No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

But wasnt October ****e, the came November which was crap too. Serious amount of rain fell since September

Climate change is said to deliver up milder wetter winters with more frequent “weather events”

Can really see that in action over the last 30-40 years.

Less spells of frost and snow with more amd more wet spells.

When you think of it we get very few spells of days without rain. When I was a kid we’d be messing about the fields making hay for weeks, occasional “summer shower” but from 1985 things seemed to flip amd now it’s hard to get 3-4 days where a lad can wrap up a bit of silage.

whelan2

Has anyone ever seen anyone buying any of those plant based foods in a supermarket?

NcdJd

whelan2 wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen anyone buying any of those plant based foods in a supermarket?

Only in the fruit and veg section

Would even know where they are located, never looked for them.

whelan2

NcdJd wrote: »

Only in the fruit and veg section

Would even know where they are located, never looked for them.

Went to lidl today, they are advertised on the billboard outside. Theres a fair chunk of the refrigerated section given over to them.

gozunda

whelan2 wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen anyone buying any of those plant based foods in a supermarket?

https://i.imgflip.com/4vg0bm.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8159689/amp/The-foods-NO-ONE-wants-lockdown-sprouts-Corona-beer.html

NcdJd

whelan2 wrote: »

Went to lidl today, they are advertised on the billboard outside. Theres a fair chunk of the refrigerated section given over to them.

Alot of adverts on the telly too. It means little to some companies whether it's meat or plant. Same processed rubbish only a different base material.

Albert Johnson

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I was always told growing up that the winter didn't start until after Xmas and that you'd want half your fodder left on March 1st. We often get better milder weather here in the West during December than during March or April. The end of the winter feeding used to be considered May 1st but I'd usually budget for another week or 10 day's as grass growth can be very slow in April in recent year's.

I'm in the same neighbourhood and I would say that's a smart policy. Seen years where growth didn't start until we were knocking on June's front door. Better to be looking at it than looking for it.

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen anyone buying any of those plant based foods in a supermarket?

I’ve two sisters who buy that quorn muck. Neither of them a clue abkut what a good healthy diet is. Always on fad diets, spending a week or two attending these fitness camps where your flipping tyres amd rubbish. Then pay someone to wash their windows at home 🙄

Neither of their husbands touch it.

I offered them sausages from our home reared pigs. One refused outright “you wouldn’t know what’s on them” and the other took them but threw them out 😡

Food for idiots is my opinion.

Albert Johnson

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm in the same neighbourhood and I would say that's a smart policy. Seen years where growth didn't start until we were knocking on June's front door. Better to be looking at it than looking for it.

I'm always amazed at how quickly the change occurs especially in years where it seems to go from winter to summer in a matter of day's. I've posted before about seeing cattle eating out of a ring feeder while in the field across the road there was a baler hard at work securing the next fodder crop. Granted this was an extreme comparison of a total rooter and a first class operator but I've often been feeding out bales the 10th of May and watching them being made locally a week or 2 later.

White Clover

gozunda wrote: »

https://media.makeameme.org/created/even-with-the-5f48080f57.jpg

Controversial

Say my name

_Brian wrote: »

I’ve two sisters who buy that quorn muck. Neither of them a clue abkut what a good healthy diet is. Always on fad diets, spending a week or two attending these fitness camps where your flipping tyres amd rubbish. Then pay someone to wash their windows at home 🙄

Neither of their husbands touch it.

I offered them sausages from our home reared pigs. One refused outright “you wouldn’t know what’s on them” and the other took them but threw them out 😡

Food for idiots is my opinion.

That's a bit Irish now and family at that!

If you're offering Brian I'd have a few mouths I know would be interested in a few sausages.
To be sure now is the hygiene good?

_Brian

Interesting thread developing over in AH

https://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116057362#post116057362

Water John

Say my name wrote: »

That's a bit Irish now and family at that!

If you're offering Brian I'd have a few mouths I know would be interested in a few sausages.
To be sure now is the hygiene good?

If you cook them through all the bugs will be killed.

Say my name

Water John wrote: »

If you cook them through all the bugs will be killed.

There's no bugs in Cavan.

How dare you besmirch Brian's sausages.

Shame on you Water John...Shame.

