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« Reply #22815 on: August 11, 2013, 09:54:39 AM »




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All domesticated animals have their foybles. Cows kick milking stools over, goats eat bits of your clothing while you're not looking, and if a pig that you are in charge of gets loose and breaks into the neighbours two acre garden, it will seek out and dig up the only irreplaceable plant among hundreds of others. In this instance it was a beautifully manicured box tree, planted as a memorial, sacred to the memory of.... Well, you get the idea.


I once had a Rhode Island Red hen that refused to sleep with the other chickens, preferring instead to roost on the battery carrier of my Bedford truck.

The carrier was designed for two 6 volt batteries, but when one of them stopped holding charge I replaced them both with one 12 volt battery, which was fine except for the fact that it left a chicken sized space next to the chassis.



This is what a battery carrier looks like BTW. It mounts on the side of the lorry underneath the body. It's made of 3/8in steel, smells of oil and acid and is exposed to the elements. You can easily see how a chicken would prefer it to a coop.




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She laid her eggs there, but the family didn't want them, insisting that they wouldn't eat eggs from a battery hen. Eventually, she went broody and incubated a clutch of 9 eggs. This prompted more jokes, mostly of the "Hey Tom, I think your clutch is slipping" genre.

When I drove the truck she would sit tight, and when I parked up she would hop off and peck around happily.

I was convinced that nothing would come of it and that sooner or later she would abandon them, but, to my amazement, I woke up one morning to the tell tale peep peep peeping of newly hatched chicks.

I had a quick peek and found two dry fluffy hatchlings in the so called 'nest' and obvious signs that more were on the way. Over the course of the day we got another three.




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Obviously I couldn't leave them on the battery carrier, so I moved them all into a small pen that I made using wire netting and a tea chest tipped on it's side.

(Does anyone except me remember tea chests? We used them for everything)











Anyway, I've digressed. I just wanted to briefly illustrate the cantankerous nature of domestic animals. I didn't mean to ramble on about chickens.


They all lived happily ever after BTW, well, except for one little cockerel, who must have inherited his mother's love of inappropriate places.








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Right! back to the horse story.








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« Reply #22816 on: August 11, 2013, 10:29:00 AM »

According to this article I've been reading, I will lose weight if carbohydrates only make up 5% of my diet.

That means I have to increase my bacon intake to about 4 stone a day.
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« Reply #22817 on: August 11, 2013, 10:33:00 AM »

She laid her eggs there, but the family didn't want them, insisting that they wouldn't eat eggs from a battery hen

Fresh cup of coffee please.

Way too good.

Best to read Tom's stuff slowly, & twice, for the ocasional gems in amongst the kettle boiling & curtain making dross.
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« Reply #22818 on: August 11, 2013, 09:14:56 PM »

Sky channel 351. The History of the World in Two Hours.

I will be asking questions later.
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« Reply #22819 on: August 11, 2013, 09:34:46 PM »

Come on. We've done 4 billion years already.
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« Reply #22820 on: August 11, 2013, 09:44:23 PM »

The permian extinction. Wow!
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« Reply #22821 on: August 11, 2013, 09:44:59 PM »


Another chapter in my quest to prove that as a member of the most advanced species on the planet, I can use my position at the top of the evolutionary ladder to exert my will over lesser creatures.

So far I've beaten the wasps, and managed a 6 all draw with the moles, but I'm losing miserably to this.......





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Why the long face?
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« Reply #22822 on: August 11, 2013, 10:22:24 PM »


Another chapter in my quest to prove that as a member of the most advanced species on the planet, I can use my position at the top of the evolutionary ladder to exert my will over lesser creatures.

So far I've beaten the wasps, and managed a 6 all draw with the moles, but I'm losing miserably to this.......





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Why the long face?

because he hasn't made a foal out of Tom for ages.
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« Reply #22823 on: August 11, 2013, 10:52:36 PM »

Tom had a  problem with a pony in the past that thought it was a dog. He had to shout at him again and again until he was a little hoarse.
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« Reply #22824 on: August 12, 2013, 09:31:16 AM »

Tom had a  problem with a pony in the past that thought it was a dog. He had to shout at him again and again until he was a little hoarse.

Is that a lie or the tra-hoof?
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« Reply #22825 on: August 12, 2013, 09:59:13 AM »


Morning Tom.

Do you ever watch "Community Channel"? (Sky 539)

I was "flicking" this morning, some time between Midnight & 2am, & I chanced upon the last few minutes of a "Romany Life" programme. It was in black & white, & at the very end, they were approaching Appleby Fair I believe. It looked excellent, with good balance.

I missed the name of the Show though, sorry. 

