the daydream fund challenge thread

TomandBarbara

mambury wrote: »

suzynick - tell him its got courgette in and if hes anything like mine......he'll run a mile!

Should be enough to put him off!

troglodyte

Here are my favourite courgette recipes.

sweet bread (makes 2 loaves and they freeze well) - I don't usually bother with the nuts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/courgettebread_85718.shtml

savoury bread (my OH doesn't like mushrooms so we substituted chestnuts instead - it was yummy!):
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2889/courgette-and-mushroom-bread

Another favourite are courgette bhajis, adapted from an onion bhaji recipe, they are really good too.

Then I put them in risotto, roast them, saute them, mix them in with a blue cheese sauce for pasta... I like them so much I've planted extra!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i am in the middle of making fruit chutney:D i bought a loads of damsons at the little farm auction on saturday.. for £1.50

l have to make it in a few batches as my saucepans arnt big enough...lol..

will also have a go at making Damson jam...to

feeling much better today, so will be back in work tomorrow.....

thinking about i must be more than better as i am cleaning the house:eek::rotfl:

well the way i am looking at it.... it will take me umpteen years to save for a smallholding, this will just about give me enough time to get my house clean and presentable to sell.....lol...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

well its true...... a huge supermarket and petrol station has applied for planning permission right by where we live:mad:.... there is only 4 houses where we are, 2 semi's and the supermarket will use the same entrance as we use....ITS GOING TO BE A NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!

there is also a huge bit of land in front of our house where a fqactory used to be, if/when the supermarket goes at the end of the road, this will be prime land for other retail outlets and fast food chains...

I have been crying all night. i really do feel low now, i feel as though someone has really booted me in the stomache, i feel so sick

.... even though we can put objections in, it will still go ahead....

and not only that there is another supermarket applying for permission just under a mile away ( the the edge of another county)... the 2 local villages.... well what i mean is the little shops in the area, and petrol stations are struggling as it is.. one supermarket would be enough to shut them down, but 2:eek:... oo ye and in between the 2 supermakrts there is allready a co-op.

even if i could save enough money for a huge deposit for something, i am never going to be able to sell my house if that goes ahead..

whats the jackpot on the Euro Lottery tonight?

I remember tescos put in for planning in a village about 4 - 5 miles away, where we had a petshop, and even though there was a huge negative response from the shops and local residents that would be over looking the store, it still went ahead, and it was 18 months form that meeting to the store being open.... which if that is anything to go by.. the supermarket would be open a year christmas time...

going now to make myself a cuppa, havent been able to sleep all night...

mambury

oh ctc......... I really feel for you. Can you not try to fight it on environmental ground, too many supermarkets killing the local economy etc etc ...

Just because they have applied doesnt mean they will actually build. SOmetimes supermarket chains buy up land and put in for planning just put the wind up the competition and to stop others from building.

I would suggest to try and fight it by putting a case towards the council that your standard of living will drop due to the additional traffic and that it will affect the value of your house.

Big hugs.....go and eat lots fo choc and cake!!


Mambury

Lotus-eater

CTC, that's tough, we would find it very difficult to sell as well, for one reason or another. I feel for you.
Y'know the old saying, what you can't change don't worry about, sort of springs to mind. AIUI councils aren't even objecting to supermarket sites as it costs too much and they almost never win, so it doesn't look good I'm afraid.
If you can find something rare living on the land, that may help, or maybe some ancient remains of something, that would slow it down a bit. Not much help I know
http://www.tescopoly.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Anyway look, at the worst you still have your house and if I remember you have some land somewhere you can use to grow stuff (MIL's?), try to look at the positives at this low time. Look at what you have and make the most of it.

This might be an off the wall idea, but I would be thinking about asking the supermarket for an incentive for you and the other houses, maybe an alloment sized plot of land for each house etc?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Lotus-eater wrote: »

CTC, that's tough, we would find it very difficult to sell as well, for one reason or another. I feel for you.
Y'know the old saying, what you can't change don't worry about, sort of springs to mind. AIUI councils aren't even objecting to supermarket sites as it costs too much and they almost never win, so it doesn't look good I'm afraid.
If you can find something rare living on the land, that may help, or maybe some ancient remains of something, that would slow it down a bit. Not much help I know
http://www.tescopoly.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Anyway look, at the worst you still have your house and if I remember you have some land somewhere you can use to grow stuff (MIL's?), try to look at the positives at this low time. Look at what you have and make the most of it.

This might be an off the wall idea, but I would be thinking about asking the supermarket for an incentive for you and the other houses, maybe an alloment sized plot of land for each house etc?

there has allready been planning approved for small industrial units and 187 houses, which i thought was bad enough...

i would love it if the supermarket bought our houses for a VERY inflated valuation...lol...

i am going to write with my objections...etc... but in all honesty after trying to fight against Tesco being built in a local village where my hubby had his business, in all honesty i know we are fighting a losing battle..

