Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Muckit

Say my name wrote: »

When you're sitting waiting for the hedgecutter driver to go into the paddock with the stock in it. And to pass the time you write out your English name in Ogham .

Good to keep the brain active. Crosswords are good too.

Say my name

Muckit wrote: »

Good to keep the brain active. Crosswords are good too.

I've decided my grave stone is going to be a length of granite with notches carved into the corners.
It'll be better than those traveller or gangster monstrosities and the oikes will have to use a bit of brainpower to figure out who the hell it is and sure if not I'll have naked virgins dancing around it on the 1st of February.

whelan2

Rescued

_Brian

Say my name wrote: »

I've decided my grave stone is going to be a length of granite with notches carved into the corners.
It'll be better than those traveller or gangster monstrosities and the oikes will have to use a bit of brainpower to figure out who the hell it is and sure if not I'll have naked virgins dancing around it on the 1st of February.

I’ve asked for a garden bench style thing on my grave. At least once a year after I’m gone at cemetery Sunday they will think I was a genius as they sit there relaxing.

Hard Knocks

whelan2 wrote: »

Eldest lad went back to college today after 5 months off. One off my dry cows decided to calve way far away and the calf went down into a deep double ditch. My 75 year old dad went down and tied a rope on the calf and I pulled it up. A Belgian blue heifer. All is good.

Well done
Guess at midterm he’ll be getting a fencing job

Bullocks

_Brian wrote: »

Say my name wrote: »

I've decided my grave stone is going to be a length of granite with notches carved into the corners.
It'll be better than those traveller or gangster monstrosities and the oikes will have to use a bit of brainpower to figure out who the hell it is and sure if not I'll have naked virgins dancing around it on the 1st of February.

I’ve asked for a garden bench style thing on my grave. At least once a year after I’m gone at cemetery Sunday they will think I was a genius as they sit there relaxing.

By the time you cock your toes I wonder will anyone be going to these cemetery Sundays?
A young neighbour of ours died a few years ago and his parents erected a bench in a public park in Manchester for his sister who was living there but couldn't get home that often to visit the grave. There is a plaque with the lads name on it. His father likes to sit there when he goes over and if anyone sits down beside him he gets enjoyment telling them about the plaque and his son. It wouldnt be for me but different strokes for different folks and all that

Say my name

_Brian wrote: »

I’ve asked for a garden bench style thing on my grave. At least once a year after I’m gone at cemetery Sunday they will think I was a genius as they sit there relaxing.

And for the other 364 days of the year. The cemetery groundskeeper will be cursing your name from picking up empty bottles and tinnies all over your grave. :pac:

Muckit

_Brian wrote: »

I’ve asked for a garden bench style thing on my grave. At least once a year after I’m gone at cemetery Sunday they will think I was a genius as they sit there relaxing.

I'd say when our time comes, there will be no such thing as conventional graves. we'll all be going into an urn and put in a small vault in a wall.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Muckit wrote: »

I'd say when our time comes, there will be no such thing as conventional graves. we'll all be going into an urn and put in a small vault in a wall.

Speak for yourself. I have so many drugs in my system I'll have to be sent straight into the sun to minimise dangers to mankind.

wrangler

Muckit wrote: »

I'd say when our time comes, there will be no such thing as conventional graves. we'll all be going into an urn and put in a small vault in a wall.

Proper order, very few family members left to maintain graves now with them all emigrating, in our graveyard now we just knock the headstones flat and mow out across them. we tell the relatives it's for ''health and safety''

Say my name

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Speak for yourself. I have so many drugs in my system I'll have to be sent straight into the sun to minimise dangers to mankind.

I can't see Kerry County Council paying for that!!

Nah you'll be dug up in a thousand years time fully intact and put up on display in Kerry County Museum.

Say my name

wrangler wrote: »

Proper order, very few family members left to maintain graves now with them all emigrating, in our graveyard now we just knock the headstones flat and mow out across them. we tell the relatives it's for ''health and safety''

That's what happens when you take cuts of silage in a graveyard.
#holysilage.

148multi

_Brian wrote: »

I’ve asked for a garden bench style thing on my grave. At least once a year after I’m gone at cemetery Sunday they will think I was a genius as they sit there relaxing.

You'd better go for a casket, wouldn't want the bench falling to one side 😰

wrangler

Say my name wrote: »

That's what happens when you take cuts of silage in a graveyard.
#holysilage.

Go in first with an ould double chop, it'll take out the hills, the ride on will handle it after that........ our lawnmower is four wheel drive, it'll handle the rough terrain

Castlekeeper

Muckit wrote: »

_Brian wrote: »

I’ve asked for a garden bench style thing on my grave. At least once a year after I’m gone at cemetery Sunday they will think I was a genius as they sit there relaxing.

