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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Farmer Fowls with your hosts, Abby and Maria. Welcome back! It's been a pretty little minute. Three weeks to be exact. Has it been three weeks? It's been three weeks. Not since we last saw each other, probably two months. So it would have been like six weeks. Although actually we saw each other last week. Right. Hold on. No, I think we need to debrief and then go on to why we saw each other last week because Maria fucked up, but we won't. Yeah. We won't call I wasn't gonna call you out on it, but now you've mentioned it, we'll call you out on it. So I think we need to explain where we've been, what's happened, and why we stopped episodes for a little while. Because we've always done like the odd episode we've missed, but not and usually we give pre-warning. Yes. Or announce on social media or what have you. This we just disappeared. And I say disappeared because also I don't have my Instagram anymore. That's a whole other that was a big violin. Fucking needs a huge one because if you lost your Instagram, you'd be bloody lost. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so where did we get to I went to Devon County, that was one week. You were then at Royal Cornwall. No, there was a week in between that. There was a week in between Devon County and Royal Cornwall because it would have been Bath and West. Let me find out. Hold here whilst we break for a short interval. I can't remember why. We were gonna do it that week. And then we decided not to, didn't we? Why? There just wasn't a reason. Well you gave it. I think we just said we just said or we could do it next week, and then we completely forgot the next week that it was Royal Cornwall. So then Maria was like, So by the way, that Friday had then passed, which we always normally do a Friday. Yeah. So it's like, right, we'll do the next Friday. Then it was week of Royal Cornwall's show. You voicing it at me being like, I can't do Friday. Matthew's just reminded me it's Royal Cornwall. I was like, ah shoot, I can't do any other day that week. Yeah, because I offered you any other day and you were like, I can't, busy. It was my birthday, I'd had other plans. Abby is a birthday week girl. No, no, no, no, no. I think the message says, sorry, it's my birthday week. And I thought, bougie. No, so what did I have planned that week? I think because we had Ottie and stuff, and obviously Ottie likes to celebrate her birthday and what have you. So that was fine. I feel like I can't even remember what I did on my birthday. It's been so long. And then Royal Cornwall. And then I turned up at Abby's. And Abby wasn't there. And I was like, Abby, where are you? I'd messaged her like four times, wrung you as well in the morning. I didn't have my phone on me, in all fairness. Um, and I was like, this is really weird how she's not picking up. Carried on driving anyway, because I thought we don't usually make contact in the morning anyway, so why am I overthinking this? Got to her her place, realised she wasn't there, gave me a few. To be fair, we do usually make contact in the morning. Well, yeah, that's why I was like, this is really weird while you're not answering me. So that made me like doubt it, the fact it was happening. I was like, I'm already going up there. So at that point, most people would check previous messages. Yeah. So I was certain we had said the week after Rock Ormall. I had said it in like a previous voice note, and then I hadn't listened properly to Abby's one underneath, where in the voice note she says, Sorry, I can't come. I've got a friend that lives up country coming down that week. Um she was staying locally in a um farmhouse Airbnb. So I haven't got my phone on me at this point. I've left it, God knows where. I've had a real habit, and I've even told you this prior to that week, that I've had a real habit of just not being on my phone. Yeah. Um, I've spent a lot of time like shearing and stuff at the minute, or just being busy not on my phone, which is not a bad thing. Anyway, pick up my phone because I heard I it was in another room and I heard it vibrating. My phone is never on loud, I know toxic trait of mine, but if I dinged every notification, like my head would be screwed. Um I said, oh, it's Maria. Answer the phone. I think, oh, catch up. Where are you? I said, I'm at Emily's. And she goes, Well, I'm at your house. Right. Why? Um, anyway, I believed I fucked up. So I was like, alright, give me five minutes, I'll sort myself out. I'll come back or try and sort out what I had on. Because I thought if I've genuinely fucked up here, we'll have to fix something. Didn't really want to say, I'm sure I told you that I was busy, but I was just like, give me five minutes and we'll sort something. I listened to the voice note back. I have told Maria I am busy, so I I've although I felt awful because you're just driven down from Cornwall or driven up from Cornwall with the last like 200 pounds in my bank. Sorry. It's fine, it's my fault. Um yeah, I felt awful. It's fine. I do know what it's the only