No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Nekarsulm

It's the local events that are cancelled, people still seem to be meeting up, just not in the same places as before.
Whereas before you might go for a pint or coffee and sandwiches in a pub with a mate if you happened to meet in town, now you get the coffee/food in a filling station or a shop, eat it in the carpark or call to the house.
I had to travel up to Co. Down a fortnight ago, and while not essential, it was important enough to make the journey.
So, Cavan, Monaghan, Armagh, detour through Lisburn due to roadworks, Annahilt, Ballynahinch, Downpatrick, and back home again.
Probably near 250 miles.
No checkpoints anywhere, met a good few PSNI cars, but no remarks passed. Roads busy, towns likewise.
And then you have people watching every TV news program going, and radio show, and genuinely afraid to answer the door...

carrollsno1

Nekarsulm wrote: »

To be brutally honest Carrollsno1, you must be the only one in Ireland sticking so rigidly to the 5km limit that you haven't even a mate to chat to or call around for a chat...
Roads around here are as busy as ever, food shops full of families doing the weekly shop..
Only difference is that you can't get a drink in a licenced premises, and you can't sit down for a meal in a cafe/hotel/restaurant.
It's a strange kind of semi-lockdown when I can drive 15 miles to the nearest Dunnes and buy any food I want, but only certain clothes, and buy all the pairs of slippers I'd ever need, but shoes are off-limits...

Honestly im far from following the restrictions, id wear a mask in a shop or wherever and adhere to my employers guidelines loosely enough but thats the height of it. I was out well passed Crossmolina lately with work we commuted both days and didnt see a checkpoint the whole way and its a long way from home to Mayo. Yes it really is a sad reality that i have no one to call to within 5km, but its the reality all the same. Just for pig iron i sent out a message to 6 friends within the county about calling up tonight for bottles i got two replies, one was asking did i get the vaccine the other was that they were flat out calving. Most socialising i did last year didnt involve my locality or locals either, most people ive met while travelling over the years cant believe im from where im from as im nothing like the stereotypes from here. I also only landed home just under a year ago in the middle of it all so i really didnt have any chance to head to any local events either.

Bullocks

Bullocks wrote: »

I was in Ballyconeelly yesterday and there was a good few big newish D regs BMWs /Range Rovers about. It was hardly the local hill farmers or fishermen driving them......

Problem with them is they're up and down constantly. They're not afraid of saying it either, I've met a fair few out walking. I'm often on the road picking up stuff for the farm, only met 1 checkpoint with a cross ban Garda :pac:

kollegeknight

Are the vials for the BVD samples normally empty? I thought there used be a gel in them. The batch I have, there is no foil lid on them.

patsy_mccabe

kollegeknight wrote: »

Are the vials for the BVD samples normally empty? I thought there used be a gel in them. The batch I have, there is no foil lid on them.

No, it was the genomic tags that had the foil and liquid in them. The new normal BVD tags do not have a lid any more.

Lime Tree Farm

It was €2 for postage of 10 BVD samples last year, anyone know if it is the same price this year.
I have 12 for posting tomorrow.

Hard Knocks

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

It was €2 for postage of 10 BVD samples last year, anyone know if it is the same price this year.
I have 12 for posting tomorrow.

Think it could be cheaper to send 2 packs of 6

whelan2

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

It was €2 for postage of 10 BVD samples last year, anyone know if it is the same price this year.
I have 12 for posting tomorrow.

It's the same this year. I posted 14 in one go last week and worked out ok

gozunda

Don't know if this was posted in a while. Anyways posting it now because its after dinner on a Sunday

https://youtu.be/QchwVJAftyM

Mooooo

I sent off 35 cormac bottles in the one envelope last week, got there fine

Lime Tree Farm

Mooooo wrote: »

I sent off 35 cormac bottles in the one envelope last week, got there fine

Was that all 35 for €2?

I know it's €2 for up to 10 samples, I bring them to the post box already stamped. I just needed to know how much extra for greater than 10.

orm0nd

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Was that all 35 for €2?

I know it's €2 for up to 10 samples, I bring them to the post box already stamped. I just needed to know how much extra for greater than 10.

Cormac samples are way smaller and lighter than Mullinahone

Mooooo

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Was that all 35 for €2?

I know it's €2 for up to 10 samples, I bring them to the post box already stamped. I just needed to know how much extra for greater than 10.

