the daydream fund challenge thread

Rummer

CTC they look great! I love making things it is just a shame I have no natural talent at all lol!

Davesnave

Those are great, CTC!

Like Rummer, I'm not terribly crafty, though I used to teach pottery. There was a time when many of my pieces could be seen around the house, but strangely, over the years, most have found their way into the loft.

We went to a local Fatstock Show today, and while looking at the chickens & ducks, I snapped a quick piccy of two Cream Legbars:



We thought they were super little birds, so there may be another order coming your way, lir, once DW has finished her research!:rotfl:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Those are great, CTC!

Like Rummer, I'm not terribly crafty, though I used to teach pottery. There was a time when many of my pieces could be seen around the house, but strangely, over the years, most have found their way into the loft.

We went to a local Fatstock Show today, and while looking at the chickens & ducks, I snapped a quick piccy of two Cream Legbars:



We thought they were super little birds, so there may be another order coming your way, lir, once DW has finished her research!:rotfl:

They are very pretty birds. No meat on them of course,so not a dual purpose bird. They are not considered one of the most docile breeds, and honestly,I find the cream legbarr rooster a bit of a PITA but the hens I find lovely, chatty, curious. One of mine is at my left leg at heel almost all the time. A doll of a bird. I find them more personable than the marans, who are considered a friendly bird.

I really like them, and the eggs are very, very beautiful BUT I don't think I personally think they are as good (taste, size etc wise)as the maran. They also produce fewer eggs IM limited E

They are getting really popular with the n, ovelty of blue eggs and possibly worth that alone on a gate sale stand. That's why I got them at first.

Poosmate

Hi all, sorry it's been so long since I posted. I've been on the X Factor thread yesterday and today, glad Matt won.

Sorry to hear of the losses taken by some, chooks, ferrets and FiL's (88 was a good age Stitchy and I'm sorry you can't say your goodbyes till the New Year). I know the inbetween time is sureal and the goodbye day is very hard but I believe it's the last day of the initial shock and raw grief. Things after will calm and you will all start to heal. Your grief will not be so intense and will probably always be with you, just locked in your heart and only surfacing occasionally as the years pass by. It does get better.

CTC, itchy eyes and blocked nose? Try taking a hay fever tablet (antihistamine), I've suffered hay fever type symptoms in the run up to Christmas in the past and I'm sure it's an allergy to Christmas trees! Try it, you have nothing to lose! And I hope you feel better. Loved the pics of that cottage. I wondered if the bricks above and to the left of the chimney was an old smoke hole that had been bricked up? I know Hugh F-W, had a smoke hole in his chimney at River Cottage and used it in one of the programmes to smoke some ham.

Well, I haven't been on MSE for a while, I stopped visiting because I strayed onto another forum board and everyone was horrible to me! I was very upset - I'd asked for advice about a product I used which resulted in a chemical burn. The burn was healing and I was starting to think straight again and getting angry that a product could cause such harm and be legal! I found one very big drawback of living on my own and it quite frightens me too. When I got burnt, I didn't even think about going to A&E! (Which I was heavily critisised about in the other thread which I've had deleted) I was burning and just needed to deal with it i.e. shower in coldish water for a long time! I realise that I should have gone to A&E and had someone else been here, they would have been able to take over the logical thinking and take me there. But there was no-one here and I wasn't thinking logically.

So after I recovered from my burn enough to go back to work, off I drove and my car broke down on the motorway!! I thought, "Oh fab! This is all I need on my first day back at work!".

So I was left on the hard shoulder of the motorway in sub zero temperatures by the AA for FIVE AND A HALF HOURS!!!!!! By the time I was rescued I was suffering from mild hypothermia! How bizarre is my life? From burning to freezing in a little over a week! I don't know about moving in to a small holding for me, I think I'd be better off moving in to a care home! I'm only in my 40's too!!! lol

Anyway, I kept thinking about all the lovely people on here (especially this thread) and I couldn't stay away any longer. I've spent the last few days catching up with what everyone's been doing in the last month.

Welcome to the newcomers, welcome back to those who have been absent, congratulations to those who have made pounds and to those who have shed pounds. Same to those who have aquired new animals (pets whether they're livestock or not), sold animals, aquired free food (deer, pheasant) or just picked their produce.

I hope that's more or less covered everybody and I'm sorry if I've missed anyone's other achievements.