time I've ever hit traffic coming to yours, or the first time that I've ever hit traffic coming up here. Because I was in traffic for almost three hours just at standstill in the um don't that makes me feel worse. Again, it's not not your fault, is it? Um, there'd been like a big lorry that's its wheel had like popped off. So instead of just closing like one lane to make it safe, they closed two. Of course they do. And it was a dual carriageway. Yeah, and it was already in the hard shoulder. Oh. It wasn't even a hard shoulder. What'd you call it? There was enough room to get everyone past safely. And they've closed two lanes instead. Yeah. Just like to make it difficult. Yeah. So that's been a debrief on where we've been for the past three weeks. Although, let us put a silver lining on it because when I was on that journey, it meant that I could call friends that I hadn't called in a long time. So I feel I helped you. Yeah, exactly. Help me connect. I took you away from the kids for a couple of hours. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm telling myself. I'm not quite like my kids though. Yeah, no, but you you had a nice bit of peace. Yeah. You said you like driving. I do. Just not when you don't need to. Yeah, maybe not when there's not a destination there. Yeah, so I was like, oh, come round to Emily's because I felt so awful. I was like, I can't not see you. So I sent you the pin. Luckily, you know where Emily's is. So yeah. We saw each other and I was like, hi and bye. Really awful. I can't believe it. I was literally I literally walked in and I was like, I am dying of embarrassment right now. But you could I felt awful as well. What a shitter I made. Anyway, sorry about that. We're back, and that brings us to this week. Yay! Woohoo! So like I said, where do we go? Devon. So yeah, Devon County would have been the first week that we missed. So I went to Devon County. How did it go? I'm gonna be honest, in I did the best I wanted to do without doing too well. No, no. Everyone's like, hold on, what do you mean you did the best without doing too well? Now, if you do well in getting a reserve or a champion or what have you, you then have to do the grand parade, and that's what I had to do last year. Now everyone knows I've been struggling going out, so going to the show in the first place was a bit of a thing. Therefore, I didn't want to I didn't want a champion because then I have to then go into Interbreeds, I then have to do the Grand Parade, it then becomes a very complicated few days. Therefore, I got two seconds, third, fourth, fifth and sixth. No, I can't remember. I came out with six rosettes anyway. Six rosettes, seven sheep I took, so I was very happy. And like I said, because I didn't get a champion, it meant I didn't have to do interbreeds, I didn't have to do the grand parade. I had that one day of showing and that was it. Yeah, I was meant to do wool on the hoof on Saturday. Have you ever done wool on well no? Would you have ever done wool on the hoof? I've not shown a sheep before. Have you not? No, I've never shown a sheep. Crumbs. Um so I was meant to do that on the Saturday, but it was like 27 degrees heat, and these sheep, I'm sorry to anyone who saw me at Devon County because those sheep did not move. It was like lugging an elephant. Like reluctant elephant. Yeah. So like some of these like 110 kilo rams that we're like pushing along just to get in a ring. Because why would you put it on the closest not put it on the closest ring to where the valet are? I did think that. I did think the positions of where the sheet were were very peculiar in terms of where their ring was. Yeah, I'll be honest, I don't really get it either. But not my not my decision, not my what have you. So anyway, I did the best that I wanted to. Like I said, I didn't want to do too well because then you've gotta do everything else. Forced Courtney to go in the main ring for you. And that's what I mean. Courtney came on well, not holiday, but I didn't want her to be forced to do anything. Um she already jumped in during one. I was competing in the Shealing U no, aged U class and just was not okay. Just got a bit overheated and I was like, I need to get out of here right now, otherwise I'm gonna be a goner. So I was then mouthing to Courtney being like, Can you take over? Bearing in mind I've got Ottie in the class with me. Yeah. So she had to quickly come in and switch because it was hot and yes, okay, it might not have been hot, hot, but if you're lugging around sheep with all their wool and a white coat on as well. Yeah, and I did have-I'm just glad they never made us wear like black coats for showing anything. Oh god, that would have been awful. But I needed a bloody bikini on under that white, like white coat, because it was so hot. There is no dress coat for what you can wear under the white coat, is there? Is it not shirt and tie? I don't know, I feel like that's what people do, but like in cattle and things like that, within your society, they've got a certain dress coat and you have to abide by it, otherwise, like they don't reward it. I think we might be