Tag: Disabled Farmer
-
Change of venue for Leinster Final
As if the high drama on the pitch involving Meath teams over the past week or so wasn’t enough, things took another twist prior to the Royal County’s meeting with Louth in tomorrow (Wednesday) evening’s Leinster U-20 FC Final – of course they did – with the revelation that the showdown for the Seamus Flood…
-
Happiness is…
After a long five years, back ‘on the horse’ today. Getting rid of uninvited decorations in the grass before #Hay2024 Tell me I can’t do something and I’ll make it my business to prove you wrong, or bust a gut trying!
-
Harvesting Early Crop Spuds 2023
Maybe not on the same scale as the big operators but proud as punch all the same. Planted Paddy’s Day, lifted and washed today. Three lots still in the ground, along with: Carrots, Peas, Onions, Beetroot, Broccoli, Leaks, Courgettes, Lettuce, Cabbage and Rhubarb.
-
Watch “Digging Early Crop Spuds – on wheels!” on YouTube
My first attempt at using a GoPro – well, a cheaper version of same, to be truthful – so please be kind! Here, you get a steering-eye view as I dig and wash two thirds of our Early Crop spuds. Sown on March 13th, harvested on July 14th, yielding 56 potatoes in total, with the…
-
Airfield Estate And Farm
And now for something completely different. Myself and herself had time to kill last week and while yours truly would’ve been far more enamored, initially at least, with the prospect of going harvest spotting, once the word ‘Farm’ was mentioned in the description of the intended venue she had me won over. This, however, was…
-
Chats And Clips
There’s a little bit of everything in this overdue catch-up, from wheelchair repairs, to poignant haymaking and woodwork and teasers about more exciting stuff to come.
-
Machinery Preparation and What’s In The Pipeline
As many of you will know by now, life has improved immeasurably since acquiring the assistance of a new care company earlier this year. It’s not just in terms of the ‘normal’ issues Personal Assistants usually offer help with. As evidenced by today’s afternoon call which saw very useful modifications carried out in the shed…
-
The best television is true to life
At a generous estimate, with the exception of medical appointments or attending sporting events, it would be ventured that wheels transporting yours truly only circumnavigated Dublin city a handful of times at most. One of which was when I was about eight, my one and only occasion on Dublin Bus. It was the trip that…
-
Watch “The Grand Old Dukes Of York” on YouTube
So much of farming – no matter what sector thereof you’re in or to what level – depends on the weather playing ball with you. Today, that meant getting a crop of Duke Of York sown before the predicted rainfall of the weekend comes in.
-
Sowing the seeds on the road to God knows where
While in the vast majority of ways it could be said that the vast majority of the most recent Christmas/New Year period passed off peacefully in these quarters, there was the not-so-small matter of the senior bossman here having an unwanted meeting with – and kicking the ass of – Covid-19. Having something like that…