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whelan2

TITANIUM. wrote: »

serves you right with your cleaner lady,
#Notions😉😉😉

I have one too. Wouldnt be with out her. Best €50 I spend every week.

emaherx

whelan2 wrote: »

I have one too. Wouldnt be with out her. Best €50 I spend every week.

I bet you tidy the house before she comes too!

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

I have one too. Wouldnt be with out her. Best €50 I spend every week.

I don't have time to do everything between farming and housework, anyway I detest housework. I do like to cook though and try to cook dinner at least 5 days each week.

whelan2

emaherx wrote: »

I bet you tidy the house before she comes too!

Nope. It's like a bombsire normally when she arrives and it's lovely when she leaves. She changes all the beds, washed the floors, irons etc. All things I don't have time to do.

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

I don't have time to do everything between farming and housework, anyway I detest housework. I do like to cook though and try to cook dinner at least 5 days each week.

Love coming back into a clean house. As for new sheets on the bed. Heaven. She brings some of the laundry home and brings it back clean and ironed the next week. I love my cleaner.

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Love coming back into a clean house. As for new sheets on the bed. Heaven. She brings some of the laundry home and brings it back clean and ironed the next week. I love my cleaner.

I bet she got a Christmas card this year

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

I bet she got a Christmas card this year

Aye. I treat her well. She was sick there for a while and I really missed her. Thankfully she came back on Friday.

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Love coming back into a clean house. As for new sheets on the bed. Heaven. She brings some of the laundry home and brings it back clean and ironed the next week. I love my cleaner.

This house would fall apart if anything happened to our one, she is brilliant and has been working with us for 15 years when she came to Ireland from eastern Europe. Her family (hubbie and children) are friends. If we give her enough notice she will feed calves - mix milk replacer/feed crunch and straw which is handy if your away at a wedding etc and would notice a sick one as fast as I would.

foxy farmer

Base price wrote: »

This house would fall apart if anything happened to our one, she is brilliant and has been working with us for 15 years when she came to Ireland from eastern Europe. Her family (hubbie and children) are friends. If we give her enough notice she will feed calves - mix milk replacer/feed crunch and straw which is handy if your away at a wedding etc and would notice a sick one as fast as I would.

She's not a cleaner she's a farm manager.

Mortelaro

Anyone been watching The resistance on RTÉ one ? It's on again tonight
I think it's a great production
There's a small but good Irish made filmed drama industry in Ireland

Keep Sluicing

Reading the TB test early this morning. All clear thank God

Base price

More from the Lancet today - they want subsidies for beef and dairy farmers to be scrapped.
https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/farming-news/scrap-subsidies-for-farmers-scientific-journal-declares-37754624.html

Buford T. Justice XIX

Base price wrote: »

More from the Lancet today - they want subsidies for beef and dairy farmers to be scrapped.
https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/farming-news/scrap-subsidies-for-farmers-scientific-journal-declares-37754624.html

'Tis grand, veganuary is nearly over and Februdairy is about to kick off:pac:

whelan2

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

'Tis grand, veganuary is nearly over and Februdairy is about to kick off:pac:

This has to have been the longest month ever...

carrollsno1

whelan2 wrote: »

This has to have been the longest month ever...

You have no idea, seems to move 10 times slower this side of the world

charolais0153

Base price wrote: »

More from the Lancet today - they want subsidies for beef and dairy farmers to be scrapped.
https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/farming-news/scrap-subsidies-for-farmers-scientific-journal-declares-37754624.html

At least sheep farming is safe :rolleyes:

