the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I think we'll probably ditch much furniture, ornaments etc when we renovate the house, but they'll go to auction, not the tip. We hung on to a lot of inherited stuff, imagining we'd end up in 'Ye Olde Cottage,' surrounded by old chests, dressers and assorted almost-antiques.

Got that bit very wrong! :rotfl:

LOL. we might have to let furniture go too. It rankles a bit, having paid storage for so long but the truth is....its not all very nice. Th thing is its all dh had left from his mother and he needed to be in control of ''when'' to let go I think. we have some MASSIVE almost black sideboards that would look more at home in Drucular's dining room....but those I've grown weirdly fond of...apart from the horrid glazing in some of the doors. ( we have even considered gilding these monsters so gruesomly cool are they). Two of the sofas have essentially become dog beds.:o and the two that we think are pretty....and which are very expensively upholstered are just too wee for snuggling on in comfort.

There is stuff we'd sell tomorrow....some Italianate wall cupboardsm and oak sideboard....but ''brown'' stuff like that isn't very popular...and though this is well made it is very brown. I have even thought about shabby chic-ing them up with some off white paint and putting them on ebay. Or having a fairly posh feedroom, with oak dressers and fancy shelves.....but that seems a little eggs-travagent even for us. Perhaps.

choille

Hi All - sorry I've been a while & have just caught up - I think with all your doings.

Been caught up in some stuff & also not had 100% accesss to interwebber due to a lightening strike - again. It blew our phone as well but BT won't compensate you.

I've been naughty & actually have been trawling charity shops - my big vice - for stuff to ebay. I don't go shopping much but have gone rather a few times lately - the weather's been what they call flip flop on the telly: one day nice, the next nasty, but it was a great weekend - really warm & made a tentative start on the garden.

We have a lot of kale left so the hens are killing it & I must take some more to the sheep. I still have some carrots inn the ground!

CTC - The ruin sellers may have decided to not risk getting a formal NO from the Planning Dept as that would deplete the price & are just letting the 'ole caveat empore' or whatever how you spell it - buyer beware.
Blind bidding on property is still the norm here - the sealed bids carry on. It's a nightmare & difficult to judge but often a 'in the reion of' guide will be given by the Estate Agent/lawyer dealing with it? Communication is all & I woul ddef get the planning officer in a corner & drill them - they are public servants!
TRy & find out if it's listed, if it's in a conservation area. If Planning was granted what would be the stipulationns - ie does it have to be rebuilt as was - impossibly expensive.
Alfie - that sounds great with the pastel drawing. If you google the artist there will be a gallery looking to buy - always your best bet to get an idea of price.

I've been reading all your posts & how busy you've all been planting - I've not even got all my beds clear & have been aching from the little I've done -lifted a little hous epanel at the weekend & still feel like I've been in a car crash! The long Winter sit has left me fat & unfit.

alfie_1

What funny banter "junk" becomes!!:rotfl:
i bet we all smiled at the mention of favourite old pieces of furniture that we just know should go but we just cant part with...:o

glad choille's back on board..:)

Davesnave

So good to hear from you again, choille.:) We thought it might be something weather or communications related, and it was both!

It was a lightning strike that caused Openreach to trail a very unprofessional-looking, 'temporary,' trailing cable through our wilderness area, en route to Mr Dog. I rang them yesterday to ask how long 'temporary' is, since it's obviously more than 3 months, but I'm still waiting for a reply. :mad: Next time, I'll be revving the brushcutter up by the phone!

I also feel fat & unfit, but I've not sat down that much since December, so with me it must be just age and over-eating. This week, I've been putting fence posts in around our sales area out front with the intention of creating a windbreak and a boundary in one. It's been another of those slow, painful jobs because the posts need to go a bit deeper than the underlying rock, but anyway, I ended up grovelling on the ground, so my knees feel all creaky now.

I don't think you will have missed much by delaying planting. All my peppers and toms are just acclimatising to the harder environment of the conservatory, so they've hardly moved at all in a week.

choille

Still the exchange isn't right as keep going off line - so frustrating if you're posting. Open Reach is such a carry-on. The engineer is great but even he has to phone a call centre to find out where he's working that day.

