Off Topic Away from football....

This is at risk of going round in circles.

 

Not if I take this thread off on a tangent ....

 

My T5 has gone to the Capital City of Wales for an engine transplant

 

I guess you're lucky to have found a donor!

 

lucky ? £4k

 

Nothing to a man of your means.

 

I'm still working in my 60's ...says a lot about my means

 

We watched Everything Everywhere all at Once last night.
Evidently I hadn't drunk enough wine before putting it on.

 

I drunk everything everywhere all at once last night and I've just woken up......

 

Good plan.

 

I can highly recommend avoiding the Banshees of Inisherin or whatever it's called.

Either I'm not intellectual enough to enjoy it on the right kind of level (,a distinct possibility of course) or it's the most depressingly pointless dirge of a film I've watched since The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...

 

Not seen Vanilla Sky then?

 

I don’t drink so I gave up after about half an hour.

 

Today I have been finding out about neutrino oscillation! Or more accurately, neutrino oscillation is doing my head in!

 

Taken tonight from the place I was at over Christmas.

 

Red sky at night. Barns on fire. Don't tell Remote.

 

Where's remote?
I'm missing the country file updates.

 

Bird flu.

 

I'm still here cling.

A few factors contributing to my quietness.
First the general lack of posting with no footy on (2 good results for Wales though), secondly an issue I'm having posting off my phone. For some reason, every time I reply to a post the editor keeps randomly inserting carriage returns and moving the cursor. Cant post anything. End up waiting until I'm on the PC. I get the same issue on a salmon fishing forum I use.
Thirdly, being a pretend farmer is knackering.

Between getting up every 3-4 hours for a few nights to feed orphan lambs, doing the late night / early morning checks on rota with our daughter and other stuff there's not much time for anything else.
Monday, after 5 hours working (not fishing) at our club trout water I then did 10 hours at the small holding. Didn't think retirement was going to entail 15 hour days grafting.
Anyway, yesterday was a bit better, only 10 hours, some of which was touring the Cheshire roads with a trailer load of last year's ewe lambs on the back of the tractor. Luckily, rush hour was over when I went through Knutsford. Mrs Remote was sat on with me, so we enjoyed a good chinwag. Didn't get them back to base until about 9pm.
I've repeatedly said it, total respect for the guys and gals who do this day in day out, week after week, year after year.

Anyway, about two thirds through now, so maybe 45-50 lambs born (Mrs Remote keeps track).
A few problems, a few interventions needed (hands inside a ewe) and a couple firsts.

For some reason we've had several ewes that have had twins that dote on one twin and neglect the other, to the extent that some are battering them with their heads. We've had the odd one over the years but never the 4 or 5 that have occurred this year. We've adopted a couple on to other ewes, but the remainder have caused the sleepless nights.

A couple lambs haven't presented right, so not in the superman position. Not uncommon. When one leg is back, it makes birthing difficult for the ewe. Mrs remote usually straightens things out as she has smaller hands than me. Had one yesterday that needed a bit more strength though, so my hand went in.
Only had one so stuck that a caesarean was needed.

And a first. We had a lamb born without a bum hole. We only noticed because it got so bloated after a day or so. Vet says its rare, but he sees several a year. Anyway, a bit of nifty scalpel work and a few stiches and the appropriate opening was created and the loose end of the plumbing attached to said opening. Fascinating to see such surgery, in a shed, with the lamb being held in mid air, upside down, by its legs while the vet did his stuff. 24 hours later and the bloating was gone and the lamb much more active. Still not out of the woods, but looking promising.

A lazy morning this morning, but off for a bit more graft after lunch. Hopefully only a couple hours.