Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

_Brian

Water John wrote: »

At 12 a bit early to be dropping the hint that, he needs to find a place of his own. hope he's enjoying the extended break. Will be interesting to know how young people will remember this time.

Kids were saying today its like massive summer holidays, probably be six months out of school.

They do school work from 9’ish. Youngest finishes at lunch and has rest of day to do stuff. Eldest finishes at three.

They both seem genuinely interested in the fact that this will be a big deal in history. Even if there are subsequent virus and lockdowns, this is the first and will be talked about for a long time.

blue5000

Elderly farmer killed by a bull. R.I.P. Take care out there.

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2020/0509/1137479-farm-death-cork/

emaherx

whelan2 wrote: »

Youngest lad is 12 today. He was up at 5 and did the darkness into light walk this morning. Going like a Duracell bunny all day. No big party and none of his friends over. He got a tent as one of his presents and plans to sleep out tonight. Got a takeaway tea from his choice of place and got a takeaway from there for my parents too. The day he was born the weather was like today. Hospital was like a sauna.

I've 3 kids birthdays this week.
The 2 eldest are having their party with their friends online in Fortnite.

_Brian

blue5000 wrote: »

Elderly farmer killed by a bull. R.I.P. Take care out there.

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2020/0509/1137479-farm-death-cork/

RIP.

whelan2

emaherx wrote: »

I've 3 kids birthdays this week.
The 2 eldest are having their party with their friends online in Fortnite.

My lad is a bit strange. Normal kids would be looking for a phone when they are 12. He doesn't want one. Doesn't play fortnite. May play fifa about once a month if even that. He wants to be out playing football. He's back out in the tent now. They came in at 1am as the dog kept trying to get into the tent

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

My lad is a bit strange. Normal kids would be looking for a phone when they are 12. He doesn't want one. Doesn't play fortnite. May play fifa about once a month if even that. He wants to be out playing football. He's back out in the tent now. They came in at 1am as the dog kept trying to get into the tent

Best quote I heard from a lecturer in college.
“Normal” is just a statistical average, and who wants to be just average, strive to be different.

_Brian

Girls both swim with development academy with swim Ulster. We’d usually be in Magherafelt for 10 on a Sunday morning, 2hrs from home.

Instead the coach has an hour zoom call with the group, maybe 40 kids, each takes turns at videoing their week and showing a 2 minute summary, then he covers cooking, workouts and mental health etc. He’s the single best coach I’ve ever met and the kids have such respect for him.
After that they go into another zoom call with local club members doing a group workout.

Sunday morning is good as the broadband is good.

Hard Knocks

whelan2 wrote: »

My lad is a bit strange. Normal kids would be looking for a phone when they are 12. He doesn't want one. Doesn't play fortnite. May play fifa about once a month if even that. He wants to be out playing football. He's back out in the tent now. They came in at 1am as the dog kept trying to get into the tent

Fair play to him

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

My lad is a bit strange. Normal kids would be looking for a phone when they are 12. He doesn't want one. Doesn't play fortnite. May play fifa about once a month if even that. He wants to be out playing football. He's back out in the tent now. They came in at 1am as the dog kept trying to get into the tent

Did they not try to throw the lick bucket lid

jfh

Anyone here try the parkside power washer for sale in lidl, need a power washer so tempted..

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Did they not try to throw the lick bucket lid

She frightened the life out of them scratching the side of the tent.

Limestone Cowboy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

14 years studying it and hated it too. Maybe if they had a little less Peig and more of the likes of John Connolly's speech of 1980, people might get to love it more. Native speakers seem to speak a completely different language.

Likewise, I was terrible at all the languages though. Got a D in pass irish in the leaving :rolleyes: I was really good at Maths, TG, construction, geography though. Was constantly mixing up Irish and German.

_Brian

When you talk to particularly Dutch people they seem to have a great way to teach languages, many have a few languages and they speak English with such clarity. We must be teaching Irish so wrong to have such poor rates.

First thing I think is wrong is too much focus on written Irish and the intricacies of spelling early on. Just get kids speaking it for a few years before writing it. Think about it, you don’t start with a toddler at home by trying to get it to spell and he grammatically correct, no, you talk to it and teach it words and to speak proficiently before writing or spelling anything.

zetecescort

at least with Irish you can argue its part of our heritage but for me English was my worst subject. obviously everybody needs to read and write but I had zero interest in knowing how Shakespeare felt writing some ****e poem or such.

roosterman71

Any of ye good folks recommend me a coffee machine? I'm sick and tired of the instant stuff now

jfh

roosterman71 wrote: »

Any of ye good folks recommend me a coffee machine? I'm sick and tired of the instant stuff now

I have an expensive delonghi that I got as a present sitting in a press much prefer French press coffee, you'd buy a plunger for 15 euros and the filter coffee in ALDI is pretty good.

whelan2

Got a tassimo for Christmas. €39 does the job. Got it in power city

Mortelaro

The lidl deluxe decaffeinated instant coffee is gorgeous

Waffletraktor

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bodum-Travel-Press-Coffee-Maker/dp/B0042RU4X0/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=BODUM+Caffettiera+travel+mug&qid=1589117123&s=kitchen&sr=1-3

greysides

_Brian wrote: »

When you talk to particularly Dutch people they seem to have a great way to teach languages, many have a few languages and they speak English with such clarity. We must be teaching Irish so wrong to have such poor rates.

First thing I think is wrong is too much focus on written Irish and the intricacies of spelling early on. Just get kids speaking it for a few years before writing it. Think about it, you don’t start with a toddler at home by trying to get it to spell and he grammatically correct, no, you talk to it and teach it words and to speak proficiently before writing or spelling anything.

