the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

We had to compulsory vaccinate against Blue Tongue the other year - the type of midges that carry it don't come anywhere near here. Loads of lambs born that year with severe facial deformaties. Loads of cattle died after being vaccinated. It was horrible. Glad they stopped that here - madness.

We have a high Liver Fluke area so I do do the sheep religiously as I've seen that & it is completely avoidable - although I have to alternate the stuff I use to stop the jags from having an impact - what's the word I'm looking for here?

Well chucking it down & the burns in spate - what wet the field is - a complete bog - it's horrid & slidey out. The winds really picking up too - yurkkkk.

Listening to the wild flower talk - someone did one here but it's all imported day-glo poppies & uber bright cornflowers - it looks so artificial & lurid - the insects must be confused.

Rummer

Dave what a great amount of money :j

Rhiwfield great news about your wife getting better and ebay

Good Evening Everyone

I was delighted that it was still light tonight when I was driving home at 5pm, means I will soon be able to garden of an evening

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Listening to the wild flower talk - someone did one here but it's all imported day-glo poppies & uber bright cornflowers - it looks so artificial & lurid - the insects must be confused.

thats what i want.....bright!

choille

Reading willy nilly backwards - Brilliant total on the panto - excellent Dave.

rhiwfield - Well done. I'm finding ebay hit or miss - unpredictable what's getting bids. Can't work it out sometimes but overall quite pleased, but I often diddle myself on postage by undercharging but not too bad & think it's swings & roundabouts really.

LIR - ther wa a good gardening prog the other night & they were replaning municapal beds with more natural plants to Britain, but still getting the bright colours that were favoured there & they did an insect count & it was amazing the difference in the more localised, natural flower beds had on hoverflies, bees etc all the polinators - interesting.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

you are very welcome Davesnave...

cant sleep again, too much stuff going on...

no wonder i am tired in work..lol...

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Reading willy nilly backwards - Brilliant total on the panto - excellent Dave.

Yes, I'm in awe of some people in this village, for whom that was just one of many events they'll be organising/participating in this year. Much money is raised here for something we don't really want to see - the Air Ambulance!

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

cant sleep again, too much stuff going on...

no wonder i am tired in work..lol...

I was up in the night too with this flu-ish bug, which has finally confined me to barracks. I was proof-reading DD's latest essay. Being totally dyslexic, she has all kinds of gizmos and software, which help greatly, but ultimately, it's still down to Dad to find the 'almost plausible' errors created by them!

Good news! I can taste stuff again this morning.

betony

lostinrates wrote: »

A cross post from another thread but I though you guys might laugh - hopefully with me not at me....
Was just finishing off feeding horses nd wandering over to put chickens away when I heard a pitiful squawk, from...well ..nowhere, the nly thing thataway is the muck heap. Ours is a farm muckheap, a pit, sloping towards the back to a drain to drain the liquid from the slurry to elsewhere, but that drain has been sealed up, so our muck heap is currently sort of poop-soup getting more liquid everytime t rains and more solid every time we fill. Its not a thing of pleasant rural charm.

So, what on earth could be squawking from the poop-soup?

Strawberry, one of this years hatches. Strawberry is an individual. She likes to lay in the hay, not the nest boxes, and today it seems she wanted to explore the muck, only she got stuck in the sucky heaviness of it, like quick sand. A bird of not inconsiderable intelligence she had spread her wings and that was the only thing helping her keep her head above poop soup. The inevitable had to happen. I took of my boots and socks first, but decided to leave my trousers on. I thought if something happened and I couldn't get out the only thing worse than being found in poop soup would be being found without trousers in poopsoup. As I descended into the soup from the more solid deep end where we tip barrows, I went up to my crotch into the most foul smelling, decaying yuck imaginable...and realised I too was getting stuck. The only thing for it was to get onto my front, and try and slither to strawberry who was now yelling and flapping the tip of her unclipped wing. The poop was thinner near her, probably how she got that far, and I managed to reach her, and wade back, then slither back on my belly, hauling myself up the heap back onto the concrete....where the horses were looking on with bemused and frankly scandalised disbelief.


So here I stood in the middle of the yard, covered in poop, holding a cold, wet, poop covered chicken. Sighing I accepted there was no way about it, Strawberry couldn't stay out in such a state, she'd have no chance of survival. And the only way around this was taking her back to the house and trying to clean us both up as much as possible. So sloshing across the yard and garden, barefoot,brown, dripping and stinking, altogether like a swapmonster and his pet, I arrived at the back door. where I wrapped strawberry in my coat and stripped.

You know those 60 trees we cut down between me and the neighbour? At that point he drives his tractor past and all I have to preserve any modesty is a chicken covered in poop. *sigh*


Strawberryis clean and drying in a box in the sitting room and I got as clean as I could downstairs before walking over the carpets I spent a lot of the weekend cleaning and tiptoed up to have two quick and far from relaxing baths, although my skin feels amazingly soft!

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I know this is an old post but I've only just found this thread. This is one of the funniest things I've read for ages, possibly the funniest ever on MSE. Had tears rolling down my thighs "poop soup". :rotfl:

Loving this thread and want to join in! My OH was raised on a farm and worked on one for many years, though hasn't done so for about 9 years; before I met him. He likes living in town, unfortunately, but I can generally wrap him round my little finger so there I can still dream...

Right, now going to catch up on all your daydreams

lostinrates

Poor strawberry, since then have had to fish the cockeral out...thankfully we had workmen here with a digger who saw him and gished him out for me, and i was in last week to fish out an ex batt. I had forgotten i left my trousers on for strawberry. I went in in my knickers last week.

Poor strawberry died a few weeks ago.

Welcome betony, i am glad i made you laugh!

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

I wonder if RAS got his envelope today?

Unfortunately the postie arrives late morning and I am supposed to go to a meeting tonight, so it will be late when i find out.

Davesnave wrote: »

Today I've been poking potentially suitable plants into the face of the garden hedge bank. Very little grows on parts of it, as it's so dry. They're all species things, but not necessarily from this country. At present I don't know if any of them will work. I've never had such an inhospitable environment in my garden before. I just want to stabilise it, never mind the 'authenticity' of what works there!

Hedge woundwort any interest? Having to pull a lot up at the moment because it has migrated under the fruit bushes. Rhizomes and copes with dry soil. Makes use of any wet later in thwe year.

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

Poor strawberry, since then have had to fish the cockeral out...thankfully we had workmen here with a digger who saw him and gished him out for me, and i was in last week to fish out an ex batt. I had forgotten i left my trousers on for strawberry. I went in in my knickers last week.

Poor strawberry died a few weeks ago.

Welcome betony, i am glad i made you laugh!

LIR, you definately have a literary career ahead of you. "Tales from the Old Farm Muckheap", first Chapter "Poop Soup"? :rotfl:

Welcome Betony!