Nekarsulm

Phone give up over the weekend.
I could hear the other person fine, but no-one could hear me unless I shouted, and even then it was only a word here and there.
Trekked into Cavan to the O2 shop,where I was told I was only 4 weeks from an upgrade, and could I hang on?
Told them no.
Then they tried to get me to get the wife to put her phone on a business plan with mine, plus get extra phone's for any children in the house.
If I had 4 phones all on contract of 40 a month, I would have 2 new phones to choose from!
Losing patience, I explained I just wanted one phone that worked.
That would be 150 euro to buy their cheapest model.
And no, they couldn't send my phone away for repair because while it has a 2 year warranty, the repair shop won't touch a phone with a crack in the screen.
Mine is cracked a year now.
Could they just fix the microphone on mine?
No, because the screen has a crack.
Twenty minutes tooing and froing and hanging around, the patience was getting low.....
Could they tell me anyone who might look at it?
" Try one of the dodgy boys down the town" was their exact advice.
So walked down to the nearest Polish/Russian tech place and explained the problem.
He rang my phone and listened on his own, then took a pin and cleaned a bit of dirt from my pocket from the tiny pinhole in the end.
Phone fixed, and refused a fiver!

MickeyShtyles

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Phone give up over the weekend.
I could hear the other person fine, but no-one could hear me unless I shouted, and even then it was only a word here and there.
Trekked into Cavan to the O2 shop,where I was told I was only 4 weeks from an upgrade, and could I hang on?
Told them no.
Then they tried to get me to get the wife to put her phone on a business plan with mine, plus get extra phone's for any children in the house.
If I had 4 phones all on contract of 40 a month, I would have 2 new phones to choose from!
Losing patience, I explained I just wanted one phone that worked.
That would be 150 euro to buy their cheapest model.
And no, they couldn't send my phone away for repair because while it has a 2 year warranty, the repair shop won't touch a phone with a crack in the screen.
Mine is cracked a year now.
Could they just fix the microphone on mine?
No, because the screen has a crack.
Twenty minutes tooing and froing and hanging around, the patience was getting low.....
Could they tell me anyone who might look at it?
" Try one of the dodgy boys down the town" was their exact advice.
So walked down to the nearest Polish/Russian tech place and explained the problem.
He rang my phone and listened on his own, then took a pin and cleaned a bit of dirt from my pocket from the tiny pinhole in the end.
Phone fixed, and refused a fiver!

Air compressor is great for cleaning out the charger and earphone port.

emaherx

Nekarsulm wrote: »

took a pin and cleaned a bit of dirt from my pocket from the tiny pinhole in the end.
Phone fixed, and refused a fiver!

Thought I was going deaf last week, doctor did nearly the exact same job to me. Funny enough she refused the fiver too, apparently she wanted another fifty with it!

gozunda

Base price wrote: »

More from the Lancet today - they want subsidies for beef and dairy farmers to be scrapped.
https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/farming-news/scrap-subsidies-for-farmers-scientific-journal-declares-37754624.html

Let me guess - more rubbish from our extremist millionaire friends paying researchers to tell the rest of use what to eat using less than rigorous scientific methods? I smell another big hairy rat tbh.

The recent and discredited EAT report telling us to eat less meat & etc had 37 paid scientists - this latest report in the Lancet has 43!

Funnily enough the Lancet only published this report supporting dairy products as beneficial for human health in September.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/tl-tld091018.php

Strange that such contradictory information follows on from a report supporting dairy products as beneficial for human health as part of a balanced diet.

A considerable level of overt inconsistency going on there tbh. I think I'll be cancelling my subscription to that particular publication in the near future

Buford T. Justice XIX

gozunda wrote: »

Let me guess - more rubbish from our extremist millionaire friends paying researchers to tell the rest of use what to eat using less than rigorous scientific methods? I smell another big hairy rat tbh.

The recent and discredited EAT report telling us to eat less meat & etc had 37 paid scientists - this latest report in the Lancet has 43!

Funnily enough the Lancet only published this report supporting dairy products as beneficial for human health in September.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/tl-tld091018.php

Strange that such contradictory information follows on from a report supporting dairy products as beneficial for human health as part of a balanced diet.

