Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Morning. It is grey here .
Yesterday evening I doing a spot of Hans and Lotte Haas . Deep water butt diving! The washers around our water butt taps have developed leaks so we had to lower the levels a bit so that I could lean down into them to hold the nut whilst my wife twisted the tap. It needs two people as you can't hold the nut and tighten the tap at the same time. Also it could be a bit dangerous if you were fall in head first.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I remember our neighbours doing this with a brick driveway. There were no weeds to speak of, but they took every brick out, Husband scraped of anything that looked alive, then handed it to Wife who vacumed the underside (I kid you not) and placed it back.

After all, it is Germany. Reputation for order and cleanliness, at least among us in the States.

 

[Andy in Germany]

After all, it is Germany. Reputation for order and cleanliness, at least among us in the States.

It's worse than that, it's Swabia, a region in the south west that even the Germans think is a bit bonkers about order and cleanliness. Sometimes I wonder...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I remember our neighbours doing this with a brick driveway. There were no weeds to speak of, but they took every brick out, Husband scraped of anything that looked alive, then handed it to Wife who vacumed the underside (I kid you not) and placed it back.

OCD?

 

[Maverick Goose]

I'm browsing the Mundane thread.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5339074, member: 9609"]this field had Barley in it 3 days ago - harvested, ploughed cultivated and drilled (most likely Oil Seed) in a few days - its all about big machines now
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The old ways are changing, but are they for the better.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Currently trying to design a case for some new stage lights at work. It's so hot I keep sticking to the paper...

 

[raleighnut]

The old ways are changing, but are they for the better.

Yep big machines need big fields to the detriment of hedgerows and the habitat they provide.

 

[Andy in Germany]

OCD?

No, just the local culture. Absolutely no-one else thought it was the slightest bit strange...

On the other hand, the local area is very tidy...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Yep big machines need big fields to the detriment of hedgerows and the habitat they provide.

They also use oil: we use 10x the amount of calories in food growing food, and that's before we move it anywhere else...

 

[Andy in Germany]

The Boss just wandered in and said "Stuff this: it's too hot. We're closing for the day."

As a mere intern, I won't argue...

 

[potsy]

The Boss just wandered in and said "Stuff this: it's too hot. We're closing for the day."

As a mere intern, I won't argue...

My boss did a similar thing earlier, but it was only him going, the rest of us are still here working

 

[raleighnut]

My boss did a similar thing earlier, but it was only him going, the rest of us are still here working

 

[MikeG]

[QUOTE 5339074, member: 9609"]this field had Barley in it 3 days ago - harvested, ploughed cultivated and drilled (most likely Oil Seed) in a few days - its all about big machines now
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The field that surrounds us was barley this year, and they harvested it in the first week of July!! However, the ground is too hard to plough, even with their monster tracked tractors. It is just baked too hard. The wheat harvest is a write off, as are the feed beans, but the barley was OK, just about. As soon as it rains there will be machines out all over the place ploughing, drilling and so on, but 2mm of rain in over 3 months isn't a lot of use to a farmer. They can't even do the hedges because the flail might strike a flint and set off a fire.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Just got back to find Elder Son had missed his dentist appointment. Again.

We tracked Elder Son down at his girlfriends, but I still had to spend some time making a new appointment and smoothing things down with the secretary...

Teenagers, I ask you...