the daydream fund challenge thread

Poosmate

Thanks LIR. I think I picked about the right time to find my mojo in the garden didn't I? I'm hoping the good weather keeps up so I can do a little bit each evening after work. I think I might enjoy my new working hours.

I've just been up to the shop and asked if he'll keep a Daily Mail for me tomorrow as there are free carrot seeds in it, although they're not free because the paper will cost 80p and the seeds are supposed to be worth £1.49 so a saving of 69p. Do I really want them? I know I have some carrot seeds already.

I did buy today's DM (ETA - it was the Birmingham Mail NOT the Dm today)as on the front it says free seeds worth £17.90 but you have to pay £2.99 in P&P. I read the article in the shop before I bought the paper but must read it again just to make sure there is no other spend attached to the free seeds.

Oh and Alfie, I'm sure the cup you have is very appropriate - I am trying to figure out what on earth it could look like! When I saw your comment I immediately thought "Yes! Send it immediately! It's probably some long lost cup from the Ming Dynasty that's never been seen logged in recent catalogues of precious artefacts and treasures." But knowing your knack for finding treasure it must be worth a fortune! lol Of course, if the long lost ancient catalogue of Ming Dynasty general purpose crockery was ever found, I would return the cup to you immediately!

Poo

Rummer

Sounds as if you have had a very productive day Poo!

soupdragon10

Love the blue in that Morroccan picture Alfie - that colour is so intense it glows.

Spent most of the day trapped in a business suit being interviewed, but did get back to water everything again and notice yet more seedlings coming up.

Dentist tomorrow morning, and hopefully if I feel up to it I will get some more seeds sown in the afternoon.

Poo glad you are able to get into the garden after work - that's what I always liked about this time of year, I could actually do a days work and still have light enough to do the garden (if I had the energy).

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Poo, I'm jumping with joy for you. WELL DONE!

I'm sorry about Poo's antics, and know those bruised clawings well, horrid.



Well what a difference one sunny day too many makes. LOADS of lilac in bud.....and the seedlings that weren't flowering when we viewed last year are going to flower this year....and they seem to be PINK! How cool is that? The horse chestnut ..one hasn't put n many candles, why would that be? Lots of the strawbs are blooming, and the currants are flowering. But the weeds have SHOT up today. Almost knee height in beds that were clear last week.


tomorrow as well as meeting alfie (hurrah! I'm going to round up the chicks and stick them in a broody so she can have a look at them!) someone is hopefully coming to clip the very old horse, who has been really hot. I don't think its worth me buying clippers for her, as I so rarely need to clip.

i bought expensive clippers to clip our sheep....1st attempt left the first sheep looking like an extra from jurasic park:eek:, 2nd one looked like a poodle clip, 3rd was a tad better, by the 5th id cracked it !! BUT the whole process took 5 hours !!!! when i let them out into the field, BARNEY herded my [now deceased] old pony away from them as they looked so strange to him!! needless to say i know pay an old boy to come and do it... he takes a fraction of the time, he gets headbutted, trampled and smelly !! and i just watch, oooo and aaaaaa in the right places and then pay him :T

the dogs then chewed the corner of the clippers box whilst bored in the van one day so generally a waste of over £200 !!!

Davesnave

Excellent news that you are gardening again, Poo. Getting started is half the battle, and now you have begun, your progress will be its own reward.

I must apologise again for not joining-in over the last couple of days, but I've been too whacked to add anything remotely coherent. While the long days are a boon in some respects, what alfie & Rummer say about stopping now & again to enjoy the garden has relevance. Guilty as charged, but there’s just so much to do!

Yesterday, I had a lovely day out, mostly travelling along the A35 in the van, doing DD2’s removal from Bournemouth. She is still a student there, but with both her ferrets ‘gone before’ she has no need of a 6’ house for them, nor two dustbins, and being an artist, she has far too much junk, so the Easter hols seemed an ideal time to remove it all.

Agree about the weeds lir, but at least on the areas we did last year, it's almost all annual stuff.

rhiwfield

Well done Poo! Hope the weather is staying fine for all of you.

Had a productive couple of days alternating between spring cleaning and sowing seeds. GH is bulging and I hope to shift a few plants and other bits and pieces tomorrow at the car boot.

But another visit to the stinky compost place proved the final straw for DW, and she cleaned the car inside and out :j. Will miss the ripe pong

Apples are just starting to flower, the last of the tree fruit to do so, it may only last a couple of weeks but its a wonderful time. Will post a photo of Winston for RAS, looks like its not a tip bearer. And the mid winter discussion on dead blueberries, our 3 are doing fine despite the minus 16C

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

Had a productive couple of days alternating

good for you, we've been slack today, but having a good time Alfie and her lovely OH came over with a wonderful gift of much needed plant pots. I'm so thrilled to have met her! She's everything she seems here....bubbly and enthusiastic and helpful (she and Mr Alfie even offered to pull out the car I've borrowed and had beached in the field :o). Meanwhile my neighbours turned up to haul the car out and someone else was here clipping our very old horse, and her husband turned up, so it was busy for a bit! I left a client of mine holding old horse while I showed alfie and OH round the wreck we live in, and my client got sunburn!

Alfie met her chicks (who I removed from their mother today though they'll be in with the big birds under lights at nights they are out in a broody coop by day now. )


alfie...the clippers did give up, but we got a lot of the rest off with scissors and now old girl who is not as skinny as I thought is MUCH happier out in the field.:D

soupdragon10

Got stuck in to the polytunnel this afternoon, and OH moved fruit trees and bushes that I'd potted up in there just to give them a bit of protection before I plant them out.

More seed sowing and DD is really making progress with the raised by, especially as she's never worked with concrete blocks before. I do keep having to remind her that she's not engineering them to a couple of thousandths of a centimetre (she's an engineer by trade not a builder). Hopefully first part will be finished tomorrow :j

Off to a vintage car rally / auto jumble tomorrow so who knows what I'll come back with.

Rummer

Sounds as if you have all been busy!

I had a mixed day today, it was gloriously sunny so I got a few wee bits done in the garden. Weeded the path and part of the front garden then got a few pots planted up. Then I sat on my bottom and enjoyed the sunshine and my garden which was lovely. Now all I need is a huge amount of money to reorganise it the way I want it :rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

good evening all....
hope youve had a lovely day ....i hav ! many thanks to "LIR" for letting us visit and being responsible for my LOVE for where she and her hubby live.... what a lovely set up and what a lovlier couple. thankyou for showing us round... if you need "help" with the "farmyard sale" id love to help....

after we left you we went to see stonehenge. had a snack and meandered home... we stopped at the lovely church just down the road from you aswell, what a pretty building. again it was lovely to meet you both and i cant believe your oldie hoss is that old!!

im selling at a car boot sale tomorow with a friend...we laugh so much at silly things we wont end up selling much i bet !! iv just cooked/ate a big stir fry so am stuffed ! so early start which means early night ....

iv had a really lovely day today.