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Mistress Rose
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Jam Lady
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Mistress Rose
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 18 6:32 am Post subject: |
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I hope you manage the questionnaire Gregotyn. It is a rather long thing, and does take some thinking about. I have filled it in personally, but we need to fill it in as a company, so I have made a whole page of notes on it. I am also trying to get other groups such as coppice groups to fill it in, and have alerted some of our outlets as well.
Jam Lady, hope your grand daughter gets better quickly in the specialist facility. Good she is out of hospital now anyway. Stay safe in the storm Jam Lady.
Managed a very mixed bag of products from the woods yesterday. I made a couple of besoms to deliver to one of our outlets today, picked up a couple of bags of sawdust for another, delivered some log sacks, and son delivered some charcoal. Today husband and son have log loads to do, so pretty mixed. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 18 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Firstly I am pleased that your granddaughter is out of hospital Jam Lady, and hope that all goes well for her where she is now. Take care withe storms that I have heard are hitting the coast now from a fellow person here in the library.
I liked the sheep at the show-I've done a bit of showing livestock, but mainly with pigs.
I was going great guns for a while, then pressed the wrong button and it all went. Not all UK farms are impassible in winter, MR. I was a pigman for a few years on a 500 acre arable, sheep and pig farm. Mostly corn grown but also carrots, sugar beet and potatoes. There was never any problem getting on the land as it was very sandy. They kept the livestock mainly for the manure to save having to buy too much "bag" manure. In its hay days (no pun intended), the 30's to 60's they had pedigree sheep, cattle and pigs with all the rosettes on display in the appropriate buildings, and all because they wanted the manure!
We could spread manure, harvest sugar beet, potatoes and carrots throughout the year if needed. I wanted to stay, but I went back to college. I had this idea that I could continue to work there and study! The farm was the first to make £1000 per acre in the country. A beautiful farm in a lovely setting all the old buildings were converted sympathetically to modern farming as it was in the 1960's/70's. I would have bought it if I could!!!
I will set aside some time, MR, and ask for special dispensation to get more time in the library to do the questionaire tomorrow, but she probably won't allow, it rules is rules she will say! And I guess they will have a lot of folks in tomorrow, being Friday. I have looked at it but it would be better if I could download it, so as to peruse in my own time-read, I can't take it in as fast as I should be able to!. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 18 9:08 am Post subject: |
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That really is some sort of heavy duty bridge, Jam Lady. They may be making a mistake however, children have a habit of coming back home when least wanted for an indefinite stay! I did, luckily my bedroom was still intact and much as I left it! Your neighbours should have made it into a drawbridge to keep the marauders out!
Anyway I have made it to town with no brakes-well limited by using the 'pump the foot' method on the brake pedal, and selected engagement of the hand brake, but mainly using low gears for the downhills. I filled up with brake fluid before I started, which worked its way through to give better braking but as it was leaking all the time it didn't last too long, about a mile in 4 miles. The motor is now in the local repair workshop, for a new brake pipe which they make on site. At least it didn't go wrong in a nasty place and cause an accident. I have also delivered another load of kindling to the shop so that is a bonus, and bought lunch-in case the motor takes a long time.
I am hoping to get back to the firewood sometime today, the orders are flying in at the moment, good job I have a reasonable amount of stock. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 18 12:02 am Post subject: |
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They are lovely people, Mistress Rose. We've been to parties at their current home, which is not very far away. They have a farm with a delightful house, big wrap around porch, a couple of barns, boer goats, horses, chickens. When I had Chinese WWOOFers (one at a time, other WWOOFers inbetween) we'd go over there so they could sit on a horse, saddle blanket but no saddle, and someone would lead the horse around the paddock. The young woman was so thrilled, said she never thought she would get to ride a horse. And when I taught backyard chickens at the New York Botanical Garden they'd loan me a couple of placid hens (complete with cage, newspaper, scratch feed, etc) for show-and-tell - which the city people taking the class were absolutely fascinated with. They're very good people.
Granddaughter is in rehab facility. Is throwing up again. Daughter says the place is not easy to deal with.
Rock garden society chapter meeting at an arboretum today. Presenter gave a talk on attracting beneficial insects to your garden. After which I went to another arboretum on my way home, very quiet place with very few visitors.
Got home and the young man from the local orchard had called. The Honeycrisp apples are ready and he had Stanley plums. So off I went and bought some of both, plus Gala apples.
Mistress Rose, the storm first swung a little west and south. Moving very slowly. Some areas have already gotten 44 inches of rain, plus storm surges that have river flowing backwards. Storm will turn and come east and north, travelling over land. Should reach us sometime late Tuesday, with 2 inches of rain in the forecast. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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