No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

wrangler

wrangler wrote: »

I'm getting quite good at cutting my own,
Despite the OH saying it's a good job she won't let me near hers

I meant to order a clippers after Christmas but never got around to it, getting fair annoying now though.

(I wouldn't blame her either )

wrangler

Deleted User wrote: »

I meant to order a clippers after Christmas but never got around to it, getting fair annoying now though.

(I wouldn't blame her either )

Pharmacist here was only charging €30 for the clippers
I'd imagine it'd be useful for keeping the neck clean between haircuts when this is over
I looked at how to cut hair on Youtube,
Provide the topping skids are set right height it's not difficult.
It's not easy for a stiff 68 year old to do the back though

Figerty

Deleted User wrote: »

That must have been the proper stuff, plenty of watered down shyte around. The real thing is to be handled with care.

Was from either Cul Aodh or Connemara. I can't remmeber which. It was a long time ago.

Jb1989

wrangler wrote: »

I'm getting quite good at cutting my own,
Despite the OH saying it's a good job she won't let me near hers
One more haircut and the clippers is paid for, Can't have money invested in machinery on this forum and it not paying its way

You'll be a small man when bass reeves dissects your purchase v contractor costs

carrollsno1

_Brian wrote: »

Going through Cootehill today she saw barbershop open and lads on getting hair cut.

Passed through a town in Limerick today and could have sworn i saw the lights on in an independent bookmakers.

Limestone Cowboy

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Is she back on terra firma yet? A neighbours heifers broke into a cutaway bog last spring, they were probably frightened with deer I'd imagine. One of them ended up in a deep silt filled drain and kept fighting until only her head was above water. It was a good half a mile from the road with no chance of getting near her only on foot. It took 2 hour's with a few of us pulling to free her, she'd give no help until we relaxed and then she'd start fighting and sinking back into the mire.

I haltered her and tied her to a nearby tree which was just as well because when she finally was freed she stumbled backwards and would have been upside down in the drain if not for the halter. We then had to walk her back through the scrub to get out of the bog. She was staggering across turf banks and it was a miracle she didn't fall into another hole. I'd say if she was another few hours in the drain it would have been a different outcome.

Ya pulled her out with the tractor and she got up straight away lucky enough. Waiting on the vet to come and stitch a 2yo heifer that stole the bull with a big ball of a prolapse. Never seen it in a heifer before.

Lime Tree Farm

Get out the flowbee - if it's good enough for George Clooney. (price rocketed when he admitted to using one_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM7EntUgrww

demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XKVEm11dI

funkey_monkey

Just watching a guy making a curragh on TG4 at the minute.
Some great programmes on TG4.

carrollsno1

Job were on for these few days comes with the bonus of working away from the base, put up in a grand hotel no early rises(3:30 this morning all the same) or commuting and best of all a bar in the hotel. A handy few tonight and well all be sweet for the morning. A word of wsrning the price of pints is gone well up since normsl times, €5.20/pint Carlsberg and heard of takeaway pints in a city nearby costing €6/pint takeaway at the weekend.

Odelay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daIMIv8perM


I'd say he has no toothache now.

148multi

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Has anyone got or seen an attachment to put on the wall of a crush to change the width to work with calves

Know of a crush that can be adjusted, looks like a good job. But owner doesn't think so

whelan2

Hopefully barbers and hairdressers be open next week. A year since mine was cut

Hard Knocks

whelan2 wrote: »

Hopefully barbers and hairdressers be open next week. A year since mine was cut

Pic

whelan2

Helen mc Entee had as much maternity leave before she had her child as I did

2018na

whelan2 wrote: »

Helen mc Entee had as much maternity leave before she had her child as I did

People will say this is a very controversial thing to say but how much more expensive are women to employ in positions like this. I am sure her replacement will be getting similar pay and conditions

AntrimGlens

Life slowly coming back to some sense of normality here. The barbers and hairdressers opened here last Friday, so on my way home from work I called in to ask what time they were open on Saturday morning. I was first in the Q at 7am on Saturday and only charged £10.
Have been back the last two Friday nights taking the u9's for coaching, a fair few of them have done little over the last six months and putting on a bit of weight for children their age. Goes to show how important kids sports/activity is in the grand scheme of things, they're loving being back at it, as am I.
Have been back three nights now with the running club, did a grass based session last night round the outside of the pitch and the football team was playing away in the middle of it. Have booked an outside table at a restaurant for Saturday 8th for myself and the Mrs and really can't wait.
The local opens tomorrow night for outside pints and I think people are planning on bringing their own picnic tables with them to sit in the car park. Can't wait for a decent pint of Guinness.
If only grass would grow now, all would be better with the world. And Monday is a bank holiday and the last ewe lambed yesterday.

