the daydream fund challenge thread

Poosmate

I just saw this on another thread and I thought of CTC and me later tonight! My poor cat and CTC's poor hubby!

Poo

alfie_1

Alfie, there was a single person trap on Antiques roadshow last night, anyone else see it?

i missed the AR show because i was having to humour my BF who has been "dying" all weekend by letting him watch another channel... i think it was top gear.....

im trying to find the right sort of vehicle to fetch the wagon..
i need like a horse box rear loader lorry but not too big and not too steep a ramp.?? dont know names of dif types of lorries ! so not sure where to look. can get horse lorry ,its just ramps too steep....:(

iv been working doing repairs on the model railway today, a new "line"s been put in so i do all the gravelling and titivating...
been fantastic sunny 3 days av 9-13 degrees.
iv got something squeezed in to do every day/minute/second it seems this week.. could do with an extra day !!

Rummer

I am still trying to decide which to read first!

alfie_1

Rummer wrote: »

I may burst with excitement

Just went to my local library and they have just bought in oodles of books about:

• Gardening
• Self sufficiency
• Chicken keeping
• Environmental Issues
• Green living
• Rationing
• Make do and mend

I went to the counter with my arms full and I am now sitting with them spread out in front of me trying to decide which one to read first :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::T
i just had this image of you saying fab collection to people and them going to get one but youve got em all.....:)

bet the librarians did a double take !!

mattberkshire

Davesnave wrote: »

Hmmmm....the free barn thing looks interesting lir, but I don't think we can manage the 75 m to 3 phase electric, as I think the current barn has just 'ordinary' electric and the pole/transformer is a good 100m from there. Maybe the thatchers next door have 3 phase though???

Amazing how the weather varies as we report it here. We had another dry and reasonably warm day, but it was blowing very hard! I angled my incinerator into the wind and it soon had a real blaze on, which was needed, because I was burning up roots and stumps. It's been so dry I could removethe mud from the stumps just by wacking them with a hammer.

Choille, nice to hear from you again, even if it reminds me that I too have a mountain of paperwork to sort out!

Hi. I'm lumicity's business development director. Happy to answer any questions. Matthew.hubbard@lumicity.com

alfie_1

Rummer wrote: »

I am still trying to decide which to read first!

:rotfl:you do make me laugh !! like a kid in a sweet shop!!:rotfl:

Davesnave

I should have shut up about digging holes....:(

We'd just returned from Mole Valley Farmers, (down the Mole Valley!:rotfl:) had a spot of lunch, and out of the blue, our hedging arrived.....140 beech and 55 yews!

The yews were much bigger than I anticipated, so ideas about heeling them in, en masse, were abandoned and we started planting them in holding positions....in the veg garden!!! :eek:Managed to get in 23 before dusk. The rest, and the beech, have gone into a polytunnel foundation hole till I can get to them.

We've agreed a place where the yews will make a hedge, but it's still full of couch and other grasses. I thought I'd have a year or so to prepare it, but these plants are so good I'll have to move things forward a bit or they'll be very large to transplant. Perhaps they ran out of tiddlers?

At least the beech look normal, and we've a 25m trench dug for them.

cyclura, you are lucky being just outside Barnstaple with its Pannier Market and Butchers Row, though neither is quite what it once was.
We go up to Barnstaple about once or twice a month and find the [STRIKE]dump[/STRIKE] recycling facility there very accommodating compared with ours at Cr_d_t_n!
Being here, we can swing both ways; Barnstaple or Exeter taking about the same amount of time. Buy the North Devon Journal though, not the Crediton Gazette. Old allegiances die hard.

Rummer

There is just so much to learn that I often feel there are just not enough hours in the day . Mind you my OH has pointed out that I actually need to get off my backside and go out and prepare the garden instead of just reading about it :rotfl:

I have decided to start with 'The winter of disconnect" about a family who live without technology for 6 months :eek: I keep thinking what would I do without all your advice at the touch of a button, it would take me ages to find the answers to my many simple questions.

Also going to dip into "A slice of the good life" which seems to dip into many different areas of self sufficiency and sustainability.

No doubt my curiosity will get the better of me and I will be reading all the books at the one time

It has crossed my mine that all the good books could be gone by my next visit so I am tempted to sneak back tomorrow and pick up a couple that I forced myself to put down :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

good one poo:rotfl:

Alfie hope you find a suitable horsebox or what about hiring a 7.5 ton lorry?

Rummer.... i have often thought about not having a tv etc...but as you say that would mean giving up the old puter... and i am so used to it for everything, paying bills, shopping, chatting, finding out info etc... and with the rising costs of everything, shopping and comparing prices on line...is one that has and will carry on saving us money.... ( even though we got to pay the monthly feews etc)

Let me know what you think of the winter of disconnect, or let us know any interesting parts that might be of use to us all...

lostinrates

Poosmate wrote: »

Good for you CTC!

I lost my post as internet is playing up! LIR I was asking if your Archy bloke mentioned Anaerobic Digestion for the methane use? I thought about making my own AD but knowing my luck I'd probably blow up my house!

Anyway, as I'm sure you can guess.............

There are videos uploaded on YouTube about ADs! lol

We left it yesterday as a good idea to use the raw material ''we'' produce but in what for undecided. Archy seems to think its all doable before next winter.....and thinks we'll have phase one....kitchen shell (not planning on a finished fit for many years ) utility, a downstairs loo and dh's study, all done over summer. :eek::eek: I really need to sell something soon to start paying for this! I've been told that oil tanks...plastic ones, are worth ebaying...so might sell our oil tank.