the daydream fund challenge thread

witchwoopiggy

thank you everyone for giving me hope for my clay soil i dont feel so fed up today its amazing what a good nights sleep does. i will keep adding loads of organic muck, im lucky i can have as much horse muck as i want and its old dark crumberly beautifull muck lol just have to wait till my best mate can get it, been raining here this morning so not going to do much today as my hands still hurt, but seedlings are comeing up indoors and theres a silver lineing to my cloud today

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I am totally injoying myself today... ( for a change..lol..)

hubby has done the new gate.... he is now power hosing down the rest of the greenhouse for me...:T

I made a chicken in white wine sauce using one of htose batchelors condensed soup tins, so used some of the chicken we had a few days ago, soften and cooked some leeks, onions bacon and mushrooms, and plonked it all in a caserole dish in the oven. also browned off some small bits of bacon and onions, ready to make some bite size quiche's later, in the middle of making loads of fruit muffins... which every one can snack on instead of biscwits etc...
really do need to get back on track with my cooking and saving money....

Trying to see how far i can stretch a chicken...in how many meals i can make out of it, just about to strip the rest of the meat, and hopefully it will make another 2 meals, plus make stock out of hte bones, to make leek and potato soup...

Hubby and I have been talking about changing the rayburn coal fire in the living room to a proper multi-fuel range... ok it might seem strange having one in the living room, but with the price of electric etc just going up and up... the cost of cooking on an electric stove is getting a bit naff...lol... but this is only if there is no move in sight...

lostinrates

Had a good morning playing with a tractor. This afternoon dh saw a fox disappearing and tonight we are one chicken down. I'm a bit ''professionally'' gutted as well as personally, as she was the looks ideal of my hybrid plans.....so very beautiful, never seen a prettier bird. As well, of course as being personally upset a sweet little hen is MIA.


Nice day, right temps for me, cooler than last week. The horse chestnuts leaves are all unfurling

Rummer

Lir so sorry to hear about your hen!

I hurt all over. Spent the morning stripping wallpaper which I love doing and then I decided to sort out the herb garden and I spent 2 hours fighting with mint roots :mad:. Those combined with the creeping buttercups makes it feel as if I have done a full body workout.

Now I get to decide what to plant in it currently there are chives and two types of thyme and that is it. It would be nice to have some perennial herbs so that I do not have to start from scratch every year and we would also like it to be a good bee attraction.

Not keen to have anything too high in it due to the location but I am open to suggestions

choille

CTC - great send off for your friend.
A biker family friend was killed around 20 years ago & they still have a BBQ down the beach where he used to live each year on what would be his birthday. It was so sad as his pillion was his girlfriend & she had 4 kiddies - she was also killed.
rhiwfield sounds like you've been really busy - sorry about your back. That's the thing with over doing it in the Spring - we pay the price with putting out backs etc.

Alfie - hope things aren't too sad - it made me think about how I'll feel when my two old boys go as they are such a part of the place.

Feeling rubbish with this hacking cough & the very damp weather so cowered in beside the stove doing very little today. Not too many things sold on ebay, but managed to pay a subscription for my club thing which I thought I would have to forgo so it is doing the stuff.

Think I'll have an early night as I'd better walk to the PO tomorrow before I totally seize up.

alfie_1

this is HARLEY with his "mates" !! the JR is the one who would have killed a cat when i 1st got him.......
dont be sad when an animal dies, just reflect that it had the best life you could give it....feel sad for those that dont.

choille

Lovely photo Alfie & sentiments too - yes you are right, give em a good life.

I got an old map on linen of the New Forest the other day in a charity shop. It has railways on it - so not ancient ancient.

Davesnave

Rotten luck that the fox took your prettiest hen, lir....:mad: No, rotten that it took any of them. One advantage of this location is that human activity during the day inhibits fox incursions, but I notice rabbits have moved into the second part of the orchard, which is the other side of that coin.

Had an odd day today, beginning with the donation of a hedgehog from a village garden, where it kept getting trapped in netting, and ending with listening to 'Pick of the Week' while pulling hairy bittercress out of pots in one of the old pig shelters. That's a lovely sunny spot to sit in as the sun goes down.

I won't go into the other bother in between, where I had to change a tyre on the van. I've never attempted that before, due to the size & weight of everything, but being here, I feel we should attempt to be as self-reliant as possible, not drive down to the main road and phone Britannia Rescue! So, two hours and much swearing later, it was done.

Rummer, I feel like you, hurting all over. Grovelling around under vehicles is for the young.

I'll get back to you about the herbs!

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Lovely photo Alfie & sentiments too - yes you are right, give em a good life.

I got an old map on linen of the New Forest the other day in a charity shop. It has railways on it - so not ancient ancient.

oooo can you email me a pic of the map please?? i will pm my e mail addy

choille

I'll try & photo it alfie - it's very faint. I may try & scan it - probably better.

I'll send it down to you if you like - t'was only pennies.