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kadison

DaisyDuck wrote: »

Yes thanks he got the all clear 2yrs ago !:T At the time it was hard not telling people. But I do understand how you feel. If someone does this all the time then she really isn't worth it.
I would just not ask her the next time!
Really if you were looking forward to something don't let anyone else spoil it. If 2 others are going to leave early - let them - you might find the craic gets started and they end up staying, so a bonus for you and the others.

I try never to rely on others, just make the most of each situation and take it for what it is ! Its their loss:mad:
You sound like a super friend trying to organise something like this .:T

Glad he got the all clear!! :j:j:j

I just did it because everyone kept moaning that we weren't going out and no-one else did anything, so really I did it to shut everyone up lol!

HappyChappy84 wrote: »

No comment!:eek::eek:

Reminds me of an accident I had when I had a brief spell working on another farm near Fyvie.

The main road that runs along the bottom of the village has a 50mph limit and if you want to turn right to go up through the village you have to pull in to a middle lane. I pulled in to the middle lane, turned right and BAM. The car coming the opposite direction came to a fault 100yds up the road, my front wheel totally ripped the drivers side of the car off. When I got to the car his baby was strapped in to it's baby seat behind the driver:eek:

I genuinely did not see that car coming, he was going at such a speed and he must have been in my blind spot whenever I checked. Police did an investigation and the same thing happened a couple of weeks later with another farmer at about the same time. Cops but it down to a combination of winter sun, blind spot in the tractors cab and speed of the oncoming driver. Thankfully they put it down to "just one of those things"

Yikes! It's scary how many near-misses there are in life! Don't know what the !!!! he was doing speeding like that with a child in the car either! :eek:

I feel lucky not to have had any run-ins, considering I spent 5 years driving down narrow country lanes near my home town before I moved here in 2003!

HappyChappy84

zippydooda wrote: »

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HappyChappy84

kadison wrote: »

God that's awful! My mum was seriously ill in the last years of the farm so I did the wages instead, I know we paid our worker Nathan the minimum wage, I think it was around £4 an hour? Not sure, I remember looking through the minimum wage requirements and making sure to increment on his birthday. He was wonderful, we gave him a bonus of about £150 when he left as he practically ran the place (my dad selfishly kept it going even though he was too frail to run it and didn't care that it caused nothing but stress when more stress was that last thing we needed).

Weird about his wife, though my Dad didn't give a s*** about my mum when she was alive but when she died in 2002 he cried like you wouldn't believe it. Still can't get my head around that but hey-ho, he died in 2004 so it's all old news now! Probably sounds callous but my dad let me down so much I gave up with him!

When they were both still alive she said to me "when you leave will be issuing you with a bill for all the damages and breakages you have caused" and she meant it:eek: The pair of them were Irish and talk about tight! He used to despair with her if she wouldn't allow the tractor to go to Farm Services to be fixed. More often than not she would agree to buy the part and we had to fix it ourselves as "no point giving Farm Services £30/hour to mess it up with I can pay you £4 hour to mess it up":eek: All that started because I actually fixed something once and once she caught on that I could fix things, Farm Services was a no go. I wasn't paid to fix things, I was paid to drive.

When I first started working there she picked up her hosepipe and said "this is my hosepipe, run over it and you're sacked". She used to leave it in the most stupid places and if you came in the dark and you couldn't see it you drove over it. By the time I left her hosepipe was more copper pipe than rubber hose due to the amount of repairs I had to do to it.:rotfl::rotfl:

Sanya

locarr wrote: »

there is a live feed on BBC Website about the wind..

• Live nowBBC coverage as winds set to batter Scotland

[/LIST]is this near you HC!!? Batten down the hatches!!:eek:

I'm right beside Elgin and it is wild here!

HappyChappy84

Westvleteren wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


I have been enlightened! Fancy hiring a Lada (remember them :rotfl::rotfl:) and doing the Pamir Highway.

