Making the news today....

[Mull]

I've changed almost unrecognisably to the way I was in teens and early 20s. 
 
I look back on some of things I did or ways I thought and it's shocking to me. I was entirely another person. 

I’ve no doubt about that, the truth.

[Mark J]

3 minutes ago, TIMON said:

 

Apparently, if you don’t learn from repetitive failure by the 27th time it happens, you’re doomed to keep repeating it forever..... maybe.....
Something to do with the neural pathways in the brain.

Looks like Boris is running out of go’s then...
Or is he a super shrewd Machiavellian player? I can’t seem to make my mind up. That fine line between genius and insanity.

 

There's hope: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/05/humans-produce-new-brain-cells-throughout-their-lives-say-researchers

[Mull]

There's hope: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/05/humans-produce-new-brain-cells-throughout-their-lives-say-researchers

I’d rather you spoke your mind ?

[TIMON]

There's hope: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/05/humans-produce-new-brain-cells-throughout-their-lives-say-researchers

Great article.

When I consider that we are each of us, made up of about 30,000,000,000,000 cells and each of those cells performs tens of thousands of functions each, independently and yet in harmony and synchronisation with all the others. It fascinates me. 30 trillion cells.........
If you won 1 trillion quid on the lottery (and it didn’t kill you first) you could spend 57 million quid every day for 50 years and still have a bit of change left over. These numbers are staggering.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, the village idiot said:

Cheer up Mull, friday tomorrow.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Mark J said:

I think that's the point.  If people didn't learn from their mistakes, they'd make loads more mistakes.

Dianne Abbott???? ????

[Mull]

 

This is why nobody likes you Kev!?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

51 minutes ago, Mull said:

 

 

This is why nobody likes you Kev!?

 

 

You mean, grumpy old barstewrad Mull!  What's got your goat...  Raining up there again??  Come on now, Spring is in the air, it's a time of new growth, anticipation, and boundless optimism (even in Scotland ???)

[Mull]

You mean, grumpy old barstewrad Mull!  What's got your goat...  Raining up there again??  Come on now, Spring is in the air, it's a time of new growth, anticipation, and boundless optimism (even in Scotland [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38])

Yes! Wet, windy and bloody freezing, absolutely no sign of spring whatsoever☹️
Not a single blade of monoculture grass growing anywhere, lambs due to start today, grass=milk, no grass=..... well, you get the picture☹️.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

5 minutes ago, Mull said:

 

 

Yes! Wet, windy and bloody freezing, absolutely no sign of spring whatsoever☹️
Not a single blade of monoculture grass growing anywhere, lambs due to start today, grass=milk, no grass=..... well, you get the picture☹️.

 

 

Cut the grass for the second time yesterday....  Folks were cutting in March - but that is just RUDE!  

 

Now then, it's a discussion I've had many times with the neighbours when they are complaining about lambing at Christmas.

 

It is the pursuit of the perception of profit which drives farmers to put the ram in early so as to get the best prices for early season lamb.  It's a volatile market and a risky strategy where input effort / cost often exceeds output sales value....

 

The difficulties this presents is that it means young are in the shed rather than the field.  It's grain rather than grass where inputs costs have the very real potential to negate early profit, early conception gives rise to greater risk of infection with blue tongue since the mossies are still around, and of course the labour / inconvenience of animal husbandry in the cold / dark of pre-Spring.

 

I'm not having a pop, just saying, I can't sympathise for the hardships which, more often than not, are self inflicted by artificially advancing the natural cycle of conception in the pursuit of profit, then have a grumble when it doesn't work out....

 

You know when the grass starts, time the ram to suit the start of the growing season.....?