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No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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    #2492
    whelan2
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    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    It’s very age dependant I imagine - but this exact chat was had via WhatsApp for the class our eldest is in...
    some said like you, online classes would be better. But the majority said it didn’t suit - bad broadband, but mostly that parents with other kids couldn’t spend the day babysitting one child on a zoom call, whilst trying to keep all the others quiet and to do everything else... or maybe try to keep a few zoom calls going...
    The preference was to send home details on what pages of books, or printouts to work on... The kids would work on these, parents would ensure they got done and submitted...

    In the last lockdown youngest lad was in 6th class. A sheet or 2 emailed out on a Sunday night. Do workbooks etc. Email a project back during the week and a zoom class thing once a week. If parents are working from home and are expected to homeschool too it can be very stressful.


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    #2493
    _Brian
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    Eldest got an series of emails from teachers saying they will be running to their usual timetable doing online classes or online to answer questions during class time.

    Will see how it goes.


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    #2494
    whelan2
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    _Brian wrote: »
    Eldest got an series of emails from teachers saying they will be running to their usual timetable doing online classes or online to answer questions during class time.

    Will see how it goes.

    Same here for our 2. Starting Tuesday


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    #2495
    _Brian
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Same here for our 2. Starting Tuesday

    It won’t be perfect but if it’s short term they will manage.

    My feeling is the cases will be high at the end of the month amd the Unions won’t want teachers going back into schools. That will be hard faught.


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    #2496
    Albert Johnson
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    What year did brass tags stop being used lads, seen an auld codger today with them and shes not a reactor. Must be anicent now.

    I doubt if she was was originally brass tagged as she'd have to be 26 year's old or more although it's possible. I haven't seen a cow from the brass tag era in a good few years although there's bound to be a few knocking about. As mentioned already a vet could use brass tags to temporarily tag an animal missing both tags when testing although I haven't seen this done in a while.

    The earliest plastic tags had a check letter as opposed to a digit as with today's tags. It's been a good while since I've seen those tags either as they only lasted for a few years before switching to a check digit format. Funnily enough I noticed a springer in the mart last night when reading the cards that was born in April 1999. She was a butt of an AA and seemed to be standing the test of time very well, she had the check digit type tag that was standard up until the last couple of year's.


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    #2497
    Nekarsulm
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    The first plastic tags had four letters on them, as an identifier.
    Mine was YFTF, which I was assured did NOT stand for "ya fooking thick fooker".


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    #2498
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    The first plastic tags had four letters on them, as an identifier.
    Mine was YFTF, which I was assured did NOT stand for "ya fooking thick fooker".

    I liked those tags, made identifying stray animals very easy.


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    #2499
    kollegeknight
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    _Brian wrote: »
    It won’t be perfect but if it’s short term they will manage.

    My feeling is the cases will be high at the end of the month amd the Unions won’t want teachers going back into schools. That will be hard faught.

    I think Norma Foley in august said that 2000 was the magic number to consider closures.

    With proper management, I reckon we should be back. Our principal did a survey of LC parents and 85% said they wouldn’t send their children back until numbers settled a bit.


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    #2500
    greysides
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    emaherx wrote: »
    I liked those tags, made identifying stray animals very easy.

    Yes. If they'd stayed like that you'd get to recognise a few peoples stock.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #2501
    _Brian
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    kollegeknight wrote: »
    I think Norma Foley in august said that 2000 was the magic number to consider closures.

    With proper management, I reckon we should be back. Our principal did a survey of LC parents and 85% said they wouldn’t send their children back until numbers settled a bit.

    I think we saw this week that poor Norma speaks without thinking or consulting. It will be the teachers unions that decide the suitable numbers which are safe for teachers to return at.


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    #2502
    The Rabbi
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    emaherx wrote: »
    I liked those tags, made identifying stray animals very easy.

    We put a line with the permanent tag marker across so they could be spotted easly.Fourteen different herds bounding here at one stage.


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    #2503
    SouthWesterly
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    _Brian wrote: »
    It won’t be perfect but if it’s short term they will manage.

    My feeling is the cases will be high at the end of the month amd the Unions won’t want teachers going back into schools. That will be hard faught.

    I can't see the kids back before Easter.


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    #2504
    whelan2
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    I can't see the kids back before Easter.

