the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave - don't saw anything on the ground, nor just using the tip until you feel confident. Best always to be healthily scared of these things.

I'm respectful enough to have spent as much on the safety gear as the saw itself. After struggling with my friend's machine, where I couldn't keep the chain tight, almost anything will be better!

Anyway, the good news is that the tree stumps + roots left after sawing have now been cleared as far as our van. As it's still dry, we'll drive them across the field to our 'wildlife area' tomorrow.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi all,

Just couldnt sleep last night, going to our biker friends funeral today, it comes to something when a friends funeral makes you put your bike road legal, and see friends you havent seen in ages..

I think its going to be a big funeral...the guy was a member of a back patch club...

We are all leaving their club house at 9am to follow the coffin on a opened back lorry to the crem.....He stayed in the club house last night, with the other back patch members watching over him all night....

Its world 'switch your ligths off for an hour day' i think its about 8.30pm tonight.. over 100 odd countries have signed up for it..

hope you all have a good day..... catcha all laters...

Davesnave

If the death of your friend brings many of you together again, then you can make something good from it. Give him a brilliant send-off! Looks like you'll have a decent day, weather-wise.

Winged_one

Mind yourself CTC, and give your friend a good send off (honestly, sounds bad typed but not meant facetiously or anything, just seems right?)

I am off shortly to get my onions planted. Weather is supposed to change over the weekend, so I wnat to get as much done as I can. So better get moving before DD gets back from training and I don't get going at all.

Rummer

CTC sounds as if your friend was loved by many and that today will be a real celebration of his life. Take care of your self and your hubby.

choille

Hi CTC - Hope you have a good meet up & give your friend a good send off. It's great when everyone does get together just terrible circumstances.

Wood arrive & unloaded - feel jiggered already especially with this cold. My head feels 10 X too big for my shoulders.
Low cloud but surreal warmth about - the cloud looks like smoke rising off the Loch. My blue mini iriss are out - got them from the pound shop - they are lovely. Every thing looks scruffy - the garden, the caravan, the weedy pots & the rusty van - the grass.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thank you all.

IT was a fantastic send off, and alot of us said its a shame that it brings a funeral for us to get together..

we had probelms with the bike... not starting, plus a member of our bike club's bike didnt start either when the funeral procession was starting, but 3 strangers with cars dashed over and helped us jump start the bike, sadly our friends was put into someone's drive way, and htey had to go pillion.. so we had to dash to carch up with it all.... fair doo's to the police they could see we were behind and just let us ride through all the stopped traffic...

It was a HUGE turn out... stopped parts of Llanelli.

must have been at least 400 bikes..... one of the biggest biker funerals i have atteneded

This pic was from outside the crem, there was just as many bikes outside on the road... this was taken by someone else, which i manged to download from facebook




We all went back to a local pub for a few drinks.... and had a good laugh, which i know he would have wanted...

edit, sorry cant get the pic bigger... but will see if i can link you to more pics as they come onto facebook

witchwoopiggy

im shattered i ache my hands are swallen and i HATE clay soil cant do any more digging i cant hold much with my hands , i have added horse muck,home made compost , is there anything else i can do to break up the clay soil, its my veg patch and from the sun we have had this week its as hard as nails

ukmaggie45

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

is there anything else i can do to break up the clay soil, its my veg patch and from the sun we have had this week its as hard as nails

I could well be wrong here, but I vaguely recall from my schooldays (many moons ago! :eek: ) that adding lime helps? Sorry for your poor sore hands, but I think that all the work you've done will bear fruit over time. Hugs from Liverpool. Oh and a very gentle virtual hand massage too!

Try not to hate your clay soil too much, it's hard work at present for you, but it's full of nutrients and will be very fertile once it's more diggable. Plus it's great for roses!

Rummer

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

im shattered i ache my hands are swallen and i HATE clay soil cant do any more digging i cant hold much with my hands , i have added horse muck,home made compost , is there anything else i can do to break up the clay soil, its my veg patch and from the sun we have had this week its as hard as nails

We had the same problem with our garden and it has been a nightmare. We removed a lot of the clay soil and have added compost and manure and worked it, we also grew loads of potatoes to break up the soil. Now three years later it is getting much better but it was a hard slog!