For me the enjoyment of golf was playing and not just watching. However, I now make an exception for the modern Ryder Cup with all the agro that goes with it. No doubt USA would have won if they'd have picked Trump. After all, he's a terrific player, probably the best player in the world ever.
If the American caddies had been as good as trump's, dropping balls in favourable lies, they'd have been fine. He'll be spitting feathers. I wonder what 'reasons' he'll give, or how he'll spin it that the US actually won.
USA wasting home advantage by making the course more suited for the away team and not making the best of their squad.
Another big day in Staffordshire yesterday. A convoy of 4 cattle trailers on the M6 with all animals safely delivered. An amazing sight of 6 month old calves experiencing their first outing on grass, bucking and bronking as they galloped about their field bellowing excitedly. Sheep with their heads down munching away. The younger calves still in a shed but with a different view. Got to load up their 'white goods' to take down today. It'll be a bit strange with so few animals at our place. A young couple renting a third of our shed starting 1st Oct. Not our animals but it'll be a bit busier again. Less for me to do. I think Ill miss it actually.
Sign up with the new young couple. Maybe buy a tractor and rent yourself out. Masky does well in the rent game, so they say!
I'm too thick to be ermm thick skinned to be upset. The American crowd are a disgrace. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
We're keeping a tractor at our place anyway. There will be ground work to do. Muck out the shed in the coming week. Top and chain harrow the fields next week. A bit of paid field work to be done as well (I do the work, they pocket the cash). A new experience for them, they are now VAT registered.
Much closer than you'd have expected when the first pair teed off. Only 1 full point scored by Europe.
Fabulous Remote. What a life. Hope all the animals are settled in. Best of luck to your daughter and partner.
They've outgrown our place and have been after a farm for themselves for some time. There's no way they could buy their own farm as 1st generation farmers. If you're not born into it, the best you can hope for is a tenancy, and there are fewer and fewer of those. Im really pleased for them as they are both grafters. It was odd going there today with next to no animals. We've a young couple renting the shed starting next month and we've got bits to do so it'll be fine. Im sure Ill end up in Stafford in the near future helping out.
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Since Daughter and partner moved to Staffordshire, I seem to be doing more farming, not less. This weeks job was supposed to be to muck the cow shed out before it is rented out on Monday. They've been back and fore as they both have some work up here. Partner was emptying muck heaps at livery yards using our tractor and trailer. On Monday, half way through, cable to the loader controls snapped. 3 days waiting for a new one. Got a couple bays scraped up into the middle of the shed on Friday so the show cows (still with us) could be moved from one of the bays to be rented out. Partner came back on Saturday to finish the paid work. He told me he was done. I drove out, jumped in the tractor to find it not moving very well. Flat tyre. Big hole in it. Must have happened on the way back from his activities. Fortunately, the farming community being what it is, mates of theirs offered theirs for use today. A JCB telehandler. Never driven one before, so an interesting experience, especially out on the road with 4 wheel steer. Anyway, 4 hours on a machine and all done. I've got bucket envy now.
Two???? Did they hole both or is it sensible to change both? Or is it like Germany....they won't change one tyre on an axle!!!
Its the sensible option, especially with older tyres. The ones taken off were on the tractor 5 years ago when we got it. They looked as if they'd been on a while then. Plenty tread depth left, but there were a lot of splits from age. These new things have got 3 inch cleats, the old ones about 1.25 inches so they would have been very unbalanced. Not looking forward to changing the back ones. Theyre about £800 each. To be fair, the fronts on a loader tractor take a lot of pounding.
