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    #7292
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Anyone go to the pub on good Friday?


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    #7293
    mycro2013
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭mycro2013


    _Brian wrote: »
    Yea it has.

    Funny the difference, we had a strange van creeping down our lane at 5am few years ago, Mrs rang local station and we had a car out in 10 minutes, and were five minutes from town.

    I don’t think the guards want to confront serious criminals any more, chances of some idiot with a gun has gotten too high, can’t blame them either. New guards start at something like €23k, older guards never leave the station. Who’s going to risk their life for €23k a year, that’s less than €12/hr, they’d get more stacking shelves in Aldi.

    No Garda is on that. The poor mouth speil by the rank and file gardai was orchestrated by the union. Gardai get a multitude of expenses on top of their basic.


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    #7294
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,189 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Anyone go to the pub on good Friday?

    Yep, in a place in Athlone called Bounty Bar and grill.
    Savage deep fried cod and chips with salad.
    Few scoops as well.


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    #7295
    MeTheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    Was planning on getting some licking done today, long story short spent the time rewiring it. I'm no master with electrics but a new fuse should have me away in the morning.

    Was looking earlier, mix rate for gallup 360 for a licker says 1 to 1 humid weather or 1 to 2 warm dry weather. Isn't that crazy strong? What do others mix at? Think ill chance the rate for a knapsack of 400-500ml per 20liters of water.

    Would ye lick a field with stock in it? Have a bit to do thats clear of stock but a whole lot to do with sheep and lambs on it.


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    #7296
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/10-good-friday-traditions-you-ve-never-heard-of-1.3864889%3fmode=amp

    Very little of good Friday left now but nonetheless an interesting article.


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    #7297
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,161 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Anyone go to the pub on good Friday?
    No and I noticed a lot of pubs closed today on my travels.


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    #7298
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,161 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/10-good-friday-traditions-you-ve-never-heard-of-1.3864889%3fmode=amp

    Very little of good Friday left now but nonetheless an interesting article.
    I remember my Granny putting aside the eggs (both hen and duck eggs) that were laid on Good Friday and they were boiled for Easter Sunday breakfast. I used to have mine chopped up in a cup with lots of fresh butter and salt and cuts of fresh soda bread with sweet tea :)


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    #7299
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Base price wrote: »
    I remember my Granny putting aside the eggs (both hen and duck eggs) that were laid on Good Friday and they were boiled for Easter Sunday breakfast. I used to have mine chopped up in a cup with lots of fresh butter and salt and cuts of fresh soda bread with sweet tea :)

    I remember marking good Friday eggs with soot. We'd put a cross on them .
    I never heard about the shaving or getting a haircut though.


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    #7300
    I says
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭I says


    Well fcuk with all this talk of boiled eggs I’m off down to have a couple now.
    Cheat mode two into a cup microwave for 30/40 seconds depending and add sweet chili sauce. Devine


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    #7301
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,161 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    I says wrote: »
    Well fcuk with all this talk of boiled eggs I’m off down to have a couple now.
    Cheat mode two into a cup microwave for 30/40 seconds depending and add sweet chili sauce. Devine
    And here is me thinking that you'd throw a couple of sods of turf on the dying embers to get the fire going :D


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    #7302
    I says
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭I says


    Base price wrote: »
    And here is me thinking that you'd throw a couple of sods of turf on the dying embers to get the fire going :D

    Ah stuffed and no fire tonight :):)


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    #7303
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,161 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Not many years after that time I quit taking sugar in tea for good although I do remember the pure pleasure of having the first sweet cuppa tae on Easter Sunday morning after the Lenten fast - that was 40 odd years ago.


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    #7304
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Base price wrote: »
    I remember my Granny putting aside the eggs (both hen and duck eggs) that were laid on Good Friday and they were boiled for Easter Sunday breakfast. I used to have mine chopped up in a cup with lots of fresh butter and salt and cuts of fresh soda bread with sweet tea :)

    I always remember been told that pancakes were eaten on Shrove Tuesday so that eggs would be used up before lent. But then I never heard that eggs couldnt be eaten during lent - So anyone know which was it?

    Tbh if eggs were not allowed - it would have an awful waste of good eggs when hens and ducks had started laying properly, especially when there were few other foods in sich plentiful supply at that time of the year.

    Anyway you can't beat your own free range eggs. My own favourite are duck eggs .Theres nothing like them. :)


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    #7305
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,980 ✭✭✭emaherx


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Anyone go to the pub on good Friday?

    Went for a few last night. There was an average Friday night sort of crowd out.


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    #7306
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    mycro2013 wrote: »
    No Garda is on that. The poor mouth speil by the rank and file gardai was orchestrated by the union. Gardai get a multitude of expenses on top of their basic.

    I wouldn’t do their job for all the tea in China.
    My brother is one. We are both working the same length of time in our jobs. His weekly gross pay is €2 less than my net pay.


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    #7307
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    emaherx wrote: »
    Went for a few last night. There was an average Friday night sort of crowd out.

    Drove by local on way back from football, same as that seemed to be the normal Friday crowd. Was surprised training was on last night tbh


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    #7308
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,980 ✭✭✭emaherx


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Drove by local on way back from football, same as that seemed to be the normal Friday crowd. Was surprised training was on last night tbh

    Probably less alcohol consumed in Ireland now on good Friday than any time during the past, no longer a need to rush out and stock up for the one day ban.


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    #7309
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,370 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Heading off with the rake shortly to start silage 2019


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    #7310
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,980 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Heading off with the rake shortly to start silage 2019

    I've just about started growing grass


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    #7311
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    emaherx wrote: »
    I've just about started growing grass

    Got the grass in the garden cut yesterday for the first time. Kids had it well down anyway playing football


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    #7312
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    What are ye using on docks this year? My crop of them is pretty good again despite spraying a fair bit last year


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    #7313
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Bullocks wrote: »
    What are ye using on docks this year? My crop of them is pretty good again despite spraying a fair bit last year

    Used mortox 50 and minstrel here as recommended by local rep. One of silage fields was covered in docks and general weeds. Seems to have worked.


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    #7314
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Bullocks wrote: »
    What are ye using on docks this year? My crop of them is pretty good again despite spraying a fair bit last year

    Hurler worked Well last year compared to dockstar and its
    equivalent


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    #7315
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    My Odd-Ear is due to TVR today. I'm like a child before Christmas! :D


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    #7316
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    My Odd-Ear is due to TVR today. I'm like a child before Christmas! :D

    I must be thick what is tvr?


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    #7317
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I must be thick what is tvr?

    A limousin bull that is well known for being hard calved but brings very good calves :)


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    #7318
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    Used mortox 50 and minstrel here as recommended by local rep. One of silage fields was covered in docks and general weeds. Seems to have worked.

    Who is the local rep? Is joyces open on the bank Holiday Mondays think?


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    #7319
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    A limousin bull that is well known for being hard calved but brings very good calves :)

    Sound was trying to work out what it stood for


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    #7320
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,144 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Easter bunny was in our house while we were away this evening. 15 year old daughter was worse than the younger lad going round the house looking for eggs. They will end up making buns out of the chocolate in a day or two


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    #7321
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    My Odd-Ear is due to TVR today. I'm like a child before Christmas! :D

    Your a brave women, mind you I had one by him when he first came out, initially they were saying he was easy calved:D what’s he now - 17%?


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