Nekarsulm

2018na wrote: »

People will say this is a very controversial thing to say but how much more expensive are women to employ in positions like this. I am sure her replacement will be getting similar pay and conditions

Isn't Heather Humpries taking her portfolio?
So she'll be getting basically the same money anyway.
No need to hark back to the 1960's and early 70's when the woman was fired from her job upon marraige, so as not to be keeping a man from work....

2018na

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Isn't Heather Humpries taking her portfolio?
So she'll be getting basically the same money anyway.
No need to hark back to the 1960's and early 70's when the woman was fired from her job upon marraige, so as not to be keeping a man from work....

What even made her a suitable candidate for the job. No law background whatsoever

patsy_mccabe

2018na wrote: »

People will say this is a very controversial thing to say but how much more expensive are women to employ in positions like this. I am sure her replacement will be getting similar pay and conditions

I worked for a company in Dublin once and there was a woman there that went on maternity leave. She was a middle manager and they hired this French guy to replace her. He worked like hell and was under severe pressure to come to terms with things, as there was nobody to lead him along, she being out on leave.

When she came back, she worked for 2 weeks and then handed in her notice. I knew she was going to do it. The owner of the company was furious. Luckily the French guy was still around and he got her job, but I remember thinking, why would you ever hire a woman at that age for management work. Company ends up paying the price.

Odelay

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I worked for a company in Dublin once and there was a woman there that went on maternity leave. She was a middle manager and they hired this French guy to replace her. He worked like hell and was under severe pressure to come to terms with things, as there was nobody to lead him along, she being out on leave.

When she came back, she worked for 2 weeks and then handed in her notice. I knew she was going to do it. The owner of the company was furious. Luckily the French guy was still around and he got her job, but I remember thinking, why would you ever hire a woman at that age for management work. Company ends up paying the price.

Why wasn’t the french guy better prepared? Was the pregnancy a surprise?
As for her leaving, men change roles too and also give two weeks notice. In fact, I’d say men change roles more times in their career than women have babies.

wrangler

2018na wrote: »

What even made her a suitable candidate for the job. No law background whatsoever

Very few ministers have any knowledge of their job, At meetings there'd be a civil servant either side, you'd be dealing with them.
The only thing the changes after an election is the guy in the middle,

wrangler

wrangler wrote: »

Very few ministers have any knowledge of their job, At meetings there'd be a civil servant either side, you'd be dealing with them.
The only thing the changes after an election is the guy in the middle,

100%

patsy_mccabe

Odelay wrote: »

Why wasn’t the french guy better prepared? Was the pregnancy a surprise?
As for her leaving, men change roles too and also give two weeks notice. In fact, I’d say men change roles more times in their career than women have babies.

He was hired and was given hardly any handover period. It was a management position so a specialised role. My point is when a woman goes on maternity leave her position can only be filled temporally and usually it's her co-workers who have to take on extra work to cover for them. In reality, any one in a new job can take up to 6 months to come to terms with things.
It's fine in a big organisation like the civil service, but in a small company with 10 or so workers, it can be a disaster.

wrangler

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

He was hired and was given hardly any handover period. It was a management position so a specialised role. My point is when a woman goes on maternity leave her position can only be filled temporally and usually it's her co-workers who have to take on extra work to cover for them. In reality, any one in a new job can take up to 6 months to come to terms with things.
It's fine in a big organisation like the civil service, but in a small company with 10 or so workers, it can be a disaster.

Civil service makes all these rules, extra days off etc because they know there'll be more than one person for every job, they've no idea of the real world. But as you say it's hell on a small business

2018na

wrangler wrote: »

Civil service makes all these rules, extra days off etc because they know there'll be more than one person for every job, they've no idea of the real world. But as you say it's hell on a small business

None of it matters though the civil service has endless money to throw at all these things right?

_Brian

2018na wrote: »

What even made her a suitable candidate for the job. No law background whatsoever

Having a background in a portfolio is useless anyway, James Reilly in health was a disaster as is Norma Foley

They are high level manager reporting to cabinet and nothing else.

As for the maternity leave.

Women should never be disadvantaged for having kids so systems need to be in place, simple as that. Anything else belongs back in 1950’s when people thought smoking was good for them.

Base price

@ wrangler - how is the better half today?

wrangler

Base price wrote: »

@ wrangler - how is the better half today?

She's well, Her GP even phoned her last night to make sure she was alright, told her should've rested after the jab

Hard Knocks

wrangler wrote: »

She's well, Her GP even phoned her last night to make sure she was alright, told her should've rested after the jab

Great news

Base price

wrangler wrote: »

She's well, Her GP even phoned her last night to make sure she was alright, told her should've rested after the jab

That's good news.

Thank you for sharing her experience. Only from reading your post and subsequent replies I wouldn't have know that hydration was important pre and post vaccination. Hopefully some of us have learned how to prepare ourselves for the vaccine.