shirt and tie. I actually haven't looked into it, just to be honest. If if you guys know, could you message us and let us know if there is within sheep? I have to admit, I then came out, I took my tie off, I took my shirt off because like I said I was overheating. And then I had to go back in for group of three. Bear in mind at this point I've already taken my shirt off. Like, I didn't want to go back in. I was like, I can't leave Courtney on her own to do group of three on her own. Because how is she holding three sheep? Yeah, not gonna happen. So I just quickly spoke to the judge. I said, Is there any chance? Like, I've got my white coat on, but is there any chance I can just do it in my like white t-shirt underneath? And she said, Yeah, that was absolutely fine. Oh, winner. Um so she was lovely, well, that was all I sort of said, but she was lovely about it and was like, Yeah, that's absolutely fine. But I just don't cope with the heat as well as I once did. No, I I'm a bit the same nowadays when it was really hot when it came up to like 30 degrees two weeks ago, was it? Yeah, because it was just after Devon County, I think. Yeah, oh my gosh, I literally went to the shops to buy a paddling pole. Which is like a big thing for me. I I don't really want to go anywhere in the heat. Abby didn't buy a paddling pool. What did Abby do? Out of trough. Bought a ten foot pole. Speechless. Yeah. I love that for you. Right, hear me out. How much was your paddling pool? Ten quid. I'm gonna be honest, you know, I think this was a steal. I don't I remember them being being this price probably when I was a kid, but it wouldn't have got you as much. Like it was a hundred quid. That's pretty good. I think, oh god, I'm saying a hundred quid's not a lot, but actually a hundred quid doesn't get you a lot these days. No, it doesn't. So the fact it gets me a ten-foot pool. Did you have any like fancy bits on your pool though? There's a filter. Well, this £10 got me a seahorse that sprays water. It also got me a game of hoopla on the side, all like blow up for £10 and a slide. It might have been like 12. Bloody out. Where'd you get it from? BM? No, no, no. Home bargains. Yeah. It was a case I can't remember what I was doing in the town.

unknown 13:54

Yeah.

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So I've got Lilo's. Yeah. So you'll see me there. When you're watching this, I think it's 27 degrees on that Monday. It's 27 on Monday when you're watching this. Praying for anyone that's on silage and doesn't have air con. Think of me, please. Well, I will be on my Lilo. Just chilling out. Winning winning at life. Oh, I fucking love my Lilo's. Fucking love 'em. Are they cute little Lilo's or that they're just like Oh my god, I'm gonna Please tell me they're like a pineapple or a strawberry or something like that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They're stripey. Insert a picture of me and my Lilo. Um bearing in mind we we had a special guest in the Lilo. Um, not in the Lilo, in the pool. Reggie. Yeah. Oh, there's seat Lilo's as well. Oh, and you put it underneath your I don't know what you call that. It's Pagola. That's it. Yeah. So I'm under the pagola, I can open it up if needs be. If I want the sun, I can open it up. If I want shade because I'm too hot, I can shut it. Perfect. See? You were like, right, so when it's hot on Monday, I'm like, are we we're coming up and bringing the kids, we're getting in your bowl. Goodbye. No choice. Be too big for the kids. Yeah, it probably would be. You think Reggie's swimming? Yeah, literally. I love that you got a pool. I also love that all you're doing in the pool is floating in it, so you probably could have got away with a paddling pool. Yeah, but you ain't gonna get your bum and float. Also, I I feel that there's enjoyment for the dogs when they get hot. Absolutely. So especially I'll send you a picture on Monday. Do you know what? I might put it on our story on Instagram of me on my Lilo for everyone to enjoy. Yeah. I'll try and not get us banned. Yeah, please don't. Maybe just do like a leg. Okay. I'll just blur the middle bit out. Put a sticker over it. So everyone am I enjoying my Lilo. You're only allowed an ankle. Yes. Maybe a toe. Blur from your knee down. Yeah, but they like the toes. Oh, do they? Might do. Mine toe. I don't know what everyone's into. Anyway, how was Royal Cornwall? Really good. Um how was how was showing sheep? I didn't show it Royal Cornwall. That was the joke, mate. Oh, for fuck's sake. It's been a long, long old slog. Did you really think I was that bad? Yeah, I thought you had forgotten. I thought that's why earlier, when you were like, you know, like when you show sheep, and I'm like, I've never shown sheep. And you were like, oh yeah. I thought that's why you said it, because I thought that I put two and two together there. Um, yeah. So I was just like rubbed a bit of salt in the wound there. Um, yeah, rural cornman was really, really good. We obviously had we always take both of the kids on the Thursday and the Friday. Um, and it was great. They were both like really engaged with