Well how are yu all a’gettin on t’gether?
Thas suffin cold out there today (31st Jan) so I thought I’d draw inside und hev a wud a’long with you all.
That old north wind thas a’blowin straight from the North Pole, I recon that’d be fit t’flare yu if you were walkin on Holkham Beach this afternoon.
Yesterday morning the Missus und I were countin the birds that cum inta our garden for the RSPB GardeN Bird Watch. There din’t seem to be s’many about this year. There were plenty o’Blue Tits un Long Tail Tits but not s’meny Finches or Starlings. We hed plenty o’Gold Finches last year but they all seem to hev disappeared along with the Black Birds und Robins.
The old Cock Pheasant hev started drawing into the garden for sum feed, tuther day he und another black cock pheasant , who I han’t seen a’for ,were havin a scrap. I recon the gold one must hev won cos I han’t seen the black one any more. Over the month I hev bin getting in my old bird hide down at the bottom o’the garden t’see if I can git a few bird photos. I hev bin puttin a bit o’feed down t’see what I can draw in. Cos there hev bin plenty wood pigeon about, they hev bin on the young Master’s crops over the road but he keep them on the move with one o’them gas bangers. I managed to git a photo or two of a Jackdaw und Jay but I missed a Magpie . You hev goota be suffin quick to get a photo cos they swoop down und crab a beak full o’food with-out really landin. I like a’gettin in my old hide cos the Missus know she mussant come und disturb me down there, if she do that’ll frighten the birds. Just in case she think o’ringing me my mobile phone I turn that off un-all.
Them up at Whitehall are a’gettin in a rare old muddle , when is a party not a party? I recon if you the one who meake the rules you can’t very well say yu don’t know what they are. They recon they were taking drinks inta Number 10 in a luggage case. If that were true what were them security folk thinkin when they opened the case at the entrance to Downing Street und saw that were full of drink.
They recon that the price o’houses are a going up, I’ll tell yu suffin, so is the price o’farm machinery. I see that there were a demonstration on a farm near Norwich tuther day o’the latest sugar beet harvesters. Folk cum from all over the country t’hev a look at um. if yu wanted t’buy one yu hev gotta hev a deep pocket cos they started at £500.000. Thas more than most folk pay for a house. The difference is a house ull last yu a lifetime but a sugar beet harvester won’t. arter five t’ten years you’ll ha’a buy another one cos the old one ull be worn out.
Hev any on yu bin a watching that TV programme about an Actor (I think he won Strictly a year or two ago) und his family moving onto a farm. They hev always lived in a town und now nothin about farming. That hant stopped them a’buyin sum sheep und pigs. He recon he thought you just turned the sheep inta a field und let them get on with it. There’s a mawther who farm next door who keep a comin in t’give him a bit of advice. The fust time he went und hed a look at har sheep one on um hed a touch o’foot rot so she got him t’help har deal with it; he recon he couldn’t do it cos that made him feel ill, then she showed how to give the sheep a dose o’worm drench. Arter he hed done a few he ha’a stop cos he come over all tired.
When you turn sheep out to grass und afore the adult sheep are shorn they git a bit dirty round the back-end so you ha’a clip that orf t’stop the old flies a’layin eggs on it ,these will then hatch out into maggots. Well boy he recon he’could’nt do that either. This week they got sum pigs, when they went to collect them they asked the folk who were a’sellin them how much feed the pigs should hev they dint write the answer down. But I recon the best one is training their sheep to be halter led at a local show. Two days afore the show they han’t even put a halter on some of the sheep they hev entered. Now afore I retired I used to show sheep at the Norfolk, Wayland & Aylsham Shows und I used to start Halter training eight to ten weeks afore the fust show und they were led every week-day right up to the show I could keep a runnin on but the Missus hev told me t’stop watching the programme cos she recon I’ll hev a heart attack. All I’ll say is that int the way t’treat sheep or pigs just fore the sake of’a tv programme.
Fare ye well t’gether und du yu keep a’troshin