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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fleecewife on May 10, 2013, 08:06:21 pm
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Just saw Rosemary on Landward at Thainstone rare breeds sale. Rosemary you are so laid back on camera, as if you do this every day 8) . A future career for you, representing the smallholding community? I'm most impressed.
I've never been to Thainstone but it seemed well attended and some lovely black pigs. But the poor little orphan lambs looked very sad :(
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Yes a tele star and a gid scots twang.
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Can anyone put it on Youtube please?
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I would imagine you will be able to see it on bbc iplayer in the next few days.
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YOu kept that one quiet.........shall look forward to that one on the player later :thumbsup:
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just checked it should be on iplayer by tomorrow
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Good. I can watch it. Which day and what time was it on, someone, please?
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Its always good to watch some one you know...more real!!
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Good. I can watch it. Which day and what time was it on, someone, please?
Today 7pm to 8pm, but check Iplayer listings from tomorrow
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Will it have English subtitles ? :innocent: :innocent: :innocent:
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Fit are ye on aboot, there's nothing wrang we oor native twang so haud yer wissht an less o the lip
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Fit are ye on aboot, there's nothing wrang we oor native twang so haud yer wissht an less o the lip
;D
You'll find it here:
BBC iPlayer - Landward: 2013/2014: Episode 6 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s908p/)
Haven't seen it yet ourselves, will watch tonight. :)
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Rosemarys article starts at about 12mins 40 and rosemary herself appears around 14mins
Rosemary is now a poultry expert :-)
was very good she is indeed a natural!!!
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Just watched it and looked very good. Didn't understand a word of it though apart from the weather. :roflanim:
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Just watched it and looked very good. Didn't understand a word of it though apart from the weather. :roflanim:
;D ;D ;D I remember "Rab C Nesbitt" was hown in England with subtitles. I don't think I'm as broad as that though :innocent:
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i have clearly been here long enough as i understood all of it
really funny when we first arrived I had to try real hard to understand anyone, now it just happens...
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I cant get I Player over here!!!!!
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Very good and I understood every word........a natural, maybe a new career as a presenter :innocent:
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very well done Rosemary, its harder than most people think talking when a camera is pointing in your face..thats why i like to operate the camera :innocent: :excited:
really enjoyed that...Oh..and even understood most of the lingo..well apart from the auctioneer :farmer:
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no one understands any auctioneer ever anywhere!!!
they don't speak any language known to normal people!!!
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Woohoo. Rosemary is famous. When are you giving autographs, Rosemary?
I understood every word (except the auctioneer's gabble) and it was really interesting. Would have loved to have been there.
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I cant get I Player over here!!!!!
Landward at Thainstone Rare Breeds Sale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCtn_KwItCE#ws)
:)
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THANKS SOOOOO MUCH DAN! Rosemary, you are a natural!!!
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You can across very well Rosemary. In fact it was about the best bit of the program as I am no Nick Nairn fan and Dougies holiday snaps didn't do much for me.
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Thanks for posting that Dan. Yes, Rosemary is a natural. Well done :thumbsup:
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Brilliant!! :thumbsup:
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bluebells at a rare breed sale - shocking!! :roflanim:
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bluebells at a rare breed sale - shocking!! :roflanim:
RB sale was stretching it a bit - lots of hybrid hens, cross bred pigs, cross bred sheep etc.
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Did you enjoy it, Rosemary?
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The sale or the interview?
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The sale or the interview?
:roflanim:
I hope I never get interviewed as I know I would slip in something rude :innocent:
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The sale or the interview?
Both.
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Yes, to both. The Landward crew are really nice and very helpful and I met a few folk at the sale - Mays, and thestephens, amongst others, so that's always nice.
The catalogue was a bit disappointing but there were plenty of buyers. I think ANM are really trying to support rare breeds but if folk don't want to sell...
Why don't folk sell through the ring? I'd be interested to know.
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Ahem .... so where was the TAS t shirt I ask? Or were you being subtle :D
Very nicely done though, you looked professional, not knitted sandal. :thumbsup:
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<<Why don't folk sell through the ring? I'd be interested to know.>>
We no longer sell through the ring, but only sell privately. This gives us the chance to see where our animals are going, and to choose not to sell to people we don't think will give good care to our animals. Because we breed a rare type from an already minority breed, we want to be sure that new owners understand the genetic importance of the stock and will breed them accordingly.
In our early days we had some bad experiences in the ring, where one or two of our sheep were bought by people we thought were downright cruel - and once they had bought them there was nothing we could do.
OK so you may well get a better price when selling through the ring (or a worse one) but we do put our animals' welfare well ahead of profit.
A further reason to not sell through the ring is to reduce the stress on our stock. All that travelling, there being so few rare breeds sales around the country, the stress of going through the ring, more travelling then a strange new home v one journey and a new home - the latter would always win.
I know we need to support the rare breeds sales to keep them viable, as they do have their plus points such as the exchange of genetic material from one end of the country to the other (downside of that is the potential spread of disease). If we still had a large flock then perhaps we would be more prepared to put some of our animals on general sale, but now we have reduced our flock size drastically we have to be careful where all our stock goes. Thainstone in particular is not, as far as I know, an RBST approved sale, so even the safeguards that status gives is not there. It would be great if it could become a 'real' rare breeds sale.
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Well done Rosemary :thumbsup: . I have only once sold through the ring and that was at the Shetland Pony Breed sale. Found it far too stressful for myself and the pony. On saying that I do buy at the sale.