Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't know that. I wasn't an Elvis fan, was a BIG fan of Marc Bolan though. I never had any of his records though as we were poor, but I could listen to him on the radio on Sunday night when the Top 20 came on ... and then I got a tape recorder and could hold the mic near the speaker on the radiogram to record it.

And I got Jackie magazine, they did a lot of Marc Bolan stories in there ... and some favourites of mine about David Cassidy, I can still see one of the pages now in my mind's eye.

I have a friend who was also a big fan. The only reason I know it is because every time they go on about how good Marc Bolan was, they mention that fact.

They also have a daughter who's birthday is the same day Diana died. As a child, that daughter spent a birthday trying to be happy whilst the whole world was in an overblown sycophantic media prescribed mourning state which lacked major amounts of genuine-ness.

Must've been one of the most difficult games of pass the parcel to manage...

lemonjelly

C.S. Lewis also died on the same day as JFK & Aldous Huxley.

lostinrates

Tales from the animal mad house.


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 squarking from the poop-soup?

Strawberry, one of this years hatches. Strawberry is an individual. She likes to lay in the hay, not the next 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 decended 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*


Straberry is 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!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't believe you're asking!!!
Marc Bolan, lead singer of T Rex fame.

Trex - I haven't seen that in the supermarket for ages. I suppose people are more concerned about their arteries furring up these days.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Tales from the animal mad house.

I'm fairly sure if you write that up smallholder magazine will take it.

p.s.

it is these kind of little details they don't tell you about when you become a smallholder.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm fairly sure if you write that up smallholder magazine will take it.

p.s.

it is these kind of little details they don't tell you about when you become a smallholder.

Really? I might try....

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Trex - I haven't seen that in the supermarket for ages. I suppose people are more concerned about their arteries furring up these days.

I bought some the other year, it's still there.... bought to make the best mincepie pastry ever. Never did get round to making it though.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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*

ROFLMFAO!!
That's better than your cakes being nicked

Seriously though, you should look into installing a simple/crude outdoor shower, just in case. A lot of houses round here have them, for surfers to stand under and rinse off their wetsuits and remove them outside.

I've always thought that farmer-types should have a dressing/undressing and shower room right by the door - I'd insist on it if I married a farmer. They'd not be allowed into the house with farmy stuff clinging to them.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Really? I might try....

You could do a whole blog you know

Do it free, on Wordpress.com - no income from that, but once you've got a following and a goodly number of posts, you can always at some future point export all the stories and put them on your own domain name .... but Wordpress.com's an easy way to scribble stuff down without any expertise/time or cost.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought some the other year, it's still there.... bought to make the best mincepie pastry ever. Never did get round to making it though.

The OS recipe? I'm going to try that this week