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It is a well known fact among farmers that combine harvesters never break down during the winter and spring but as soon as they are needed at harvest - bang, something major happens. Similarly, why is it that I have no back trouble throughout the winter but as soon as I start planting and sowing my back starts playing up. I simply do not understand it.
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Hello Oakridge,
It is called "Sod's Law".
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snooky wrote:Hello Oakridge,
It is called "Sod's Law".


The probability of something happening is inversely proportional to the desire of it happening

Also known as Murphy's law
Murphy's wife's law

Murphy is an optimist
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Wife's relatives found one harvest time they must have left water in the combine and the block had popped a bit out of the casting so they super glued it back in and completed the harvest.
I thought you were older than me - my aches and pains don't go away in the Winter, how do you do it?
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Geoff wrote:I thought you were older than me - my aches and pains don't go away in the Winter, how do you do it?

I'm a lot younger (I reckon I'm the youngest on here, except maybe pod) and my aches and pains get worse over winter... I want to know the secret too

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Scratch that, just been and looked, I recon I am the youngest person on here... When did 24 become a young age online? I'm used to being surrounded by fowl mouthed teens on the internet
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The secret is - SWMBO makes sure that I do not have time to notice for the rest of the year.
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snooky. Sod got a lot to answer for.
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With all my problems last year the ride-on mower has been sitting idle since July 2014.

Having got all the field gradually back into shape with the strimmer, I thought it about time to cross fingers and see if the ride-on was still alive. A drop of petrol, turned the key, and off she goes :)

Some serious mowing next week on the dry days that are forecast.
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Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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