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Farm Yards with Elaine Part 6
Wednesday, 07 December 2011A challenging day RIGHT I know you've heard this only recently, but I truly loathe cows; I mean they can't even calve without needing a helping hand and sadly it's always my hand that has to do the helping. I had one of those days recently. It started well enough; rising at 6am, fed the lamb, fed the cat, fed the husband then went to town to collect the stock trailer from the Falk...
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Farm yarns with Elaine Part 1
Friday, 30 September 2011HORSE loving sheep farmers Elaine and Arthur Turner (left) live at Rincon Grande Farm on East Falklands. Both are known for their fun loving attitude to life, jockeying and motoX skills, and Elaine in particular for her supreme patience in the face of her lively, eccentric hubby. Elaine offers Penguin News website visitors an insight into life on a busy Falklands farm. Rincon Grande farm facts:...
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Farm Yarns with Elaine Part 2
Monday, 10 October 2011HORSE loving sheep farmers Elaine and Arthur Turner live at Rincon Grande Farm on East Falklands. Both are known for their fun loving attitude to life, jockeying and motocross skills, and Elaine in pa...
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Farm Yarns with Elaine Part 3
Monday, 17 October 2011American memories EVERYONE seems to have been on holiday this winter and I'm really feeling like it's been ages since we were away. Admittedly though we've been lucky enough to have s...
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Farm yarns with Elaine Part 4
Monday, 07 November 2011HORSE loving sheep farmers Elaine and Arthur Turner live at Rincon Grande Farm on East Falklands. Both are known for their fun loving attitude to life, jockeying and motocross skills, and Elaine in ...
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Farm yarns with Elaine Part 5
Thursday, 01 December 2011The Buttercup years HORSE loving sheep farmers Elaine and Arthur Turner live at Rincon Grande Farm on East Falklands. Both are known for their fun loving attitude to life, jockeying and motocross s...
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Farm yarns with Elaine Part 7
Monday, 09 January 2012I'M a farmers wife get me out of here! It's been so busy here with the shearing, gathering, lamb marking, carting sheep, planting oats and swedes; it's definitely bordering on the ...
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Farm Yarns with Elaine Part 7
Monday, 16 January 2012WELL it worked, I got my ipod for Christmas. That morning in typical Arthur fashion he presented me with two presents; one was quite small and the other in a huge box. The small one seemed most likely...
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Farm Yarns with Elaine Part 8
Friday, 02 March 2012WE recently spent two days helping our good friends at Race Point gather their ewes in for shearing. I had my Honda 230 motorbike, Arthur his quad bike and our host John also had a motorbike. The lan...
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Farm Yarns with Elaine Part 9
Friday, 27 April 2012WELL it's been a bit like the good, the bad and the ugly here lately. The bad is definitely the sale of my awesome Honda 230; in fact I felt the same way when we had to deliver the weaned puppie...
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