the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

One of my ex batts is expiring. . Don't want to hasten it, just incase, but she looks like she will just fall asleep quietly. Well, nice if short retirement.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

We deal with Planners on an almost daily basis & often they take their orders from above - not God but head of Planning & they have their hands tied. It is a very stressful job & they are now well under staffed & here are expected to cover a massive area.

I don't think anyone can argue thatit is a stress free job, in fact i imagine it is rather antagonistic at times. But that does not mean that they are efficient and accurate otherwise: it seem frequently they are not.

Fwiw, many peoe work within systems they do not design or respect efficiently......medics for example, and have huge responsibilty and areas. I think we in our house hold are fairly familiar with that....but there is NO doubt that despite respiecting the stress the service is inefficient, inaccurate and cumbersome.

Fwiw, building control seemed similarly tin godly. They insisted we put the septic tank one metre, yes, one metre, to the right of where we wanted it. Away from a building we own so it was safe from any run off from it. And closer to a building they own, which has a dripping gutter:rotfl:

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

One of my ex batts is expiring. . Don't want to hasten it, just incase, but she looks like she will just fall asleep quietly. Well, nice if short retirement.

Some of mine did the same.
I'm afraid I won't have ex batts any more, they are just too much hassle.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Some of mine did the same.
I'm afraid I won't have ex batts any more, they are just too much hassle.

Yeah, i had them before years ago. Of course, no more ex batts to rehome now!

Some other chooks...ex housed and free range though will be i guess!

I expected a loss rate of thrty to fifty percent.

The others seem so far pretty ok, getting very cheeky now, and i noticed to day one has feathered up very well!

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Yeah, i had them before years ago. Of course, no more ex batts to rehome now!

Some other chooks...ex housed and free range though will be i guess!

I expected a loss rate of thrty to fifty percent.

The others seem so far pretty ok, getting very cheeky now, and i noticed to day one has feathered up very well!

I forgot about that ban coming in.

I suppose there still will hens to be rehomed, I guess they'll just be in a better condition, I think they just have bigger cages now.

Davesnave

The planning dept my BiL has to deal with has one of the poorest track records in the country, but that doesn't stop them putting obstacles in his way every few months. They have just excelled themselves, demanding he do something which he would really like to do, but which seems totally impossible.

We're all very interested to see how they'll get out of this one, but as it's almost certainly something beyond their powers to demand, they'll probably just back down in the end, having wasted more time, and other people's money.

Here, we have a helpful, understanding planning dept, though if we were half a mile down the road, things would be different. I say this before we have submitted any plans, of course, but as we are starting with something pretty hideous, a bit of bartering would seem possible, as we're close to our development limit. For example, we have a truly awful sticky-out integral garage which we'll be more than happy to demolish.

lostinrates

Out door loo is now indoor loo

Only problem is, it is in the middle of the kitchen!




Wall behind the loo goes tomorrow

RAS

You will need something a bit bigger than poor Strawberry to hide behind?

Itismehonest

You could always tell everyone it's the latest must-have thing in kitchen waste disposals, LIR

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

You could always tell everyone it's the latest must-have thing in kitchen waste disposals, LIR

:D

Its now got three doors into it. My dogs found walking intheough the loo door into the house and out through the back door...almost next to it, behind the wall so out of shot, very entertaining this evening.


Round, and round and round they went!