I had to convert that to Celcius and that is bloody cold no matter where you live 
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Its an observation balloon alright. Its modernized to the gills. Its got more cameras than a tourist beach. It watches over us. But yeah, it looks like something from the 40s.
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Well it depends 
-20°C (-4°F) here now.
Last weekend occasional -30°C (-22°F).
Somewhere in the Kola map.
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Although we don’t live as far from the equator as you… It isn’t all beaches, desert or jungle in Australia and we are no strangers to ‘freezing’ weather:
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That I would not have expected!
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At New Years Eve I visited some friends and they recently had to move stuff on their attic around. Seems I now have two boxes with old games (more):
Jagged Alliance 2 is rightfully the most worn box, as I played it inside out, literally. And fond memories of Flight Commander 2 come back, really loved this turn based air combat (board game like) game.
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Nice! There are some great ones in there.
Flight commander 2 was great, if memory serves I think one of the guys from the combat mission games worked on that (before combat mission).
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I believe that was Charles Moylan, who pretty much funded Battlefront / Combat Mission. I remember sending him some voice overs in German for Achtung Spitfire! And he kindly returned a CD with the game and those sounds embedded, albeit I doubt they were used in the real game.
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Texas is known for its blazing hot and humid summers. But little is mentioned regarding the occasional winter freezes it gets. In the next few hours, an artic blast is hitting North Texas and not expected to be above freezing until Wednesday.
We covered up our plants and bushes since we lost a few last winter. It may or may not help, but always worth a shot.
The temp has dropped 10F/5.5C in the last hour the wind has picked up as well.
Thankfully I’m off work til Tuesday. In the meantime, we have NFL playoff games to watch.
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Much better scanning this year if they go to term, the result of no drought and a really warm autumn to grow lots of late grass, Ewes are in great condition.
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I was going to say well done… but I’ve heard Welshmen ‘like’ their sheep as much as Kiwi’s so that might not be the best thing to say 
However, that looks like you could turn a tidy profit? What is your usual scan to market percentage?
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If I’m not mistaken, you’ve got the grandfather of DCS in there, SU-27 Flanker.
Velcro gloves sell quite well in NZ as Wales then? 
Usual scan percentage… previously it’s been around 120%, last year was the worst one with 108%. The sheep had a tough summer and autumn with the drought the previous year, nutrition has a big part to play.
Profit…. It’s subjective. The main goal is to cover the costs and maintenance of the farm. We should do that with the crop of lambs.
We couldn’t live off that low number, I’m guessing it’s the same over with you where it’s economies of scale. We’d need around 10 times the volume of sheep and land. I have so much respect for proper farmers who do this for a living.
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Very much the same here. Neighbours ran about 20-30 Wiltshire’s (meat sheep and self shedding) and on any given year they would have 40-50 lambs and about 90% would go to market (after natural and losses to foxes, etc). Not enough to make a living but a tidy sum nonetheless selling certified organic to specialty butchers… covered their costs and paid for his annual fishing holiday, plus change.
We have decided to revegetate/regenerate native woodland and habitat and have only kept enough pasture for our horses and the two Galloway steers that we rescued.
Farming is bloody hard work… just keeping a few horses and a couple of cattle is enough.
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Would you be open to sell me a few of those?
(No worries, “no” is a very valid answer)
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Flight Commander 2 is really great!
I recently installed a few old games again, and this game was among them.
Runs pretty well under WINE on Linux btw.
…which reminds me that I wanted to post about the Linux retro gaming notebook I set up recently. My kids and I are having a blast with that old hardware, playing old games.
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Honestly, i cannot think of a harder, more intensive industry to work in. Its just bloody hard graft all the way
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I sometimes feel like a Shepard, trying to wrangle the great British public to where they want to go, when most of the time they have no clue where they actually want to be, then all they do is bleat and follow exactly they same path as they did the day before…I think the railway should issue us with a big stick and a dog… that would get them moving 
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My brother, who lives north of Atlanta, just texted me this, “It’s so cold, I have to take buckets of water to the sheep and goats because the water hoses that supply their automatic feeder would freeze and burst.” I see that it’s 13 degrees F this morning. Poor devils. That barn doesn’t strike me as being well insulated.
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My experience’s with management is that they often don’t really care if a problem exists. They care if a problem has been reported in such a way that:
- It can’t be ignored
- They can’t blame it on somebody else
- They personally look bad and might be held responsible if its not dealt with.
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