No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Mossie1975

carrollsno1, you’re speaking for a lot of people with that honest post. Calving is a distraction here. Phone calls a blessing too. Also find a good walk does wonders. Reading your post strikes a chord with me. I’ve found this thread a great place to share. They haven’t thrown me out yet!

carrollsno1

Mossie1975 wrote: »

carrollsno1, you’re speaking for a lot of people with that honest post. Calving is a distraction here. Phone calls a blessing too. Also find a good walk does wonders. Reading your post strikes a chord with me. I’ve found this thread a great place to share. They haven’t thrown me out yet!

I was slow to answer tbe phone to thar same fella at the start when i came back here first as my head was all over the place and hard to find the right times to ring etc i regret not answering it sooner. The poor hoor had been going to a counsellor and i felt like a right see ye next tuesday when i found out as the weekly/fortnightly catch ups are the best therapy of all.

Mac Taylor

Similar story to Patsy, I was driving to Dundalk from Limerick one Monday morning, had to be there for 8:30....it was around 5:30 on the straight stretch before kilcormac. I had done this run a good few times but this particular morning I was feeling the pressure, I had the windows open, radio on anyway I convinced myself just to close one eye to rest it. Next thing I woke up the other side of the road heading for the ditch, it could only have been a few seconds. Lucky nothing coming against me, frightened the crap out of me. I pulled over and slept for 20 mins before heading off again. I never did that run in the morning again. Always pull over now if tired...not worth risking it.:eek:

whelan2

The late late show is tough watching

zetecescort

just started to nod off while driving once only for the noise of the car going over the cats eyes woke me again

Lime Tree Farm

zetecescort wrote: »

just started to nod off while driving once only for the noise of the car going over the cats eyes woke me again[/QUOTE

Nodded off while driving on a road that was being dug up for service cables, woke up after clattering off a row of the spinning reflectors guarding it. That fright was enough to keep me awake for the rest of the journey.

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

The late late show is tough watching

Awfully sad for that lady and her family. My siblings and I had the honour of been with Mam when she died in her own bed at home a couple of years ago. We were able to wake her at home and other family members, friends and neighbours were able to come and pay their respects.

Do people who die from Covid have to be cremated. The lady on the LLS said her husband was and a friend of mine who's husband died 2 weeks ago was also cremated.

wrangler

Base price wrote: »

Awfully sad for that lady and her family. My siblings and I had the honour of been with Mam when she died in her own bed at home a couple of years ago. We were able to wake her at home and other family members, friends and neighbours were able to come and pay their respects.

Do people who die from Covid have to be cremated. The lady on the LLS said her husband was and a friend of mine who's husband died 2 weeks ago was also cremated.

I know people that were buried after dying from Covid.
I don't like Ryans way of interviewing those cases and the way he uses them to make a program
Ryan should've asked her how he got it, might make people realise that they can die from a moments carelessness

Castlekeeper

wrangler wrote: »

I know people that were buried after dying from Covid.
I don't like Ryans way of interviewing those cases and the way he uses them to make a program
Ryan should've asked her how he got it, might make people realise that they can die from a moments carelessness

Cryin Tubridy, he's the same on the Toy showroom, exploiting tough circumstances for mawkish ratings, trying to pull a tear our of people. Car crash TV.

Kevhog1988

carrollsno1 wrote: »

I was slow to answer tbe phone to thar same fella at the start when i came back here first as my head was all over the place and hard to find the right times to ring etc i regret not answering it sooner. The poor hoor had been going to a counsellor and i felt like a right see ye next tuesday when i found out as the weekly/fortnightly catch ups are the best therapy of all.

I found it can be very isolating when i moved home too. Id be terrible for keeping in contact with ppl too. Went 3 months there without talking to my best friend before xmas.

Birdnuts

Castlekeeper wrote: »

Cryin Tubridy, he's the same on the Toy showroom, exploiting tough circumstances for mawkish ratings, trying to pull a tear our of people. Car crash TV.

I haven't watched it since Gaybo - modern RTE "personalities" don't do it for me...

Albert Johnson

whelan2 wrote: »

Youngest lad is 12 and sleep walks and talks. Sometimes it's worse than having a baby in the house. He's improved a bit since he doesn't have football as often. It would be reliving stuff that happened during the day. Stair gate is closed at top of stairs as he nearly gave me a heart attack one night.

I don't sleep walk as such but I occasionally get up during the night and start getting dressed or turn on the torch on my phone before I wake up. Opening the curtains is another common enough occurrence, I woke the better half up one night to tell her "get up the wall is falling" or so she tells me. Apparently I make her get up so I can get out her side although there's access either side of bed. Of course she's usually just been woken up in the middle of the night and does what she's asked until I start opening the curtains or similar and she tells me to get back into bed. Sometimes I remember it and more times not and I've woken up with the curtains open or sitting on the end of the bed after pulling on my trousers at 4 in the morning. I can only guess it's stress related or similar.

Chisler2

Castlekeeper wrote: »

I don't know much about insomnia but I saw an interesting programme about sleep one night that theorised that the "full nights sleep" was a relatively modern phenomenon and expectation that came in with the regular working hours of the industrial revolution.
Bi-phasal sleep or something they called it where it was deemed quote normal to be up for an hour or few in the middle of the night and to go do some work or read, go for a walk. Many examples given mainly from London.
That said, I couldn't see it working around the illiterate, candleless boondocks.

