Our own race

This lot  are heading towards tupping-time. And we need to give them  a mineral/viatmin supplement. And rthey arent keen. With fewer sheep weve just corralled them into a smaller spaceand then administer it one a  time , but with  23 it wont be as straightforward to keep track of who has had and who hasnt.


So we made a sheep race  from hurdles, gates and stuff

Encourage the sheep to come down  with a bit of food.

And put them a few at a time intro the race , so they can be dosed and then let out

Job done !

And then its tupping in 6 weeks or so .

BA -again

BA are certainly not my favourite airline   - NABAFWBAFNFWBACF
is one reason .   And ive managed to avoid givign BA more money for 2 years or so - FlyBe going to London City Airport and I've discovered that the Caledonian  Sleeper is a reasonable  way of travelling north

 But I need to travel again ,and Fly(May)Be don't go to London City in November, so BA it is after a 2 year hiatus .

So i try and choose a flight and I need to  be back on monday morning . Im not going to spedn hours  getting out to Heathrow and hanging around , so saturday , and London City it is.

And why does coming back on  a saturday cost twice as much as travelling south on a tuesday ?. Because they can charge that , and get away with it .

Selecting dates gives you the option of being flexible . Does it matter ? Well I think it does . Im still trying  to work out what buttons do what on flight choices and prices, but this is the situation at the moment ( I think)

heres a screenshot . If you  tick flexible dates , the price of saturday flights is a bit lower than if you say the dates are fixed.

 

Depending on which outward flight you choose, the price of the   return flight can vary. Its either £188, 194 or £195

£194 return flight

£195 return flight

It is not possible to see the  return flight and the outward flight  on the same screen - the list is so long , you have to scroll.  And when you select the outward journey, the prive for the return one changes .

And they do it with some javascript .

So they charge depending on how desperate to travel on a particular day .
'Dynamic pricing' means one price changes depending on what else you choose.
They design their website to obfuscate what they are doing .

And has BA gone up in my estimation ?

Farewell to the Kye

... to the cows. Its time for them to move on  and give the grass a chance to regrow whilst there is still some daylight and warmth.

So


1. Herd the cows down from the field

2. Pen them whilst we get ourselves sorted out

3.  Bring up trailer

4. Encourage cows to go in aforesaid trailer

5 Cows ready to leave

things ive learned over the last few weeks 

• Cows are big 
• Cows are very inquisitive and curious and will come to see what you are doing 
• When cows push on something ( posts/fences) it gives way eventually I
• I know now why bones can get broken if someone gets in the way of a cow. 

The easy (well,easier) way to pick up sheep

Eric, Ernie and Edwin (they are a bit nervous)

1. Take trailer to Stromness ferry terminal

2 . Leave trailer at Ferry terminal, to be loaded onto the Ferry 

3. Ferry takes the trailer to Scrabster and Phil takes the sheep to Scrabster and puts them in the trailer 

4. Ferry brings trailer ( with sheep) back to Stromness

5. return and pick up trailer after its been taken off the ferry 

Job done  !!