NcdJd

_Brian wrote: »

I’ve two sisters who buy that quorn muck. Neither of them a clue abkut what a good healthy diet is. Always on fad diets, spending a week or two attending these fitness camps where your flipping tyres amd rubbish. Then pay someone to wash their windows at home 🙄

Neither of their husbands touch it.

I offered them sausages from our home reared pigs. One refused outright “you wouldn’t know what’s on them” and the other took them but threw them out 😡

Food for idiots is my opinion.

Ya wouldn't mind some people, including myself, would give they're right eyeball to get sausages like that.

Odelay

whelan2 wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen anyone buying any of those plant based foods in a supermarket?

Bought a 500g tub of yogurt on Saturday. Terrible taste off it, couldn't figure out why it was so manky. was checking the date an all. Then i seen in small print made from soya. Feckin Vegan crap. How they eat that shoite i don't know.

gozunda

_Brian wrote: »

Interesting thread developing over in AH

https://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116057362#post116057362

Has posted here in the past...

NcdJd

Odelay wrote: »

Bought a 500g tub of yogurt on Saturday. Terrible taste off it, couldn't figure out why it was so manky. was checking the date an all. Then i seen in small writhing made from soya. Feckin Vegan crap. How they eat that shoite i don't know.

That a terrible story Odelay. I'd recommend a large bowl of cocopops and loads of proper milk to clean the system out.

tanko

Rare breed on now on utv

gozunda

tanko wrote: »

Rare breed on now on utv

Watching Rick Stein in the Auvergne region of France on RTE describing the Charolais cattle as part of the regional Terroir for grass fed beef based on the local soil, topography, and climate

tanko

gozunda wrote: »

Watching Rick Stein in the Auvergne region of France on RTE about the Charolais cattle as part of the regional Terroir - grass fed beef based on the local soil, topography, and climate

I like his programmes, they’re always very interesting. No bs with him, he keeps things simple and always looks for what the locals cook and eat.

NcdJd

tanko wrote: »

I like his programmes, they’re always very interesting. No bs with him, he keeps things simple and always looks for what the locals cook and eat.

This is better than watching ear to the ground. Just on a farm that makes cheese, He was describing the difference of two cheeses, one made in winter with the cows eating hay and one made in summer when the cows are out in the meadows. Farmer said the summer milk is more richer hence the different taste.

Why do the cows have bells ? Is it to find them if they go awol ?

Birdnuts

Water John wrote: »

I think climate is 6 weeks behind the calendar.

Feb is the coldest month in the Arctic which is why N/NE winds at that time of year hear can often deliver the coldest temps and heaviest snowfall. The classic being Feb 1947 which was the snowiest winter month of the 20th century

emaherx

NcdJd wrote: »

Why do the cows have bells ? Is it to find them if they go awol ?

It's because their horns don't work

NcdJd

emaherx wrote: »

It's because their horns don't work

I knew I shouldn't have asked that question

emaherx

NcdJd wrote: »

I knew I shouldn't have asked that question

And I know I shouldn't have answered, but here we are

NcdJd

emaherx wrote: »

And I know I shouldn't have answered, but here we are

Feck it you have take any opportunity you can get for a humour in these times!

wrangler

NcdJd wrote: »

This is better than watching ear to the ground. Just on a farm that makes cheese, He was describing the difference of two cheeses, one made in winter with the cows eating hay and one made in summer when the cows are out in the meadows. Farmer said the summer milk is more richer hence the different taste.

Why do the cows have bells ? Is it to find them if they go awol ?

If they are threatened by wildlife and start pucking at them the bell starts ringing madly and alerts the rest of the herd. That's what I was told on the hills in switzerland anyway.

patsy_mccabe

gozunda wrote: »

Watching Rick Stein in the Auvergne region of France on RTE describing the Charolais cattle as part of the regional Terroir for grass fed beef based on the local soil, topography, and climate

tanko wrote: »

I like his programmes, they’re always very interesting. No bs with him, he keeps things simple and always looks for what the locals cook and eat.

I watched that too. He said he was born and raised on a farm. Maybe that's something to do with it.

Reggie.

NcdJd wrote: »

I knew I shouldn't have asked that question

You will learn