I think I'll be cancelling my subscription to that particular publication on the near future

Follow the money, I'd say....

wrangler

Mortelaro wrote: »

Anyone been watching The resistance on RTÉ one ? It's on again tonight
I think it's a great production
There's a small but good Irish made filmed drama industry in Ireland

Yea it's very good , I'm following 'Les miserable'' on BBC as well so I watch The Resistance on Plus one. RTE is notorious for having rubbish endings to any of their productions, for that reason I'm watching Les Miserable, but I got sucked in to the other one so I'm hooked now

Birdnuts

charolais0153 wrote: »

At least sheep farming is safe :rolleyes:

If they come after Mint Jelly they'll have trouble from my end!!:pac:;)

Say my name

I was just thinking there now after the drought conditioning the soil last year and the phenomenal grass growth through the winter without any fertilizer applications.

Wouldn't it be a great start for anyone going organic or reduced inputs.

whelan2

Our sky box has had no signal since Thursday, Only realise at night time how much we miss it. So hard to get in contact with sky, even to find a phone number on line for them. Engineer to come out tomorrow, he'd better come as Liverpool are playing tomorrow night :eek:

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Our sky box has had no signal since Thursday, Only realise at night time how much we miss it. So hard to get in contact with sky, even to find a phone number on line for them. Engineer to come out tomorrow, he'd better come as Liverpool are playing tomorrow night :eek:

Ah sure you'll just have to hit the pub tomorrow night if still out

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Ah sure you'll just have to hit the pub tomorrow night if still out

Ye, I'd prefer to watch it on the sofa tbh.

zetecescort

Hope Leo got a deserved toe in the hole at the IFA agm

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Our sky box has had no signal since Thursday, Only realise at night time how much we miss it. So hard to get in contact with sky, even to find a phone number on line for them. Engineer to come out tomorrow, he'd better come as Liverpool are playing tomorrow night :eek:

Our dish moved a wee bit and we lost half our stations, and were only freeview anyway so I think there are maybe 6 or 8 stations now.

That was probably three yers ago, haven’t got round to doing anything about it.

Say my name

whelan2 wrote: »

Our sky box has had no signal since Thursday, Only realise at night time how much we miss it. So hard to get in contact with sky, even to find a phone number on line for them. Engineer to come out tomorrow, he'd better come as Liverpool are playing tomorrow night :eek:

Sky are on boards here and they seem to be fairly active dealing with posters on the page.

If you had one of those acoustic sat tuners that used to come with the Lidl/aldi receivers you'd have it back in a few seconds.

Odelay

_Brian wrote: »

Our dish moved a wee bit and we lost half our stations, and were only freeview anyway so I think there are maybe 6 or 8 stations now.

That was probably three yers ago, haven’t got round to doing anything about it.

Same happened here. Didnt bother fixing it, don’t need an excuse to watch any more tv.

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

Our dish moved a wee bit and we lost half our stations, and were only freeview anyway so I think there are maybe 6 or 8 stations now.

That was probably three yers ago, haven’t got round to doing anything about it.

I dont know what happened as it wasnt bad weather last Thursday, just misty. Worked fine in the morning and when young lad turned it on after school it didnt work, went on to messenger on facebook on Thursday evening was told they were really busy and would be with me on chat in an hour, 12 hours later on Friday morning they replied. Engineer rang me this evening will be here between 4 and 6 tomorrow evening. 60 euro call out fee including a new dish .

Dinzee Conlee

whelan2 wrote: »

I dont know what happened as it wasnt bad weather last Thursday, just misty. Worked fine in the morning and when young lad turned it on after school it didnt work, went on to messenger on facebook on Thursday evening was told they were really busy and would be with me on chat in an hour, 12 hours later on Friday morning they replied. Engineer rang me this evening will be here between 4 and 6 tomorrow evening. 60 euro call out fee including a new dish .

If they have to go up a ladder - they’ll drive a hole in the wall, to anchor the ladder onto...
That’s not so bad - but if they come back again, they’ll drill another hole... that annoyed me...

whelan2

Great results tonight for Liverpools title hopes

Birdnuts

whelan2 wrote: »

Great results tonight for Liverpools title hopes

Always liked Benitez!!

Birdnuts

Say my name wrote: »

I was just thinking there now after the drought conditioning the soil last year and the phenomenal grass growth through the winter without any fertilizer applications.

Wouldn't it be a great start for anyone going organic or reduced inputs.

