Wapinschaw
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Remember, when most of us have a day off and are sitting down to Boxing Day lunch, farmers are out preparing next year's food. Alistair, Aberdeenshire 26 December 2025 12:45
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Bo Diddley
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I took my young Cocker out to the training field at 1 pm on Christmas Day. My old school chum Ady went trundling past in his old Ford tractor, food & water bowser on the back to feed his 24 Herefords. He had already checked the next batch of 15 thousand turkeys at 6 am... No rest for a stockman.
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glasshalffull
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Applies to many people including NHS, private health care, emergency services, etc etc
At least farmers get to spend it with their loved one's.
At least farmers get to spend it with their loved one's.
Wapinschaw
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Indeed it does. I had 10 years of it in the RAF and a few afterwards in the North Sea oil and gas helicopter support business. Retired now and making the most of it.
Farm by the crop not the clock.
One on top of two
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I own horses and sheep . Now whats a holiday again 
enfieldspares
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I did a voluntary Christmas Day shift 6pm to 10pm on the single manned reception desk cum switchboard at the then still operating Towers Hospital in Leicester. They asked for staff from other departments "in the estate" to volunteer. Well you did get triple pay. Still, just remaining open, and the last of what in its day had been the two local old school "insane asylums". It had one of the still, at the time, longest corridors in the NHS hospital inventory. Which had side corridors leading off and was not straight but a series of slight turns. It was pretty much like working at a building laid out like the hotel in "The Shining" for four hours as the corridors at night were not kept lit. And you had to do two fire safety check walks to check doors and etc. So, yes, it isn't just those on the land that work Christmas Day and, as said, at least they are on home ground and with family.
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Farmers rock, OK!
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Tell me about it! First Christmas without our Daughter but she's having a great time being paid more than a UK History Teacher to wax lyrical about Hamilton Island!
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Wapinschaw
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I did not know there are coal mines in Norfolk.I was at the coal face yesterday and today and every day for the next month so samedifferent day
I grew up in 1960's Tyneside and mining was a major employer. The NCB had regular recruitment drives and the boys in my school class went down a local pit as part of a geography lesson/recruitment effort. One of my uncles worked underground at that particular pit, the Rising Sun in Wallsend. The day visit which included a real coal face was enough to convince me and all of my class mates that mining was not for us. Hats off to those who can and do work in that hot, dark, dangerous environment. RIP Uncle Alex McDonald.
RAF is perhaps different now. My neighbour's son is RAF. He is home at weekends and has 2 weeks off for christmas.
The rising sun is a country park now with deer on it
We will never see the likes of your uncle Alex again very few miners left now & the ones that are left are in poor health due to life below ground
Bloody hell! Does he own it???RAF is perhaps different now. My neighbour's son is RAF. He is home at weekends and has 2 weeks off for christmas.
Changed days indeed.
Indeed it is - my first Christmas Day after finishing all my professional engineering training (18 months) after Initial Officer Training was spent as the duty shift engineering officer on A line at RAF Lyneham. There were only 4 of us in the mess that night (duty engineers, ATC and a doctor) with our own chef, steward and a barman. I did slip out (with permission) to take my mother to midnight mass at Old Sodbury church - a different world then as I did it in uniform. The following year, I was in the Falklands serving Christmas dinner to the troops in the tin shed that served as the communal messing facility at RAF Stanley. All, a long, long time agoRAF is perhaps different now. My neighbour's son is RAF. He is home at weekends and has 2 weeks off for christmas.
That’s probably because they’ve put the immigrants in the 4 & 5* hotels he has to go home.RAF is perhaps different now. My neighbour's son is RAF. He is home at weekends and has 2 weeks off for christmas.
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