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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

Ah stuffed and no fire tonight :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Reggie.

Heading off with the rake shortly to start silage 2019

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

Heading off with the rake shortly to start silage 2019

I've just about started growing grass

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

Bullocks

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

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.

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

Lady Haywire

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

whelan2

Lady Haywire wrote: »

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

I must be thick what is tvr?

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

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?

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

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

Mac Taylor

Lady Haywire wrote: »

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

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%?

kollegeknight

whelan2 wrote: »

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

I asked the oh not to go over board with eggs as she normally does mental. Roll on this evening and she only had a tiny egg bought for the 4yo who was talking about the Easter bunny for the last month. She heard me saying get none. Que rush to Kilrush in the hope of getting something.

Odelay

kollegeknight wrote: »

I asked the oh not to go over board with eggs as she normally does mental. Roll on this evening and she only had a tiny egg bought for the 4yo who was talking about the Easter bunny for the last month. She heard me saying get none. Que rush to Kilrush in the hope of getting something.

If the Easter bunny lands here, he’ll be gong into the pot!

ganmo

I was going to plant a few trees earlier in a spot I thought trees had died. Anyway as soon as I tried the ground with the spade I remembered that there was a few sheets of rebar left there after building the shed. So I spent 2 hours getting them up off the ground.
Don't ya love when a half hour job turns into a 2 hour one and then ya still have the original half hour job left to do

whelan2

Odelay wrote: »

Of the Easter bunny lands here, he’ll be gong into the pot!

I would have been the same but watching them going around searching for the eggs- these are only tiny eggs from lidl- is great. Young lad screaming when he found eggs before his sister did.

Lady Haywire

Mac Taylor wrote: »

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%?

17.5%, but she's been on a diet for a few weeks now, hay, straw & oats with a bit of silage in the morning. Great big wide cow now, I'll be very disappointed if it's a section

ganmo wrote: »

I was going to plant a few trees earlier in a spot I thought trees had died. Anyway as soon as I tried the ground with the spade I remembered that there was a few sheets of rebar left there after building the shed. So I spent 2 hours getting them up off the ground.
Don't ya love when a half hour job turns into a 2 hour one and then ya still have the original half hour job left to do

Ah be good for ya, work off the Easter eggs!! :P

Say my name

Say my name wrote: »

Following on from Patsy McCabe's posts that he's now a recognised "black irish"

Patsy you may interested to know where your and our ancestors came from.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188

It seems that the move northwards from Spain and northern Africa coincided with the Sahara drying up after the rains stopped and this thus previous rich farmland becoming worthless and the migration northwestwards towards Spain, France, southwest England and coastal Ireland began. Bringing with them their tradition of agriculture and stone circles with them.

https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populated.html

I couldn't help think about the ethnicity of the builders of Stonehenge after that BBC article.

It got me wondering about what the first people in this country were like.
It's nearly impossible to think of "native" people to Ireland as being anything but white.

But then think of the Andaman islanders off the Indian coast in the indian ocean. You know the ones who hit the news recently after that American eejit set out to convert them to Christianity.
Anyway they're blacker than a coal mine.

This book was written years ago. And now he's been proved correct that the megalithic builders were indeed "black".
Anyways I thought the pieces from it were interesting.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Megalith.html?id=JJLVBAAAQBAJ

kollegeknight

Odelay wrote: »

Of the Easter bunny lands here, he’ll be gong into the pot!

I’m the same but the OH wants to have the Easter bunny visit so it’s happening

Hard Knocks

whelan2 wrote: »

Tag all calves here as soon as born. Saves a lot of hassle, see photos of calves on Facebook must be at least a month old with no tags....

What about horns
When you do them?

whelan2

Hard Knocks wrote: »

What about horns
When you do them?

sucklers are pb angus so no problem there dairy calves are done at a few weeks old - tagged when born - and get coccidiosis dose at dehorning

CloughCasey1

Bullocks wrote: »

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

Pm sent

Dinzee Conlee

Folks,

Met a neighbour there, who asked me would I have grazing for their pony...

Now, I prob would have the grass, as am understocked, but I don’t want to give it away either...

What’s a fair price for both of us...

It would just be for grass - I wouldn’t be responsible for checking them...

So, just looking for what would be the price per day/week/month or however it’s done...

Anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks...

Rows Grower

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Folks,

Met a neighbour there, who asked me would I have grazing for their pony...

Now, I prob would have the grass, as am understocked, but I don’t want to give it away either...

What’s a fair price for both of us...

It would just be for grass - I wouldn’t be responsible for checking them...

So, just looking for what would be the price per day/week/month or however it’s done...

Anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks...

I'm curious to what a fair rate would be, I'm gonna guess about a euro a day.

_Brian

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Folks,

Met a neighbour there, who asked me would I have grazing for their pony...

