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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: HappyHippy on July 16, 2010, 12:01:46 pm
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I've managed to get time off for good behaviour ;) so I'll be there ;D
The catalouge's not available yet, but the last sale was a good one. The sale list will be available here from 26th July http://www.lawrie-and-symington.com/html/sales/lanark.php (http://www.lawrie-and-symington.com/html/sales/lanark.php)
Anyone else going ?
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I would love to go but would only get to go if I took no money with me... ::)
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ill be there just look for the guy with long hair and a ginger beard :wave:
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Sounds like another TAS meet is brewing - Cafe at 2pm maybe? If you don't have a badge make yourself a placard to hang round your neck! Then we won't miss each other like at the RHS
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That sounds like a plan Annie.
I'll be the lady with the double buggy and a look of madness in her eyes - for anyone who doesn't know me lol!
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Hey James, I could scrounge a lift if you going..... but not sure I could come home empty handed :wave: :wave:
Does that mean you up and running again???
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Hey James, I could scrounge a lift if you going..... but not sure I could come home empty handed :wave: :wave:
Does that mean you up and running again???
Yeah back to normal again thank Nicki. Thanks again for the eggs, just been out checking on her and she is sitting on the eggs clucking away, quite proud of herself.
Re the poultry sale it may just be a day out for us, I will let you know but I definately am buying nothing.
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Re the poultry sale it may just be a day out for us, I will let you know but I definately am buying nothing.
I promise the same thing every time I go - think I'm probably trying to convince myself more than anyone else ::) ;D
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Must try and go as I would like some new chickens. I would like something a bit different from my hybrids, as long as they are good layers.
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We'll more than likely be there too, as long as Rachel promises to keep her hands in her pockets :D
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Sounds like another TAS meet is brewing - Cafe at 2pm maybe? If you don't have a badge make yourself a placard to hang round your neck! Then we won't miss each other like at the RHS
DUNNO about the badges and placards but im strange enough looking that im unmissable
what about the rest of you....any one else going
p.s when was the last sale
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i cant seem to get the sales list off there site dose any one know where i can get it
also has any one else decided if there going ?
Alan
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It's not on the site yet. Or at leat I couldn't see it. Quite often they go up late - I don't think they've quite got into the "web" thing yet!!
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james and nicky i want to go and i want to buy a couple of pigs....shall we travel together????
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mmm very temting but i am not sure if i will manage to keep my hands in my pockets..
that could easily turn into 4 piggies
Raincheck for a couple of days
cheers
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Apologies folks................really thought the sale list would be up by now :(
I think they're busy with a big sale - maybe next week ???
It doesn't bother me too much - I'm going anyway ;D ;D ;D I've got to drop my kids in Lanark at 10am, so will be there 10 minutes after. I think I'll manage to recognise Annie ;) ;D :-* How about a quick meet before the sale to put faces to names then a sit down in the cafe around 2pm (that way we won't be walking past people that we could be talking to ;D)
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Catalogue has still not been published yet
Hopefully, it'll be up before wednesday
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I have been trying to get the sales list from the site to no avail. I fancy a couple of wee bantams. I may go anyway, just for a wee nosey about. Its years since i have been there. I shall be the wee fat wife with the lost look on my face.
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Just printed it off - don't know if I'll be able to sneak away from work to get there though!
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Totally p****d off was really looking forward to going but work has come in and can't afford to refuse, still got the horses hay to pay for.
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After having a look at the online catalogue, i've decided i'm gonna save my Barrs bottles up for the Rare Breed sale on the 19th instead.
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had a look at the catalogue and nothing in the pig area that i fancy so will give it a miss i think - plus dragging 3 bairns along with me isnt my idea of fun
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I won't be there either, going to IKEA with my daughter and grandkids for lunch
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I'm still going along. I really need some more chickens ;)
And I might just have to have a wee look at the 2 saddleback's with piglets or the GOS crosses - mmmmmm choices choices ;D
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I'm still going along. I really need some more chickens ;)
And I might just have to have a wee look at the 2 saddleback's with piglets or the GOS crosses - mmmmmm choices choices ;D
www.bhwt.co.uk - ex batts???
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I hope you find some nice chooks HH!
Wish I was coming!
INSTEAD I am going into the office to announce that I am dissolving the business partnership. I have discovered that my business partner has been effectively stealing from me by drawing around £1000 a month more for himself than he deigns to pay me. As a result I have had 2 late mortgage payments this year. I have also discovered that he MAKES one eighth of the money I do for the firm. I feel such a fool for trusting him and leaving him in charge of firm finances. He said he would do it as I am "no good" at it and he has sole access to alll the bank passwords and accounts info etc. A chat with our accountant last night put me fully in the picture and I am shocked and angered and saddened. God knows what he has been taking without me knowing over the past 4 years.
Stressful day ahead hence I have been up since 5am, smoking fags and fretting! :'(
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Oh dear...
Greed is bad, but deceit is worse. :(
Good luck with that.
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Anybody know what time the sale is likely to finish - I have not been before - does it go on after lunch, as I know I cannot get there in the morning.
Simon
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Hi Simon, yes it goes on after lunch, I don't remember the exact order it runs in - but the pigs were last to be sold last time round - maybe see you there (I've got a blue buggy with a red haired curly boy in it - he'll be making LOTS of noise lol!)