Oh and I just did a balance transfer to a 0% deal for 6 months which has shaved 3 months off my indebtedness! Yay! I'm pretty sure I'm still on track to be debt and mortgage free in 10 years time. Double Yay!!

Bedtime for me now, got an early start tomorrow.

Good night all and take care.

Poo

P.S. I always sleep with my cat Poo on my chest.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Poosmate...... what rotters, picking on you:mad:

you know it is never like that here, so regardless of waht happens on other threads please remember we are allways here with open arms, and not a cross word...( well unless its against the weather, OH's, kids, animals, land developers, water freezing etc )

excellent news on transfering your bal to a 0% :T its little steps like that, will add up, and make all the differeence, also when you are shopping, cutting down to a cheaper brand, and maybe not having that luxury packet of biscuits all the time:cool::rotfl:...

Just think of this thread as you cosy comfi old slippers... all ways there for you, and allway makes you feel at home....:beer:


Well the weather is def turning colder by the day...... they have predicted snow for us on Friday.....so will see if they are right...lol..

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Poosmate......

Just think of this thread as you cosy comfi old slippers... all ways there for you, and allway makes you feel at home....:beer:

Wish I'd thought of that line CTC. :A

You're right, every board needs a thread like this. Even over on the 'top shelf' board 'Debate House Prices,' where lir and I met up, we have a 'Nice People' thread, where all the combative nonsense is forbidden.

Anyway poo, those troublesome days are behind you. They always seem to come in batches, don't they, but it sounds like you are taking a proactive approach with the balance transfer. I think I might shop around for a new deal on your breakdown cover too, if you think the AA could have done better in the exceptional circumstances we had recently - they should have prioritised lone females. If that was priority, I'd hater to be on the end of their normal service!

Thanks for the info on Legbars, lir. Will get back to you on that eventually. As you say, it depends upon whether we see blue eggs as a good draw, or just a complication when we think about it.

Winged_one

I was out with Sis yesterday - she was bringing the Christmas stockings I had sewn down home so that all the siblings and significant others can fill them (as we're only arriving on Christmas afternoon) as they all gather (the other 5 siblings sleeping there Christmas Eve at least). She was mad jealous and spotted that not as nice versions were on sale in a Christmas market we were in for €10 each. So I may have a product next year if I can find an outlet (once I got started properly, they were fine, just fiddly to work out initially).

In the meantime though, I am worried about getting my veg from the ground. I still have a half a row (so about 4 feet) of potatoes to dig, a short row of parsnips, a few baby leeks, and the brussels sprouts to pick (I reckon the weather will have done for the brocolli and cabbages). I am leaving most leeks to grow, but wanted to bring SOMETHING for both mum and MIL's Christmas dinnertables, and have a few ourselves. But the ground is only thawing out now, and hard freezing due this week again! I probably won't get a chance to get to the plot now until between Chirstmas and New Year, just before we get locked out for Jan (11 month tenancy agreements so we don't get squatters rights). And I hadn't managed to get it covered properly this year either, to stop weeds growing in spring. Or plant the garlic. UGH!!!

The daydream fund got plundered again while we extended into the attic, but that means we now have a dedicated office again. YAY!! And we should get a lot of it repaid shortly (DH due compensation from getting knocked off bike). We are going to keep the plot on after all with the current economic climate, but I am going to grow more at home too. And the discipline of the past couple of years will be useful as I have to watch the spends next year properly (not just as an exercise in budgeting to build the fund, but a need for budgeting to balance the books).

lostinrates

Poosmate, don't get scared off by people on boards. As Davenave said we met on one of the boards with the reputation for being very aggro and yet some of us have become long term chums. We've pulled together as a team to help one of our number when needed and lots of us contributed to a charity which one f our number is involved in and for all the punch ups about house prices I've seen people say and do wonderful things there.

It would be nice if some of us could have a meet up...the problem with having animals though is getting back to feed them all!

stitching_witch

lostinrates wrote: »

It would be nice if some of us could have a meet up...the problem with having animals though is getting back to feed them all!

I'd certainly be up for this! Sometime in the summer though please - I'm a bit of a wimp in the cold

lostinrates

stitching_witch wrote: »

I'd certainly be up for this! Sometime in the summer though please - I'm a bit of a wimp in the cold

I'm not that far from you actually....just noticed your location!