Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Me too, but I'm a night owl anyway. It still doesn't seem that cold.....

Semi-skimmed for me too, but then, I'm not a milk person. The free school milk that was always luke warm saw to that! :eek:

Why are your neighbours despondent? Is it 'just' the weather?

I was chatting with the lady who's our neighbour on the southern boundary and she sounded a bit fed up. She said, "I don't think we shall ever finish our place." I felt it was a bit of an odd thing to say, as I don't ever envisage 'finishing,' though I'd like to reach a stage of being less unfinished! :rotfl:

I like milk (so long as it is skimmed) but hated that school milk. Frozen crystals in winter hot and sour in summer. Yuck. I rarely had it, rarely being here, but rarely was too often.

I think new ours feel got by the weather, got by circumstance (they are both tenant farmers and farm owners) and just future planning.

We hope they hang on at least another ten years or so.

Finish.....I hope to 'finish enough' so that changes are by choice or fickleness not by necessity for pride and living standards.

Itismehonest

There are a lot of farmers thinking twice at the moment, LIR
http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Prize-winning-North-Devon-beef-farmer-forced-sell/story-18057914-detail/story.html

Government forecasts show profitability for the pig and dairy sectors falling by 50% and 42% respectively. For beef and sheep producers, falls of 44% are predicted for lowland producers, while their uplands counterparts have fared worse, with income falling by 52%.

Average farm incomes for

pig enterprises are forecast to fall to £19,000 in 2012/13 from £38,000 in 2011/12.

On dairy farms, average income is predicted to fall to £50,000 from £86,500.

Lowland-grazing livestock farms are expected to see a fall in average incomes to £18,000 from £32,000, with upland grazing to £14,000 from £29,000.

Only the poultry sector remains unchanged, according to the forecast.

from http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/NFU-warns-farm-profits-set-fall-50-cent/story-18049011-detail/story.html

Vicious winds all night & continuing. The power has been off & on. It's not sure whether to hail or snow. It's not laying here yet but inland looks to have started.

The cottage next door left their gate open this morning & they now have a garden full of common rights sheep. That'll give the rug rat something else to bark at *rolleyes*

rhiwfield

I think Butler may have been the farmer featured in Countryfile, his fields were waterlogged, he couldnt graze his cattle, get machinery on to make silage. Cant afford the increasing cost of feed and so his prize herd is sold.

When your livelihood is under threat, and the weather as atrocious as it has been, little wonder that farmers get depressed and even suicidal.

And on the somebody up there is avin' a larf thread, jus been to Cardiff and back with my head covered with a blanket (like a criminal or pop star) to avoid the sun. Got some very stange looks! :rotfl::rotfl:

Got back and straight away the sun goes in and clouds roll over. Meds finish today so hopefully the skin photosensitivity should end soon.

CTC, sold the collar box as soon as it was listed

lostinrates

I am mr dog.


My dogs have Ben barking for a couple of hours non stop, since hounds came right through the neighbours yard and ours. Mine could hear them and because I am not sure they have definitely boxed up I don't want to let them out yet to see they are gone.


My neighbour is going to more dispondant when he finds out his cows have been unsettled by hounds pouring through the barn.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I am mr dog.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Although it's not really funny, especially for your neighbour.

And to be a proper Mr Dog, they'd need to bark longer than that. :mad:
Apparently, Mr Dog told someone he'd had to lock the dogs up much more because they were being spooked by a vixen and "wouldn't stop barking." (even when he was at home!) This is one that crosses our land fairly regularly, so it's 'our' fox.

Before that it was rats, which were all the result of the woman across the road feeding the birds......Always someone else's fault.

The fox at that end isn't new. Although I don't see it, I can track it. What's bothering me slightly more is a new track which comes from a hole dug under the thatcher's fence into our lower field. It might be the same fox, just making a more direct route to wherever it's going, but it might also be a new one....:eek:

Our friend in the village lost two of her bantams last week.....

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

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The cottage next door left their gate open this morning & they now have a garden full of common rights sheep. That'll give the rug rat something else to bark at *rolleyes*

:rotfl:And of course, you didn't notice any of that.

I visited a sort of farm place today where there were two very fierce dogs locked in their runs, but they didn't bark until it was obvious I was going into the back entrance.

Once in, it was like the Marie Celeste. No answer at the doorbell, yet there were boots there and cars outside. There was even a tumble drier gently turning. I shouted.... Nothing!

In the end, I wrote a note on a bit of paper and wedged it in the door of the drier!

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

:rotfl:And of course, you didn't notice any of that.

I visited a sort of farm place today where there were two very fierce dogs locked in their runs, but they didn't bark until it was obvious I was going into the back entrance.

Once in, it was like the Marie Celeste. No answer at the doorbell, yet there were boots there and cars outside. There was even a tumble drier gently turning. I shouted.... Nothing!

In the end, I wrote a note on a bit of paper and wedged it in the door of the drier!

Can't see the cottage's drive gate from my place but it's left open every day. It's obviously too much hassle to have to open & close a gate like the rest of us every time they want to go out.
The first I knew was when I looked out of an upstairs window & saw all the sheep - about 15 of them - removing anything green they could lay their teeth on. They could have been there for hours.

If I say it's a case of "Always wanted to live in the country" (so renting from that charity _pale_), making all deliveries - & there's at least one a day - be taken to the tradesman's entrance (ie back door) even in the dark & wet; has half the neighbourhood taking in deliveries as 1) out all day &/or 2) deliveries are coming in lorries which can't get closer than half a mile away; then I think you may start to get the picture.
Mind you, they seldom last when they realise country life isn't quite what they expected :rotfl:

Itismehonest

:rotfl: I just had to share this :rotfl:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-21334234

A case of "Hop to it"? :cool:

lostinrates

Davenave.....my neighbour is on holiday. Tbh, they say they cannot hear the dogs anyway from the house, only in the farm yard, where, they kindly pont out, they make noise too and in fact say they like that our dogs guard for them too (the neighbours never make the same sort of noise though iyswim...they really are great neighbours). I hear the neighbours gun dogs from the other direction which is well over half a mile.....but....its softened by the journey on the breeze and well......I don't mind it. They, like we, have done what they can...living a decent distance from other people, it's just part of the noise landscape...like when the cows calves, the sheep lamb and the cockerals won't shut up.

lostinrates

Where is Alfie?

I wonder what the weather has been like there.