No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Thing is as well the actions by this green lord mayor is that it turns people completely off and they double down in their opposition. So before people may have had only a fleeting interest now they become full on fundamentals. We wonder how the US became so polar. It becomes polar when one side moves from center. The other side moves the other way.

Anyway it was a truely silly decision to take as a mayor. It's made division where there wasn't or worse if there already. Not exactly the Christmas spirit.

It's not the end of the world and it'll be held somewhere else (in protest, or spite, or in keeping with the original theme of the crib in Dublin) but it hasn't done the mayor herself any favours. Not that that matters either.

what a joyless soulless existence she and her eco fascist comrades have.

Would anyone put their cattle into the shed wet for the winter?

Not looking like a dry outlook here for a while and they are on flat ground which holds the water.

Can you house them on a phased bases, allowing housed stock access to all area. Say x number of stock housed every two days while maximising ventilation.

Its only 8 cows and their calves so it's all out nothing.

All in thankfullly. Was a better day at the outfarm so they all got in dry.

Any runners here completed the marathon today? If so, how was it?

love waking up by the sea

Two things I learned.

you can’t exercise away a bad diet, get your intake right first, then exercise.

walking for health needs to be walking at a pace where it’s hard to chat to who your with. Going for a doddle along isn’t enough. Also, counting daily steps isn’t sufficient, you need a continuous walk at pace for 20-30 minutes to make it work.

Pull back from the table.

I didnt find it too taxing training wise as thats the way the coach wants it to be so you wont get p#ssed off and call it a day. The main thing was to just keep turning up every day. I was doing a lot more gym work than cardio for the first 6 months and then uppeď the gym work and running around July however the cardio has dropped a bit again since September due to a number of reasons. As for weightloss its non existent however ive been told i look a lot trimmer, stronger, fitter and you would notice it in the clothes im wearing too a lot looser around the gut and tighter in the legs, arms and shoulders. I put up about 8kg since i started training bringing it to 128kg. The training plan for the gym work was getting me to aim for 2700 calories/day and get in excess of 200g of protein/day and even at those calories the trainer reckoned i would be in a deficit at that. But it wasnt enjoyable at all it became a job in itself trying to manage that and the last fortnight or so i have dropped to below 2000 calories/day as i couldnt see sense in continuing the previous method if weightloss was the end goal plus as im away from home for the second half of this year it meant most of my daily intake was Avonmores Protein Gold and All Real Nutrition protein bars which couldnt be great. The last fortnight since i dropped the intake i feel a hell of a lot better in myself lighter and more energetic and i hope to continue on this intake into the new year. The animal based diet seems to work best for me and ive had good results in the past with it so im hoping to get back into that when i get back home where i will have more control over whats available to eat.

No overweight people on either side of the family here except my maternal grandfather was always blocky out even as a young fella who grew up in the 40s and 50s, his maternal grandfather was an absolute horse of a man too for a fella who would have been born not too long after the famine times in this country.

some mare of a year here. The mother of the young cow that broke her leg is after falling down a ledge of a quarry. 8 foot drop behind a stack of knocked trees. Lucky the brother was around to find her. Some slogging to get her out. No budge out of her. Sitting up but not even looking at a bit of crunch or following her calf crying. She was fair stuck.

i was waiting on the oh to come home and had asked the sister to watch my gang so I could check the cattle but she kinda refused so I said I’d wait altogether. Give me a chance to mop a few floors.

hoping time will help her a bit.

definitely not getting a bull now.

keep a few dry cattle close to house and just top The mountain.

Fair play was going through Dublin Airport earlier and there was a good few with Dublin marathon half zips, all with big smiles on their faces