I cleared my MIL garden to grow veg etc in, but once i paid to have it cleared and the dead trees taken down, she started saying she wanted this and that, basically where she said we could have the whole garden to do what we wanted with, once she seen it all cleared, and less work she totally changed her rules:o, which in hind sight i should have realised knowing what she was like in the passed...

I dont go there now, as i know i will just snap and call her all the selfish ??????? under the sun, as she knows how much i spent on clearing it, she did say she was going to give me some money towards the clearance, havent seen a penny, but that wasnt the point... it was the fact she hadnt been near the garden for 18 months, and as soon as i had it cleared, she was up there all the time... staking her claim... even moaned that the poeple clearing the garden had broken one of her pots, which had had for yonks, the plastic had gone brittle, and if you had picked it up would have broken anyway...

havent been into work this morning, let other people open up for me.... i bet its going to be one of those days where nothing goes right....

sorry for sounding negative, but feeling a bit pooish today....

will bounce back in the next day or so...

Davesnave

That is rotten luck CTC. The major supermarkets have been slow moving into Wales, but now they are at saturation point in England, they are moving west, with all that implies for small town centres.

You sound like one of those people who always bounce back though and, who knows, if this development goes ahead, maybe your house and the three others will occupy a strategic position and become more 'interesting' to investors. It is early days yet.

Here, I'm just getting to grips with not having a supermarket just down the road! The nearest real one is about half an hour by car, though I hear a small Sainsbury will soon be opening in my home town 8 miles away. That could be bad news for the local shops, like Spar. However, I remember when, 50 years ago, that same Spar shop became a threat to my Dad's wet fish shop, because it started selling Bird's Eye stuff and people were buying fridges with little freezer sections.....Dad saw the writing on the wall and sold up before his business had gone too far downhill, but the next owner didn't survive long, so the town lost its fish shop, permanently. 'Plus ca change' and all that.

Oh dear, all a bit sober and sombre today! I will tell you more about our new place soon. Maybe get a few photos up on Flickr or something eventually, but right now I'm still in the thick of moving plants down the M5 and into their new, harsher, slug-infested environment. No sign of the bunnies yet though. Daughter 2 is walking the perimeter with the ferrets, which may be helping!;)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

That is rotten luck CTC. The major supermarkets have been slow moving into Wales, but now they are at saturation point in England, they are moving west, with all that implies for small town centres.

You sound like one of those people who always bounce back though and, who knows, if this development goes ahead, maybe your house and the three others will occupy a strategic position and become more 'interesting' to investors. It is early days yet.

Here, I'm just getting to grips with not having a supermarket just down the road! The nearest real one is about half an hour by car, though I hear a small Sainsbury will soon be opening in my home town 8 miles away. That could be bad news for the local shops, like Spar. However, I remember when, 50 years ago, that same Spar shop became a threat to my Dad's wet fish shop, because it started selling Bird's Eye stuff and people were buying fridges with little freezer sections.....Dad saw the writing on the wall and sold up before his business had gone too far downhill, but the next owner didn't survive long, so the town lost its fish shop, permanently. 'Plus ca change' and all that.

Oh dear, all a bit sober and sombre today! I will tell you more about our new place soon. Maybe get a few photos up on Flickr or something eventually, but right now I'm still in the thick of moving plants down the M5 and into their new, harsher, slug-infested environment. No sign of the bunnies yet though. Daughter 2 is walking the perimeter with the ferrets, which may be helping!;)

lol....Dave you know me so well now...lol.. when ever i get a knock back or poo happens.... i get to such a low or stressfull point... and then i get a load of energy and start 'fighting' back so to speak,..... where when its been is when i have been totally skint and need ways to find/earn money... etc..

this is why i come up with some wired ways of just earning a couple of pennies, which some people might not think worth the time and effort...

will not be long before i weigh in my alu cans for cash.....lol... ok only A few ££££££ but it all adds up...

bonsibabe

Ooh CTC. I hadn't thought about selling alu cans for cash!!! Must see if there is somewhere round here that buys them! My next door neighbour always has loads and loads of them in her recycling bin! I'm sure she would not mind me "borrowing" them out of her recycling for a different purpose! She's really great and has been giving me all her loo roll tubes and veg peelings for my compost bin as well.

My dalek has produced compost!!!! I got DH to turn it over before he went away yesterday and lo and behold there was proper compost at the bottom!!! I am so well chuffed it has spurred me on to do better and compost more!

Speak to you all soon xxxx