the daydream fund challenge thread

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

I woke to the news this morning that all our main roads have had 2 foot snow drifts from surrounding fields. we've still got a pathetic amount on the ground and rooves, but nothing on the tops of hedges.

That should be a word used more often in spelling. I haven't seen it for a long time. I think it was 1885 when I last saw it.

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm coughing and spluttering and generally unpleasant to be around.

I hope you feel better soon, I've been fluey for a couple of weeks now and it's a pain.

This is the link to the iplayer for the tv show about megacowfactories we were talking about.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=what%20price%20food


We haven't had alot of snow here really, I'm very annoyed as it seems to be going on all around us, but not here! I love snow, looking at snow, being in snow, driving in snow, everything in snow basically

I'm glad I decided not to get any more chickens till Spring, after the latest lot we had, got killed earlier on in the year, with all the low temps I would have to have been out there all the time keeping the water available and not frozen, not something I envy you lot with birds atm.
Happy Christmas to you all, well the ones of you not on ignore anyway

choille

No expected thaw last night unfortunately, but can't do owt about it.

OH away to get an empty gas bottle up the road & swop it fo a full un - hopefully. Not as stunningly cold as it's been but still below zero - which seems rather mild - I had to peel my jacket off the glazed caravan door this morning. I hang it on a peg near there & it was touching the glass last night.

LIR - Hope that you can get stuff sorted out & everyone whois finding things tricky.

I really don't know how our hens have survived in their little wooden houses - well last Winter was awful & the Scot's Greys did manage that so they will this. The Orps must be toughies too - just as well as the night time temps are incredible.

Dave - Neighbour stuff is difficult - we now ignore ours as if we put our heads above the parapet he's really twisted, has caused us an awfu lgrief & upset - It's a whole book of nasty stuff. We just avoid 'eye contact' as we think he's a reet nutter to use a technical term - very control freak & he has threatened us with violence too. He's all steriods gone wrong.

Gunea Fowl eat ticks - I've thought about them as we have major tick problem here.

Well - gonna get more old fence posts rounded up & get some porridge out for the hens now it's cooled.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

keeping the water available and not frozen, not something I envy you lot with birds atm.
Happy Christmas to you all, well the ones of you not on ignore anyway

Merry Chrsitmas to you too....bird water is ok, not too much trouble,....and none now I've hung the lights...but thats not terribly ecofriendly!

rhiwfield

One plus of this weather, we're ok for frozen runner beans

lostinrates

thats amazing rhiwfield! What a photo!

stitching_witch

I'm just popping on to say I am still reading every day. I will post when I've got something sensible to add, as nothing is making sense at the moment!!

But I think the best thing I can say at the moment is

:xmastree: Happy Christmas :xmastree:

and I'll be back in the New Year hopefully with a new attitude and a very new me.

lostinrates

Just listening to local radio they are saying it got down to minus 17 last night in rural wiltshire....I don't think I believe it. Tonight they think -14. It seems a little more credible. But it makes me realise its not a wussy as I have felt, this shuffling out quickly across the whiteness in the weird half light and huddling inside to the heat of the laptop.

Davesnave

That's a great icicle photo rhiwfield! I must admit I've gone snow-happy with the camera this month. Could have had another weird shot this evening too, but the gruesome subject decided me against it. Someone ran over a grass snake near our entrance today, then hung its body on an old gate hinge for all to see. They may have thought it was an adder of course, but not a bright move either way.:(

Yes, I know, a grass snake in December when it should have been hibernating. It's been very sunny, but the temperature has hovered around zero all day, so the poor thing would have perished in the snow soon enough.

CTC, thanks for the auction comment. We're not really seeking to ruffle feathers, just to sell at a price which is appropriate and, hopefully, benefit owners of 3 properties, but that does depend upon them realising it's a once only opportunity and being realistic. Otherwise, yes, highest bidder can take all. Don't worry, we can leaflet all surrounding roads for under a fiver.

Choille, your neighbour sounds like mine, which is why I'm aiming for no dispute. I am all smiles. :):) His place was up for sale a few years back, so maybe he can be nudged into putting his toe back into the market again. The tick clean-up is indeed a powerful attraction of guinea fowl, and if you have them from chicks, I'm told they can be trained to roost in a shed

-10C forecast for here tonight & tomorrow night, then a wonderful thaw on Boxing Day. Believe me, lir, the area around the M4 has its own microclimate. I used to dread the freezing fog in my courting days, visiting the Swindon area!

cootambear

rhiwfield wrote: »

One plus of this weather, we're ok for frozen runner beans

I feel your pain. I have one runner bean and 3 strawberries that have been trying to ripen since mid november.

cootambear

lostinrates wrote: »

Just listening to local radio they are saying it got down to minus 17 last night in rural wiltshire....I don't think I believe it. Tonight they think -14. It seems a little more credible. But it makes me realise its not a wussy as I have felt, this shuffling out quickly across the whiteness in the weird half light and huddling inside to the heat of the laptop.

Well thats global warming for, you err I mean climate change when the weathers bad