The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

We did not generally use bales in my day. My grandfather had a horse drawn binder which was for the croft and for corn anyway we still used stooks in the 1950,s. Hay was dried the traditional way and eventually put into the hay shed.

I can only just remember stooks on some of the smaller farms and smallholdings, but mostly the small bales when I was young.

 

[oldwheels]

Only into silage since '94. Helping out on a neighbours farm. Told that I'd have problems keeping up with the work(just a city dweller), easy enough.

Still remember turning a callagh by hand then tramming it.

Never heard the term callagh before. Trams I am familiar with as the bits of a cart you attached the horse to.

 

[classic33]

Never heard the term callagh before. Trams I am familiar with as the bits of a cart you attached the horse to.

Field alongside the Shannon. As for trams/tramming

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NskwYQlWdIo

 

[numbnuts]

I've been shopping, baking a loaf, well the machine is and I'm cooking paella

 

[Tenkaykev]

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Another £25 win on the PB's for me this month. That makes a total of £100 in about 6 months for me. a hell of a lot better than getting £1.60 in interest over 12 months

I went to check mine and the App says the next draw is tomorrow 2nd. Is wales in a different time zone now?

 

[welsh dragon]

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I went to check mine and the App says the next draw is tomorrow 2nd. Is wales in a different time zone now?

No idea, but it said i had won

 

[welsh dragon]

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I went to check mine and the App says the next draw is tomorrow 2nd. Is wales in a different time zone now?

How odd. It doesn't show a win on the website, just the app. Maybe it was a glitch. Doh

 

[Tenkaykev]

No idea, but it said i had won

I use the NS&I app, it tells you how much you have won in the last six draws ( I nearly spelled “ drawers “ as I now associate them with you 😉)
I notice that they send separate emails for each prize, so if you get 3 x £25 for example, you get three emails.

 

[Paulus]

Another £25 win on the PB's for me this month. That makes a total of £100 in about 6 months for me. a hell of a lot better than getting £1.60 in interest over 12 months

I thought the draw was tomorrow? Have you got a superfast hotline to Uncle Ernie?

 

[oldwheels]

Field alongside the Shannon. As for trams/tramming

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NskwYQlWdIo

These must be Irish terms.
We made hay ricks which were combined when they dried out a bit and eventually would be a haystack.

 

[oldwheels]

I thought the draw was tomorrow? Have you got a superfast hotline to Uncle Ernie?

I checked mine as well and was told to come back tomorrow.

 

[Paulus]

How odd. It doesn't show a win on the website, just the app. Maybe it was a glitch. Doh

I just had a look at the app, it shows last months winnings at the moment.

 

[oldwheels]

No idea, but it said i had won

Yes but when had you won? Not April.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Yes but when had you won? Not April.

That’s more likely

 

[oldwheels]

Been out for a trike run on this bright sunny morning. NE wind tho' so some windchill. Just on the verge of changing to a lighter top jacket but with the forecast better to wait another week.
Still strange lack of bird life with only a pair of geese taking off and heading down to the farm for breakfast.
One small brownish bird not identified and no buzzards or predators of any kind to be seen.
Very definite change in traffic as many strange cars. I know most of the regulars on this route and these were not local.
Stay within your local area? Aye right. They obviously regard anywhere in the UK as local to them.