everything. Harriet loves sheep. Um, woman after my own heart. Any particular sheep? Just wants to go ba. Okay. She'll literally stand up and start doing a happy dance and go, beh, beh. Like a little sheep bleating around. Um, she also like kicks her feet in happiness. It's very cute. Samuel's a digger boy. Lots of diggers. His dad works with diggers, so his dad was very happy. What we should have done at this point is split off from each other, where Samuel goes sees the diggers, Matthew's happy. Yeah. Harriet and Mum go and see the sheep, and then they're happy. Yeah. That would have worked. No, you stayed together. We stayed together, but of course. Think of that next year. Um, yeah, watched the Border Leicester show. Um I did look at like the was it the Rylands for a bit? Yeah. Um, but then the Border Leicesters came in, so I ran off. Normal Rylands or coloured Rylands? Coloured. Yes, I would have known. Jamie. Whoop, whoop. Yeah, Jamie. Yes, yeah. She came and supported me during my ballet stint at Devon County this year. Oh I love that. I love that. I really love Jamie. I went and talked to her for a bit. Um, yeah, so I went and watched her for a minute in the ring, and then I ran away to watch the Border Leicesters. And I'm glad I did run away because the patience of the children then stopped like halfway through watching. Um, Harriet was scaring all the Border Leicesters. Nice. She was like screaming in excitement, and obviously like the Rams were all like facing her and they were all not standing still. Well, with ears like that, picking up noises like that. Um so I kind of got the general gist that the showers were like, things piss off with your child. So we went away. She didn't like that the going away part, which I get, I get. Um, so we took her back in the tent to have a little look around. She loved that. Um, met some really cool people. Um, lots of you came up and said hello, which is really cool. Um, and it's really nice like hearing people's backgrounds and how like they've got into yeah, got into agricultural, how like you've encouraged them to do something, or how they've listened to the podcast, um, whatever it may be. It's just it's just I quite enjoy meeting the people that know us so well. I can't get over how many of you listen to the podcast and come up to us. That's what really throws my mind, I think, when you literally have people being like, I listened to the podcast. I have had a few messages being, where's the podcast? It's like oh my god, you forget how many people are listening to this every week of their life. I think the ones that listen to the podcast as well, I think they're our main supporters. Yeah, definitely. I think they're the ones we've got a lot to thank them for. Definitely. So thanks guys. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you. So I have just had a chat with Maria. I did do this off camera. Oh god, what are you about to say? That I can't, I'm gonna still have to cheer even when you don't win within the borderless to classes. Me and Abby are no longer friends. So, in all fairness, I did not find this out until Devon County. Right, I would just like to say I travelled all the way up to Devon County to support Abby. I did tell you not to. Not like on the showing. I said you said don't come on the Friday because I'll be overstimulated, or the second day because I'll be overstimulated. So I was like, Ali, we'll go today. I'm sorry. So I went the day before thinking like you'd be like, oh my god, thanks for coming up. And we'd like clap you on. Admittedly, we missed getting to the ring because quite a lot of people came to say hello. So then it put us back like an hour or two. I blame you guys. Um, but it was really nice meeting people. Um, but yeah, that put us back. So we literally saw you walking out of the ring, and then I went to find you and you disappeared. I basically jumped ship as soon as it was over. I fucked off. Yeah, because I was like gonna. It was like I said, I was overheated. I was just like, just get me out of this, get me in a quiet environment. I'm not being funny, I haven't been out for 10 months. Yeah, and then you're all of a sudden in this ring with everyone watching you. It is a bit like, whoa, what have I just stepped into? Yeah, I'm hot, I'm bothered. A lot going on, yeah. So I did jump ship, I'm gonna be honest. Um this is where it gets serious. Go on, Abby, carry on. So last year I helped a young girl called Maddy in the fact that she wanted to do young handlers, needed a sheep, and I said, here, have my key. My valet black nose ram. Angel, absolute angel he was. So she showed him beautifully at the young handlers last year, didn't get placed, but we to be fair, don't take a valet black nose if you want to be placed in anything interbreed. Um, so then I didn't know she had gone and got her own sheep. This year. And I didn't know that that sheep was, of course, aboard Leicester. And she absolutely wiped the whole club. Like the whole breed. She'd be champions for everything, reserve champions. Like, she done well. Like, incredible. If you're watching on video, like I'll put a clip of like