the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Alfie if you have a helpful vet I would phone them & ask what they think as that sounds not good with the feet curled up & both of them - one, could be a strain, but both is something else.

Sometimes you just wish they could talk.

rhiwfield

Chopping down and chipping a leylandii next door, so that means I get to top up the back garden paths for nowt

Yesterdays forecast of sun today seems to have been replaced by rain again and Friday might see some more white stuff. We go years without snow then see the last two years with far too much.

Been doing heat loss calculations and even with double glazing, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation we're still at 16 kW (down from 24kW). Thats what comes of buying a 70's house

No idea on the lame hen, Alfie, eggbound, strain, bruising? Hope the tlc works.

choille

It comes to the point where to make any more difference you'll have to spend an awful lot of money - Kingspan insulation boards glued intenally etc. Insulation on the floors?

It does seem to have gotten slightly cooler but it has stopped raining....starting to think we should of been building an ark not a house. We can actually see the sun - hurray - at last.
The so called 'pair' of lavendar Orpingtons are both males so one of today's tasks is totry & track down an Orpington keeper/breeder in the Highlands & see if I can acquire a female & either swop/sell - give away one of the males. They are sooooooooooooo very gorgeous it would be a shame to eat him - they are both so perfect.
Probably trying to find a needle in a haystack..................

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Been doing heat loss calculations and even with double glazing, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation we're still at 16 kW (down from 24kW). Thats what comes of buying a 70's house .

Lame hens - our neighbour has one too(bantam), but she has no idea what caused it.

We are in a 70s bungalow & it has all the stuff you mention. I suppose we can upgrade it a bit more when we 'do' the place, but I'm reasonably happy with the general level of warmth. If we didn't have 7 exits to the outside world......:o

We've been scouting around for a potential PV panel site closer to the house, so we don't miss out on the power for our own use. The best location would be at the end of the neighbour's garden, but I doubt if she'd see it that way(:rotfl:) so perhaps the next best is where we have an overgrown hedge in front of the septic tanks. This is still in the neighbour's line of sight but won't spoil their view. Not sure if this bit's long enough though at just 30'.

I'd be happy to put the panels where the market garden/nursery abuts our potential house garden, as we could build a fence behind them and close in the space, but DW won't hear of it ATM. Personally I can't see what a great view of a polytunnel has going for it, but maybe I need to mock up a picture so she gets the idea better. I really like the idea of a garden 'room' created in that way.:)

Still bucketing with rain here. The fields are quagmires in places, but some hope of dry after this. I have been planting shrub & tree seeds that should have gone in before Christmas.

lostinrates

Yee gads. I've given up outside. we were going to plant dh's christmas gift trees yesterday but as we marched out the heavens opened.

I'v got NO seeds started, and I'm pleased to say all but the bit of field I put aside for horses (its weedy and needs a reseed and roll anyway so they might as well have it before then) is holding up ok...standing water in a couple of places but nothing too dreadful.

alfie_1

The so called 'pair' of lavendar Orpingtons are both males

SNAP !!! i have a "trio" of lavender frizzles bantams......NOT !! 3 males !! they are beautifull tho.... im tempted to put my 2 tiny polish? bantams [females] to one just to see what the chicks turn out like!!
i also have one too many silky male, but like them too much to "knock off"....

no rain during today but must have chucked it down over night as my lawn is under water !

im trying to get some rescue battery hens but there are some dodgy people out there "selling" some very poor birds [the rescuers seem not to have facilities to "hold" them till rehomed and im sure they become poorer through this?] seems a fast buck to sell them on and no real concern for thier health! will keep looking tho....

RAS

A belated happy choille day.

The fire was a bit late; it was still raining slightly when I got home at 4.30pm (duskish), but by 5 it had stopped so I gathered my little bag of receipts to be burned and the matches. I had dumped my fishbox on top of the dry fire before the rain started so it lit well when I removed the box. The wind was strong and all over the place, causing it to blaze and die repeatedly.

My best wishes to you,choille, for the house this year, and to everyone else in their endeavours.

cootambear

Davesnave wrote: »

Well I had a fire!

OK it was blowing a gale, getting dark and trying to rain, but the Christmas tree obliged.....so there's one the council won't have to recycle!
Happy Choille Day! May the sunshine in 2011 be as plentiful as the creeping buttercup in our bottom paddock!



(Managed to pop a few sheep into the background too!)

you know thats a pretty well composed pic. if you uploaded it to a site like flickr, you might be surprised how popular it is.

choille

Thanks RAS & all for your fires & kind wishes.

It has been wet & pretty windy too but today the sun actually hit the gable of the house so that was very heartening to see.
The 6 weeks withoutthe Sun on the croft is a bit grim & sort of induces hibernation & of course the weather has not helped anyone this Winter.
Hope we all have an early, wonderful Spring.

RAS

choille wrote: »

Hope we all have an early, wonderful Spring.

I will second that.

Windy and rainy here too, but so good not to be wearing thermals, scarf, hat and bodywarmer for a while.

And as you pointed out, being able to walk properly.

Knowing how manic strip the willow can get in your part of the world, not surprised you are a bit stiff today. Think I nearly had my arm pulled from it socket by one rather over enthusiastic male; it was a rather long strip - about 50 couples going hell for leather.

That sounds awful, but I suspect you will know what I mean.