the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

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.

Hi rozee, glad to hear the move is still on the cards.

12 acres is a lot of grass, and if it's excellent, then that's about 50 sheep you could comfortably overwinter on it, and maybe 45 big bales of hay later on....BUT, don't forget that the fences have to be in good nick and someone has to cut & turn the hay before the contractor comes in to bale it, all reducing your profit. Then there's the other inputs, like fertilizer....

Fortunately, in Wales, it's very common for folk to rent their surplus land to local farmers, like I do here with Pete. It's up to the parties concerned whether payment is in money or in kind. I'm afraid it won't be a lot, either way, but I've seen land managed really well on this basis in Wales.

Campsites are best kept compact, or at least the parts which have services and mown grass are. You can spread the rougher tent-pitching bits out, as some people prefer things 'au naturelle.'

Davesnave

Im sorry to hear about your friend's accident too, CTC. I decided long, long ago that I was not compatible with bikes, but not before I messed up both knees. I often wonder if the pains, like those I have tonight, would be much less without my three biking years.

Like many of you, I've overdone it, but the new hedge is in.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi all.... Alfie hope you are ok with your journey....

Rozeepozee...I think it is a good idea that you rent a place, and then look round to buy something...places might look so lovely when you are doing a day trip there, but if you bought a place based on what you seen on that day, it might be a mistake, no matter how beautiful a place/area may look, you may not 'feel' at home there.. IYSWIM...

The scrapman is due to turn up soon..... dont know whether i am nervous or excited:rotfl: a part of me is going to be glad, but another part of me is goong to be nervous etc, as i know our next door neighbours are going to ne curtain twitching.... plus i found out from another neighbour on saturday... they and our next door neighbour have been having problems with rats the last week or two, guess who has prob been having the blame for that:o even though there has been major disruption around us including across the road, where the burger van is.....

plus its £400 in my daydream bin:D

choille

Hi CTC - I think I'll start emptying the old van - used for storing plywood & the saw, and see about putting it in Scot ads. There are some newish bits on it so someone may want it for spares - failing that it'll go for scrap too
Still haven't worked out what to do with reg plates - best place to sell them - I should scrap my old, rusty bikes as they are just rusting into the ground really & look a mess.
Desperate to get some more wood ordered but no money at the mo.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Rozeepozee...I think it is a good idea that you rent a place, and then look round to buy something...

The scrapman is due to turn up soon..... dont know whether i am nervous or excited:rotfl:

Yes, we'd have rented first if it had been elsewhere. It was OK for us here, because we knew Devon, but every area has places which would be best avoided. For example, we wouldn't really have 'fitted' in the first property we ever looked at in Devon, which was down on the Dart estuary and full of boating types.....We knew that really, but the property was sooooo right. (Anyway, as it turned out, they kissed, made up and refused to sell! :rotfl:)

Agree about the scrap; it's like losing part of your life, but you'll soon feel good. I wish we didn't have to bring so much of our old junk down here from the old place, but the building materials are too good to waste and the other things need sorting out....before we burn them.....probably!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

choille, we were using the old transit van as storage....lol....

well the trike and the old mondaeo has gone:o, so its the 2 other cars, and then the van to go last...

You are right Davesnave... once they have gone i will feel alot better, but in a way i think i have also been using them as a barrier...meaning that people.. see the mess and think we are yobs, so leave us alone.... so now i feel abit open IYSWIM...

once the 2 cars are gone infront of our garden wall, going to have a lcear up of the brambles etc.. and may go and get some nice planters to pot up.... now that will confuse the neighbour,....lol... going from one extreme to another:rotfl:

edit if i wasnt so embaressed i would do before and after pics...

lostinrates

CTC....I understand how you feel about neighbours etc. We're really lucky...a we dn't have any near neighbours and the farm, which IS really clear, but the house isn't too close, they are fab...really very nice, helpful generous....I asked who to use for rolling this year he's loaning me the tractor and told me to save the money! But like us, like some privacy. It works great! Their neighbour is never around. BUT I miss my old neighbours...who sold before we moved....who we nipped over to deliver eggs and ended up swaying home after a brandy sour to many...many a time the man had to help me past our cattle grid Or the farmer who in that LONG wander before last took water to the horses as well as his cattle, knowing I would return the favour by putting out more fibre for his when there....so he didn't have to leave loads out to be trampled and wasted. HAving friendly neighbours who understand boundaries (in all senses) and are of like mind is as much a joy as bad neighbours are a nightmare. Come and move near us CTC.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Come and move near us CTC.

Did you not hear what she said?

Abandoned cars, rusty trikes and transits used as sheds....

It would be like living next to myself!

choille

We don't have people too near but we do have some right crackers - fortunately we don't have anything to do with them & very rarely see them - thankfully. Sort of folks you avoid eye contact with..........don't get me on that I'll be here all day, ghastly people.

Our elderly neighbours at the top are brilliant folks & a real tonic. I've got a lot of ground surrounding me so folks can't get too close with development etc - cost me a load of cash & house would have been up by now but wanted to keep our privacy. I do wonder if I've done the right thing - I feel if the house would have been finished we'd have sold because of the neighbour thing but I think they'll move as they've made so many enemies - they stick out like sore thumbs here.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

choille wrote: »

We don't have people too near but we do have some right crackers - fortunately we don't have anything to do with them & very rarely see them - thankfully. Sort of folks you avoid eye contact with..........don't get me on that I'll be here all day, ghastly people.

Our elderly neighbours at the top are brilliant folks & a real tonic. I've got a lot of ground surrounding me so folks can't get too close with development etc - cost me a load of cash & house would have been up by now but wanted to keep our privacy. I do wonder if I've done the right thing - I feel if the house would have been finished we'd have sold because of the neighbour thing but I think they'll move as they've made so many enemies - they stick out like sore thumbs here.

lol.. the last line could relate to us:rotfl:

lotus-eater....hahahaha....thats why we get on... like minded people...

LIR...maybe this time next year rodders:rotfl:

I think over the years there are more and more built up areas, and now a house with no neighbours/land is such a premium....people do need their own space.. even if you are a totally social person...years ago if you lived in a terraced house, the likelyhoods were everyone who lived in those terraced houses would work in the same factory...etc...these days neighbours have such different lifestyles that they clash, or look down at their neighbours...

right better get off my butt and do some work... having another day off work today... so better make the most of it...