We've been busy with work (OH much busier than I as he has all the knowledge, I do the paper work stuff) - number of jobs coming in, which is good as things got dry at the back end of the year. Things are slack with property stuff. It's good getting all over our wonderful county & having a nosey at people's places - we are now in Sutherland as there's been a boundary change - I can't believe that at all - must check that out. Like double BST I will have to boycott it!

Well I hope it doesn't rain any more as it's chucked it down all day - like living in a blooming drum today.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

we are now in Sutherland as there's been a boundary change - I can't believe that at all - must check that out. Like double BST I will have to boycott it!

You can boycott. When Bath was lumped with Bristol into a horrible thing called Avon, Bathonians just carried on writing 'Bath, Somerset.' It was very unpopular.

Eventually, it was changed again to Bath & North East Somerset (BANES !) when some of Somerset was lumped in with us instead, and Bristol became a unitary authority on its own. Of course, that didn't please some of the folk in the surrounding villages......

We are lucky here, being half a mile from the border between two councils, and on the 'right' side of it. I think you'd call our planning and enforcement folk 'helpful' and the other lot, 'PITAs' :cool:

rhiwfield

Choille, glad to see you back

Re interweb & lightning strikes we had a very near miss about 12 years ago that knocked out a few things including phones and computer.

Thursday last week we had a line break and, as line rental is now talktalk, we dreaded problems in getting it fixed. On Saturday, 1 day after reporting it on the automatic system, a BT openreach engineer turns up, traces the break, repairs it, comes back to test our phones, takes the master socket off and says "its been hit by lightning". To cut a long story short he replaces the box with a new NTE5 box and snips off the ring wire at my request.

Now we're at the end of the line from the exchange, horrible attenuation and connection speeds are usually only 0.5mbps. But now, for the first time, we could isolate extension wires and plug into a test socket. And after following talktalk members forum advice we've now got 1.6mbps download :j

Oh and our postal address remains South Glamorgan, which doesnt even exist any more.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

In work with us we ask what council they are with to write down on the form/recipt and it is suprising how many put west glamorgan, which doesnt exists:rotfl: I think it was about 15 odd years ago it changed ( might be wrong there but it was a long time ago)

are you anywhere near Llandow Rhiwfield? was up there yesturday about work, flip it was very misty there could hardly see infront of your nose in some places...

Choille I dont think the building is listed, as i should imagine they would have to put that in the sale details

Been looking at my bank balances, and i need to get my butt into to gear and sell as much junk as possible as I will not have enough money if my offer is excepted:eek:

Right my vintage nylon nighties and full length petticoats will be hitting ebay big time this weekend:rotfl:( they more or less guarenteed to sell...lol...)

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

are you anywhere near Llandow Rhiwfield? was up there yesturday about work, flip it was very misty there could hardly see infront of your nose in some places...

Just a few miles NE of there CTC, across the A48 N of Cowbridge. Llandow used to be a WWII airfield. Now its used for light industry and retail, Place for Homes (?) and one or two others still use old hangars. Best place there is Topstak, lovely woodburner showroom, great toasty place to go to on a bleak winter's day, and to marvel at the cost of kitchen ranges

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

Just a few miles NE of there CTC, across the A48 N of Cowbridge. Llandand to marvel at the cost of kitchen ranges

I don't think I'm going to have one, but not sure. Its been a huge decision. (we also wanted a fireplace in th kitchen, a replica of DH's one from Italy, but decided against it.....toast will have to happen over a fire and we're not spit roast chickens and pigs...;)). But a kitchen range is a tougher...as its almost expected....if we ever sell here...

I don't mind cooking in a range.....the ovens. A good one. I had a terrible on once that took about 16 hours to cook a small turkey. Toast done on the plates can't be beaten....but we don't have all that much toast! The decision might end up being having a range and keeping the cooker....I do like a hob, I really do. But thn you think...''what will we feed it'' and the weight goes back towards not having one! RAyburn do something to do with solar ...but I can't work out how that works.....