all the rosettes she had. First show or like first county show ever. Wipe the board. And I was like, oh my god, this would have been awkward if Maria was here and I'm trying to cheer her on. I've got to cheer Maddie on as well. Um, I'll just like to say as well, I got hold of Maddy's dad. Is it Ross? Yeah. Ross, um, before I bought my Border Leicers, and this is where I found out that they were actually buying a flock dispersal type thing. Yeah, I think that's what they said. Yeah. Um, so it was someone who was retiring from Border Lesters, they wanted to get rid of them. And at the time it was like a really quiet hum in the Border Leicester community that people knew about it, but no one knew much. Yeah. Um, I think it was quite a big thing. Um, they I don't know how many they got, but at the time I remember it being quite a big number of Border Lesters. I'm talking less than 50, but a re like a respectable number. And border Lesters are a rare breed anyway. So seeing that someone even has like 20 breeding borderlesters is a big flock for a border. Yeah. Because they're just they're not around, there's none to have. Um, yeah, so I actually asked if I could buy some, and at the time that's when I found out they hadn't really started yet, they were just building. So um he was really good. He was very supportive when I rung him. Um yeah, it was really cool. So it's been a bit of a full circle in the fact there are so little borderlesters ever around, and all of a sudden you're surrounded. I know. Yeah so I did actually take a video for Maria of me with like I went and saw the Border Lesters and giving them a bit of a scratch. Yeah, you went in their little ramp pen. Yeah, and I forgot to send it to you. I did stand by their pen for a minute and I was very much admiring their breeding. It was beautiful. I don't know exactly what to look for in a borderless, so I can't say crap. So they look lovely, she did very well. So you will find me cheering both of you on at the Border Leicester classes. So whenever anyone sees me not cheering for Maria, it's probably because I'm cheering for Maddy. So people don't think I'm a bitch and supporting somebody else and not my friend. But we know if you do see that, can you make a little video of like Abby? Why aren't you cheering Maria? Also, I'm gonna clap for everyone. I'm not horrible, I do clap for everyone, but what I'm saying is like I'll be really cheering those two on. If you could get champion and reserve, that would be great. Yeah, I'll take that. Um, I think my my cheap are a very different type to Maddy's though. Oh, are they? What? Uh I just think how's are incredible. Oh, yeah. So who knows? We'll talk to Maddie, we'll do we'll do a deal. Yeah. Can I swap one of mine out for yours, please? Yes. Do you want a ram? We've got loads. I need some ewes, please. Swap C's, thanks, bye. Yeah, literally. Oh, if anyone's listening to like just this one episode, I only had ram lambs this year. Surprise! Just to update anyone that didn't listen. So, what else did you get up to while you were at Royal Cormor? Anything interesting? Did we learn anything? All just kind of looking around the shows. Came across a really cool handling system um called a Scots pen, I believe it is. Right. It's like lighter than the current system we have. It is a bit pricier? More pricey, yeah. Um, but then what you get with it kind of Any grants about at the minute? I don't know. We've already got a handling system, so we didn't really have a reason to look into it. Yeah. Um if there is a grant though, I highly recommend you go for that one because of just it was so well thought out. They even had like, so you can everything's there that you need. You could buy an extra for a galvanized foot bath, and you can buy an extra for like an a um like stand kind of thing at the end. It's like a head cover. Imagine I'm the race, it's like a head cover like this, yeah? Imaginative. Um these poor people on audio. Yeah, literally. So one side you could put your spray cans in, yeah. And then the other side you could do the same, and you could have like a rope attached to both sides, so then you can have your drench bottle just moving across. Oh yeah. I thought that was really cool, especially if you're like solo working. Yeah. You've got to like suddenly run after something that's jumped out. You can just drop and go. That's quite good. So I thought that was cool. Um, it was really easy to move as well, and they had like um oh, what would you call them? You know, on a 10 like a peg. A peg you could put in the ground so that you couldn't move them. Okay. Because the God, I can't think of anything. Because the hurdles are so lightweight, yeah. It's obviously easy for like a sheep to move as it goes past or whatever. I even imagine they're the like sort of lightweight that could blow over. Yeah. So they have these like attachments on the bottom that keep it supported, and then you peg them into the ground so it's really. So then they don't go over. Um see, I keep thinking about a handling system because we're nearing on a few numbers, maybe the four-zero mark. Whoops. On