Typical. No rain for the whole of May, then the moment I get the coop into pieces for a deep clean it starts raining & carries on all afternoon.
I know the farmers will be grateful, but did it really have to rain over my chicken run?
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Typical. No rain for the whole of May, then the moment I get the coop into pieces for a deep clean it starts raining & carries on all afternoon.
I know the farmers will be grateful, but did it really have to rain over my chicken run?
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Only some of them, as it has mucked up hay making good and proper.
It is typical though, luckily we did ours last week.
It is nice not having to water the veg patch though. We had a tremendous thunderstorm at 5.30
It is typical though, luckily we did ours last week.
It is nice not having to water the veg patch though. We had a tremendous thunderstorm at 5.30
You are both SO LUCKY. It’s so dry here I can’t get a fork in the ground, and yesterday it was so cold we put the central heating back on, but only had a useless 4mm of rain.
Still, we’re looking on the bright side - we were supposed to be on holiday on Exmoor this week but apart from the lockdown cottage cancellation, the car is apparently suffering what may be a terminal breakdown. It was Tony’s 80th birthday on Wednesday - planned party for family and friends long since gone down the drain, of course- so we thought at least we’d go for a drive and a more distant walk and picnic for the first time since March. Tony had been charging the battery every week, but that morning it wouldn’t start. It was so fully discharged that local garage couldn’t even start it with their jump leads. More needed than just a new battery we fear - garage says the connections between the battery and electronics appear to be burned out and whilst they are competent to replace them, BMW insist on refitting and reprogramming the settings themselves. This means a tow to the BMW garage, their exorbitant charges for what in the past we have found to be less reliable work than our brilliant privately owned local garage, and then another tow back to us, or else a trip in a taxi to collect the car.
However, we had a nice day. Tony was on the phone for ages as everyone rang him up who might have been at the party!
Still, we’re looking on the bright side - we were supposed to be on holiday on Exmoor this week but apart from the lockdown cottage cancellation, the car is apparently suffering what may be a terminal breakdown. It was Tony’s 80th birthday on Wednesday - planned party for family and friends long since gone down the drain, of course- so we thought at least we’d go for a drive and a more distant walk and picnic for the first time since March. Tony had been charging the battery every week, but that morning it wouldn’t start. It was so fully discharged that local garage couldn’t even start it with their jump leads. More needed than just a new battery we fear - garage says the connections between the battery and electronics appear to be burned out and whilst they are competent to replace them, BMW insist on refitting and reprogramming the settings themselves. This means a tow to the BMW garage, their exorbitant charges for what in the past we have found to be less reliable work than our brilliant privately owned local garage, and then another tow back to us, or else a trip in a taxi to collect the car.
However, we had a nice day. Tony was on the phone for ages as everyone rang him up who might have been at the party!
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Over three days we had just enough to allow me to plant out my half dozen pea plants, but it only put about 10 mm in the bird bath and the grass hasn't "greened up" either. I'm on clay too but it's not quite as bad as Suffolk clay! Our water board was struggling to keep up with demand - not because of lack of rain but lack of capacity to treat the water and get it through the system
Please wish Tony a Happy Bleated Birthday for me and I'm sorry about the car, but he would have missed all the phone calls if you'd been out.
My battery eventually died but it was on the way out anyway and the car being so old it doesn't affect anything except that the clock stops. I've taken the other car off the road for lockdown but have to keep that on an intelligent charger. it has so much electronic stuff that keeps running when the ignition is off it would be completely flat in two or three weeks if not charged by some means or other. I discovered that when I didn't us it for a few weeks last winter but fortunately there was nothing that needed re-setting. I hate the complications of modern cars!
Please wish Tony a Happy Bleated Birthday for me and I'm sorry about the car, but he would have missed all the phone calls if you'd been out.
My battery eventually died but it was on the way out anyway and the car being so old it doesn't affect anything except that the clock stops. I've taken the other car off the road for lockdown but have to keep that on an intelligent charger. it has so much electronic stuff that keeps running when the ignition is off it would be completely flat in two or three weeks if not charged by some means or other. I discovered that when I didn't us it for a few weeks last winter but fortunately there was nothing that needed re-setting. I hate the complications of modern cars!
Margaid
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By the way, have you come across Moriarty's Law? It's really simple: Murphy was an optimist!
Hen-Gen
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Twenty three growers of which
Ten are cockerels.
Pick the best two to keep.
Kill eight.
Yesterday was my least favourite day of the year.
Ten are cockerels.
Pick the best two to keep.
Kill eight.
Yesterday was my least favourite day of the year.
Horrible for you. I hope there’s room in the freezer though.
13 pullets out of 23 isn’t bad, though.
13 pullets out of 23 isn’t bad, though.
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Belated happy birthday Tony, hope you get a party later in the year.
That's hen rearing for you Hen-Gen doesn't make it any pleasanter though.
Raining hard again, hopefully some will eventually come your way Marigold, our soil being clay also, takes awhile for the rain to really make a difference. You wouldn't want to drop your keys down some of the cracks.
That's hen rearing for you Hen-Gen doesn't make it any pleasanter though.
Raining hard again, hopefully some will eventually come your way Marigold, our soil being clay also, takes awhile for the rain to really make a difference. You wouldn't want to drop your keys down some of the cracks.
