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by Cider Boys
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:52 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 41
Views: 814

Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.

You are way ahead of me also Westie, I spent last week at St Ives and visited a couple of NT gardens which was very enjoyable and the weather was good. It was nice to see the fields of daffodils and cauliflowers. I managed to do a little rotavating yesterday when it was windy, dry and sunny but toda...
by Cider Boys
Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:34 pm
Forum: Ask the team
Topic: Large seed potatoes
Replies: 8
Views: 315

Re: Large seed potatoes

I cannot add anything to what Westie has wisely said. The important thing to remember (as Westie says) is that you should only cut them at planting time not before.

Keep chitting

Barney
by Cider Boys
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74824

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Well I was a little disappointed today, I went into town and on course my old favourite Wilko is no more. I used to buy nets of many onion bulbs for next to nothing and they all grew into super onions that kept well and have loads left from last year's planting. I bought 100 bulbs from a local agric...
by Cider Boys
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:50 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures
Replies: 14
Views: 16142

Re: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures

Oh Westie! You must be referring to my favourite pin-ups of the era, namely Barbara Woodhouse and Fanny Cradock.

If so they were certainly bossy, Barbara being plainly bossy but there was a little menace, in Fanny's bossiness.

You certainly did what you were told by these two.

Barney
by Cider Boys
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74824

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

I spent time today chopping down an over grown Laurel bush, it was huge and I have plenty more Laurel bushes to clear. The grass on my lawns have grown extremely long and I have moved some sheep on them to eat it down. It is not going very well, although they are eating the grass they keep getting t...
by Cider Boys
Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures
Replies: 14
Views: 16142

Re: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures

Well done oldherbaceous, I was beginning to think that I was the only one who remembered Jack Hargreaves. Don't forget to tune in and relive the times when you were a lad enjoying our rural past.

Best wishes

Barney
by Cider Boys
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:54 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures
Replies: 14
Views: 16142

Re: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures

Well Westie, Jack lived in Dorset and was a legend to people interested in the countryside. My workmates and I used to spend our lunch times talking about his latest programme; we were all country people interested in fishing, hunting, shooting and farming. He was also a knowledgeable man on horses/...
by Cider Boys
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:25 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures
Replies: 14
Views: 16142

Jack Hargreaves to return to Talking Pictures

At last some good news regarding a true countryside programme from the knowledgeable Jack Hargreaves, to be shown from 5th February at 6.30 pm, on Talking Pictures. https://www.oldtimereview.co.uk/out-of-town-talking-pictures/ He told it largely unscripted, with no irritating background muzak, as it...
by Cider Boys
Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:11 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 118
Views: 3359615

Re: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.

Sorry to read of your losses Oldherbaceous, I think it is very sad when people we know well die. I especially feel sad when I read of people that I used to work alongside but then lost contact with have died. I just wish that I had made more of an effort to keep in contact with them when they were a...
by Cider Boys
Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 118
Views: 3359615

Re: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.

Well, I moved my sheep yesterday morning and took the opportunity to walk around to see the extent of the flooding. I spotted the usual little egrets and herons and then noticed a whitish brown bird in the mist perched on a fence post, it then took off and it was clearly a Barn Owl quartering across...
by Cider Boys
Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:23 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 118
Views: 3359615

Re: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.

Heavy rain here in Somerset today, roads are flooded and my Hamlet is cut off. Royal Mail sent me an email saying that they can't get through to deliver my medicine I ordered. I hope the roads improve tomorrow when it should not be raining. Fields are badly flooded and I should have moved my sheep t...
by Cider Boys
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:13 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 730630

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Let's hope you can find a solution Westie. I went for a walk across the marches to the river this morning and it was windy and cold. I was pleased to see dozens of little egrets, 4 grey herons, 2 snipe, green sandpipers, flocks of swans, skylarks and starlings as well as sightings of several small g...
by Cider Boys
Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:44 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 730630

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Sharp frost this morning whilst I was out checking my sheep with my collie and then I saw my first Fieldfare this autumn busily eating hawthorn berries whilst chasing off the blackbirds. There appears to be a plentiful supply of hawthorn berries this year so they should help keep the birds happy. I ...
by Cider Boys
Tue Nov 07, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 730630

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

I hate it when you lose an old fruit tree, such a shame. Still no broad bean sowing then, Barney…. Unfortunately not yet Oldherbaceous, weather was bright and sunny for most of the day with just a couple of rain showers. I spent most of the day still cutting up the apple tree and when carrying some...
by Cider Boys
Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 730630

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Lost another of my old apple trees in the recent storm and spent today cutting most of it up. Unfortunately not a lot of fire wood from it since as with old apple trees it was completely hollow in the trunk and main limbs, but the sheep loved the leaves. My Hamlet was cut off due to the floods and y...