sheep. Yeah, we've gone above the two. Um, and I keep debating it, but I would be reluctant because of your horns. That's what I'm saying. I don't think I'm gonna like having some suitable for the horns, but I obviously solo work most of my time. Yeah. Therefore, it is quite actually hard to get them all in if I'm vitamin drenching or what have you. It is quite hard to get them all sorted with the horns. Absolutely. Which is a bit difficult, isn't it? Part of the system. I just think handling system might potentially be a bit of a waste. So, yeah, that's why quite often I will just get them in a group, hurdle them up. I do have to do it if somebody else is there, catch them each time, do it, and then let them out one at a time. But it does make it quite difficult. But hey ho, we're not in it for the easy life. Um, talking of not doing it the easy way, we have new arrivals. Sorry, what? I didn't tell you. More new arrivals. Chickens? No sheep. More sheep. More valets. Okay, go on. Fire away. A ram porter. And three ewes. It's not too bad. What did the total come to? Total. Just over five digits of four sheets. Two and a half each. No. Well, we'll call it that, we'll call it that just to make life easier, but no, there was one more expensive than the rest. Anyway, from what I've heard you've spent on the past on like one you, I'd say that's pretty good.

unknown 29:31

Yeah.

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Bearing in mind I expect a lot worse from you. Yeah. Yeah? Okay, well we'll say it's okay. It's fine. Somebody take my bank card away. I'll borrow it. My bank card is currently shut off. I'm sorry, but that's the only thing I haven't bought anything else this year. I'd also sold a ULAM before Devon County. Sold me weathers. I'm gonna sell some inlam use. So actually, I believe we're about even this year. Okay, then winner. I think that's quite good going. Shall we Yeah, I don't think that's too bad at all. See now, go math! Yeah, it's mathing. It's mathing. Yeah. And if you've got the money there to do it, why not? Yeah, and he he's gonna be a s a bit of a celeb this round. Isn't he? Yeah. Gonna be on a certain TV show potentially next year. Oh really? Are we allowed to know? I'm just gonna let everyone put two and two together. You might catch Kyle on a certain TV show. Yeah.

unknown 30:45

Okay.

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I don't I think it's common knowledge, you can work it out from the internet um through the breeding society. But I love that. Was this before or after you had him? He went out on hire to their place. Um, I don't think it's a secret, so it it doesn't really matter, but I just feel like if his scenes all get cut cut from the show, I look like a right dick being like he's gonna be a celebrity. I didn't buy him because he was going to be a celebrity, by the way, just to clarify, he's a very good sheep. So you bought him after the hire? Yeah. Yeah. Which is quite nice because I know he's unfertile. Yeah. And proven. That is exactly what I was thinking. Yeah, so he got graded minus one point, so literally got knocked down for one tiny thing, which was a dip in his back. Which I'm not being funny, could could have been the way he was stood, could have yeah, could have been anything that day. Um, so yeah, um, very good breeding, very good grading points. If you want a hoof print from Kyle, let us know. Yeah, could you imagine? Love heart and a hoof. That would actually be quite cute. Oh, would it awesome? It's crazy how small the farming community is, isn't it? Yeah. It is actually crazy. Yeah, so Kyle is our newbie. We have Kyle, our Ram. We have Linda Lillian, she was graded minus one as well. She's one of our girls. Why was she graded minus one? Um, I can't remember off the top of my head. I'm gonna be honest. Can't remember, I'll have to have a look at that. We have one called Look At Me. Yes, that's her name. So I don't know what I'm gonna call her for short. Look her? Or Mimi? Yeah? Yeah? I don't know. I think you've already got a Mimi. You've got a Lulu. Lulu. Yeah. Um, and then we have Josie. You've got another Josie. No. Am I doubling names up in my head here? Um Jada? Yeah, that's who I'm thinking. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. I'm great at names. Yeah, because I think the only Jays I have are Jada, Josie, and Jingle. Yeah. I think that's the only Jays I've got. How much as well? Yeah, you do, don't you? Um we mentioned in another episode. How what would be your ideal to build them up to? I feel like you're gonna go up to the hundreds. No. Do you not think? I you're saying that now, but I think we need to clip this in. Why don't you say about like 102 now? No. Next year I'll only be lambing 17. Yeah. I'm only lambing 17 next year. All together with both of your lambings. Oh no, one of the lambings was a mistake, wasn't it? You didn't mean to have them not a mistake, but not ideal. Yeah. So no, they'll all be in one. So basically, I'm gonna leave the ram in for two cycles, take him out for two cycles and put him back in for two cycles to catch anything that hasn't been done.

