the daydream fund challenge thread

rozeepozee

rhiwfield wrote: »

Virtual visit service

1) Ogmore estuary at high tide
2) Ogmore Castle

Wow! That's pretty impressive. Off to google Ogmore........

choille

Popping back with a quick question - does anyone know a way to preserve fruit juice? Can it be heat treated like bottled fruit for example? We have apples and also grapes to use but only a small chest freezer which is mostly full already!

Make wine possibly?

choille

RAS - The link is interesting with the letting houses - I've been looking at a load & different ones.

It would be easier if we were in our own house but I am itching to get something on the go for getting an income in for putting back into paying off what loan I would need to take out to do one - what a ramble. Used to be able to get grants for those sort of things but not any more _ I always miss the boat.

The youtube thing I can't listen to as no working speakers at the moment but it sort of looks like extensive farming - like what they do in vietnam. I went to a talk on it - ( not to vietnam unfortunately but at a crofting thing ) There are ways of utilising every inch of ground & still not exploiting it by making sure that everything is balanced nutricionally - my spelling gets worse each day!
There are so many things I would like to do I just hit the wall energy wise lately. Money is not plentiful either & any spare is for house materials.

Poosmate

Choille. is there anywhere on your patch where you could have campers? I mean, real campers who sleep in a sleeping bag on a
foam mat and cook on a camping gas stove and squat in the bushes type?

If I was closer to where you are I'd rough it for a couple of nights (have done worse on motorcycle rallies with proper toilets! lol).

Poo

choille

Hi Poo - there is a campsite down the road - the folk live down south, but if they caught us taking in campers they'd report us to any authority that they could. I don't know if you can just open the gates. If, indeed people will now still rough camp.

rhiwfield

troglodyte wrote: »

Popping back with a quick question - does anyone know a way to preserve fruit juice? Can it be heat treated like bottled fruit for example? We have apples and also grapes to use but only a small chest freezer which is mostly full already!

Trog, grapes for wine making, apples for cider?

I'm storing most of my apples, though the James Grieve had to be eaten first.

Poosmate

Well the Korean Grand Prix is a bit of a disappointment!

I'll go and do a search on preserving fruit juice other than freezing.

See you soon.

Poo

Poosmate

This one (fruit juice preservation idea) sounds kind of dangerous to me but here goes:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5468508.html

I think you'd need to be a chemist and own a lab for this one:

http://www.leatherheadfood.com/natural-preservation

Pasteurization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

I'll add more as I find them.

Poo

Davesnave

Sorry you were disappointed rozee, but I'm not surprised, bearing in mind that we looked at West Wales for 3 years and viewed loads of property in the last two of them. It's the only way to get an idea of good value, because it's an odd market where people know selling can take a very long time, but that disguises a whole raft of sellers who are also delusional in their asking prices. Anywhere else, and with no offers in 6 months, people would get the message!

The above means that property which is good (and there is a lot of dire building!) and well-priced doesn't hang about. We saw a couple with JJ Morris (who seem a decent, honest agency) come and go, literally in days.

The first property you describe, demonstrates what I mean about 'delusional,' because no matter how lovely a place is, an unfinished project can cost loads to fix. We were very keen on one place where they'd done a huge, tasteless extension, but somehow failed to put any of the 3 bathrooms on the upper floor(!) so we were told it was a 'simple job' to add an extra piece of roof and fit one in! It allegedly had PP for two holiday lets in a barn that looked too small to me, but they 'couldn't find' the plans for us. They also 'had an income' from a static, except it hadn't been let for a while and was at the end of its life.... All well and good, but would they negotiate? No, they needed as much money as possible so that they could return to Sussex....:( Two years on, and almost four years since going on the market, they're still waiting for the 'right' buyer, but asking price is now £70k down ......and counting.

Oh, and 4 acres should indeed look like a football pitch, but again, one can enter the world of imagination here. On looking around a 3 acre plant nursery, here in Devon, I remarked to the agent that I could possibly find 2 of them, at a pinch if we included half the river bed, but the third had completely escaped me. His reply was "Ah yes, well, you know that it's not really there, and I know that too, but Mr B (seller) can certainly see it!":rotfl:

Poosmate

Our 1.5 acre plot in Ireland looks pretty big to me. I'm not sure I could manage it on my own, but then I suppose if it was my full
time job maybe I'd be asking the local farmers to use their fields too! Having said that, the cottage isn't very big so it doesn't
make a very big footprint.

Ok, the Korean GP is now finished and I am back off to bed for a couple of hours.

See you all later.

Poo