Messages posted by : AllyG
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Ha Pablo!
How come you can still remember the words of that awful song - my daughter says you probably weren't even born when it came out (seems like yesterday to me), or has it been turned into another terrible ad? Ally |
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Well,
I'll just have to hope the Admin man doesn't wipe it off then, won't I? And Pablo, I'm not really cross - but that was an awful song wasn't it? And farmers aren't really like that, as I'm sure you know. The ones I know are very smart, resourceful, and hard working, or they'd have gone bankrupt a long time ago. Ally |
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Pablo - what cheek!
As a matter of fact, driving a combine is a very skilful job, especially where I was doing it, on the edge of a 300 foot cliff, above the sea. Of course, the view was fantastic, but it wasn't so clever if you lost your concentration. My husband had a contractor doing the combining one year, and he temporarily lost it, and ended up practically hanging off the cliff, and he was so frightened that he literally went rigid and they couldn't get his arms off the wheel for ages. And my brother-in-law got off once to clear the chain harrow and forgot to put on the hand brake, and the tractor took off. He ran after it, nearly caught it, got half run over, and the whole tractor went off the cliff, straight through the coastal path (be very careful walking on this path in case you get hit by a runaway tractor), and over the cliff. Bits of it are still to be found on the rocks 100 foot below. Ally |
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Hi Ian,
Well, at the moment all I seem to do is type messages on this website! On my tax return etc. it says 'self-employed farmer'. But these days the farming side of what I do has got pretty small - it's mostly just paperwork and standing in the road to stop the cattle, from time to time, and helping with handling the cattle during T.B. tests etc. We used to have a dairy herd and kept all the calves as either dairy replacements or as beef. We had about 100 head of cattle. And we used to grow arable crops as well. So I can milk cows, drive a tractor, and I even used to drive the combine harvester as well. But milk prices fell through the floor, so we got rid of the dairy cows, let out most of the land, and now I have time to go ski-ing and type message on this website. We are now farming holidaymakers, mainly, plus we have another house we let long term. We've been letting one holiday cottage for 11 years, and we're starting another one this year. So I spend my time cleaning them, painting, gardening, being pleasant to our guests and helping them with any of their little problems (e.g. we lent one family our spare car one year when theirs broke down). And I play stockmarkets, but haven't done too well just lately! Is that enough info? My daughter says my messages are much too long, but I learnt to touch type years ago, in evening classes when I was at school, and it doesn't take me long. I live in Pembrokeshire, in the Coastal National Park, about a mile from a fantastic sandy beach (if anyone wants a holiday here just let me know - we still have some vacancies for this year :lol: ). Ally |
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Hi Ian,
Glad the celebrations went well, and you liked the avatar photo. I've been busy outside all day, getting the place ready for holidaymakers. We've just had some, and from next Saturday we've got them practically right through to September. Ally |
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Snowb4ndit,
My daughter woke up so I got her to do an avatar for me. The photo was taken in VT a couple of weeks ago by a professional photographer working for Prosneige, the ski school. You can't see, because it's too small, but I am looking rather anxious, and concentrating very hard. We were up the top of one of the mountains, when the instructor said they were doing a photo shoot over a jump, if we wanted to have a go. There was a class in front of us, and we watched these 4 year olds going over the jump, and nearly all of them landed up sitting on the back of their skis. So I decided to go slowly and carefully, so I wouldn't be smashed out on the snow in the photo. The jump was only about a foot high, but I did actually take off, and land O.K. not on top of the photographer, or my instructor, or anyone else. So I bought the photo - very expensive - 10 euros. But as you said, it is a nice photo. The funny thing about it, is that I always pretend I'm on a horse when I'm going over a jump, because I used to ride a lot when I was young, and the action is pretty similar. And in this photo, the enlarged version I mean, you can 'see' the horse if you use a bit of imagination. I always pretend I'm on a bicycle, going down without using my hands, weaving from side to side, when I'm carving, so presumably if anyone took a photo of me doing this, you'd be able to 'see' the bicycle. I hope Ian likes the avatar as well - specially made by my daughter for him. Ally |
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Amanda,
If I get any horrid messages like that I simply turn off my computer, at the mains as well, leave it a few minutes, and then turn it back on. Usually the horrid message has gone then. Ally |
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Please pass my congratulations on to your Mummy and Daddy, that's quite an achievement,
Ally |
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