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Um, just to hopefully try and give them a break. So then I've got a second later lambing for later shows. Yeah. I'm hoping that I might do it like that. Um I think that makes more sense. Which might be something worthwhile you thinking doing with my six years in 12 Rams. How many Rams is it? Did you ban any of them or yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've only got one that I'm registering. Yeah. And how many did you ban? The rest of them? So what are you gonna do with them? Probably me. Tell Maria's land boxes. Bunny boxes. Oh wait. Oh my god, that's awful. And the summers might be coming for me for that. Oh no. No bunny boxes, that's quite sad. Oh sorry, I thought you meant because like, no, not like a rabbit. Sorry. No, not a ramping rabbit, no. Also, it's rabbit, not bunny. Sorry, yeah. Well then get your sex toys right, come on. Let's move on to another subject. Is Maria buying anything this year? Well, you've heard me mention my bank card a few times. Oh, yeah. Turns out I've been being scammed on my card. I've been thinking, why are my pennies so short at the minute? You know how I said about the fuel earlier, and I was like, the last amount in there. Yeah. So I got an Uber, and ever since then I have been having money taken out of my account. Love that. Woohoo! She's been scammed and she is a scammer herself. We're not going into that, but there's a there's a funny joke about that, an inside joke. No, we need to go into that because that sounds so much worse than what it is. Oh no, she just forgot to scan something on herself. Check it out, it's not that deep. I scanned my water, I scammed my pineapple, and then I scabbed my sandwich. Um, but I didn't realise until after I put my money in that the sandwich didn't scan and the weighing scales didn't pick it up. And as we started walking off, Abby went and looked at the receivers. I was like, that was cheap. I said, Why was that not four pounds whatever a meal deal is in there? And you went, it's because you didn't scan your sandwich. And I was like, She's a fraud and a scammer. A thief anyway, she's not the actual thief, um, just technology. Anyway, back to your actual scamming. Yeah, so literally just as I was appearing at Abby's, I got a message from my bank saying, Hello, hi Jackie, you've had money taken out, we've blocked your card. But you said, Did you get my message? And I was like, No, and you can see I don't get messages up on my phone properly. It didn't come up as a notification. I think you've got notifications turned off. I have no idea. So anyone awaiting a message from me, you can keep keep on waiting. We don't know what's happening. Um, yes, then I was on the phone to the bank for maybe 10 minutes. Yeah. I'd say they're really good. They were literally like, was this you? Was this shoe? Went back to September last year. They were like, was this you? I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then they're like, was this shoe? Was this shoe? Was this shoe? And like listed off a huge list. And I was like, no, I have not needed any more loot Ubers in London since I have got just lubers. This is going down, down, down. Yeah, literally. Um, in more than one sense. Um, yeah, so I was like, no, I'm back in Cornwall. I don't even think we have an Uber service down here. To be fair, I was gonna be surprised that it even let you put it through the first time. Literally, why are you up there? Um, and then it wasn't just that, it then started scamming me on Uber Eats too. So I had like eight or nine transactions from Uber as in like the car service, and I had one big one go through from Uber Eats. So whoever tried to use my money, you got rejected. You failed because there wasn't enough money in there. Because you took it all. Literally. Oh the last one, it was like um like one yesterday it said um you're pay there are payments pending. So someone tried to order some Uber Eats and didn't get their food because it rejected. Oh no, that's savage. It's not, it's my friggin' money! But if you are hungry, if they've got the sense to take my card details, they've got the sense to go and get themselves a bloody job and use their own money. Or go and get a sandwich from Morrison's where you don't scan it. Right, I've just realised the time. We're gonna have to cut this off and make it into a part two, because we need to hear all about your London trip. Oh yes, best time ever. Yeah, so we're gonna have to cut this into two parts and you're gonna have to catch it next week. Maria takes on London. Woo! Go Maria. Right, anyway. Ciao for now. Bye for now. Bye.