Yeah, two stamps on the envelope and off they go. As said cormac bottles are smaller and slimmer than mulinahone. Depending on how fast calving is going generally send once a week for the calves born that week

kollegeknight

gozunda wrote: »

Don't know if this was posted in a while. Anyways posting it now because its after dinner on a Sunday

https://youtu.be/QchwVJAftyM

Gets better every time I watch.

kollegeknight

30km run done. Will be ready for the virtual limerick marathon the May bank Holiday weekend if all goes well.

wrangler

Great investigative journalism by kimmage in the Indo today, I wonder will there be any more about it, it's pretty damning if true

Reggie.

kollegeknight wrote: »

30km run done. Will be ready for the virtual limerick marathon the May bank Holiday weekend if all goes well.

My knees with the thoughts of that

Grueller

wrangler wrote: »

Great investigative journalism by kimmage in the Indo today, I wonder will there be any more about it, it's pretty damning if true

Didn't see it wrangler. What was the gist of it?

Kevhog1988

Listed a pony on donedeal today and she was sold within 5 minutes. Must of went shy on the price lol

wrangler

Grueller wrote: »

Didn't see it wrangler. What was the gist of it?

It's about a Department Special investigation Units investigation into a veterinary shop in Cillin Hill Kilkenny.
Another whistle blower story where they tried to squash the story.
Fairly damning on our traceability.

kollegeknight

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Listed a pony on donedeal today and she was sold within 5 minutes. Must of went shy on the price lol

You might have been bang in the money. Bet there’s a big interest in ponies at the moment.

I was saying to the Lad that brings cattle to mart for me about the price the belted galloways made in gort.

He said, lads can’t spend money and it’s putting the price of the unusual up a bit.

Albert Johnson

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Listed a pony on donedeal today and she was sold within 5 minutes. Must of went shy on the price lol

The horse trade is booming atm for anything desirable be they trained or with potential. What you sell out of interest? Anyone I talk to in the equine world recently tells me that good young horses of all types aren't there to meet demand due to the reduction in breeding in the last decade. A friend of mine who deals in everything and anything with a mane and tail tells me that you'd sell lorry loads of children's ponies of all shapes and sizes the last 12 month's.

Kevhog1988

Albert Johnson wrote: »

The horse trade is booming atm for anything desirable be they trained or with potential. What you sell out of interest? Anyone I talk to in the equine world recently tells me that good young horses of all types aren't there to meet demand due to the reduction in breeding in the last decade. A friend of mine who deals in everything and anything with a mane and tail tells me that you'd sell lorry loads of children's ponies of all shapes and sizes the last 12 month's.

Little 12.2hh pony. The phone is absolutely hopping and there's a fella from kerry driving up tomorrow apparently. I might go back into buying and selling them lol

ruwithme

Albert Johnson wrote: »

The horse trade is booming atm for anything desirable be they trained or with potential. What you sell out of interest? Anyone I talk to in the equine world recently tells me that good young horses of all types aren't there to meet demand due to the reduction in breeding in the last decade. A friend of mine who deals in everything and anything with a mane and tail tells me that you'd sell lorry loads of children's ponies of all shapes and sizes the last 12 month's.

Your first line reminds me of the mid noughties.by the end of that decade their were many abandoned & forgotten about when money got tight everywhere.

Couldn't happen again, shur ly not.

Albert Johnson

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Little 12.2hh pony. The phone is absolutely hopping and there's a fella from kerry driving up tomorrow apparently. I might go back into buying and selling them lol

Just the sort that's always in demand, hard bought but easy sold if there any good. The same thought crossed my mind but you need lots of time and no fairs or marts mean you'd be all over the country sourcing them. I never made much at it but I learned lots, anything I earned I seemed to blow on the next one.

carrollsno1

wrangler wrote: »

It's about a Department Special investigation Units investigation into a veterinary shop in Cillin Hill Kilkenny.
Another whistle blower story where they tried to squash the story.
Fairly damning on our traceability.

Is ot the current shop or a previous shop there?

Unforgiven on 2 now, one of the best Westerns made.

wrangler

wrangler wrote: »

It's about a Department Special investigation Units investigation into a veterinary shop in Cillin Hill Kilkenny.
Another whistle blower story where they tried to squash the story.
Fairly damning on our traceability.

People still believe in traceability

Kevhog1988

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Just the sort that's always in demand, hard bought but easy sold if there any good. The same thought crossed my mind but you need lots of time and no fairs or marts mean you'd be all over the country sourcing them. I never made much at it but I learned lots, anything I earned I seemed to blow on the next one.

I used to buy and break a lot of them when I was in college and had plenty if time. A few weeks after starting work full time I got a bad fall and broke a bone in my back. 3 months off work

carrollsno1

wrangler wrote: »

It's about a Department Special investigation Units investigation into a veterinary shop in Cillin Hill Kilkenny.
Another whistle blower story where they tried to squash the story.
Fairly damning on our traceability.

Is ot the current shop or a previous shop there?