the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Rhiwfield - It's difficult standing your ground on price - but I think you should if it's handmade produce. If she can make kilt socks they sell for £12 - £15 in charity shops - new, but I don't know what they'd sell for in a new goods shop. Although I would think that's a lot of work making socks.

A fresh dump of snow last night so that's the ice covered over & making things interesting. A mysterious puddle of water in the shed appeared over night beside the photo copier - as if it had taken a widdle on the floor. I had some bottles of comfrey foliar feed there & they'd frozen & broken the glass bottle.

The Scot's Greys are looking as if they've shrunk - they seem to have lost an awful lot of feathers this moult. They look dreadful.
Wonderful to see all those Orpingtons striding around in the snow.

rhiwfield

Choille, DW spoke to one of the craft fair knitters who said she couldnt expect people to pay for her time, all she wanted was to use up her old wool and get a bit of cash in. Hopefully that kind of competition is short-lived. DW hasnt tried to make socks yet, maybe next year. Reminds me, must get her latest knits on the website.

Comfrey foliar feed, that'll make the shed smell nice

Had a very pleasant surpise this morning, a neighbour popped round and presented us with a brace of pheasants. Hanging up in the garage and one will be used for a pre christmas meal next weekend, will the other keep until christmas?

lostinrates

wretched bloody pipes. The problemseems to be that our pipes are old black dairy pipes to copper, and the mm measurement is ''old'' and different to modern blue pipe(we have some but not much of that!). Agri spares are closed today and DH will be gone tomorrow. we've gritted and opened up the front yard to give access to two more troughs and will have to cart over soe water for beet and grass pellets to the feed room. And kettle.

Roads and carparks are SHOCKING today. The first farm supplies we went to a kid ran out, I hit the brakes and skidded right to the end of the carpark. The roads where no sun have got are similar good fun, but less inhabited by flighty children!

It is the most beautiful day, the sun is warm and the chooks are lying spread eagled in a row in the open fronted barn,in a beam of sun.....it looks like they are forming an army so straight is the row.

choille

I love pheasants but I don't like game! I really am not into that putrefying flesh thing. I eat birds fresh.
We are going over to ex gamekeepers this afternoon, if anyone will know it's him. I'll ask.

Re your DW competitor - that attitude sucks in a way as it undercuts, but each product will be different. I suppose you just have to find a niche.
Folks where I used to live got a sock maker machine - it was a Singer & looked like something out of a museaum. He makes really good socks on it. He is quite a card - spins on a handmade wheel -made from a bicycle wheel & he has been seen hand knitting with needles made from fence wire. I'll try and get a website link up.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

are any of you lot any good at dating an old cottage by its fire place?:rotfl:

here we go



the little door to the right leads to a little stone lean -too type outhouse

by the side of the open fire, there is a little oven, which i presume was for bread making... the old oven door was disgarded.. in a ditch outside, so we have brought that home to thaw out to see if there is any dates on it, but its totally gone around the edge etc...

as you can see there is a deep layer of old rotten leaves etc on the floor

choille

There's been an old wall plate - some bricks have been used to redo the chimney. Maybe you could see if they're local bricks - date it by seeing when the brickworks was in operation.

The fireplace seems big for an ordinary house...? Maybe the oven was a later addition - ranges came & went out of fashion. Would be quite modish in its day.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I can see waht you mean, the bread /oven has been added later as the stone type lintel goes right across,

it must have been an open fire place which had maybe a swing arm to hold kettles/pots etc

will have a nose around google to see if there is any pics lol...

lostinrates

No idea on age, but its beautiful!

alfie_1

:rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

are any of you lot any good at dating an old cottage by its fire place?

here we go



the little door to the right leads to a little stone lean -too type outhouse

by the side of the open fire, there is a little oven, which i presume was for bread making... the old oven door was disgarded.. in a ditch outside, so we have brought that home to thaw out to see if there is any dates on it, but its totally gone around the edge etc...

as you can see there is a deep layer of old rotten leaves etc on the floor

well if it wasnt for the leaves id have thought that was a friend cottages fireplace !! the walls the same too. his cottage is 300-350 yrs old and built into/onto the Beaulieu Wall [wall that partially still remains at front of palace house onto the road] i think the bread? oven is a later addition as the bricks are different. but the fireplace with its "arrangement of stones" is identical to that in what is now his lounge!! they had big fireplaces then to be able as you say to stand pots and hang pots. in S. ireland a friend had such a huge fireplace in a TINY cottage, he would sit in it in the winter [well to the side :rotfl:] used to stack the peat bricks to the side and cook on it! mind you he was half way up a mountain and drew water from a well etc, fantastic place....
where is this? is it yours? its fab !!
p.s. i dont think that lovely old beam would still be there if id seen it 1st! fabulous to use in a restoration!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

no not mine....( wish it was maybe one day)

we have started cleaning the old cast oven door, and it was made in the village where i live..( maybe an oman?)

Done a quick google and the firm was around 1910 ish

do you really think it could be 300 plus years old? i was thinking 200 at the very outside?

hubby is going to see if he can search the old internet tonight find out the local history etc...

edit... the room is very small....


I have got a lot of potential problems on my plate at the mo, that i really wish i could off load on you lot, but i cant talk about it as its a public forum... maybe one day in the near future i can explain...