the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

My sympathies Alfie - i have a bad hip & lower back so know how painful it can be. Hope you manage okay today & all goes well.

We have gales still & showers blowing over like grey curtains.
I have a cold & sore throat so am lurking indoors & don't feel at all guilty as it is so nasty out there.

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

My sympathies Alfie - i have a bad hip & lower back so know how painful it can be. Hope you manage okay today & all goes well.

We have gales still & showers blowing over like grey curtains.
I have a cold & sore throat so am lurking indoors & don't feel at all guilty as it is so nasty out there.

thankyou, i will survive !!:)

my BF had awful chesty cough etc last week, assured me it was a "lung infection" therefore not catching....so why have i got the sniffles, cough and sore throat en route :mad:
never mind AA rescue, i think id fail my MOT and be destined for the scrap yard by thursday at this rate :rotfl:

lostinrates

Oh alfie, even worse if you are coughing with back pain. Hope the cough doesn't trigger any spasms. My back was good yesterday but went on Saturday evening as I was feeding the dogs, in fact, while I was getting a scoop of food out of the dustbin, cue falling n, screaming and carrying on much to DH's amusement. It was fine by Sunday morning. If I could keep doing slightly heavier things through the week I think it woud get stronger, but to be honest I'm wary of stressing it and having too much trouble feeding/doing the menagerie.

I've been being good and doing housework today...but itching to get outside....

Rummer

We all seem to be falling to pieces :rotfl:, I just sat down because I have hurt my back lugging bags of compost :rotfl:. Hopefully we will all get more movement back soon!

I have planted oodles of seeds and filled 1 and a half of the blueberry tubs and planted one of the blueberries. Just chewing over where I can borrow a wheelbarrow from as I have a mountain of earth move and don't want to carry it all.

Decided I am going to sit and write a list of all the things I would like to get for the garden this year and order them in priority order so that I can get a few bits each month as the costs are steadily mounting up and I want to make sure they are sensibly spread.

The weather here is so unpredictable at the moment that it is difficult to plan gardening time, one min the sun is out and it is glorious the next is is pouring down or snowing :eek:.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie, hugs...... take it easy.... hope you will be ok to pick up your wagon....

picked up my glasses, and called into morrisons while i was there.... I know i have mentioned food prices before, but flip it is getting very scary:eek:.. no wonder i am finding it hard now to save...
spent £36 odd and that was shopping frugally and i have hardly anything to show for it... seriously need to start meal planning again...

the other thread, how much to plant has really made me think how much would we need to plant of everything for us to feed our family of 4 for the year.. I think i would need a field just for potatoes:rotfl:

alfie_1

ooooooooooooo iv just discovered how to defrag my laptop !!!! took 2 hrs to doit.....me thinks it was a tad muddled but now goes like lightening.....
maybe i could be defragged ???

talking of shopping...as i dont have a freezer [cant operate to keep cold enough due to limited power] i buy fresh most days and i find i spend less cos im not tempted by all the goodies in the supermarket.... just get what i need.

i will try and get some pics of the wagon being loaded. sure to be funny if it doesnt fit !! the truck has just been delivered and its....BIG !!
my son just shook his head and then took my van to go to the dentist !![his cars in garage] he will have a moan when he gets back re...dog hairs, wrappers and general state inside it !!

LIR... i just sneezed and nearly knocked myself over as my balance is off !!

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Me neither, but I'll try it....I'll stick a pot over ne today and report back

choille wrote: »

You can blanche dandelion leaves with an upturned plant pot - supposed to make them sweeter? I've never done it........

I have, you have to leave them for a while, I think I left them for at least a week, maybe 2.

And after all that.... they still taste bitter

Maybe if you do what the Victorians did and beef up a big plant by feeding and looking after it. Maybe then if you blanche it, it would taste better.
But tbh most things that have gone out of use for salads is for a reason, they taste orrible!

Lotus-eater

With nettles btw, (sorry if I'm teaching anyone to suck eggs) you only eat or make tea from the new green growth and then only the bits at the tops, with one hand (in a glove) you pick off the tender bit at the end, maybe 5 or 6 leaves, a bit like the tea pickers do.

The best time to eat them is in Spring, or if you cut them down to the ground, they will resprout and you again get the soft new growth. Then you can use the cut down bits in a nettle plant food.

But at the start of the year you want to let a good patch stay all the time, as early aphids will colonise them and attract predator insects. Which hopefully will be around when your plants get aphids etc.
Btw, nettle aphids only live on nettles (afaik), so no cross leaf jumping will occur.

rozeepozee

Hi guys. Remember me? I'm afraid I'm not able to access the internet too much these days as my almost one year old twins constantly interrupt my usage (as they are doing now!) and when I have any spare time we are using it towards organising a move which we hope to make in the Summer.

We are currently thinking about renting somewhere in West Wales whilst we look for a suitable smallholding to buy. Our main priority is to buy somewhere with tourism with a letting unit so we can generate an income. A little bit of land would give us the opportunity to grow our own veg.

We've found somewhere we like the look of (well, on the internet anyway, we'll go and see it soon) and it has 12 acres of "excellent grassland pasture". We are a little flummoxed as to what we might do with 12 acres (a bit of a campsite, perhaps!) Does anyone have any advice how we could use this extra land to our financial advantage, if at all.

We won't be doing any growing this year as we have too much on with the prospective move. It's frustrating as on such a lovely spring day, I'd like to be planting some seeds....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie...i am now trying to max my journeys...so trying to get more done..

so i knew i had to go to a nearby town for my glasses, so shopped in morrisons... I try and support as many independants as possible...but i also need to watch my pennies now, if i am to have another push at trying to save some more money...

Just about to have another cup of tea, and then going to try and make my own bread rolls:eek:

I did buy a bread maker a few years back, but to be honest i didnt really get on with it....

so i have bought a bread mix, for now, and will try and have another go at the bread maker, alot of people just use it for kneading and mixing the bread mix, and then cook in the oven, so might have a go at that....which ever way i do it, it will end up like bricks:rotfl: