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Mistress Rose
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Jam Lady
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 18 7:02 am Post subject: |
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I have noticed that the hay round our way has been going in green coloured, which means it dried well doesn't it Gregotyn?
We are still having dry weather but a bit muggy at the moment. Somehow there have been lots of mosquitoes in the woods, and I got well and truly bitten yesterday. Plus is the horse fly season seems to be pretty well over.
I bought the first English plums this week, and they are good. I like nectarines and apricots which are in season too, so doing well at the moment. Have also been able to buy English cherries, so plenty of fruit to my taste now. I quite like blueberries, but don't tend to buy them much, as not something that has really been available long, although the place some of the other fruit comes from does grow them as it has sandy soil.
I have 2 besoms fully made Gregotyn, and both parts for 2 more, so they will be assembled at the show if needed.
Hope you enjoy your fungus foray Jam Lady. We don't have many at the moment, but no doubt they will pop up later in the year when we have rain. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 18 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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I made an error in my last post; it was only 62 years that I have been chopping kindling, and not 620yrs. as I said before.
Usually hay 'got' and dried to the degree suitable for stacking and is still green, means that it is high in nutrients, but don't ask me why, I have forgotten. If green it usually means a fair amount of leaves, highly digestible, are present in the crop and less stalk which is less digestible than the leaves. But that is memory from 50 odd years ago! Oh to have a back that still worked well, and as strong as it was then.
Any way it is pouring with rain now. I am off to the Royal Welsh show on Monday. I go then because it is the least populated day and I can usually get around easier. I try to be there for around 7am latest. That way the busing service is not being queued for. They have giant car parks for that show away from the ground itself and folks are bussed in and out. The service is very good and frequent, both going in and out of the show, and saves travelling and queueing for ages to get in and out by your own transport. the original car parks are taken up by camping and caravans. On the way home I usually get in a large line of traffic by the time I reach Llangurig, but it is not too far by then.
Anyway, inevitably you will get a report on Tuesday.
We are having a bit of a re-group at work next week as the current boss in the stores is leaving as he has bought out a rival company 15 miles out of town. It stocks everything like us but we are branded. It has done the current owners well for a long time and the lad hopes it will continue for him. I hope it doesn't affect our company too much in turnover-I would be first out, could be the plan, mmm! Time I retired anyway, but...the money's good!
I like to do the pick your own fruit as you can pick a plum to eat every now and then! I like blueberries with yoghurt and apple pie, keeps the weight up a bit! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 18 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Snap-my blackberries are in 2 cases, black, and I have tested those 2 no more now for a day or two. It has been bad weather here from yesterday. Raining all night, but not heavy, just the stuff you go out in and wonder how you got wet. It is dry now but clouding over.
I have been to work this morning to book in my holiday for tomorrow which I omitted to do on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. It has been cleared by the boss, but I should have registered it on our office calendar. Anyway I worked for an hour or so and served a customer too so good stuff, then shopped for food and came back here-30 miles, all for a lack of thinking!
The company will be affected because the lad who is going is well known and well respected locally, being a hill farmer as well as working in the shop. His mechanical knowledge is spectacular, as is his memory. I forget what I want just going upstairs. When I am sent to fetch something I write it down, but my boss knows what is wanted once told the problem, doesn't have to look where it is, he knows any item and where it should be! Some would say sad...but how useful.
I should have said that he is taking the salesman with him, and he tried to get his number 2 to go too, but he is staying and I like him as he understands the elderly, (read in my case old).
How are your boys in the wood working without their intake of biscuits? Bet a down tools will come if not remedied pronto! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 18 8:18 am Post subject: |
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It sounds as if it will be a loss to your company, but he might do well on his own, so sounds like a good move for him. He might fill in the gaps of the company you are with as he knows exactly what they stock. Hope there is room for both of them anyway, and that would give the farmers a far better range to choose from.
It came over rather black a few times yesterday, but stayed dry. Not too many people, but we didn't expect that many as it was only a local show and there is no real sense of community round our way sadly. We mainly go because it organised jointly by the local council and someone who does other fairs and is a good organiser. Met a few interesting people and saw the artworks that for some reason they want to put on the outside of the old brewery. Goodness knows why, as quite a lot of the old, which was quite pleasant, was destroyed when they converted it into flats, and a picture on the front is just going to look silly.
We have been surviving on chocolate biscuits as I haven't been making any. I really must get round to it, but I have either been busy or tired. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 18 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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The lad who is going will be a loss to the company, because of who and what he knows. May be an interesting combination a workaholic and a lorry driver/salesman! Our company has a good reputation for having everything, and people with the knowledge-'cept me! I am no mechanic or have the brains of a mechanic. They talk about things I have never heard of. There will not be another player in the field, the lad has bought an existing company, sort of competition which already exists, I just hope he can't grow it too big too quickly-I want to retire when I am ready, not be retired too soon!
Our weather has been fairly good no rain for a couple of days-the show was very hot for me. as I was carrying all my stuff around with me. I didn't stop on the pig stand for long but had a fair number of short stints. I would normally be sent a ticket, but not this time, as I hadn't volunteered to work on the stand. It was a test by me to see if they would ask, they didn't.
I am away at Bridgnorth for the weekend, quite looking forward to it.
The show was good, very hot, and pretty good generally for the first day. I saw some really good pigs and met up with a couple of old friends. One is always at the show, but the other was there for the first time I think. A man and his daughter who show British Lops and all the way from Cornwall. I went there with a former girlfriend and went for lunch. The girlfriend lived in Devon and not too far from them she has since moved nearer! Anyway it was worth his while as he won several classes and got into the supreme in show, but came second of the two. Back to work today and boss has gone to the show, so all down to me and Jim, and he is on his own for the afternoon. We get far less callers on Mondays now as there are less sheep in market at this time of the year. It picks up for us as the replacement ewe sales start and the store lamb market begins.
A tip, never blame tiredness for anything, always blame pressure of work! I guess you are in the commuter belt, MR, and so expect not so much 'community'. I have found that people who work away from the area they live in, often don't do too much in that community and tend to supermarket shop before they come home at the weekend and are too tired to get involved locally during the week, because of the early commuter trains whisking them off to the City on Monday morning. A byproduct is that local houses are pushed up in price if you are in that semi-retirement belt! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 18 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't volunteer to do the pig stand because I was wondering the same thing, hoping they would email me for a change? I had a good day as you know. I think the rain will come but in the form of thunder storms as it is now so hot and close up here. I am, Jam Lady, only quoting my mother about the weather getting here in three weeks. I am glad of the dry spell which has helped make hay for me very well, and I would like a drop of rain to make the grass grow, at night, please!
The Royal Welsh show is without doubt a proper agricultural show. At least a hundred cattle, of which the Hereford and Welsh Black dominate, and more sheep than I would want to walk round in a day-I quess at least a thousand of various breeds. The Spring Fair attracts more pigs than the summer show as it is the last opportunity to qualify for the 'Pig of the Year' final, held at The Great Yorkshire Show, which is the week before the Royal Welsh Show. The good news from that is that there is a very good show at Builth Showground in the spring designed mainly for smallholders who, if they are going into pigs, come to the pig stand for advice on how to start. The Big summer show has its pig classes but there are reduced numbers. At least we attracted a top British Lop breeder from Cornwall to the summer show!
The lad will do well on his own, MR, there is no doubt about it. But he is recruiting customers from us during working time here-naughty. He doesn't need to do it as the company he has taken over has been in business for a long time and already has a good customer base, silly boy, as he will lose trust among the rest of the various stockists; they will not be sending their existing customers there if they need to find X which is not in stock where the customers normally buy from-we will see.
There are several other agricultural stockists in Welshpool-about 5 in the town-but he will be 15 miles out of town. Lots of water to pass etc.
I will be back in on Tuesday with a full breakdown of the trip to Bridgnorth. I hope to see the little girl a bit more grown up since Easter and with a more tolerant brother! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15579
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dpack
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