Valr - OMFG ! I hope your day goes as well as it can. I'm continually amazed by what some people think they can get away with - have they never heard of KARMA ? Get your day out the way, then get yourself close to some piggies - it's amazing how quick they de-stress you !
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I hope you find some nice chooks HH!
Wish I was coming!
INSTEAD I am going into the office to announce that I am dissolving the business partnership. I have discovered that my business partner has been effectively stealing from me by drawing around £1000 a month more for himself than he deigns to pay me. As a result I have had 2 late mortgage payments this year. I have also discovered that he MAKES one eighth of the money I do for the firm. I feel such a fool for trusting him and leaving him in charge of firm finances. He said he would do it as I am "no good" at it and he has sole access to alll the bank passwords and accounts info etc. A chat with our accountant last night put me fully in the picture and I am shocked and angered and saddened. God knows what he has been taking without me knowing over the past 4 years.
Stressful day ahead hence I have been up since 5am, smoking fags and fretting! :'(
Sorry to hear that, VAl. Come round for a chat if you like - finance stuff I Do understand - and how to detect fraud - I presume he will be charged?
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Thanks for quick answer! (Sneaking looks at the website at work ;) ) - might see you there if I can get away from work for a while after lunch.
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Thanks guys.
Yes Anne I might pop round.
Wish I had some piggies to destress me! The chickens and cats will just have to do meantime :)
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Well I managed to get there at 2 and saw the last half hour of the poultry sale in the hall. Interesting to see - not as many people as I thought but a lot may have left by then. At least I know where it is now and a little of how it works; and it was interesting to see the pigs, rabbits, ducks, chickens and other fowl. Helpfully some folk had put on the outside of the cages what type of chicken etc were inside. Good fun watching the purchasers trying to get their wares into their boxes but unfortunately I did not see any escapes. I saw a few redhaired kids but none in a blue buggy so I think HH may have left - did you get any pigs or poultry? - or did anyone else manage to pick anything up. It looks as if you need to watch for someone who knows what they are doing and maybe bid for the same thing. I would not like to find myself bidding against someone else who knew nothing too, and end up hiking the price to ridiculous levels. I thought I saw some of the staff there having a laugh at the price that one item got!? I think it will need a few trips to pick up what is going on, before actually buying anything. Some of the chickens looked great though so it is lucky I had no way to transport them and nowhere to put them once I got home or I may have come back with a surprise for Cheryl! :) Good fun
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I went, I saw, I bought ;D ;D ;D
Got 5 white sussex (think maybe 2 or possibly 3 cockerals though) for £10 and bought 4 GOS cross gilts - only brought 3 home though >:( Would you believe that someone took the other one and left a boar in it's place............a totally different looking one at that ! They stole my SPOTTY one :'( :'( :'( they were £34 each.
Other sales were - 2 saddlebacks with litters (hmmmm maybe 1/2 saddleback, but the colour mix on the piglets was gorgous, some grey saddleback, some black saddleback, some just black) one sold for £160, she looked really thin and had lumpy teats and the other who was in better condition (and a nicer pig ;)) sold for £270. There were 2 saddleback (cross ?) sows, 4 years old, never been to the bore - huge they were, absolutely MASSIVE, and great natured girlies - do you know, no one bid ! They wouldn't even pay £30 for them - thankfully I had my head in charge and not my heart or it would have been a real squash in the trailer ;)
But more importantly, I didn't blow the budget - ROLL ON AUGUST 19TH AND THE RARE BREEDS SALE ;D ;D ;D
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Yet again went, saw, bought more than I should have :D :D, some fine looking fowl and some real sad sorry states, black rocks and warrens with hardly any feathers and in one cage one hen was slowly being eaten alive by the others, and did the auctioneer really need such a loud microphone with that much feedback, still managed to keep up with the prices though and grabbed a few bargains. Not allowed to the next one though as I have my full quota of hens now. :chook:
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How did u get on today Vair. Sorry for your troubles.
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Yet again went, saw, bought more than I should have :D :D, some fine looking fowl and some real sad sorry states, black rocks and warrens with hardly any feathers and in one cage one hen was slowly being eaten alive by the others, and did the auctioneer really need such a loud microphone with that much feedback, still managed to keep up with the prices though and grabbed a few bargains. Not allowed to the next one though as I have my full quota of hens now. :chook:
Interesting when you read point 4 in the application form:
LANARK AGRICULTURAL CENTRE
SALE OF RARE & MINORITY BREEDS
SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF SALE
The Sale will be conducted subject to the Conditions of Sale of Lawrie & Symington Ltd as approved by the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in
Scotland which will be on display in the Auctioneer’s office on the day of sale. In addition the following conditions apply.
1. No animal may be sold privately prior to the sale but must be offered for sale through the ring.
2. Animals which fail to reach the price fixed by the Vendor may be sold by private treaty after the Auction. All such sales must be passed
through the Auctioneers and will be subject to full commission. Reserve Prices should be given in writing to the auctioneer prior to the
commencement of the sale and not on the entry form.
3. All stock must be numbered and penned in accordance with the catalogued number on arrival at the market.
4. Physical defects in any poultry and waterfowl must be declared on the entry form or to the auctioneer at time of sale.
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My Mrs family live in Lanark, but were not visiting this weekend! what a shame, I would have loved to have gone along just to see.