Good morning Saturday

[Aggers]

Good morning my friends. Hope you have a pleasant day.

It's raining here and I just got back from the dog-walk soaking wet. Still, the gardens need it.

Cruiser - Your comments about threshing machines brought back happy memories for me.
Here is an extract from my memoirs which I wrote about twenty years ago, which is on the same subject.
I was about 5 years old at the time, and had been sent to live in the country, having survived a near-fatal
bout of diphtheria

Harvest time was particularly interesting, when a huge threshing machine would arrive, to be driven,
via pulsating leather drive belts, by a magnificent steam engine. How we boggled at this latest technical wonder!
The whole farmyard was a hive of activity. Some men were loosening the sheaves of corn with which to feed the
greedy monster, some were positioning sacks to catch the grain gushing from a chute and then carrying away the
full sacks. Others were dealing with the straw, which was delivered to the top of a hayrick by a long conveyor belt.
Then there were the spectators, including little me, standing at a respectable distance, watching in amazement.
And all the time the wheels were spinning, the belts flapping and the steam engine puffing, snorting and glowing
with heat. It was a sight never to be forgotten.

[Diflower]

I'm sure we will, lol, right now it's absolutely tipping down

I was going to be walking to the station but neighbour has offered me a lift - so I didn't set off, then she added that we're waiting for her daughter to get here
Just deciding whether to go now, and walk very fast

[Kaz]

Enjoy your day Di and Ria, I hope the rain stopped We've had torrential showers with very hot sunny bits in between

Shaz, I hope your brother will be ok {{{{{{{x}}}}}}

[Lozzles]

That was interesting reading Aggers Thank you for sharing it with us.

Hope Di and Ria have a lovely time

Shaz, best wishes to your brother x

[Osc]

Afternoon all, it has stopped raining for the moment but more is forecast - it rained very heavily during the night and steadily ever since. It's a bank holiday weekend here, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at the weather Tomorrow is Miss Osc's 12th wedding anniversary and there was a lot of rain in the days leading up to it.

So a day of pottering around - Mr. Osc has done some hoovering and I've put some things on ebay plus researched some other stuff which I'm going to put on as well. Di, I can't believe it's only a week since our meet last week Hope you have a super day with Ria (she's mad as a hatter ) Enjoy your day everyone, no matter what you have planned

[debih]

It was not a good day for the debih family at the chicken racing.

The first chicken was disqualified for fighting with the opposition and the second came third in it's round - lower than second isn't good enough to get through.

There was definitely som skull duggery going on. Our friend Rick was entering a bird for each race. All had different names but looked surprisingly similar! He said they were hentuplets!

[Kaz]

[saundra]

April showers here been torrential at times
Son's been left the poorlies at home sicknesses bug
Hope di and meri have a lovely day and the sun comes
Osc 12years my son's was 12years last week how time flies by
It poured with rain then as well

[cruiser2]

Aggers,

Thank you for that little bit of history.

I can remember four chutes at the back of the threshing machine. Two were for the grain. As one sack became full the grain was diverted into the empty sack. A full time job for a strong man. one of the other chutes was for the husks and the fourth one was for waste.
The straw was fed into a baling machine. This had a large arm which pushed the straw down while a ram pushed it along and compressed it. Baling wire was pushed through slots and became taught when the bale was discharged at the end of the baler.

I have milked a cow by hand on several occasions when I was young. Can remember a woman delivering milk to houses with a float pulled by a horse. She would get the milk from a large metal churn using a measure depending on the jug or other container the house gave her to be filled. Saw this on the way to school. Don't know if it was pasterised but the cows were tested regularly.

[Kaz]

When I was very little - must have been less than 4 years old - I remember our milk being delivered by horse and cart