Like many here I spent 14 years learning Irish. I spent 7 learning French and 3 learning Spanish. I would rate my ability to speak either of them over Irish. I prefer to try to speak them too.
For me, Irish is a dead language, kept alive by nationalist sentiment. The other two have utility and I've used them on holiday.
I passed my Leaving Cert with the Irish I learnt in national school. The emphasis in Secondary school on complicated prose and poetry sickened me..... Peig ... what's THAT about...? What use is that to me in normal day to day interaction, if it was needed.
The whole nationalist bent of teaching the technical points of a language without any emphasis on speach is idiotic and sucks any interest out of it.
A language first and foremost is about speaking it, prose and poetry only come later. Successive Irish government policies have killed it and I'm not shedding any tears.

greysides

I read once that the only 'dead' language that was resurrected was Hebrew. When the state of Israel was formed the only language the disparate groups had in common was Hebrew. The language had a purpose.

ganmo

roosterman71 wrote: »

Any of ye good folks recommend me a coffee machine? I'm sick and tired of the instant stuff now

https://aeropress.com/
My brother got me one of them a while back and its ideal if ya want one mug of nice coffee.

longgonesilver

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Guys, a question. I see on a lot of the American FB groups the use of cattle panels in the gardens, I assume welded mesh panels. They normally bend them over to make an arch and seem to be 16'*4'.
Can we get 16' ones over here? I've only seen 8'*4'.

Thanks.

This might suggest an alternative. Shame to see a new one though. You might be able to get a second-hand one reasonable.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058074305

patsy_mccabe

roosterman71 wrote: »

Any of ye good folks recommend me a coffee machine? I'm sick and tired of the instant stuff now

Have a Nespresso machine here, but it leaks a lot of water into the trays.

These capsules are great coffee, as good as any of the more expensive Nespresso stuff.
L'or. Espresso Ristretto
https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=296661403

Warning - you can get seriously addicted to this stuff.

I says

_Brian wrote: »

When you talk to particularly Dutch people they seem to have a great way to teach languages, many have a few languages and they speak English with such clarity. We must be teaching Irish so wrong to have such poor rates.

First thing I think is wrong is too much focus on written Irish and the intricacies of spelling early on. Just get kids speaking it for a few years before writing it. Think about it, you don’t start with a toddler at home by trying to get it to spell and he grammatically correct, no, you talk to it and teach it words and to speak proficiently before writing or spelling anything.

Irish is thought all wrong in schools I fcuking hated it with a passion, I still do. This scutter of using Donegal Irish in aural exams and trying to be to technical teaching it.
If they were serious about reviving it make every school an Irish speaking one and be done with it.

Hard Knocks

greysides wrote: »

Like many here I spent 14 years learning Irish. I spent 7 learning French and 3 learning Spanish. I would rate my ability to speak either of them over Irish. I prefer to try to speak them too.
For me, Irish is a dead language, kept alive by nationalist sentiment. The other two have utility and I've used them on holiday.
I passed my Leaving Cert with the Irish I learnt in national school. The emphasis in Secondary school on complicated prose and poetry sickened me..... Peig ... what's THAT about...? What use is that to me in normal day to day interaction, if it was needed.
The whole nationalist bent of teaching the technical points of a language without any emphasis on speach is idiotic and sucks any interest out of it.
A language first and foremost is about speaking it, prose and poetry only come later. Successive Irish government policies have killed it and I'm not shedding any tears.

Totally agree
I think the whole education needs a rethink
There’s far more emphasis put on theory rather than practical
In construction studies one guy in my class made a fantastic wooden chair and got a bad grade for not being good at theory

Dinzee Conlee

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Totally agree
I think the whole education needs a rethink
There’s far more emphasis put on theory rather than practical
In construction studies one guy in my class made a fantastic wooden chair and got a bad grade for not being good at theory

Don’t they have leaving cert applied now though, which should improve that?

kollegeknight

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Don’t they have leaving cert applied now though, which should improve that?

I don’t know much about LCA but from what I’ve seen of it, it’s more a direct line into the world of work and apprenticeship. Usually students who don’t go to college straight away.

There definitely needs to be a rethink on the established LC. If you’ve a child who does construction studies, engineering, dcg and Lcvp, (which is a regular option in some etb schools) they have 4 projects running simultaneously and it takes up all their time. Some of that work could be done in fifth year.

kollegeknight

blue5000 wrote: »

Elderly farmer killed by a bull. R.I.P. Take care out there.

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2020/0509/1137479-farm-death-cork/

Got into a tight spot myself today, I knew a quiet cow was due to calf (no such thing as a quiet cow at calving I know) so checked her after dinner, had calved into a drain, she was grand so I popped in to get the calf. She threw a few digs into me, more warnings than anything. So i jumped into some gorse bushes for cover, next thing all the cattle land over including the bull looking down at me. Lucky I had my phone, called the bro but he was a long time coming so broke a stick and got out with it. Bro came with Bag of nuts to get the cattle away and got calf out. Last calf of the year thank god. The joys of working alone

Odelay

kollegeknight wrote: »

Got into a tight spot myself today, I knew a quiet cow was due to calf (no such thing as a quiet cow at calving I know) so checked her after dinner, had calved into a drain, she was grand so I popped in to get the calf. She threw a few digs into me, more warnings than anything. So i jumped into some gorse bushes for cover, next thing all the cattle land over including the bull looking down at me. Lucky I had my phone, called the bro but he was a long time coming so broke a stick and got out with it. Bro came with Bag of nuts to get the cattle away and got calf out. Last calf of the year thank god. The joys of working

Every three weeks someone dies on an Irish farm. That shocked me.