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Well done Dave!!!
Well done on your purchases CTC!!!
Well my peas plants are growing well (touch wood) and my mint is just showing through. Potatoes and garlic appear to be coming on well too. Still got loads to plant but I've filled all my pots now and our garden is full of slugs...last year they ate my flowers!!!
We still have lots of bills to pay off but I have managed to squirrel away just over £100 in my ISA, so I am really pleased-just gotta keep thinking of ways to make a few quid here and there...must get somemore stuff up on ebay. I should have a few £s to transfer out of paypal soon-to put in my ISA.
Well done everyone so far-it's great to have a thread to spur us on!!!GE 36 *MFD may 2043
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Evening everyone
Ooohhh our first person who is about to achieve their dream (pinkies crossed)-congratulations DavesNave :T...there is some serious encouragement for the rest of us :j
Things are going great guns in the garden ..I have things sprouting up all over the place-its warm n humid so its really helpingand I still have troughs empty that I must get planted up -but I think I will reserve them for the winter cabbages etc
Hubby came home with this yesterday:-
We are going to line it with plastic and I think MORE peas might have to go in (even though I have 75 peas through allready) :rotfl:
He is keeping an eye out for if any more come up -they are prop shaft cases apparently
Anyway -enough waffle again..hope everyone is having a good week and getting out in their gardens..-6 -8 -3 -1.5 -2.5 -3 -1.5-3.50 -
Davesnave any chance of a link to the smallholding in wales, as its now off your list...( only want to dribble lol...)
tattycath, i dont know wny but my peas look stunted, not growing that well since i put them outsidegreat news about adding to your ISA:T
MRSM did you know that hubby was bring that home or did he just turn up with it? it looks great.. great for your peas...
i opened a hsbc bank account on line last night via quidco, which has £50 cashback, plus i have opened a bank of scotland account too, which is exactly the same as the halifax one, which if you put in £1000 a month you get £5 a month:D
this weekend once my new internet password comes through for the halifax etc, i will need to sit down and set up dd's so i dont forget to put money into the accounts each month, and hten move it all out again to somewhere that will get me interest.
might even open some up for my hubby too;) and do the same thing with them... so over all that would be £20 free every month:D,
I really do need to sit down and go through the cashback sites and look for the loopholes, to get those extra pennies.
got the jeans man coming today again, so will have some extra money to add to sig later..
hope you all have a good day, and lets hope that the weather changes for the betterWork to live= not live to work0 -
COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »Davesnave any chance of a link to the smallholding in wales, as its now off your list...( only want to dribble lol...)
Certainly: http://details.vebra.com/property/3590/15138797
You have to remember, that DW and I were looking for something pretty specific that we could sell plants from, but not on a major road, and that limited our choices. It had to be near town; in this case Newcastle Emlyn (lovely place!)
This house has a good, sunny position and in fact it was a nursery at one point. The walls, roof & windows were OK, but I'd rather not comment on the rest! If we'd bought it, we'd have demolished the rear bit and re-built it two storeys high to get a proper upstairs bathroom & office plus a staircase in a more sensible place.
The land would have needed draining too and I'd have enjoyed driving a bushwhacker to reclaim some more pasture from the rather wild woods, as well as getting in firewood for the next ten years! We'd have kept a 2-3 acres of the woodland though, just managed it a bit better.
.....And none of that would have been possible at the current asking price, but I think it is very optimistic, given the way things are going.;)0 -
Whew! The temperature's been a bit much for us today.
Is anyone else doing anything vaguely money-making over the Bank Holiday? We have been preparing for a car boot sale tomorrow at a village day. We used to take a main pitch in the square, but we haven't the stock for that at the moment. It's quite nostalgic, as our very first sales were at this village in the car boot, well over 20 years ago.
