the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Silks good to wear next to the skin in Summer & Winter.

I wouldn't use a fleece on the bed, nor any man made fibre at all. I have a chequered goat skin cover but it's packed away. Once we are in the house that'll be out & on the bed in Winter.

I also have some really good skins from when I put some sheep away - I got them professionally tanned on Skye At the skin place. It'll be like Christmas when I come to un pack the stuff out of the shed.

Well we are going to attempt a run out as elderly neighbours hav run out of food but it looks grim. Still I have caravan fever & if I'm not back don't wait up.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

We do that too. I'm generally opposed to it too...but atm is dificult wih candles and oil burners....for example right now I have an eleven month old in the house (not mine!) the cats the dogs the woodburner the million little things we don't have to think about with no kids are all suddenly treacherous! A candle/burner would be a step too far for me today! Itsprobably easier when you do it 24 hours a day!

I do nothing else but think about that atm :rotfl: my 17 month old is climbing mad, he will climb absolutely anything, things that were safe a couple of weeks ago, are now fair game apparently.

He climbs on his chair, then on the big chair, then onto the table, walks across the big kitchen table and then onto another chair and slides off it.
Gives me heart attacks often as we have a solid floor in most places.
I gave up this morning when he was climbing onto a windowsill from a bench and just spread a large duvet on the solid floor and let him get on with it.
But then had to intervene when he managed to open the window and was looking hopefully down onto my broccoli patch. Jeez, he's absolutely no fear and spends his whole time looking like a walking bruise factory. I dread taking him to the doctors, I'm sure he's going to be taken away one day.


Sorry doesn't take much for me to talk about the rug rats.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Sorry doesn't take much for me to talk about the rug rats.

ithing to be sorry for...its lovely.
phew...so its not just me being useless that makes me feelrun ragged?

borrowed baby bumped his head on the sofa crawling:( he's got a little red patch and just this minute has DRAINED a huge bottle . I'm hoping he'll fall asleep if only i can sit still eough....any excuse and he'll be up again.

edit: he never did fall asleep so his mama just collected a giggling ball of dynamite...that I think should explode into tantrum right about the time she's getting him ready for bed this evening. He did however learn to bark like dog-dog. That's an asset.

ukmaggie45

Had a reminder of Spring when the postman called today. First part of an order from T&M (used them as they do the Blue Danube potatoes that we grew last summer and wanted to order again - they made really wonderful roast potatoes :j ) with 3 packets of seeds.

California Poppy "Sun Shades"
Nasturtium "Cobra"
Onion "Bunching Summer Isle"

Can't wait to get planting stuff now, but will first have to find my root trainers and seeds left over from last year. All is chaos with the house build, can't remember what stuff is in the shed there and what is here, lots of stuff got put outside :eek: by DD1 and OH before Xmas and I'm not convinced they checked what it was before putting it out. :mad:

If I can manage to get up and out tomorrow I think I'll be checking out the stuff in the back yard here. While it happens every year that my stuff is chucked out or hidden where I can't find it it still makes me CROSS! Grrr!

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

California Poppy "Sun Shades"

Ooh...I'm envious.

Thinkin about having a peach/pinks/oranges garden at the side. ant something softer than full on orange but know how hard peach is to use well. But I love californian poppies. I love poppies of all sorts really.

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I have this problem all the time, I never go into the woods without a backpack on.
I can't believe I've been in ignorance all this time. :rotfl:

I usually have a rucksack when I'm out & about.

All good twitchers have rucksacks, binoculars and cameras. Just occasionally, I feel it's best if people assume I'm a twitcher. Well, we do spend a fortune on bird food.

After some careless talk in the pub recently, I have the feeling I'll be out, twitching, down by the river, around early April.;)

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Ooh...I'm envious.

Not too sure if I am.

I really like the Californian poppies, but when I see what has happened here on our light soil with the Shoo-fly, St Mary's Thistle and Evening Primroses, I have a feeling they might do a little too well.

Just think, in another life, we used to sell all of those!:rotfl:

lostinrates

Do you now I'm not keen on evening primrose. There is a white one too isn't there?As well as the more common yellow- which is the only one I've seen. Have you seen the white..is it nice?

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you now I'm not keen on evening primrose. There is a white one too isn't there?As well as the more common yellow- which is the only one I've seen. Have you seen the white..is it nice?

Actually, I don't like any of the acid yellow ones, and certainly not the thick 'weed' one (biennis) we had here, but there's a couple of refined ones in creamy yellow and apricot which are very acceptable.

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers/flower-seeds/cottage-garden-seeds/oenothera-lemon-sunset/6831TM

and
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers/flower-seeds/herbaceous-border-seeds/oenothera-odorata-apricot-delight/6739TM

but not

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers/flower-seeds/cottage-garden-seeds/oenothera-versicolor-sunset-boulevard/7178TM

which is a bit hard to place anywhere and a bit coarse.

I like the first one best. MiL has it between the cobblestones in her courtyard, so I obtain my seed there.:)

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

Actually, I don't like any of the acid yellow ones, and certainly not the thick 'weed' one (biennis) we had here, but there's a couple of refined ones in creamy yellow and apricot which are very acceptable.

I am not very refined; just let a few of the biennals bloom on the allotment. They become almost luminous in the late dusk and attract moths.