the daydream fund challenge thread

Rummer

Tomorrow I am tackling the garden! We have oodles of things to do and I need to make a start, planning can only get me so far now I have to actually start digging!

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I always say if I could clone dh we'd be millionaires. He's just...fantastic. He works hard all week and then spoils me rotten at weekends. He LOVES the animals ...sometimes I think more than me..he certainly spoils them more. He cooks, he'll clean if required. He encourages me to go shopping, and carries bags too and has endless patience. He stuffs a good full haynet. He is far more romantic than I am....and much nicer. People can't help but like my DH because he's so darn likeable. I'm well area I'm REALLY lucky.

oh rub salt in the wound......
im luck if i can get BF to wash up.

have you heard of the "wife swop" programme....?????

on second thoughts your poor man would be a blithering wreck encountering me and you would check into the nearest "priory" encountering BF ...:rotfl:

soupdragon10

Hi, I'm hoping to grow some brussel sprouts this year - should I be thinking about starting to sow these in an unheated greenhouse yet? I can easily rig up a small 'inner greenhouse' type thing, but the definitely won't be any heating during the night.

It has been going down to -1 or -2 the past few nights. Only wondered as I'm sure I've read somewhere they need a long growing season.

Have a huge pile of brambles to burn this weekend, and now have one side of the fence around pony shelter cleared.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

I always say if I could clone dh we'd be millionaires. He's just...fantastic. He works hard all week and then spoils me rotten at weekends. He LOVES the animals ...sometimes I think more than me..he certainly spoils them more. He cooks, he'll clean if required. He encourages me to go shopping, and carries bags too and has endless patience. He stuffs a good full haynet. He is far more romantic than I am....and much nicer. People can't help but like my DH because he's so darn likeable. I'm well area I'm REALLY lucky.

It's valentines day soon, treat the poor overworked lad and give him a day to remember.


Or send him up here and for a good days work, I'll get the OH to give him a night to remember, although that may involve night terrors for many years to come.

Lotus-eater

soupdragon10 wrote: »

Hi, I'm hoping to grow some brussel sprouts this year - should I be thinking about starting to sow these in an unheated greenhouse yet? I can easily rig up a small 'inner greenhouse' type thing, but the definitely won't be any heating during the night.

I always think brassicas should be grown hard, don't sow them inside, they don't like it.
Sow them outside, but not yet.

soupdragon10

Don't think the poor things would stand a chance with our super slugs - it's the only reason I try to start everything inside as far as I can, does give them a fighting chance poor things.

If I manage to get the raised beds ready in time this may be possible as I hope to deter slugs using as many means as I can.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

It's valentines day soon, treat the poor overworked lad and give him a day to remember.

I would but its a Monday...so he'll be in London.

troglodyte

A nice morning here, chilly but dry. Did quite well yesterday in 'mouse bites' - lots of little bits of jobs, doesn't seem so bad that way. :j

Painted two walls of the kitchen - and moved the fridge back after it's been in the front room for about a year and a half! (moved it out to replace the floor - then didn't seem worth putting it back as we'd have to move it out again later so it stayed there while we got around to sending OH on a course to learn how to plaster, then plastering the walls and ceiling, then painting them.)

Sawed up two baskets of firewood.

Weeded the end of the veg plot and evicted the ground elder that was already starting to make inroads from its reservoir among the currant bushes where I can't get rid of it.

Barrowed two loads of soil from the spare heap removed when we put up a new-to-us shed, to the narrow bit of soil between us and the neighbours' new fence, where I hope to plant a few climbers.

Collected up a dozen sacks of manure I've been accumulating for a fellow Freecycler's garden.

Did a little bit of mending and knitting.

Today I plan to do something similar. I also need to prune apple trees, I always have the opposite problem in that I'm too nervous in case I do any damage so I prune very tentatively, the first year I was so careful and it seemed to stimulate the trees so by the summer I couldn't get down the path they'd grown so much!

Also a bit more wood-sawing (can't do too much at once in case I get tennis elbow again

Have started by doing a bit of knitting while catching up on here, yay!

Hope everyone has a good day

Rummer

I have spent hours planning and scheming how my garden is going to look and I have managed to rope in a friend to come round and help me get started on the huge tidy up! Still need to go and get seedling compost, just not been well enough to go that far.

troglodyte

Forgot to say thanks, Dave, for reminding me to do the bird survey!