Now, I prob would have the grass, as am understocked, but I don’t want to give it away either...

What’s a fair price for both of us...

It would just be for grass - I wouldn’t be responsible for checking them...

So, just looking for what would be the price per day/week/month or however it’s done...

Anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks...

Do you have sufficient insurance ??
If your renting I’m not sure if public liability covers them in on your land, or if the animal escapes from your land onto the road.

Couldn’t imagine less than €200 a month for the inconvenience of having strangers about the place.

wrangler

_Brian wrote: »

Do you have sufficient insurance ??
If your renting I’m not sure if public liability covers them in on your land, or if the animal escapes from your land onto the road.

Couldn’t imagine less than €200 a month for the inconvenience of having strangers about the place.

I would agree about the insurance, a child falls off a horse or as you say it does harm, The claim would always target someone with an asset.
I had a horse here for someone for a while and I'd never do it again

Dinzee Conlee

_Brian wrote: »

Do you have sufficient insurance ??
If your renting I’m not sure if public liability covers them in on your land, or if the animal escapes from your land onto the road.

Couldn’t imagine less than €200 a month for the inconvenience of having strangers about the place.

I hadn’t thought if the insurance to be honest Brian...

Dinzee Conlee

wrangler wrote: »

I would agree about the insurance, a child falls off a horse or as you say it does harm, The claim would always target someone with an asset.
I had a horse here for someone for a while and I'd never do it again

Just the bother of having the horse wrangler, or what was it putt you off?

blue5000

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Folks,

Met a neighbour there, who asked me would I have grazing for their pony...

Now, I prob would have the grass, as am understocked, but I don’t want to give it away either...

What’s a fair price for both of us...

It would just be for grass - I wouldn’t be responsible for checking them...

So, just looking for what would be the price per day/week/month or however it’s done...

Anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks...

Draw up a lease for 1 paddock, tell him to get insurance. AFAIK if your cattle graze it once or twice during the year the BPS is ok.

wrangler

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Just the bother of having the horse wrangler, or what was it putt you off?

I did it for a 'friend' I rented them an acre because of the insurance issue, they fenced it at the start but wouldn't bother maintaining it after. The horse was always knocking it, he used to arse up to the rail to scratch and send them flying,
Often had to throw the rails back into the paddock as they were all nails, eventually the horse stood on one of the nails himself and couldn't be ridden after, They'd never put in the horse in bad weather and the paddock was in sh..e. after a couple of years the daughter got sick of it anyway but wouldn't let him be sold either.
I put them out when I leased the land

Dinzee Conlee

blue5000 wrote: »

Draw up a lease for 1 paddock, tell him to get insurance. AFAIK if your cattle graze it once or twice during the year the BPS is ok.

To be honest, for the sake of 1 pony, for maybe only a few weeks I don’t think i’d bother... i’d just say I don’t have the grass...

Base price

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

To be honest, for the sake of 1 pony, for maybe only a few weeks I don’t think i’d bother... i’d just say I don’t have the grass...

Also if you had a cross compliance inspection and the owners didn't have a equine number with DAFM and your land designated as grazing then it could impact on your sfp.

whelan2

That's a desperate performance there by Manchester united

wrangler

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

To be honest, for the sake of 1 pony, for maybe only a few weeks I don’t think i’d bother... i’d just say I don’t have the grass...

+1
I think the going rate is only about €20/wk for grassonly livery..... Having the animal on farm and the job of collecting money wouldn't be worth the bother

Base price

The two atm's that were stolen from Kells on Friday morning have been "recovered" near the Meath/Monaghan border - I wonder if the money was still in them :rolleyes:
https://www.thejournal.ie/two-atms-recovered-by-gardai-investigating-kells-theft-4601491-Apr2019/?utm_source=facebook_short&fbclid=IwAR04uiBAgbwEZOuKdES9elbeHEY9ubjYlZZitUEMv8nM5ViCzsiCaFm3oNQ

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

The two atm's that were stolen from Kells on Friday morning have been "recovered" near the Meath/Monaghan border - I wonder if the money was still in them :rolleyes:
https://www.thejournal.ie/two-atms-recovered-by-gardai-investigating-kells-theft-4601491-Apr2019/?utm_source=facebook_short&fbclid=IwAR04uiBAgbwEZOuKdES9elbeHEY9ubjYlZZitUEMv8nM5ViCzsiCaFm3oNQ

Course it was

_Brian

Reggie. wrote: »

Course it was

Maybe just an IOU ?

whelan2

What a fantastic day.

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

What a fantastic day.

On duty today so STOP IT

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

On duty today so STOP IT

Having a can of Bulmers out at my picnic bench....

Base price

This is more or less they way we are in this house after the dinner, Easter eggs and a couple of scoops. I have to head out after to feed calves that are on tad.

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Having a can of Bulmers out at my picnic bench....

Bitch