the daydream fund challenge thread

soupdragon10

More clearance today - cleared another section of what will be the chicken enclosure (sounds very grand but isn't).

Also unearthed the cold frame - there was a nice surprise in there, although one of the panes of glass has broken I had completely forgotten about some cuttings I dumped in there last year.

Took these while we were pruning some shrubs, lonicera and euonymus from memory. Just shoved them in a couple of spare pots of earth and left them to it. Astounded to find they have survived totally without care and now have about 6 euonymus and a lonicera.

Also found a stray strawberry plant, so have one to start the strawberry bed with.

soupdragon10

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Ugh, they make me fart and have tummy pains, they also taste horrible. Good luck to you all. _pale_

:rotfl: at all the comments, and yes I'm sure her majesty is above such things. I'm pretty lucky as a vegetarian my system seems to be primed to cope with loads of fibres so doesn't react in extreme ways anymore (mind you it's taken 20 odd years to get used to it).

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I think they make everybody fart.:D

:T:rotfl::rotfl:
having just got in and read this can i just say its the first dam good laugh iv had today.......
i do love this forum......best therapy going

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Especially her.

I went to a wedding once where the champagne flowed very liberally, more liberally than any place else....and I've drunk a LOT of bubbles in my time... Then instead of standing and circulating, or dancing, or anything, we were all seated quite quickly all of a sudden...and by then everyone had had at least a bottle... So...nothing dissapated. Consequently about 2/3rds of the ways through the first course everybody started farting little champagne bubble farts. EVERYBODY. It was quite hilarious.....but not at the beginning. eventually, it reached a crescendo over the poussins and had petered out by the time we were dancing and eating cake.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
thats it i now have chronic stitch and iv scared the dogs !!

choille

through the first course everybody started farting little champagne bubble farts. EVERYBODY. It was quite hilarious.....but not at the beginning. eventually, it reached a crescendo over the poussins and had petered out by the time we were dancing and eating cake.

Goodness LIR is it a tradition? A couple of reels of strip the willow would have blown you all away.

Rummer

Thank you all for brightening up my day!

lostinrates

Lowest egg day for ages....only two, and only three yesterday.

Still, we've only had ONE no egg day so far...the girls probably need a break.

BUT, I have one hen who is laying on a rafter. Far to high for me to reach them, and what normally happens is they fall or are pushed down and break. Any idea why she's lay on high not in her ''nest box'' (i.e. under a milk bottle in the milking parlour or in a cardboard box on the floor)

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

Lowest egg day for ages....only two, and only three yesterday.

Still, we've only had ONE no egg day so far...the girls probably need a break.

BUT, I have one hen who is laying on a rafter. Far to high for me to reach them, and what normally happens is they fall or are pushed down and break. Any idea why she's lay on high not in her ''nest box'' (i.e. under a milk bottle in the milking parlour or in a cardboard box on the floor)

Maybe she is an adrenaline junkie :rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Lowest egg day for ages....only two, and only three yesterday.

Still, we've only had ONE no egg day so far...the girls probably need a break.

BUT, I have one hen who is laying on a rafter. Far to high for me to reach them, and what normally happens is they fall or are pushed down and break. Any idea why she's lay on high not in her ''nest box'' (i.e. under a milk bottle in the milking parlour or in a cardboard box on the floor)

i had a bantam once who used to lay her egg in a disused pigeons nest in a fruit tree ??
is there a way you could rig up a box that would be rafter level that you could lower by rope to get the eggs and then after a week + put the box on the floor to see if she will follow the box??
i put the pigeon nest [plus branch!] on the ground by a bush and she followed the nest!

choille

I think they do it to avoid vermin or other hens stealing the eggs - possibly?
I'm not getting any eggs. It's like something out of a Hitchcock movie down here but not a sausage, sorry - not an egg in sight.

Found a woman locally with Orpingtons who her husband said is looking for a Buff Cockerel, but she hasn't been in touch yet - fingers crossed though.

What a star studded night earlier & sooo cold out there.