I'd say when our time comes, there will be no such thing as conventional graves. we'll all be going into an urn and put in a small vault in a wall.

Hopefully there'll be more of an appreciation of resources and the damage of emmissions than to waste energy on cremation and concrete walls on a completely biodegradable corpse.

Dinzee Conlee

Castlekeeper wrote: »

Hopefully there'll be more of an appreciation of resources and the damage of emmissions than to waste energy on cremation and concrete walls on a completely biodegradable corpse.

Lot of space taken up with graveyards, and they aren’t getting smaller, and neither are the headstones...

I was somewhere, Cuba I think, and the way they did it was you had what we’d call a full size grave, and then a small kinda tomb or crypt at the bottom, maybe 2ft long by the width of the grave.

You were buried in the grave for a year I think, or maybe longer. Then, after a certain time, you were dug up and the bones taken out and put into the smaller crypt place at the bottom of the grave.

Saved on space I guess, as space was an issue...

Seemed a good idea to be fair...

Odelay

They can whack me into a skip out the back, blast me into space or use me for medical training. I don’t care, whatever happens I won’t be coming back. Will be happy out.

Lady Haywire

I was told by someone last week that all corpses have to be embalmed now, is that true? If so none of us will be breaking down too quickly!

Edit- nevermind, Google says no!!

_Brian

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I was told by someone last week that all corpses have to be embalmed now, is that true? If so none of us will be breaking down too quickly!

Edit- nevermind, Google says no!!

That’s my understanding

Say my name

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Lot of space taken up with graveyards, and they aren’t getting smaller, and neither are the headstones...

I was somewhere, Cuba I think, and the way they did it was you had what we’d call a full size grave, and then a small kinda tomb or crypt at the bottom, maybe 2ft long by the width of the grave.

You were buried in the grave for a year I think, or maybe longer. Then, after a certain time, you were dug up and the bones taken out and put into the smaller crypt place at the bottom of the grave.

Saved on space I guess, as space was an issue...

Seemed a good idea to be fair...

I often think the Beaker People in Ireland here 4000 years ago had a lovely ritual at burial.
The men were put in a crouched position lying on their side (most likely like a foetal position for their next birth) with their head to the north and facing east. A drinking pot/ Beaker was placed beside them along with various other gifts.
The women were put in the same crouched position lying on their side with their head to the south and facing east with a drinking Beaker and then various gifts.

Curiously as of like today there was a shift then to cremations and burying the ashes in the pots. And then it moved to just cremations without the pots.

Agree with all above, way it's going nowadays there'll be thousands of acres just of cemeteries with headstones and concrete. I think the circle is turning back around to where it was 2,500 years ago here though.

Lady Haywire

_Brian wrote: »

That’s my understanding

Citizens Information says

Embalming is a specialised process involving the replacement of all body fluids with a substance designed to prevent the body from deteriorating. It is not strictly necessary, especially if the removal and funeral take place relatively quickly after death. About half of all bodies are embalmed.

So not law?

Danzy

I'm going to be put up on a ditch as a winter habitat and food source under Glas.

Castlekeeper

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Castlekeeper wrote: »

Hopefully there'll be more of an appreciation of resources and the damage of emmissions than to waste energy on cremation and concrete walls on a completely biodegradable corpse.

Lot of space taken up with graveyards, and they aren’t getting smaller, and neither are the headstones...

I was somewhere, Cuba I think, and the way they did it was you had what we’d call a full size grave, and then a small kinda tomb or crypt at the bottom, maybe 2ft long by the width of the grave.

You were buried in the grave for a year I think, or maybe longer. Then, after a certain time, you were dug up and the bones taken out and put into the smaller crypt place at the bottom of the grave.

Saved on space I guess, as space was an issue...

Seemed a good idea to be fair...

The same acre has done our parish for over a thousand years.

CloughCasey1

Castlekeeper wrote: »

The same acre has done our parish for over a thousand years.

New graveyard opened lately up near us.
People were dying to get into it!

Muckit

Danzy wrote: »

I'm going to be put up on a ditch as a winter habitat and food source under Glas.

Birds feeding off your plums. Nice

148multi

Muckit wrote: »

Birds feeding off your plums. Nice

Sure the swallows might grow a winter plumage and stay for the winter

whelan2

Danzy wrote: »

I'm going to be put up on a ditch as a winter habitat and food source under Glas.

Just put a carpet over me and the knackery can take me

Lady Haywire

I know it means winter is on the way but I love autumn mornings in the fields

patsy_mccabe

whelan2 wrote: »

Just put a carpet over me and the knackery can take me

You better not die any time soon.

Danzy

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I know it means winter is on the way but I love autumn mornings in the fields, with cows just appearing as you walk along

You cow looks like she is being sent down from heaven.