Yokel Matt
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I didn't bother with fondant as I didn't rob them in the autumn and just gave them a winter syrup mix - That's a hard lesson to learn. They were possibly a bit exposed to the bad weather we had a few weeks ago and I was going to move them this year - their positioning was dictated by the farmer which wasn't necessarily as good as it could have been. Properly pissed off about it!
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Totally gutted - went to check my bees at the weekend and the colony has perished. I only started last year and it's quite demoralising to have lost them when I can't see what more I could have done. They've still got at least 4 14x12 frames of capped honey stored and never touched the feed I gave them and there were good signs of life a month ago before our run of bad, windy weather. Just spoke to a local bee keeping supplier to put my name down for a colony and he says I'm not alone and a lot of people are in the same boat this year. Hopefully you lads on here have faired better than I
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Certainly looks the business that new quad Tim - you'll be needing a tartan blanket to keep your knees warm! Great result mate!
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It was mate - it was worse when we were doing it off the ladder as the bucket was being pulled up by hand and was swaying about and clipping the sides which made it tip a bit - if you had it too full bits would call out. Nothing like half a brick from 20 meters to focus your mind! The tipper bucket took about 40-50 kg - more than a few times the winch spool bunched up and it was left dangling above me - not cool. Good point about there being something in the water... I'll need all the help I can get if I'm going to get to that age!... No more well digging for a start!
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I was sorry to hear that today the old boy who told us about the well and was such good company during the project died over the weekend aged 97. R.I.P Lesley - thanks again.
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You know which side your bread is buttered mate - I'd have done the same. Lovely colour on it, would make a nice cape.
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Thanks gents - A bit of guesswork going on with the charcuterie so hopefully they'll turn out ok. I'm rigging up a cold smoker using an old metal kitchen bin and a length of pipe to give half the batch a taste of hickory. Even if I say so myself the biltong was amazing - with a jug of ale and the 6 nations on the TV it didn't last long! -
A recent trip out stalking yielded a few deer, one of these was earmarked for the landowner but a couple of others were small follower culls that, frankly, it would be embarrassing to present to a game dealer so I was going to keep these for the freezer. My last effort at sausages needed a health warning as I completely bolloxed the measurements and used twice the amount of seasoning I should have so not only were they saltier than pork scratching's they also made all the dairy in the fridge, including the milk, taste of sausages! A mate in the trade (Martin) suggested I use a complete mix unt
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Thanks again! The wife wants to put an honesty box on it to sell our. excess hens eggs but I'm nervous some scroat will drop them down into it. You can bet there's one asshole out there who would think something like that would be funny!
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Cheers for the comments fellas. For every hour spent on it there was probably 10 of me stood just staring at it thinking 'Shit'. I had to take a whistle down there towards the end as the guys up-top couldn't hear me when I was shouting for the bucket to be lifted or for air... Which was disconcerting. Also had a few lumps from the odd bit of of tile / brick that fell in by accident, luckily nothing bigger came back down. Yes the old boy is still about - keeps telling the other neighbours 'I told you so!!''
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Dead right TC - Hats off to the guys that built it in the first place, natural stonework down to 25 ft then through layers of bedrock, bells out like shallot at the bottom to around 3.5 /4 ft in diameter and you can see what looks like tool marks on the less exposed parts. A dangerous feat of engineering! I reckon I owe it a few quid already then Mac as I had enough wishes / prayers when I was down there!... Still have the odd nightmare as well DF!
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Cheers gents - the old boy is made up that we've got the well going again. The water is very nice, I keep keening to get it tested but it's clear as gin now and tastes good.
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To anyone thinking about clearing out a well yourself that you happen to find in your garden i'd recommend asking yourself a few very fundamental questions starting with 'how much do you like living', followed closely by 'how expensive will this be' and finally 'what's the point'?!! If ever I started a job thinking it was a good idea and then began to regret it this was it - that said now its finished I'm very proud of it. When we moved into our house one of the elderly neighbours asked if we were going to look for the well that was in our driveway. It wasn't listed on the deeds and o
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Ohh no.... she knew exactly what she was doing! Her house backed onto some fields, we were 200 meters away and Tim noticed her leaning on her gate taking pictures of us. We carried on walking (away from her house) and she started shouting - her husband turned up and hollered that he was calling the police. I left my rifle with Tim and walked over to politely set her mind at rest. She was already on the phone calling in air support... I just kept it cool and civil and once I knew the police had checked me out and backed me up listened to her make an idiot out of herself. Cringeworthy!
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Might have been double figures if it wasn't for that dog Rich. At least your landowner has an excuse for being off a footpath which is more than can be said for the b*****ds who frightened off my stag! That tenant took some patience.... Especially when she was telling the person at the end of the 999 call that, as well as being 'armed and dangerous' I must also be responsible for all the dead badgers she's been seeing on the roads... Grrrr! The next pricket is yours Tim...!
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If I tried to get these in my Landy (90) they'd be sharing the front seat with me! Not known for their spaciousness... big roe sometimes need to fold up a bit!
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Another EU ruling that the French, Spanish and Portuguese will just ignore like they have done around our coastline for the last 20 years...
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Was down in Dorset on Saturday for the first time in a while - The last time I was down here the wind was so strong the highseat was swaying like standing wheat at times and the day ended with some b*****ds dog chasing away the decent sika stag I had in the crosshairs. It wasn't looking too peachy when Tim and I arrived an hour before dawn and it was absolutely hammering it down and blowing a hooney. We've both been out in worse but to start what would be a long day soaking wet and cold didn't seem too sensible so we had a kip until after eight by which time the wind had moderated and the rain
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Sounds like a shrewed business mover what with all the Arabs coming over here at the moment! There's a smallholder I pass on the way to work that keeps goats and I often see the youngsters bouncing about. I keep meaning to ask if I could buy one off him as I like a good goat curry. Did you have to do ARAMS forms for them? I've got a CPH number but it's not half a ball ache for a small goat that's going to be alive for less that 48 hrs once I get my hands on it. Good luck with it all.
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Another good effort to make it happen - nice shot too. Bummer about the keys.. At least you left them on the kitchen table not in a hedgerow somewhere!
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Best get that down the vet pronto...
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Beauty - it all worked out well again, a nice buck a well.
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Being in a seat in the wind isn't that much fun either, even seemingly solid trees sway more than you'd think not to mention all the twigs and bits if shite snapping off and falling all around you! Another good result for you though and in difficult conditions - nice one.
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Sorry to hear you've lost a friend. As far as convalascence goes time out stalking is as good a place as any to get things perspective. Good stalk and glad to see you back.
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I heard of a bloke that was so fed up with them he went down the cash n' carry, bought a gurt tub of peanut butter and spread it on the cats eyes on the main road next to his farm.... The law's mad when it comes to these things and as for the RSPCA their original (and once very defendable) mandate has been lost with the progressive intake of militant townies who think the countryside is an extension of their garden.