Author Topic: Flippin heck  (Read 7334 times)

AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
Flippin heck
« on: September 23, 2013, 05:40:52 am »
As you can see I get up early, usually between 4 & 4.30, I use this time to research internet have breakfast then shoot rabbits until chickens come out, but the last couple of mornings it's pitch black.
So it be 5.30am now and I'm still sat here, I could have had another hour.
I'm attempting to put 50 rabbits in the freezer either for the dog or wife, trouble is they keep eating them.
research this morning, making an apple crusher, fox traps prevention better than cure, all our neighbours have lost their hens, and more knowledge on barley sprouting.
I need a hobby :knit: oh yes I've got one  :farmer: :roflanim:

AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2013, 06:18:07 am »
Flippin heck 6.15am and its still dark  :rant:

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2013, 06:24:08 am »
I suppose we'd better get used to it... Worst is, I'll be off to catch the first bus soon, and it'll be more or less dark again when I get home tonight. And it's only September!

john and helen

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Devon
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Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2013, 06:24:43 am »
been up since 4.30... nice time of the day :)

Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Isle of Mull
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2013, 07:40:11 am »
What time do you people go to bed  ??? 
Now it's getting a bit darker in the mornings I'm having an extra half hour in bed, so getting up at 6.30 but I still look like :tired:  most days. I only get up early for my chickens  :chook: .

john and helen

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Devon
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Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2013, 08:00:22 am »
normally about 11.30 Bert ...but don't normally surface til 6.30..i always look rough too  ;D

mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2013, 08:35:21 am »
I have to agree 5 am best time of the day. Everyone else is sleeping and it's the only time I get a cuppie in peace and some me time...
pygmy goats, gsd, border collie, scots dumpys, cochins, araucanas, shetland ducks and geese,  marrans, and pea fowl in a pear tree.

Castle Farm

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Hereford/Powys Border. near Hay-on-Wye
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Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2013, 08:36:30 am »
It's always a rush in the morning to get out and let all the birds out. 36 pens/coops of various ages that are waiting to get to the area of the farm they hold as thier territory.

Delay would mean fretfull birds, so I always eat my Alpen the night before just before I go to bed.
Lovely morning here today and after I have sent the dogs out to deter any lurking foxes the birds are released.

I don't mind the early starts.
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happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2013, 08:41:33 am »
I hate early starts, been getting up at 6.30am and that's early enough  :rant: but on the other hand, I look worse is I sleep in past 8.00am!!
AndyJ, you must have to skin and gut the rabbits before you chuck um in the freezer........I am not sure I could eat them too often but good cheap meat and a great hobby. I would love to go shooting but not fit enough to plough through undergrowth and marshes ::)
 

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2013, 09:00:26 am »
I used to get up at 2.30am to start work at 4am. i never had a problem with it but I must admit its lovely to wake up at 2.30 now, look at the clock and snuggle under the duvet again  :)
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Kitchen Cottage

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2013, 10:27:50 am »
I get up at 4.57am.... I have timed my mad dash to feed animals, let dogs and cats out (and in and out and in and out), shower, drag brush through hair, dress, hunt for shoes hidden by dog, trip over old dog, hunt for phone and keys, grab coffee..... in order to leave for work by 5.25am to avoid the M25 rush hour!!

If I am in the office all week, I feel totally burnt out.

In fairness, I leave work at 4 (to avoid/minimise the evening rush hour) and am back home for about 6pm.... to do the mad dash of animal feeding etc before it gets dark  ;D  The interwebby doesn't get a look in!

AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2013, 11:12:58 am »
I don't do telly so I go to bed 8-9pm generally don't look just go to bed when ready really.
Yep I skin & gut rabbits before they go in freezer
We don't work as such we rent out log cabins so one cabin to clean today 1 1/2 hours that's it for today, I've just started window cleaning but only did 5 hours last week so I can please myself as and when I do things :excited:
 

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2013, 12:47:14 pm »
its still dark at 8am in winter here  :roflanim:

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2013, 08:12:49 pm »
No matter what time I go to bed, I tend to be awake before 4. Today I had the sunrise from the bus - and sunset as well. Both magnificent...

And now I'm so knackered that I think I'll leave the washing up for tomorrow morning, yet again!

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Flippin heck
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2013, 08:46:57 pm »
I have to get up at 8 tomorrow so I'm off to bed now.  I'm not well just now, so am sleeping more.  I'm normally a 10am to 1am person.
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

 

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