Every farmer i've met in the West these last few months has said they would love a repeat of 2018 every summer - conditions, grass growth ertc. have been the best they've seen prior to the current cold spell

Ard_MC

whelan2 wrote: »

Great results tonight for Liverpools title hopes

Liverpools to lose now!

MickeyShtyles

Birdnuts wrote: »

Every farmer i've met in the West these last few months has said they would love a repeat of 2018 every summer - conditions, grass growth ertc. have been the best they've seen prior to the current cold spell

I think most farmers would love a repeat if they were prepared.

orm0nd

whelan2 wrote: »

Our sky box has had no signal since Thursday, Only realise at night time how much we miss it. So hard to get in contact with sky, even to find a phone number on line for them. Engineer to come out tomorrow, he'd better come as Liverpool are playing tomorrow night :eek:

I always found the Sky . reps here on Boards very efficient and helpful .

kk.man

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

I think most farmers would love a repeat if they were prepared.

Not in my neck of the woods🀬

Mortelaro

orm0nd wrote: »

I always found the Sky . reps here on Boards very efficient and helpful .

Plus one
The very rep that pm'ed me was the one that rang me within the hour and sorted everything
No signal could be the dish moved or a blown lnb on the dish
Sometimes just un screwing the 2 cables from the back of the box and swapping them around gets the signal back

whelan2

Mortelaro wrote: »

Plus one
The very rep that pm'ed me was the one that rang me within the hour and sorted everything
No signal could be the dish moved or a blown lnb on the dish
Sometimes just un screwing the 2 cables from the back of the box and swapping them around gets the signal back

Have tried that. Hopefully it will be fixed today

foxy farmer

Don't suppose anyone was up watching Fíorscéal on TG4 late last night. Fairly grim stuff regarding live exports. Traced eu animals that wound up in north Africa. Might be repeated at weekend.

Lady Haywire

It's colder at home in Leitrim today than it is with me.
Dad rang me in panic too cause ICBF sent a letter about it being the last day to defer :rolleyes:
So had to walk out of a meeting saying, sorry cows at home. :pac:

wrangler

One of my dogs was very sick this morning, brought her to the vet, she was bled out from rat poison, had to go home for one of the other dogs for a blood transfusion, the two of them were kept, OH is very upset at leaving them in there on their own I've to collect them at 5, and in case there wasn't enough going on I've a sheep inspection at 4

whelan2

Lady Haywire wrote: »

It's colder at home in Leitrim today than it is with me.
Dad rang me in panic too cause ICBF sent a letter about it being the last day to defer :rolleyes:
So had to walk out of a meeting saying, sorry cows at home. :pac:

Those icbf letters seem to put the panic up all the elderly farmers. We had one yesterday that an a imal that was genotyped wasn't a male. It is a male. Rang them this morning and they said if you say it's a male then it is a male...

Lady Haywire

whelan2 wrote: »

Those icbf letters seem to put the panic up all the elderly farmers. We had one yesterday that an a imal that was genotyped wasn't a male. It is a male. Rang them this morning and they said if you say it's a male then it is a male...

It's crap because I told him it was just going to revert back to choosing animals to genotype & god bless him he hadn't a clue what I meant.

Ard_MC

wrangler wrote: »

One of my dogs was very sick this morning, brought her to the vet, she was bled out from rat poison, had to go home for one of the other dogs for a blood transfusion, the two of them were kept, OH is very upset at leaving them in there on their own I've to collect them at 5, and in case there wasn't enough going on I've a sheep inspection at 4

How did the dog turn out? Much hassle with the inspection?

Water John

We are all idiots in this business. No point in chasing this again but these salaries are loola.
Re IFA:
'Meanwhile, the average remuneration for the top 15 staff in the organisation, excluding management, was €131,539 – an increase of just under €6,000 on the previous year.'

This is outside of Executive Management.

patsy_mccabe

Lady Haywire wrote: »

It's crap because I told him it was just going to revert back to choosing animals to genotype & god bless him he hadn't a clue what I meant.

BTW if you do want to change those for genotyping, I don't think they enforce that date rigidly. They didnt with me last year anyway.