We use a coloured label pricing system, so we can adjust our prices down a bit when it's a car boot, not a posh plant fair! On the other hand, we only pay about £10 for the pitch, not £30 to £50, so swings & roundabouts.....;)
Have a great day, whatever you're up to tomorrow.0 -
Whew! The temperature's been a bit much for us today.
Is anyone else doing anything vaguely money-making over the Bank Holiday? We have been preparing for a car boot sale tomorrow at a village day. We used to take a main pitch in the square, but we haven't the stock for that at the moment. It's quite nostalgic, as our very first sales were at this village in the car boot, well over 20 years ago.
We use a coloured label pricing system, so we can adjust our prices down a bit when it's a car boot, not a posh plant fair! On the other hand, we only pay about £10 for the pitch, not £30 to £50, so swings & roundabouts.....;)
Have a great day, whatever you're up to tomorrow.
hope you have a good day Davesnave....
today i have been trying to do some cooking to use up the huge mountain of eggs i got...lol... but the kids and hubby ( ok and me;)) have been scoffing our faces as soon as the little quiche's have come out of the oven...lol...
tomorrow there is a farm auction about 20 miles away, never been there before, but people we know, who have been say its cheaper than our normal farm auction we go to, so might come home with some bargins.
i have some lovely 50's vintage material that i was planning on listing on ebay tonight, but its getting a bit late now, so will list put htem on turbo lister ready for listing on thursday...
so not much money making going on here, and hopefully not much spending either....
the weather has been too hot...lol... too hot to be in the garden, so only been out there for shot stints at a time..
going now to watch Britain's got Talent...:rotfl:Work to live= not live to work0 -
Well, the village day was great, though it didn't start off that way, with rain first thing. In fact, at 09:30 the stalls either side of us and across the way all packed up and left.
We put the tent canopy over the rear of the van and served from the back. At least plants don't spoil if they get wet!
Anyway, the sun came out and it was pretty busy, but because the field was half empty (sellers having left) the organisers decided to charge us only £6. We didn't grumble as our takings were almost exactly the same as last week's at the 'proper' show!
That's most of the spare plants gone now, though we might raise another van load by July, as they will keep growing...My favourite plant habit that :-) you can sell them and still have them!;)
Like the sound of your farm auctions CTC. Must look into that.0 -
Evening all
Well everything seems to be going well in the garden at the moment :T although there are storms threatening for tonight and the wind has been really getting up -so I popped out and put the bubble wrap back as a wind break around 1 side of the brassica tent -so hopefully that will protect things
I have sorted out the wooden trough hubby dragged home
It now has plenty more short peas set (and just starting to break through) -I have 2 rows with room to get my hand inbetween:D-Hubby is going to add more wires when they get taller -they are the last of various short peas/sugar snaps I saved from my own crops last year
ohhh an CTC -I opened the 1st loose change tin yesterday :pcounted it up and hubby has paid it into my savings account -it was €80.52 :T..and hubby put all €500 the house keeping in too -so the fund has now gone up to €3788.31 + £102.05 -as long as there are no major calamities thtas how it will stay until next pay day
right -off to update my signature
Hope everyone is making the most of the warm days-6 -8 -3 -1.5 -2.5 -3 -1.5-3.50 -
Well, the village day was great, though it didn't start off that way, with rain first thing. In fact, at 09:30 the stalls either side of us and across the way all packed up and left.
We put the tent canopy over the rear of the van and served from the back. At least plants don't spoil if they get wet!
Anyway, the sun came out and it was pretty busy, but because the field was half empty (sellers having left) the organisers decided to charge us only £6. We didn't grumble as our takings were almost exactly the same as last week's at the 'proper' show!
That's most of the spare plants gone now, though we might raise another van load by July, as they will keep growing...My favourite plant habit that :-) you can sell them and still have them!;)
Like the sound of your farm auctions CTC. Must look into that.
Hatherleigh is quite a good farmers market/auction on a tuesday I believe!sealed pot challange #572!Garden fund - £0!!:D£0/£10k0
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