[Sandy]

I went out shopping and kept seeing different colourd buckets and just had to buy one, not sure why but I like it, not many years ago I would have passed them by but how things change, plastic box;s, buckets and we realy realy realy would love a nice BIG yellow wheel barrow!! Wellies are also interesting as is garden tools. What things are other small holders attracted to now that they never gave a second glance to?

[HappyHippy]

Fields and stock (okay so not really in the shopping catagory) but I've started doing the slow drive-by anything that looks interesting.
I now wait for my Fearing cataloge to arrive and love looking through it and any other animal product related stuff. Some woman like shoes and bags, not me 

[Womble]

What things are other small holders attracted to now that they never gave a second glance to?

Er, Sheep!?!             

 

[Sandy]

On the few times I went in the car with my ex father in law ( a farmer), he too would be commenting on the fields, crops and stock as we drove along and when it came to his funeral I thought about the drive to the crematorium and wondered if his spirt was enjoying the ride, my OH looks at push bikes and dogs, I sometimes have to tell him as people may wonder why he's staring at them, well thier bike or dog!!!!!

[suziequeue]

Ooooh - gloves - definitely.

My perfect glove would be waterproof but breathable and sturdy enough to stand up to pulling thistles and nettles out without being too thick to make them unwieldy.

At the moment - depending on the job - I wear cotton liners inside marigolds for weeding with a pair of rigger gloves over the top for thistle pulling. I love my hedge-laying mits for heavier work such as moving wood but a mouse has eaten through one finger. Welding mits are just as good....

I could go on

[Fowgill Farm]

Don't know why this topics in recipes??? but i lovetaking the farmers weekly to bed and trawling the classified ads for enormous kit that i could never possibly use or have on our smallholding!! sad or what. Can't resist a bargain whether its useful or not!! fave shops Wilkos & Aldi for some choice useless/useful gadgets!!
Mandy 

[Fleecewife]

I went out shopping and kept seeing different colourd buckets and just had to buy one, not sure why but I like it, not many years ago I would have passed them by but how things change, plastic box;s, buckets and we realy realy realy would love a nice BIG yellow wheel barrow!! Wellies are also interesting as is garden tools. What things are other small holders attracted to now that they never gave a second glance to?

I do have a lovely BIG yellow wheelbarrow - it's perfect for a square bale and if you position it correctly you can't feel the weight.  I love it so much I got another one in green for the veg garden (ha - it never stays there).  We also have the small-amount-of-concrete-mixing-up barrows from a builders merchant, now distorted and holey, the mucking-out-the henhouse barrows, the OH-carrying-his-woodworking-and-other-tools-in barrows, the sheep-sh##e barrows.  You can never have too many barrows, but I would draw the line at a pink one 

[thestephens]

caravans!! used to hate them, make fun of them at any oppurtunity, we have upgraded our first one to a newer one!!

[MelRice]

SuzieQ, have you tried exfoliating gloves? I find they are fairly nettle proof...well small nettles and roots. They are breathable, fairly durable, cheap (poundland), mendable, also they seem to aid "grabability", wet or dry and you can wash your hands then take them off (they dry fairly quickly too).

[Sandy]

exfoliating gloves

They sound ineresting, I picked loads of nettles and you have to be careful as your fingers can tingle for ages and ages, after, of course, you can do your body with the gloves!!!! Good value!


WHops, I did not realize I put it on recipes, I am so tiered after several late nights, being woken by mr plod and several very early mornings, i need a good 8 hours sleep otherwise my brain mal funcitons!!!

[Roxy]

I like buckets too!!  Always seem to be buying them, for water, feed, etc. round the farm.  On Saturday, we were at Clitheroe auction, and there was a large black tub .....oooh, ideal for the ponies water.  Five in the field get through lots of water.  Yes, I bid, and came home with this enormous tub, now in the field full of water.

I also, especially at this time of year, start looking round for warm jumpers, trousers and gloves, ready for winter.  Always looking in outdoor shops for their latest warm clothing!!

Recipe books too - must have hundreds.  Scan shelves in charity shops, car boots etc. and its amazing how many books I have not got among my collection.

[SallyintNorth]

I like buckets too!!  Always seem to be buying them, for water, feed, etc. round the farm.  On Saturday, we were at Clitheroe auction, and there was a large black tub .....oooh, ideal for the ponies water.  Five in the field get through lots of water.  Yes, I bid, and came home with this enormous tub, now in the field full of water.

Any cattle or larg(ish) scale sheep farmer on 'disadvantaged ground' probably has a humungous leaning tower of these things in a shed.  Or several.  (Several towers in several sheds, probably!)

I use :

• one for calf feed (they have lids, so they make ratproof feed stores)
• one upturned for a milking stool
• one upturned for a mounting block
• one as a lamb hospital in the 'pet pen' - keeps the sickly lamb near to the infra red and stops other sturdier babies climbing over Sicky
• several for water buckets in fields and stables
• several as water butts under downpipes
• several as sand stores (ready for winter)
• BIL takes a few every now and again for garden veg & herbs

And we still have a couple of leaning towers dotted about....

So, Roxy - I could sell these could I?  We have wondered.  Would you mind telling me what you paid?

Actually, I think I will ask our local wildlife rescue if they'd like some - but we'll still have more than plenty.

BTW, especially for Sandy and fleecewife, we have black ones and blue ones and green ones.  No yellow ones, I'm afraid and I've never seen a pink one... 

[suziequeue]

SuzieQ, have you tried exfoliating gloves? I find they are fairly nettle proof...well small nettles and roots. They are breathable, fairly durable, cheap (poundland), mendable, also they seem to aid "grabability", wet or dry and you can wash your hands then take them off (they dry fairly quickly too).

Oooh - I'll have to give those a try. 

I noticed as I was walking around the shop this afternoon that I also have an eye out for comfortable warm, dry footwear that's easy to shrug on and off in the porch....... and slippers. I'm always looking for the perfect slipper - easy to shrug on and off but doesn't fall off when going up the stairs making me have to scrinch my toes up......

[suziequeue]

Don't know why this topics in recipes???

I have asked Dan to move it to Coffee Lounge if that's OK Sandy......

[Fleecewife]

As for yellow buckets- we had a few but I have banned them.  Because insects are attracted to yellow, loads of bumble bees, hoverflies etc fall in and drown.  Mice do sometimes too, but into any colour.  I don't wear yellow either as wasps and bees think I'm a big flower    I love bees in their place ie collecting pollen and sipping nectar but I have the remnants of a phobia about bees when it comes to them sitting on me