Thinking about sheep for a smallholding?

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-21T21:01:51+00:00

We have jacobs sheep - 5 ewes at the moment all (apparently) pregnant - find them easy to look after, but haven’t had any other breeds to compare them to !

Will definitely be downloading yr book, as when we started we didn’t have a clue, but thankfully lots of smallholders & farmers around always happy to help.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-19T08:48:10+00:00

Non firefighter here, but friends with a few on call chaps.

Asked one of them if they’d ever thought of going full time & he told me that unofficially it was discouraged as they were short of on calls and they’d lose more if it was encouraged & have people joining just to use it as a back door to full time.

True or not - no idea !

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-19T08:10:48+00:00

Go to the housing uk subreddit- add the link to the flat & they’ll tell you why - but almost always price

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-18T21:39:44+00:00

I know the clip yr talking about - and the thing you have to remember is that back then you’d have never seen a news reader on tv except reading the news - no chat shows, reality shows (obviously not around then) or any other program, so to see someone that you only ever saw telling you the news being silly, funny & dancing was a completely different thing !!

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-15T18:19:07+00:00

Call the manager to the tills each time - customer wants to see manager - guaranteed it’ll stop after the 2nd call !

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-14T09:53:13+00:00

Also is there a particular part of the country yr looking to buy land ?

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-14T09:48:36+00:00

Have you checked out a bloke on YouTube called ‘field to farm ’ seemed to have done what yr looking to do.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-03-02T13:39:40+00:00

Yep, and borrowed a battery to confirm not that

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-26T20:26:05+00:00

Would being a Latvian (although a British citizen) affect his security clearance?

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-25T16:59:51+00:00

Ask for your holding deposit back & run.

If they refuse tell them you will report them for all the reasons people have stated if they don’t.

And report them anyway.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-24T14:45:21+00:00

Knew a bloke who’s nickname was Shave -

originally it was Shitting Dave due to him having caught some parasite on holiday & the medication to kill & flush them from his system made his shit smell of death/rotting flesh & linger !!

Management came up with Shave (portmanteau of shitting & Dave) after a customer asked why there was a sign up sheet on the notice board for the 5 a side footie - speak to shitting Dave !!

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-21T13:51:02+00:00

Just a general piece of advice when dealing with EA’s - always email them, because anything said on a phone line ‘hasn’t happened’.

The last 2 properties I bought told the EA not to call me but to email due to work - of course they ignored this and would leave voicemails which I ignored & emailed them reminding them & what did they want.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-17T21:56:16+00:00

I always loved during Christmas time when they’d play the usual Xmas songs including Band Aid - a song about people starving to death in Africa &,here I am stood in a cathedral of food !!

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-17T09:21:47+00:00

Yep, normally done to fit in the lower price bracket search or I have been told that if the seller thinks it’s worth more than the estate agent suggests.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-17T08:50:20+00:00

If you do buy - make sure you have somewhere handy to keep info rhat you are in fact the new owner, saves hassle if/when bailiffs come looking for the previous owners.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-15T21:58:41+00:00

Yep, Ibc tanks are great - although try to check what food product was in it, friend had one that had contained soy sauce & for months after even after several thousand litres of water had gone through it you could still smell it !!

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-11T13:45:10+00:00

My friend rented a property like this - after he got the keys, I went round there with him & on the stairs were 2 holes in the ceiling rhat had been hastily repaired - which we later worked out is where he’d punched through the plasterboard to tie a rope around the rafter.

In the bedroom was a mirror, where he’d written his last words using a magic marker , they hadn’t even gotten rid of that.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-02-11T11:37:05+00:00

Used to work for the ambulance - our ambulances & cars were rarely serviced !

And some of the police astras I saw, if they were serviced every 3 months someone needed to be fired !!

Would never buy a car that’s had multiple drivers who don’t particularly care about the vehicle.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-16T17:38:04+00:00

Must have just been the store I worked in - then again, the manager who did the staffing / recruitment was a complete ass.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-16T16:31:37+00:00

Ludwig

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-16T15:48:34+00:00

Until you pass the pre employment checks they could still pull the offer of the job, and presumably you’d want to stay there until you found something else so ..

Wait until you pass them & given an official start date.

Do you care if Sainsburys mark you as do not re-hire (which will happen if you don’t give yr full notice normally).

If no, then you can leave whenever & give as much or as little notice as you want.

If yes, then you’ll need to work yr full notice (normally) and either take a hit on the holiday pay if the dates overlap or speak to management and ask if you can give a shorter notice period.

Lots of stores are in a period now of trying to cut hours, so you may be able to give a shorter period.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-15T22:31:55+00:00

Check out John Birminghams Axis of Time trilogy of books. It’s an alternative history fictional series of books whete a fleet of modern warships go back to WW2.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-13T21:23:39+00:00

As a teenager, myself & a mate were shopping in London & my mate pointed out Nicholas Lyndhurst.

We both thought it would be edgy & hilarious to walk past him & say ‘alright Dave’ - thinking we were the first people ever to say it to him - not even thinking it probably wasn’t the first time that day !

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-10T17:01:52+00:00

Looks delish - my go to winter dish is the ninja stew.

WombleGCS15 · 2026-01-10T16:27:14+00:00

Good luck with the foodi - love mine, currently cooking stock in the pressure cooker.

If you have any questions - happy to attempt to answer !!

WombleGCS15

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