I once worked on a turkey farm in Suffolk and dispatched between 800 and 3,000 birds a day.
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As a teenager I raised chickens and sold the eggs at my grandfathers pharmacy. They were not washed on his counter, they were not white either. Customers loved them! I am sure that is illegal today.I once worked on a turkey farm in Suffolk and dispatched between 800 and 3,000 birds a day.
I also gutted & butchered many of those I dispatched.
I'm genuinely shocked that no one knew a bird only had the one orifice
Perhaps the poop occasionally found on eggs was a hint?
Jay.
Here you go Michael, it's all in here.
In under 500 posts,Here you go Michael, it's all in here.
One striking aspect of houses in America is the flimsy quality of even the most expensive ones. Houses are built literally like a house of cards. Weak beams, plywood, flimsy insulation, flimsy siding, and roofing that either blows off in high winds or just rots away after a few years [unless the termites get there first].
It's really no wonder that, come tornado or hurricane season, houses are literally ripped off of their foundations and tossed into the air. Learn more about American houses and why other countries seem to have home-building down to a science.
In contrast, houses and most buildings in Europe are much sturdier, being built with stone or cinder blocks or brick for the whole wall and inside walls. This is true for new houses and apartment blocks as well as old buildings.
This is the reason we see buildings many hundreds of years old still standing in good shape. In the United States, a 50-year-old house is considered old and is torn down to make room for another flimsy yet expensive structure.
American houses sometimes do have the appearance of having brick walls; however, these are usually just stuck onto the outside of the plywood walls giving a false sense of quality and strength. It is understandable that using flimsy wood is cheaper than using stone or concrete, but this is not really evident by the prices of houses.
The American mindset of bulldozing the old and building something new instead every few decades keeps us from having a sense of history, at least where architecture and physical structures are concerned.
And that is from an American website
Jay.
There's wooden houses then there's wooden houses, all are not made equal.
Here in Ludlow we have at least 500 timber framed houses, all at least 3 centuries old, built before bricks caught on again more than a millennium after the Roman building industry collapsed with the end of the Empire in the West. And there are also a few new ones with timber frames, built to look like the old ones, but you need to be rich to afford that kind of house here, unless you build it yourself. But building standards for new housing in the UK, are crap. I wouldn't want to live in one built in the last 100 years or so - apart from one of those new oak-framed jobs I mentioned (but buying one of those won't leave you much change of a million quid here).
Likewise. Built cheap and built quick.
I remember them going up. I had friends on a farm in Little Cornard. They swore they'd sell up and move when those horrible boxes started appearing over Prospect Hill. And they did. I don't care to go back that way again, and look. The old farmouse is now probably part of an extension to that housing estate. And that, dear Americans, is another stupid thing about this country that you missed so far - we build crappy little houses all over perfectly good, food-producing farmland.
I'm not sure if they're built anymore , but don't you have a good number of older row houses ?
No, Steve and Gwynneth Tee, and Glynis and Kish Goodchild, late of Prospect Hill Farm.
I use one to rapidly heat water for washing and RINSING my dishes. The hot water takes a looong time to get to my kitchen faucet. We have a well and I don’t like wasting water if I can help it.
We do. Mostly in a medieval walled town like Ludlow, houses were independently built abutting one another to save space, but we also have a couple of 19thC purpose-built terraces (but built on the site of medieval ones). Rapidly-expanded industrial towns have a lot, mostly from the Victorian period, to accommodate large numbers of workers near centres of production. The first house Mrs B. and I bought, was one of those. There, you really need to get on with your neighbours. Now everyone who can afford it wants defensible space around them. Some more modern social housing is in terraces but it's quite rare these days.
Agreed. I would much rather knock your balls or bells in person. An online forum is no substitute for face to face ball breaking. A privilege and great fun amongst friends.That's what I love about this Forum. We can knock seven bells out of each other yet still enjoy a beer and a bowl together afterwards
Jay.
Well Horace Cardy & family lived at either Backhouse Farm, Blackhouse Lane or Blackhouse Farm, Backhouse lane, Little Cornard.
