the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

:rotfl:I'm off to somewhere interesting today.;) Well, hopefully it will be.

hi all, well im just bl**dy nosey and want to know WHAT and WHERE ,davesnave ????:D

OK, here's a picture clue of DW relaxin' at the very exclusive place we went to for our 30th Wedding Anniversary....



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alfie_1

oooooo daves nave.... quick flight to thailand ????:)

alfie_1

LIR ...let me know when youve finished your ID parade, when you want me to collect chiklets.....:rotfl:

my pekins are STILL not hatched.... iv either gone doolally and got dates totally wrong or these eggs are now candidates for the guiness book of records !!! OR they are all duff :(

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Ha ha Soupdargon. Last year two lambs got in my Scot's Greys hen house. I looked in and saw 8 white wooly legs & a fair few disgruntled hens trying to remain calm on their perches. They did used to chase the hens - saw it as sport I'm sure.
had Harold on the phone about other stuff but did ask if I had lambs - last year ended up with a dozen of his orphans - trying to avoid that again or OH will leave!

i am SO pleased i have not been asked/am not near any lambs !! i really have got to reign myself in re animals....they only have to say "it will be put down" "it needs a good home" "its the runt" "can you...." and my mouth takes over from my brain !! i have done it all my life tho and am too long in the tooth to change me finks !.......

going to let my doves out tomorow. they will either fly round and all return OR they will fly round and pi** off !! we will see.....

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

oooooo daves nave.... quick flight to thailand ????:)

That's very good, alfie!:cool: You are pretty warm, and so were we, but to do this, get a fish & chip supper, and be home to do lock-up for the chooks, really put the dampers on Thailand.

Indeed, anywhere outside the Westcountry was too far....;)

rhiwfield

Davesnave wrote: »

That's very good, alfie!:cool: You are pretty warm, and so were we, but to do this, get a fish & chip supper, and be home to do lock-up for the chooks, really put the dampers on Thailand.

Indeed, anywhere outside the Westcountry was too far....;)

Is that the Eden project? Been wanting to go there for some time.

Gds descended on us yesterday for a flurry of quiche, cake, squash, drawing..... very nice too

In the garden have now emptied the greenhouse butt, the soil is very dry for this time of year, and at this rate the garage butts will be empty too in few days.

This weather is glorious but could do with some (nighttime) rain.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Wow Davesnave.... glad you had a nice day, I have allways wanted to go to the Eden project too, but i would hate to go, and there are loads of people there.... I hate it when I go to st Fagans and there are loads of people, cant injoy and have a proper nose..

LIR might be a good idea about an auction at your place,,,, How old is the milking stuff? Is there a set standard for the machinery before it needs to be renewed for milking palours?

If you do have an on site auction, you could also make money on the teas and coffees etc.... and maybe davesnave could have stall there selling his veg plants......Alfie could have carboot stall, farmers do like rumaging...lol...and if the farmers there are the same as here, they will buy a bucket with a hole in it, if it is cheap:rotfl:

Choille......i love it when the eggs are pipping, and a few days before they hatch.. i have allways talk to the eggs:eek: Hubby alllways thought i was losing the plot, but i was having a chat with the chick... and they used to answere me back....:rotfl:

flip i am getting broody really do need to get some eggs in the old incubator:)

lostinrates

Alfie....they are under lights at night but I'm phasing them off now. Lights will be off, weather permitting, Monday night. So you could have them Monday. (if I sex wrong and gve you a boy I'll swap with you later ). I'll need your details for the RPA movement records. You'll be the first person in it!

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Is that the Eden project? Been wanting to go there for some time.

Well spotted, rhiwfield!

We last went when they were still building it, so it was time for a reappriasal. We figured that the crowds would only increase from now until about October, so off we went.

We also reckoned the tropical biome would be quieter in the late afternoon, and it was almost empty by 4pm, so there's a tip if you're visiting. We did the visit in two parts, doing the less popular stuff first, in the morning/early afternoon, when it was busy, and going back to the car for lunch. It was so quiet where we'd parked under the trees, that it was like having a picnic in the country.

Lir would be interested in some of the ways they've trained trees, like the pleached hornbeams and the aerial canopy formed with planes, but when one goes into the likely cost of some features, it makes the hair stand on end! A hedge made of gingko, anyone? :eek:

lostinrates

I've always wanted to go. But it seems so far away....and I'm in the same region.....well, just! EAst always is easier.

Congratulations on 30 years of marriage. Your wife looks far too young to have been married thirty years! You right with such love and pride about your family it makes me feel a bit mushy and certainly very impressed!


Right, here is a tree question...do you think you could pleach sugar maples?....I'm not sure you could. Obviously, much of the beauty of their canopy would be lost, but I want the smell near a window.

We've had terrible tree news....our beautiful oak might have to go. The structural engineer feels that its about 90% certain it is causing problems, and 100% certain if it isn't now it will within a decade. As we are going to have to rebuild the house walls its nearest we are going to have to be brutal and remove him. I can't tell you how I have wept over this tree this week. I adore it, its a beautiful shape, a youngish oak, and he shelters us from north winds (and the cattle coming in to be milked) and gives us privacy from that side. Privacy retention is vital for us and so we have to make some decisions soon for attening to as soon as things go ahead. Its a shortish run, outside what will be kitchen and study. Despite being to the north, it gets a fair bit of light in summer when the sun is high. Part is behind what I hope will be light enough for a herb garden, the other part to the front of the house/white garden. I'm toying with breaking this up with pleached pears on a decent rootstock for height outside the kitchen and herb garden and then denser planting of a sugar maple or two with perhaps a magnolia stellata and then in front of them the white lilacs we have to move, maybe a buddleia to make a dense summer screen. I'm still worried abotu the impact of root stock from pears with enough vigour for some decent height and the sugar maples ()which I'm guessing shouldn't be pleached.

Really I don't want to lose the oak. The first thing I planted here was a very ill looking Paul's Hialayan musk, which I put at the fot of the oak and cut back hard.....he responded immeadiately with a flush of vigorous growth and my plan had been to have the oak dripping with roses for that brief but wonderfully scented blush roses from the PHmusk in early summer.

sigh: if only figs were evergreen! I've just ordered another.