Life And Sport From An Armchair View
Forget about Christmas, for me days like today are the magical ones in the year - Harvest 2021 is up and running. Out with the Clarke family once again as they tackle 20+ acres of Winter Barley with their new Claas Lexion 670 TerraTrac. On drawing duties were a Deutz Fahr 6210 and a John... Continue Reading →
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohQoCVuMYE
If asked to offer a synopsis of what my life is all about in as few words as possible, sport and farming would eternally be central tenets of any such description. Yes, writing and Susie and family would be of the utmost importance too. But it would take somebody or somebody or something exceptional to... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
A day I have longed for, honestly since we closed up the shed last winter, crop sowing for 2021 has begun. While I was in Rehab yesterday, Susie was busily getting my escape hatch ready for me to get stuck straight into bagging, sowing and fertilising our first crop of Kerr Pinks. It's not the... Continue Reading →
The Meath Ladies shone brightest as the award ceremonies for the 2020 season contiuned over the weekend, with seven members of Eamonn Murray's side making the Intermediate Team of the Year list. To put extra icing on an already sweet leftover Christmas cake, Dunboyne's Vikki Wall was named the 2020 TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of... Continue Reading →
Do not adjust your sets. What you see before you is real. For the day that was in it yesterday I had a go at making lunch for my lovely lady. The least I could do to repay just a fraction of the way in which she has turned my life upside down for the... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
It had to be him. His comforting voice, which had seen myself, my family and so many others through and over so much. Now read on... No secret has been of the fact that at times I haven't reacted well to all of the restrictions forced upon us by Covid-19. At all. And yes, I... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/TE0uZ_FBwv4 Into the shed for the first time in earnest this year. Starting to give it a good clean up as preparations begin for this year's farming journey. Wherever it may lead...