the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi Poppy:wave:

Yes its a lovely thread, we are like a little family here...

Never give up on your dream....all baby steps.... and the first step will be when you pay a small amount of your debt even if its a penny, its a step in the right direction....

so please let us know when you have made an overpayment, or cleared a debt...:T

It suposed to be getting milder....flip its the coldest i have been today:eek: ...

crochet blankets and throws seem to be selling well in my little antique place, so i have had a crochet throw half finished for about 2 years....:cool: so i might as well finish it off, and flog it:rotfl:

so tonight I will be snuggled up on the sofa watching corrie and crocheting.....with no kids and hubby ( Kids are playing in hteir band in school concert) I know i should be there... but peace and quiet is too good to miss:cool::rotfl:

alfie_1

today is a better day ! although iv not finished yet... nipping out to drop some bags of logs off for an elderly lady who was ripped off with unseasoned wet wood delivery !? i will sort it for her tomorow but she needs to keep warm and that wood aint doin it !
sees u later....
p.s. welcome poppy.

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

nipping out to drop some bags of logs off for an elderly lady who was ripped off with unseasoned wet wood delivery !? .

I'm going to buy some wood in January, and I've already decided to buy from the people who sell by cubic metre not the ones who sell by tonne to help guard against that.

Rummer

Hello and Welcome Poppy :j

I had to return to work today and the drive was more than a bit :eek:

Just ordered a whole load of animal feed online tonight to keep the beasts going until the new year, I much prefer supporting the local feed merchant but it is too hard for me to get there at the moment and they will not deliver such a small order

Just to plan for next year I have a couple of hedge questions. We have a standard green hedge that is bare in places and we would also like to make it longer. We planted a few meters of bought hedge but it seems to be failing. Anyway now I have rambled on :rotfl: how do I take and establish cuttings from my existing hedge?

We have had a brain wave for the area of the garden that floods, we are going to use tyres and grow potatoes/carrots/courgettes in them. In the last year we have tried to grow things in that bed but they just don't take so this should help increase our growing area.

choille

Big thaw on & got out - hurrah.
Heard of a feed supplier way out on a point of land N of here. Went out & he'd loads of stuff & cheaper than the supplier in Dingwall. He'll deliver the hay we couldn't load in as we were also had to get the rest of the logs.
There were Orpingtons strutting about in the yard - strange - he'd not long got them & didn't know what they were. He also had the most gorgous looking dark brown with - almost maroon coloured hen that had white blotches on - a cuckoo something.

We are supposed to get a further thaw & then a hard freeze again next week. The tracks lethal at the moment but the roads are clear.

RAS

choille wrote: »

Big thaw on & got out - hurrah.
Heard of a feed supplier way out on a point of land N of here. Went out & he'd loads of stuff & cheaper than the supplier in Dingwall. He'll deliver the hay we couldn't load in as we were also had to get the rest of the logs.
There were Orpingtons strutting about in the yard - strange - he'd not long got them & didn't know what they were. He also had the most gorgous looking dark brown with - almost maroon coloured hen that had white blotches on - a cuckoo something.

We are supposed to get a further thaw & then a hard freeze again next week. The tracks lethal at the moment but the roads are clear.

Yay

We had rain! So it must be above freezing. Going to make the last bit home very interesting tonight.

Might have to do a bit of path and road clearing at the weekend, we have anything up to 6 inches of hard ice that will take ages to clear where the sun don't sun.

Your birds : these? http://www.motherhenspoultry.com/ladycuckoo.htm

great news about the reasonably priced feed merchant.

choille

Hi RAS - hope you manage home okay - we had a load of snow dumped the other day on top of the compacted ice -the ice is still there but melting - very slippy.
The link you posted isn'tthe hens - those look rather like Scot's Greys.
This hen was almost maroon & had white blotches as big as 50p oieces on it - very smart looking hen.
The feed suppliers mother went to a breeder & he filled a box with chickens - she'd gone for half a dozen Black Rocks & came back with 'pot luck'. What a laugh. The Black Rocks will be ready in April he said & filled a box with Orpingtons - (wouldn't take much to fill a box with them) and these splash hens. Really nice looking but what they are - goodness knows.
I got the rough area the breeder lives - so a bit of detective work & I'll have em tracked down. I would't mind some of those hens.

Welcome aboard Poppy.

lostinrates

That speckledy colouring is ''cuckoo''colouring. So is that colouring ''grey'' north of the border?:) I'm keen to know what it was too....I love seeing new breeds and hybrids. I'm becoming a bird geek.

stitching_witch

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hi Poppy:wave:

Yes its a lovely thread, we are like a little family here...

Never give up on your dream....all baby steps.... and the first step will be when you pay a small amount of your debt even if its a penny, its a step in the right direction....

so please let us know when you have made an overpayment, or cleared a debt...:T

And me?? And me??

This month I've cleared the Tax Credit overpayment I've been paying off for 3 years, and also a loan from my DD. I'd love to put the £50 a month into my daydream fund, but I'm going to throw it at the other debts in true MSE fashion!

Poppy - I'm very impressed that you've read it all from the beginning. It must have taken ages...

I have to admit to have been a bit of a lurker recently. I read every day so I know what you are all up to, but I don't feel up to posting at the moment. We were doing well at the allotment until DH said we need a little bit of frost to break up the soil - look what happened! It's all his fault :rotfl:

We're still getting a few eggs from the four girls we have, but not enough to sell at the moment. That said, my jam is selling well a £2 a jar.

Everything else is on hold at the moment as FIL died on Friday at the good age of 88. We've been driving up and down to Hastings for a couple of weeks to support MIL and plenty more trips over the next few weeks as the funeral isn't until the New Year. This is when I realise what a tie the chickens are.....:(

I'm determined to get back into posting on the thread, but possibly in the new year when everything calms down, but I eagerly await each new post. :)

choille

LIR - The cuckoo maran looks like the Scot's grey - I guess cuckoo is speckeldy?

This maroon with white splashes she thought was a cuckoo something but couldn't remember what the guy /breeeder said. She said he appeared 'the worst for drink'! She'd gone to get Black Rocks & came back with a box of pot luck! I'd love to know what the maroon ones are. I've been surfing interwebber looking though Aberdeens sales catalogues & googling chicken breeds.
I am too becoming a bit of a chicken buff too. I'm even considering getting an incubator.