Tudor Monastery Farm

[Potstubsdustbins]

Another good episode.

Particularly like the idea of having your own blast furnace.

Potty

[Mikey]

Can you be trust with a furnace potty?

Don't you need some qualification to advance from blowtorch?

[Bren In Pots]

Another good episode.

Particularly like the idea of having your own blast furnace.

Potty

I agree with you there Potty out of the three presenters Ruth seems to really give her all.

[Bill HH]

Its interesting to see how even then the people who do the work and produce the goods were being subjugated by having to pay rents on land that was just as much theirs as the monks or other landowners. Keep em poor and keep em frightened by religion was the recipe.

[Mikey]

I'm not sure I'd have been happy giving my fleeces away and waiting for the payment for them, an unknown figure to come back to me at some later date. Seriously open to misuse that system.

[Bill HH]

I'm not sure I'd have been happy giving my fleeces away and waiting for the payment for them, an unknown figure to come back to me at some later date. Seriously open to misuse that system.

And would you believe it is still like that today? We had to wait months to see what pittance they decided to offer us. There excuse is they can't pay until its been graded for quality. The funny thing was in the 20 odd years i was shearing the price consistantly dropped to us but the price of wool in the shops went up and up. Pigs at the trough leaps to mind.

[Potstubsdustbins]

I certainly have to take the chance that people are going to pay for my services/goods. 60 day accounts are now nothing unusual. Only private customers pay on completion.

Potty

[RedThorn]

Agreed potty, one of my clients in the bid to become "world class" changed the terms from 60 to 90 days with a take it or leave it letter

[Dorothy rouse]

Just watched this, don't you think they were a bit harsh to the poor old sheep, or am I being a bit soppy?

[Bill HH]

Dorothy, I wouldnt say being soppy, but sheep are very tough and when you have a lot to do there isnt much room for a bedside manner. My barber always talks about football to me when shearing my hair, but with sheep its hard to find a subject thats mutualy interesting. maybe BAAbeques.

[Dorothy rouse]

Haha! Poor old sheep, didn't like being dunked in the water, no wonder it ran away, looked very unhappy to me!

[Mikey]

Having dipped sheep many a time, that looked a lot more gentle than the drop in one end, completely submerge and let them swim to the other to get out that you normally see!!

[Dorothy rouse]

I obviously would never make a farmer wud I!

[Potstubsdustbins]

As A 22 year old I was seconded into helping load some sheep into a lorry, the chaps were grabbing them by the horns to move them.

One old soak said grab that one I did and all hell broke loose, I ended up in the mud, sheep goodness knows where and all the guys having a really good laugh. Later found out it was a large tup ram, I must have been so naïve to think I could just grab those fluffy baa sheep, I had never felt strength like it.

Potty

[Dorothy rouse]

Well I still say 'poor old sheep', they don't stand a chance do they, and eventually end up covered in mint sauce.