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Did you use GPS for splitting out the rows!!
Just a steady hand!
Did you use GPS for splitting out the rows!!
fair play @CORK but there's a case to be made that picture could be added to the fodder crisis thread
River cruise my eye, you were over picking up the latest accessory for your one!
We will see it floating up the Shannon next month with straw bales on board at 30 euro a bale.
The whole enterprise funded by TAMS, can't be up to you Cork lads....
Or even fivers.....The next thing we'll see is you lighting your cigars with straw........
@CORK the harbour masters in kinsale and courtmac are upping their docking charges by a bale a meter .
Or even fivers.....
That’s very interesting, I’ve seen that style of picture before in my grand aunts house in Ciney, Belgium. My grandmother on my mothers side was from Belgium and married my grandfather before WW2. I was last in Ciney for the funeral of my grand aunt, the graveyard is on the side of a steep hill and when we arrived there my mother noticed that the family headstone was in the wrong place. Upon questioning the locals, during a big flood recently there was a landslide through the graveyard and most of the headstones got washed to the bottom. Upon restoring the graveyard, somehow the map plans couldn’t be found and the council workers refitted the headstones randomly around the graveyard not knowing where they belonged. The correct grave couldn’t be located and my grand aunt had to go into cold storage until the maps were found. The family name is Laurent.I always remember this little hand made picture hanging in the house when I was young.
My mum was fixing it up today to give it to my sister as she’s just starting her family.
My grandfather was stationed in the Belgian Congo. As soldiers, they were billeted in the former homes of a Belgian people who had fled when the country got its independence. This was left behind in one of the houses and my grandfather brought it home to my mum who was a child at the time.
I wonder where the Belgian people are now.
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That’s very interesting, I’ve seen that style of picture before in my grand aunts house in Ciney, Belgium. My grandmother on my mothers side was from Belgium and married my grandfather before WW2. I was last in Ciney for the funeral of my grand aunt, the graveyard is on the side of a steep hill and when we arrived there my mother noticed that the family headstone was in the wrong place. Upon questioning the locals, during a big flood recently there was a landslide through the graveyard and most of the headstones got washed to the bottom. Upon restoring the graveyard, somehow the map plans couldn’t be found and the council workers refitted the headstones randomly around the graveyard not knowing where they belonged. The correct grave couldn’t be located and my grand aunt had to go into cold storage until the maps were found. The family name is Laurent.
That’s very interesting, I’ve seen that style of picture before in my grand aunts house in Ciney, Belgium. My grandmother on my mothers side was from Belgium and married my grandfather before WW2. I was last in Ciney for the funeral of my grand aunt, the graveyard is on the side of a steep hill and when we arrived there my mother noticed that the family headstone was in the wrong place. Upon questioning the locals, during a big flood recently there was a landslide through the graveyard and most of the headstones got washed to the bottom. Upon restoring the graveyard, somehow the map plans couldn’t be found and the council workers refitted the headstones randomly around the graveyard not knowing where they belonged. The correct grave couldn’t be located and my grand aunt had to go into cold storage until the maps were found. The family name is Laurent.
of al the people i,ve met on my travels in europe the belgians would be my favourites , very helpful and friendly in my experience and quite like the irish in many waysThis was Fr. Jan Defour. From Ostend I believe. He became great friends with my Grandfather when they were in the Congo.
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of al the people i,ve met on my travels in europe the belgians would be my favourites , very helpful and friendly in my experience and quite like the irish in many ways
The last people you would want to colonize your country was the Belgium,s . They kept people as slaves (Roger Casement) .of al the people i,ve met on my travels in europe the belgians would be my favourites , very helpful and friendly in my experience and quite like the irish in many ways
ah christ bogman i didn,t invite them over or anything you,re safe enough. as for roger he,s famous for a different reason altogetherThe last people you would want to colonize your country was the Belgium,s . They kept people as slaves (Roger Casement) .
The robbed every country they were in right up until they left.
My Grandfather from my mums side with a well known Cork man who got a tunnel named after him
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Has your family any contact today with any of the Belgians? I’m sorry I didn’t keep up contact with those that I met during the few visits I had. They spoke mostly Flemish but one of my mothers cousins is an archeologist and has excellent English. He was working in Bolivia on the Inca trail the last time I spoke to him. The last time they all visited here was 1984 and we went to JF Kennedy park, that was their highlight of Ireland in the 80s.This was Fr. Jan Defour. From Ostend I believe. He became great friends with my Grandfather when they were in the Congo.
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