    When is easter this year?


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    #2505
    kevthegaff
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    I can't see the kids back before Easter.
    Numbers will drop down quick I reckon


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    #2506
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,024 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Sunday, 4th April.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #2507
    whelan2
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    greysides wrote: »
    Sunday, 4th April.

    Be hoping they'd be be back well before that


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    #2508
    Water John
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    Shur I see from Factcheck on The Journal that Dolores Cahill, anti vax (among many other things) says there are Covid infections only between December and April.
    So we'll be fine after Easter.


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    #2509
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Water John wrote: »
    Shur I see from Factcheck on The Journal that Dolores Cahill, anti vax (among many other things) says there are Covid infections only between December and April.
    So we'll be fine after Easter.

    Didn’t they say it will be gone in the summer last year?
    I had said to myself we would be lucky to be back for St Patrick’s day. April is a long way away.


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    #2510
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    The first plastic tags had four letters on them, as an identifier.
    Mine was YFTF, which I was assured did NOT stand for "ya fooking thick fooker".

    Ya ours was YLBB, Can just about remember picking out my first heifer and she was one of them, 0049P. Could trace back all the homebred cows that are here now that far still.


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    #2511
    greysides
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Ya ours was YLBB, Can just about remember picking out my first heifer and she was one of them, 0049P. Could trace back all the homebred cows that are here now that far still.

    I wonder who got OIKK?

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    _Brian wrote: »
    I think we saw this week that poor Norma speaks without thinking or consulting. It will be the teachers unions that decide the suitable numbers which are safe for teachers to return at.

    *Throws grenade* Imagine if farmers had a union like that *walks away....*

    :pac:


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    #2513
    Panjandrums
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    With most of construction shut, one would assume that farm labour would be no issue this spring, although with people able to receive €350 a week for nothing, I would have my doubts.


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    #2514
    einn32
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    Panjandrums wrote: »
    With most of construction shut, one would assume that farm labour would be no issue this spring, although with people able to receive €350 a week for nothing, I would have my doubts.

    They had pilots on the harvest in Western Australia recently. I don't think dairy was as lucky or fruit picking for that matter.


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    #2515
    wrangler
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    Panjandrums wrote: »
    With most of construction shut, one would assume that farm labour would be no issue this spring, although with people able to receive €350 a week for nothing, I would have my doubts.

    There shouldn't be an issue but they'll be looking to be paid in cash


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    #2516
    greysides
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    *Throws grenade* Imagine if farmers had a union like that *walks away....*

    :pac:
    wrangler wrote: »
    There shouldn't be an issue but they'll be looking to be paid in cash


    It's. Saturday night!

    Wrangler, bed time!

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #2517
    [Deleted User]
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    greysides wrote: »
    It's. Saturday night!

    Wrangler, bed time!

    If I was angling for a bite I'd have put it much better :D


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    #2518
    _Brian
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    I can't see the kids back before Easter.

    I’d say 500 cases a day is the goal for the unions, we should be at that by end of the mid term so late Feb at a guess.

    That’s of course as long as the new variant doesn’t run amok, but as the big T says it’s the same measures that control all variants amd we all know how to do it.


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    #2519
    _Brian
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    *Throws grenade* Imagine if farmers had a union like that *walks away....*

    :pac:

    You must be talking Beef Plan.

    Anything else just represents the processors. 😂😂

    😂😂


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    #2520
    carrollsno1
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    Panjandrums wrote: »
    With most of construction shut, one would assume that farm labour would be no issue this spring, although with people able to receive €350 a week for nothing, I would have my doubts.

    Havent heard of much sites shutting tbh, one friend of mine got stood down but is going to a different firm for the next few weeks now. Dont reckon it was his choice to go as hes busy at home too this time of year.

    Better living everyone



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    #2521
    carrollsno1
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    einn32 wrote: »
    They had pilots on the harvest in Western Australia recently. I don't think dairy was as lucky or fruit picking for that matter.

    Did you see the relocation grants to go work on farms available there now? Up to AUD$6000 for citizens and residents and up to AUD$2000 for eligible visa holders.
    Doesnt state fruitpicking or dairy either as compulsory its on the list the same as a broadacre cropping farm. Nice little bonus for the lads heading seeding in the coming months.

    Better living everyone



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