No comment :o

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I still have nightmares about that horrible green Lada that dad bought, it was so old you had to start with a starting handle.:eek:

HappyChappy84

kadison wrote: »

Glad he got the all clear!! :j:j:j

I just did it because everyone kept moaning that we weren't going out and no-one else did anything, so really I did it to shut everyone up lol!



Yikes! It's scary how many near-misses there are in life! Don't know what the !!!! he was doing speeding like that with a child in the car either! :eek:

I feel lucky not to have had any run-ins, considering I spent 5 years driving down narrow country lanes near my home town before I moved here in 2003!

I know, some people are just stupid. I've had a few scrapes in cars and tractors. The car accidents I put down to youth but whenever I was in a tractor I put the sensible head on. The scrapes I did have were never my fault. One of which I put down to the boss cutting corners with building work...

I was actually in this when the silage pit wall gave way. :eek:

Looby123

HappyChappy84 wrote: »

Mum freezes bread, but she's never really been keen on freezing milk for some reason. Boss used to do it in winter and to me it never tasted right. and UHT milk is horrid!

did you get the cappucinos on DTD? They've got powdered milk in sofor being snowed great in/power cuts!! I always buy some in when theyre on offer just in case of emergencies!! And I usually get at least 2 cups out of one sachet although having to educate the hubby on that one!!

If not, either get some of the drinks in...or get a tub of powdered milk..only tastes like 'canteen' drinks so not horrendously bad!!

kadison

HappyChappy84 wrote: »

When they were both still alive she said to me "when you leave will be issuing you with a bill for all the damages and breakages you have caused" and she meant it:eek: The pair of them were Irish and talk about tight! He used to despair with her if she wouldn't allow the tractor to go to Farm Services to be fixed. More often than not she would agree to buy the part and we had to fix it ourselves as "no point giving Farm Services £30/hour to mess it up with I can pay you £4 hour to mess it up":eek: All that started because I actually fixed something once and once she caught on that I could fix things, Farm Services was a no go. I wasn't paid to fix things, I was paid to drive.

When I first started working there she picked up her hosepipe and said "this is my hosepipe, run over it and you're sacked". She used to leave it in the most stupid places and if you came in the dark and you couldn't see it you drove over it. By the time I left her hosepipe was more copper pipe than rubber hose due to the amount of repairs I had to do to it.:rotfl::rotfl:

Good god! My dad once hired this guy who was the CLUMSIEST person in the world, on his first day he somehow managed to shatter the toughened glass panel that opens at the back of the tractor cab, that was £100 to replace.

A few other less expensive incidents and I think a few hints were dropped, he got the message and found another job, I remember my mum saying he was a nice lad but better off shuffling paper where he couldn't break anything lol!

HappyChappy84

Looby123 wrote: »

did you get the cappucinos on DTD? They've got powdered milk in sofor being snowed great in/power cuts!! I always buy some in when theyre on offer just in case of emergencies!! And I usually get at least 2 cups out of one sachet although having to educate the hubby on that one!!

If not, either get some of the drinks in...or get a tub of powdered milk..only tastes like 'canteen' drinks so not horrendously bad!!

Nah, before my time I think?

kadison

HappyChappy84 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I still have nightmares about that horrible green Lada that dad bought, it was so old you had to start with a starting handle.:eek:

What's a starting handle? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

HappyChappy84 wrote: »

I know, some people are just stupid. I've had a few scrapes in cars and tractors. The car accidents I put down to youth but whenever I was in a tractor I put the sensible head on. The scrapes I did have were never my fault. One of which I put down to the boss cutting corners with building work...

I was actually in this when the silage pit wall gave way. :eek:

:eek::eek::eek: Is that real, looks similar to something I was e-mailed? :cool:

I'll assume it's real considering the stories you've told me. Obviously you were ok in the end. Also probably lucky it was the silage pit not the slurry pit.......