No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Looked at the silage their getting. Vet ruled out cause of death from mouldy silage, lead poisoning or electrocution. When I looked at the Smaxtec app they died in a short period of time. It showed reduced ruminating, increase in activity and then temperature decrease (when they died). Have the 2 cows out of sight and heading to the knackery Wednesday. Had a case of Schmallenberg earlier in the week also. Sent the calf to the lab in Kilkenny.

I put down a tough night of it here myself, hot and cold sweats and aches in my joints. Took a few more panodols now, I'm hoping I'll turn a corner by this evening 🤞 my mam is mainly worried about the Christmas Dinner, I said I'll sit outside sure tis fairly mild.

I hope Santy was good to ye ? I'm hoping to get either a new pair of Snickers pants or a good head torch. We do kris kindle here and put a limit of €100.

So true, some people are very good, I was down at the local flling station yesterday evening, they were flat out delivering free Christmas dinners in the area , They prepared and delivered 221 family dinners yesterday, the freezer company they deal with lent them enough freezers to do the job.

Have a nice day everyone

She did, it was negative. Temperature down a bit today but feeling sick and lightheaded.

one of these things that takes a few days to burn out I’d say.

All stock fed and got the breakfast and heading out to do a couple of repair jobs in the yard for two hours, down to see the mother and then down to see the sisters house to see the four lads all home for Christmas and doing this since they were babies and now all in their thirties, and then dinner and have to feed again this evening and then a nice bottle of red wine for the night.

Many early Santa folk this morning??

slow start here, some presents open, stock checked a a nice fry consumed. sick lass even managed a bit of food so hopefully that’s her on the mend.

So unseasonably mild. House is 20c, no heating on and last stuff went into the stove about 4pm yesterday.

Santy has caused pandemonium in my gaff. I rent a small terrace house while we build our new place. 4 of us in it now with the new baby which has taken over the sitting room floor, which means the 5 year old is down a few fields. And Santy has only gone and delivered a John Deere 9RX (1:16 scale). That along with a few implements he has from before has taken the place over. It's nearly 600mm long! He also got a butterfly mower and plough for the Britains tractors he has. Tells me now he's like @farmerphil135 and offers the full service 😀

He's fair happy now all the same and there won't be an inch of the floor or table that isn't going to be farmed over the next while.

Had a late enough start with kids. Only woke up at 7.30 which was fine. The. Mass at 10. Getting the dinner ready now and waiting for a few family members to come who are joining us for dinner. Happy Xmas all.

Had a great start to the day with a dip in the barrow and was making headway on prepping the dinner. Auld fella started whinging passing remarks etc then the sister threw a tantrum as she couldnt find an oven glove and of course it was my fault regardless of where she left it. Packed up my share of the roast and headed on home currently roasting away here and im content enough its only myself i have to please today now. Theres an awful lot to be said for a day of peace and quiete this time of year.

At last, someone being honest about Christmas Day 😂😂😂

merry Christmas everyone.

Was out Saturday night to meet old friends. Great night but left out at 2:30 so was wrecked.

had to have a nap after lads went to bed. The up at 10 til 2:30 putting together and wrapping.

9 year old was into us at 4:30 saying there was nothing in her Christmas stocking. I Told her it wasn’t morning yet.

there’s so many Christmas stockings here, Santa filled it’s into each.

Christmas breakfast for my family in the county. There was 16 of us.

dinner will be later. Just the 5 of us or maybe a friend might call.

When I was younger I used to get wound-up Christmas eve/day trying to produce the perfect meal in between phoning friends because I felt I had to do so. As my teeth grew longer I've learned not to stress as much - the dinner will be on the table at some stage, we won't starve and family & friends will be there for you if they want to be and if not there is nothing I can do about it.

A neighbour called in unexpectedly just after 2pm when he was going for a walk and I had to stall cooking the dinner. OH is just after dropping him home as he slightly inebriated from a few hot whiskeys. I'm going to head now to the out farm to feed the yard cats and when I come back I'll continue with the cooking.

I'm wrecked after all that - just cleared the table, still have to face the wash up. Did Nevan Maguires citrus breast of turkey recipe - will definitely do that recipe again, I put on skin side down on the rack. Breast of turkey 2.2 kg €27.

Ran out of double oven space with so many bits and bobs to squash in, so took a chance on the air fryer to bake flaky pastry cases, came out fine, 20 mins at 200 - should have done the pigs in blankets in it too.

I'm not the biggest fan of Christmas or this time of year.

Give me the swift sunrise and the long day and the cattle lying down in the sun with a full belly of grass.

The day has turned it will come again soon.

I'm going to give frozen sprouts a try out sometime, cook from frozen in boiling water. I was temped but sprouts were large & fresh this year.

I like the winter months when things slow down a bit - shorter days = less working hours on the farm. November is my favourite month of the year.