I went searching for it this morning, & discovered that "Community Channel" is a treasure trove of wonderful stuff, much of which you would much enjoy.

See the Daily Schedule on the top right of this page, just click each day to see the daily programmes....

http://www.communitychannel.org/schedule/

Note there are several Gypsy & Roma based Shows. (Ignore "The Gypsy Gentlemen" which I think MAY be a misleading title).

The schedule this week includes.....

http://www.communitychannel.org/video/GaoxmBV1Hes/our_ways_and_voices/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/MNKitkTXG4Y/born_on_the_straw_episode_1/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/XSkwRtyr2ns/i_am_a_roma/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/MNKitkTXG4Y/born_on_the_straw_episode_1/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/O6EQtsJH-CY/looking_back_episode_1/
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« Reply #22826 on: August 12, 2013, 11:55:05 AM »


Morning Tom.

Do you ever watch "Community Channel"? (Sky 539)

I was "flicking" this morning, some time between Midnight & 2am, & I chanced upon the last few minutes of a "Romany Life" programme. It was in black & white, & at the very end, they were approaching Appleby Fair I believe. It looked excellent, with good balance.

I missed the name of the Show though, sorry. 

I went searching for it this morning, & discovered that "Community Channel" is a treasure trove of wonderful stuff, much of which you would much enjoy.

See the Daily Schedule on the top right of this page, just click each day to see the daily programmes....

http://www.communitychannel.org/schedule/

Note there are several Gypsy & Roma based Shows. (Ignore "The Gypsy Gentlemen" which I think MAY be a misleading title).

The schedule this week includes.....

http://www.communitychannel.org/video/GaoxmBV1Hes/our_ways_and_voices/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/MNKitkTXG4Y/born_on_the_straw_episode_1/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/XSkwRtyr2ns/i_am_a_roma/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/MNKitkTXG4Y/born_on_the_straw_episode_1/


http://www.communitychannel.org/video/O6EQtsJH-CY/looking_back_episode_1/



I'm familiar with the community channel Tony, and I have seen all the current Gypsy themed programmes. Many are excellent, some, not so much.


Our ways and Voices is about Irish Travellers.

Romani people left India for Europe about 1000 years ago, around 600 years ago they arrived in the UK.

People thought we came from Egypt and called us 'Egyptians' which eventually got shortened to 'Gypsies'.

The Gypsies never managed to get a foothold in Ireland because it was already occupied by an indigenous group of travelling people.

These people are now recognised as an ethnic Group in their own right. They are the Irish Travellers. (Note the upper case 'T').

Irish Travellers are often mistakenly referred to as Gypsies or Irish Gypsies.   



Born on The Straw
is an excellent documentary film featuring Ryalla Duffy and her family. (I think you watched it on DVD at my place once). Ryalla is a good friend of ours and we see her often.


I am Roma
is about Romani people in Europe.

There is a lot of confusion about the relationship between the Roma and the Gypsies.

600 years ago, we were the same people, but those of us who settled in the UK were isolated from the rest of the Romani people. Our culture, traditions and language changed subtly over the years, and we became known as Gypsies.

At the moment we have a lot of Roma migrants in the UK and I am often asked to represent them at APPG working sessions and other meetings. I attend these but spend most of my time explaining that the Roma are a migrant population while the Gypsies, having been here for 600 years, are, to all intents and purposes, indigenous. Therefore, our needs are different.

The Roma have it rough here in the UK, but it pales into insignificance when compared to the inequalities, privations and cruelties they suffer in their own countries, much like the Gypsy people in this country suffered until very recently.

Just to clear up another misconception, immigrants from Romania are Romanians, not Roma, unless of course they happen to be Roma from Romania.

It's interesting to note that when I am on holiday in Europe, I recognise Romani people when I see them. They on the other hand only recognise me as one of their own if I speak to them. (We still share the remains of a common language).

Mrs Red and I are the UK representatives for the European Roma and Travellers forum. (ETRF) We are next due to meet in Strasbourg in September.

Notice that the word 'Gypsy' is missing from the ETRF. Roma people don't like it, they see it as an insult, which I suppose it was initially. I have to explain that we in the UK are proud of it.










 
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« Reply #22827 on: August 12, 2013, 12:13:18 PM »

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I'm going to have some exciting/ relevant stuff from a survey I'm currently doing to put in your diary later

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« Reply #22828 on: August 12, 2013, 12:16:41 PM »

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I'm going to have some exciting/ relevant stuff from a survey I'm currently doing to put in your diary later




 
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« Reply #22829 on: August 12, 2013, 12:48:01 PM »

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I'm going to have some exciting/ relevant stuff from a survey I'm currently doing to put in your diary later




 

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