the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

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.

choille...thanks for that, hope u didnt mind !how far are you from fort william?

do you have someone who can "animal sit" if you need to get away for a break ?? i have to plan with military precision if more than 2 days !!
hope you are getting a bit of sun now, looking at our weather forecasts YOU are getting more sun than us ..... but then the reports are not always to be believed !!

choille

Alfie - about 120 plus I think.

OH's brother may come up but he didn't sound too keen. I'm gonna try & get away for a couple of days & then let OH away but he says he's not bothered but I am itching to get away.

It's really not been too bad weather wise although today was pretty cloudy. It does make a huge difference getting the sun on the croft even for only a few hours & of course to get rid of the ice has been a huge plus - at least you can walk without breaking your neck.

alfie_1

not sure if i can post this but if you can u tube it it is so funny/sweet/weird??? made me smile anyway !!

CockNBullKid- Hold On To...

Poosmate

Why is it that when someone mentions YouTube you always end up watching more than just the clip you went there to watch? Thanks Alfie!

No I do mean thanks Alfie because I found this clip that I thought might be informative to some:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeSQmYK8uE4&feature=related

It's about canning/bottling food. Starts and finishes with some nice "farmy" type music, funnily enough called "The Farmers Set".

Poo

Poosmate

Still on YT! I've been watching how to jerkify meat and how to make a biltong box using light bulbs! That would be excellent for those of you who get meat from roadkill!

I wonder if you could dry fruit in a biltong box. Will head back to YT to find out.

I love YT, I always have a look there if I want to find out how to do something - very informative!

Poo

lostinrates

Oooh....homemade biltong would be useful at times.


Urgh, after a very slow and achey start to the day DH finished the ''must move this weekend pile'' while I trotted along side next to him for company. He also did all the animals this morning AND this afternoon. HAve I mentioned how fabulous he is,


Then this afternoon we got the three horse chestnut trees planted AT LAST. We had ruled it out yesterday because of the forzen ground, but its fine today. They are two different varieties, and even with no leave on they look very, very different habits. One, we are told will fruit much sooner than the others,an that one has a columnar habit and has some leaves clinging to it, not as much as a windswept late season beech. Its twiggy and strong. The others are more slender, delicate trees with more whippy branches and will make broader less dense trees I imagine. Annoyingly we neglected to look a this when planting, and planted the different one n the middle, though they are all ''facing the right way'', I just should have thought not to plant them alternately.

AND we found a patch of ground with no rubble in it! Not only no rubble but really beautiful soil: clay, but as loamy a clay can be. Its a shame it was right down their on our boundary. But it gives me hope that underneath the bramble and the rubble there is some better suff than we were hoping for.

Davesnave

We decided to have a complete break from work today, so it was off to the foothills of Dartmoor to explore a few miles in the upper reaches of our main local river. There was still a bit of ice around, but in the valley the air was still, the sun almost came out and, believe it or not, we found ourselves sitting eating sandwiches without feeling cold (except for the nether regions, because the granite certainly hadn't warmed up!:eek:)

Here's the proof:


Sometimes it's good to forget all the humdrum stuff for a few hours.

I'm sure there will be some decent soil there somewhere, lir. Like us, you'll probably need the services of a digger man to get at it, but the investment will be worth it. When I look at what ours can do in an hour, against what I could do in a week, there's no contest!

alfie_1

Poosmate wrote: »

Still on YT! I've been watching how to jerkify meat and how to make a biltong box using light bulbs! That would be excellent for those of you who get meat from roadkill!

I wonder if you could dry fruit in a biltong box. Will head back to YT to find out.

I love YT, I always have a look there if I want to find out how to do something - very informative!

Poo

talking of meat..... a couple of years ago some friends went to "thier place in london" and went to harrods food hall [as you do] and got thier shopping... they brought me back a selection of VERY expensive sliced cooked meats [noting one small package alone with a £17 label on !!] i duly thanked them and set off for home, getting diesel at the garage en route.... YES ...the dogs had ate the lot in the time it took me to pay... i darent tell my friends as im sure there was about £50 worth necked by the mutts !!!!:rotfl:

alfie_1

i apologise for not remembering who was looking at ways to grow veg etc on windowsills etc? lived in a flat?
well iv just noted that in the "99p shop" they have a big selection of pots with seed kits for all types of veg and flowers, suitable for windows etc. so not too many seeds and no need to buy compost etc.
they also had healthy looking onions and potatoe sets. at 99p you cant go wrong....well at least if you do its not a lot of money to lose !!

choille

Dave that looks so familiar, so like here, especially with the dry stane dyke (dry stone wall) in the left hand corner & the lichen spattered rocks.
You have to take time to smell the roses otherwise what is the point?

Today I watched the hens & pondered & visited elderly neighbours & we sat & chatted & had a drink & put the world to rights - as you do.