Yes! Back in the day there was less distinction between working-day and rest and there was "First Sleep" and "Second Sleep" over the hours of darkness (which in summer are very brief). For a couple of hours in-between "Sleeps" checking the flock, spinning, weaving and visiting neighbours or doing a bit of digging was the norm. Also in those times bed-space was communal so it was "one up, all up".

Since last March and the "Covid lockdowns" with no engagement in social life outside the household I've been spontaneously waking around 3.00am and, unable to get back to sleep, read or knitted for a couple of hours until I felt sleepy again.......some evidence of an innate pre-industrial biological clock.

_Brian

Base price wrote: »

Awfully sad for that lady and her family. My siblings and I had the honour of been with Mam when she died in her own bed at home a couple of years ago. We were able to wake her at home and other family members, friends and neighbours were able to come and pay their respects.

Do people who die from Covid have to be cremated. The lady on the LLS said her husband was and a friend of mine who's husband died 2 weeks ago was also cremated.

No they don’t have to be cremated but the corenor insists on a closed casket.

Jb1989

_Brian wrote: »

No they don’t have to be cremated but the corenor insists on a closed casket.

Yes and 2 body bags as not embalmed mostly.

Limestone Cowboy

My neighbour's elderly mother is being buried today after passing from covid in a nursing home, his father just passed a month ago. Its a raw enough deal to get, he was very good to them and used to call to them most evenings upto the restrictions coming in. Tough time for him now.

jaymla627

roosterman71 wrote: »

One time when I was working in Limerick, it was an hour drive home or so in a 20 year old Escort. During the week I'd a place to stay but after the Friday shift I'd go straight back to the mother for love and kindness (and the washing) over the weekend. Anyway, one Friday I was wrecked and don't know why. Wasn't out drinking the night before - can't explain it. Anyway, got as far as Toomevara and was struggling to stay awake. Said I'd pull up in the layby for a quick nap. Was around 5pm. Woke up at 12.30am and finished my trip. Was nearly worse then the next couple of days cos I didn't sleep at all that night I got home!

On a separate note, what's the price of scrap these days? Wards in Mountmellick would be my closest yard

Was a 100 euro a ton at xmas in their might be gone up a bit since, iron ore prices are through the roof so scrap is tracking it...

Mossie1975

Watching Tommy Tiernan on Plus 1. The Leitrim lad came across fierce well. A breath of fresh air. He mentioned he was single and looking for a farmer’s daughter. Sister whatsapped that she wants him as a son-in-law.

ruwithme

Pilgrim hill. Tg4. Anyone watching?set in clare patsy?94ce Toyota carina,drawing the milk to the creamery.

straight

Mossie1975 wrote: »

Watching Tommy Tiernan on Plus 1. The Leitrim lad came across fierce well. A breath of fresh air. He mentioned he was single and looking for a farmer’s daughter. Sister whatsapped that she wants him as a son-in-law.

Ya, he came across well. His parents had a tough time, 22 years in a refugee camp. He could have pulled the race card like more but he didn't.

whelan2

Mc Gregor knocked out .

2018na

whelan2 wrote: »

Mc Gregor knocked out .

What a magnificent start to the day

Castlekeeper

ruwithme wrote: »

Pilgrim hill. Tg4. Anyone watching?set in clare patsy?94ce Toyota carina,drawing the milk to the creamery.

Set in North Kerry / West Limerick. A reflective enough piece of work, apart from the pole dancers, they're would have been some queues to see them.
Maybe the filmmakers were trying to be more "European"!

2018na

2018na wrote: »

What a magnificent start to the day

Mallow news had it right "Britains Conor McGregor....." :pac:

zetecescort

carrollsno1

Anyone on here use Audible? Looked into it there and it says its €14.95/ month and you can get one book at that and then its €14.95/ book thereafter for each extra book in that month. Is it not a bit steep compared to the likes of Netflix etc where you have unlimited streaming?

carrollsno1

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Anyone on here use Audible? Looked into it there and it says its €14.95/ month and you can get one book at that and then its €14.95/ book thereafter for each extra book in that month. Is it not a bit steep compared to the likes of Netflix etc where you have unlimited streaming?

It's expensive, I was a bit disgusted when I learned I would have to pay for it at all tbh.

carrollsno1

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's expensive, I was a bit disgusted when I learned I would have to pay for it at all tbh.

Yea it seems to be alright. Considering the driving I do i could see €45-60 going most months.
Imagine spotify started charging per song played.

carrollsno1

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Yea it seems to be alright. Considering the driving I do i could see €45-60 going most months.
Imagine spotify started charging per song played.

I'm going to stick to podcasts. I had been quite happy at the thought I'd be able to listen to books while out working, I'd absolute ate them without salt, but then €€€€€, nah.

carrollsno1

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm going to stick to podcasts. I had been quite happy at the thought I'd be able to listen to books while out working, I'd absolute ate them without salt, but then €€€€€, nah.

What podcasts are you listening to these days? One of the books i was looking to get into isnt available, The Snowy by Siobhan McHugh all about the early days in modern Australia and how the Snowy Hydroelectrical scheme brought together all nationalities out there after the war despite being in the trenches against each other a few years earlier. Theres a good podcast/interview with the author i listened to on the conversation hour on the ABC if youd be interested in it i could try fi nd it again. Kings in grass castles is also on Audible, 17hrs long would nearly be worth signing up just to get the montb lut of that.