the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

I read all of yours with a Scots accent anyway!

It was the 'Scotch' accent that I found funny. I'm also a mongrel Dave but we won't go into that!

CBC - it's that time of year to want to be done with Winter, Januaryitis hits me most years. It's not too bad here, dry after all the deluges, but managing to get one or two things done.
I know what you mean about money. I'm saving all my pound coins & attempting to buy premium bonds. I don't do the lottery - well not very often & I've never been lucky.

RAS

Well choille, I think some people do not know what Scotch is?

I cannot stand the stuff personally; very very ill the only time I drank it. Might have been all vodka I had first but what I remember is the smell of the Scotch and even now my nose wrinkles and I back off when I smell it.

I know what you mean about the winter blues CTC. With the early winter, this one seems to be longer than normal.

Another northerner here; half Scottish. But have moved round a bit so my language get littered with words like shippen, while, grockle, stalled, twag it, beck and burn and local references to the "frossit seit". Find it fascinating visiting Scandiavia as so many of the words I know are part of the local language.

choille

Well choille, I think some people do not know what Scotch is?

I cannot stand the stuff personally; very very ill the only time I drank it. Might have been all vodka I had first but what I remember is the smell of the Scotch ......

I think some think it is what it isn't too.
I'm not a spirit drinker but I don't mind a very occasionsl malt with water but I know what you mean. It is almost compulsary with some people & they take offence when you have to continually decline their offer.

I'm having to force myself to move today - very dull now & bitingly cold wind. Too nice hunched beside the stove with a cat on my knee. Must brace myself.

lostinrates

I like scotch...some scotch. I drink it neat or with ginger ale if its cheaper stuff. Or make deserts with it. The more I think about it the more I like it.

Wnter blues alleviated here by having the first day that we felt a lot got done since....winter started I think. Some more of the logs from that leylandei forest moved (Oh god we miss the landrover!) and another bonfire, but a really good one. Bonfires have been depresing for a few months, the kind that leave stumps because you haven't been able to tend them or you've retreated inside tothe scotch. Today we cleared one bonfire thats been building for a long time....the one I would have like to burn for Choille Day- till no stumps and bits and just ash. We felt so much better we ecided to burn a whole lot more....so have left it out there creating more bits...if tomorrow is like today we'll have another one too, it feels good to be cleaning up.

Sewerage plans delayed by a week now, two more weeks till we can poo with gay abandon.....we might have a curry when its all done

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hi All,
I'm seriously getting the winter blues now...:rotfl: this cold snap is getting to me now, feels as though its been winter FOREVER!!!!!!

CTC, 23rd January is officially the most depressing day of the year.
Apparently, the feel good vibes of Christmas & New Year have worn off, but it's still too early to discern much improvement in daylight hours or temperatures. Mind you, that's not quite true, as the hens are now going to bed almost half an hour later than in mid winter.

I used to hate this time of year, but with so many jobs lined up to do before things start growing again, I now worry that it won't last long enough. In fact, I know it wont!

RAS wrote: »

Well choille, I think some people do not know what Scotch is?

I cannot stand the stuff personally; very very ill the only time I drank it. Might have been all vodka I had first but what I remember is the smell of the Scotch and even now my nose wrinkles and I back off when I smell it.

RAS, I have no problem with whisky. Cider is the one thing I cannot abide. At around age 14 we used to buy 'rough' at 6d a pint from the back door of a pub not a million miles from here.....If it had stopped there, all would have been well, but a year or so later we tried some of the more esoteric blends and decided to concoct our own, borrowing from someone's Dad's liqueur & spirit collection... You can guess the rest!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

as the hens are now going to bed almost half an hour later than in mid winter.

Its noticable, isn't it? Mine are staying out a lot later, having been early birds at bedtime through most of winter....and thinking about it, since the move here.

Tonight we were still prodding the fire, sweeping and messing about with hay at 5 o clock, watching the most amazing sky....there was a rip in it, like the sky was torn and bleeding florescent pink. underneath dapples of mauvey grey cloud. We get beautiful skies here...partly because its just so BIG. I just hate the light pollution from the town to the north.

alfie_1

i am sat in on a saturday nite by the fire trying to pluck up the courage [wimp] to go outside to get a scuttle full of coal i should have got earlier !
i am also seeing a stack of laundry i should have done today !
i havnt cooked a meal today just a batch of sticky crispie cakes !
in fact apart from seeing to the hosses and mabel etc this morning i have DONE NOTHING !!
i dont like being lazy but my get up and go has got up and gone.........

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

i am sat in on a saturday nite by the fire trying to pluck up the courage [wimp] to go outside to get a scuttle full of coal i should have got earlier !
i am also seeing a stack of laundry i should have done today !
i havnt cooked a meal today just a batch of sticky crispie cakes !
in fact apart from seeing to the hosses and mabel etc this morning i have DONE NOTHING !!
i dont like being lazy but my get up and go has got up and gone.........

Do nothing days are important too...its just we have had too many of them. Mind you....I'm paying for it now, my back has gone, I'm on the sofa with a hot water bottle and being spoilt rotten. (hen he's worked harder than me ).

Go and get you coal, you'll feel better when you know you can stay warm and relaxed in nothingness till tomorrow.

choille

LIR - We had one of those skies yesterday. The light is stretching a little now. I'm not coming indoors until 5.15pm.

Alfie - I feel like that too. It's as if I've hit a wall. I think it's one Winter in the caravan too many. I was just raking my brains to try & work out how I can get a couple of days away. I just feel I need to get a way but I doubt it's possible. I just want a change of scene from the caravan.

alfie_1

SORTED !! i sprinted to the wood shed to get the coal and sprinted back !!

just needed a kick up the derrier !!:T