What about the language barrier?

    Hopefully emergency services here speak English :D


  • #129
    emaherx
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    Water John wrote: »
    That's one prescise locator, another in Ireland is Loc8. Two big problems with Eircode are, it only applies to houses and also if you make an error in any of the last 4 digits numbers you may not be near where you want to be.

    To be fair to Eircode it works well (in the vast majority of cases) for what it is, a postcode. I can imagine the up roar if Eircode used the these 3 words grid when some poor git gets Knob,end,here as a location.


  • #130
    wrangler
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    A neighbour that had a clearance sale of suckers a month ago now has most of his land sprayed off for reseeding in anticipation of dairying.
    Another one has seen the light


  • #131
    Water John
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    A postcode that An Post don't use???


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  • #132
    patsy_mccabe
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    I ended up in Gortalea Mart last night. Well it lived up to it's reputation, small friendly mart. Pity it's so far, nearly 2 hours drive with delays along the way.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #133
    Base price
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    wrangler wrote: »
    A neighbour that had a clearance sale of suckers a month ago now has most of his land sprayed off for reseeding in anticipation of dairying.
    Another one has seen the light
    A near neighbour bought 37 acres adjoining him a few months ago for €11,400/acre and is going dairying. He has to build a parlour etc. Fair play to him but I wonder will milk price be able to pay back these investments going forward.


  • #134
    blue5000
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    wrangler wrote: »
    A neighbour that had a clearance sale of suckers a month ago now has most of his land sprayed off for reseeding in anticipation of dairying.
    Another one has seen the light
    Base price wrote: »
    A near neighbour bought 37 acres adjoining him a few months ago for €11,400/acre and is going dairying. He has to build a parlour etc. Fair play to him but I wonder will milk price be able to pay back these investments going forward.

    This country will be flowing with milk (and honey:() yet. Was chatting to a lad in a trailer last week from Kildare and there's 14 around him going milking next year. There's another 2 in our DG starting next year as well.

    The times they are a changin.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #135
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    This country will be flowing with milk (and honey:() yet. Was chatting to a lad in a trailer last week from Kildare and there's 14 around him going milking next year. There's another 2 in our DG starting next year as well.

    The times they are a changin.

    As we dairy farmers say ..."Welcome to Hell".


  • #136
    whelan2
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    This country will be flowing with milk (and honey:() yet. Was chatting to a lad in a trailer last week from Kildare and there's 14 around him going milking next year. There's another 2 in our DG starting next year as well.

    The times they are a changin.

    When everyone is going one way is it best to go the opposite direction?


  • #137
    whelan2
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    On the eircodes , got badly stung last year when a foreign vet didnt understand my accent and ended up 10 miles away. Was a calving. Lost cow and calf


  • #138
    wrangler
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    When everyone is going one way is it best to go the opposite direction?

    Says she who is charging ahead into more milk production


  • #139
    whelan2
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    wrangler wrote: »
    Says she who is charging ahead into more milk production

    Not really . 150 cows last year 165 this year. 200 would be my max. When young lsd comes home. Heavy land I know my limits.No point killing yourself to be bigger than the neighbours


  • #140
    Limestone Cowboy
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I ended up in Gortalea Mart last night. Well it lived up to it's reputation, small friendly mart. Pity it's so far, nearly 2 hours drive with delays along the way.

    Your as bad as myself driving around the country...in the last 2 weeks I have been in gort twice, maam cross twice, elphin and ennis....need to find a new hobby.


  • #141
    kollegeknight
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    On the eircodes , got badly stung last year when a foreign vet didnt understand my accent and ended up 10 miles away. Was a calving. Lost cow and calf

    Pure balls.
    Our house is new so while we have an eircode- we are stil not on maps- give the mothers And tell them to stop at new build before it. I always text the code also as a back up.


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  • #142
    patsy_mccabe
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Your as bad as myself driving around the country...in the last 2 weeks I have been in gort twice, maam cross twice, elphin and ennis....need to find a new hobby.

    If you're not careful, you'll end up dealing. ;)

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #143
    emaherx
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    On the eircodes , got badly stung last year when a foreign vet didnt understand my accent and ended up 10 miles away. Was a calving. Lost cow and calf

    Should use phonetic alphabet on the phone. I spend a lot of time speaking with international call centers and it's the only way especially when dealing accents.

    But the my 3 words app far better for directing people to farm or individual fields. Eircodes are great for couriers. And as for an Post they can use or not use the local postman calls often enough to find my house without.


  • #144
    Limestone Cowboy
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    If you're not careful, you'll end up dealing. ;)

    I can see the headline already "young man forced into cattle dealing due to peer pressure at local livestock marts".....I don't think it will happen :D


  • #145
    kollegeknight
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    emaherx wrote: »
    Should use phonetic alphabet on the phone. I spend a lot of time speaking with international call centers and it's the only way especially when dealing accents.

    But the my 3 words app far better for directing people to farm or individual fields. Eircodes are great for couriers. And as for an Post they can use or not use the local postman calls often enough to find my house without.

    Topping rushes and two of my words were unfed and rushes. I’d hate to see the size of the rushes if they were fed.


  • #146
    Lady Haywire
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    Hmmmm. Apt :pac:

    We should make a thread for best 3words!


  • #147
    emaherx
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    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Topping rushes and two of my words were unfed and rushes. I’d hate to see the size of the rushes if they were fed.

    Maybe it's you who is unfed?


  • #148
    148multi
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Hmmmm. Apt :pac:

    We should make a thread for best 3words!

    Well at least it doesn't say anything about licking, especially elderly tramps in the afternoon.


  • #149
    kollegeknight
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    emaherx wrote: »
    Maybe it's you who is unfed?

    Not judging by my waistline


  • #150
    Say my name
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Hmmmm. Apt :pac:

    We should make a thread for best 3words!

    In fairness it gets some of them spot on.

    Lidl in enniscorthy is..

    angry, fatigue, revisiting


    This must be how Reggie calls in an airstrike?


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  • #151
    ganmo
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    Say my name wrote: »
    In fairness it gets some of them spot on.

    Lidl in enniscorthy is..

    angry, fatigue, revisiting


    This must be how Reggie calls in an airstrike?

    I must look up the one in tallaght


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