the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

I didn't see the place, CTC pm me a link for my opinion


Right, have just hired big van from local town, off to dog up stuff at the other garden.....instead of sun cream today I've covered myself in volteril, and taken a couple of the same make pills. Ten litres of paint is too much for my broken body to slap on without feeling it the next day. DH is home so he can dig and I am driving......


Alfie, so sorry about the cat. Its so hard. Of all our pets I think the bond with a cat is something special.

I'll catch up tonight....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

I didn't see the place, CTC pm me a link for my opinion


Right, have just hired big van from local town, off to dog up stuff at the other garden.....instead of sun cream today I've covered myself in volteril, and taken a couple of the same make pills. Ten litres of paint is too much for my broken body to slap on without feeling it the next day. DH is home so he can dig and I am driving......


Alfie, so sorry about the cat. Its so hard. Of all our pets I think the bond with a cat is something special.

I'll catch up tonight....

consider yourself pm'd:D

lostinrates

Aghh.......the sun is still up but I think I'm too tired. Pruned about 40 roses...could tell the ones soeone else pruned last year not me. Brought home a few too....not sure how they'll fair. Not very healthy some of 'em. A Mme Gregoire stachelin that might not make it then Summersong, Jaqueline du Pret, A shropshire lad, A pat austin and a Compte de Champagne. (all roses I know, and all but two of them I would have been prepared to pay for and some are repeats of things I've bought, which is good. Also brought home a Cranbay Cordofolia, some lady's mantle, a mulberry who might not make it but whose worth trying to save, some currants, some rhubarb (a big bit that would divide into about a dozen! Roots were like legs!) a grape vine(variety unknown) a box, my caci. Forgot a lot of stuff though....my elephant vine, no sign of my artichokes....dead or too early.


Came home and feral, whose food I didn't put out was at the door waiting, first time since I let her out she's been right there bold and brave.

Have planted what we can and stuck the ret in a water trough that needs cleaning. Tomorrow have to weed and prepare some space....yeah, I know...cart before horse this plant run....and get the rest in.

lostinrates

CTC, I like it. I like projects. Don't know the area at all, but what a guide price, even for the land and a planning precident. Of course, probably guided to get interest

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

CTC, I like it. I like projects. Don't know the area at all, but what a guide price, even for the land and a planning precident. Of course, probably guided to get interest

I think it is at that guide price, because the road leading to the place is not far off collapsing:rotfl: and the land is not good land....

The local estate agents that are doing the viewing ( because they are the only one with a 4x4...lol...) said most of the viewers are all concerned about the road, and who is responsible for it...
Hubby was saying you couldnt get a van up the lane... so getting furniture etc would be very difficult if it couldnt fit in the back of the 4x4:rotfl:

I think its going to be the type of property some person would buy blind, because of the price....

In 2 minds to put a silly bid on it:eek::rotfl:

choille

We took all our gear across a sea loch once in a very small boat - including a quad! You can get anything anywhere if you have a mind to.

Why is the ground bad? All ground here is bad - you can improve ground & it all has a use -that's what sheep are for!

Just being Devil's advocate - sometimes it's good to go with a rave, look at other possibilities - likr a wee holiday so it is.

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I think it is at that guide price, because the road leading to the place is not far off collapsing:rotfl: and the land is not good land....

The local estate agents that are doing the viewing ( because they are the only one with a 4x4...lol...) said most of the viewers are all concerned about the road, and who is responsible for it...
Hubby was saying you couldnt get a van up the lane... so getting furniture etc would be very difficult if it couldnt fit in the back of the 4x4:rotfl:

I think its going to be the type of property some person would buy blind, because of the price....

In 2 minds to put a silly bid on it:eek::rotfl:

For veg ground can be improves, for furniture a tractor and a trailer and your nearest farmer. The road IS a big issue. we liked a house that had a shared maintenance of the road agreement and last bill was £30k..four years before we were viewing and the thing was a mess...would need doing again imminently. You can't come up with tens of thousands for roads EXTRA to the money you are spending on a dump. If you have sole use and are brave 4 x 4 drivers its up to you, but if its shared payment you get uncontrollable bills.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

only a small fergie would get up the lane at a push...lol..

there is allready someone else's sheep on the land, so it could be lack of fencing etc..

in all honesty it is a bit remote for me, well more than a bit.... i would prob have the heebeegeebee's all the time...

the road that is shown on the google earth map is a lie..:rotfl: they have just put that in to define where the access is..

I honestly still cant get over someone paying 280k for the place...

had the legal pack through yesturday ( just being nosey:p) and it looks as though they had charges put on the property in 2006, wonder how its taken so long for it be actually taken off them, and go to auction?

Anyway having today off work as well, so that is a WHOLE WEEK off brilliant, the thing is i will not want to go back to work next week:D


Looks as though its going to be another nice day here..

cleaned out and washed most of the greenhouse down yesturday, so going to sow some seeds today...

Davesnave hope you are ok,,, or are you cutting everything down in sight with your chainsaw....:rotfl: or chainsaw'd the people with the dogs:eek::rotfl:

Davesnave

We found a house that I particularly wanted because it had easily improvable, south sloping land and half a mile of good fishing, but the terrible access road was the final thing that ruled it out. The other problem was that it was an 'upside down' house and the cost of turning it into something acceptable would have been high.

Before we went into rented in the city, a kind friend introduced us to an aquaintance who'd inherited a 16th century farm near Usk (nice!) and who wanted someone to live in it while he completed the renovations. We weren't so much put off by the unfinished nature of the building, but the access, where we only just managed to extricate ourselves with our exhaust system intact during fine weather.

I thought then that one of his largest costs on what would probably be a £1m project, would be making the half mile drive accessible in all weathers, even for a 4x4.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave hope you are ok,,, or are you cutting everything down in sight with your chainsaw....:rotfl: or chainsaw'd the people with the dogs:eek::rotfl:

Yes, I still had two legs last time I looked.

It's been quiet, so I have been all sweetness and joy and not wanting to cut down the trees between us & Mr Dog......yet.:rotfl:

Yesterday, I decided to use one a friend loaned me to cut up the remaining larger trees we dug out. He's a nice chap, and I felt I really ought to use his machine, but I'd been a bit wary because, unlike Pete, most of his kit is a bit :eek::eek:

Anyway, I know little about saws, but I soon realised the chain was loose and the oil pump wasn't pumping. At that point, it ran out of juice. After spending a bit of time, reloading it with oil, 2 stroke and working out how to tighten it up, it did enough for me to get the trees into manageable sections, so I stopped there. It wasn't very good, but it was a Homebase-type thing, so I'm hoping mine will be better.
Mine is a:

http://www.abbeygardensales.co.uk/chainsaws/husqvarna-chainsaws/showitem-E1-435.aspx

which is smallish and fairly basic, but I thought it would do the tree tidying jobs well and also cut up a few logs. Then, if it seems I occasionally need something bigger, I'll have to save my pennies for it.