the daydream fund challenge thread

Winged_one

Roots for dye...hmmm, interesting (And yes, I like pretty weeds, once they are not in places I am trying to grow other things in - I even let some of the poppies stay on the plot!).

And I am intrigued by your current Sig Dave'snave - are you trying to be naughty but can't??!!

I'm am going out for lunch, and trying to decide between being good and having a swim (not enough energy for running), or being bold and just walking around the Green instead. Either way, I want to stop into the cheese shop and get a few hunks for the weekend (staying with my parents and they love the stuff, so I try to get a few different types when we are coming, especially if I can get nice artisan ones to try, which the local cheeseshop here often has!!).

I was in the gardening shop yesterday, and they are selling truckloads of plants in this weather. Can't keep up with demand for tomatoes this year! But they have lots of brassica plants bare-rooted in newspaper bundles, so I am going back early next week for some cauliflowers and brussels sprouts. And I did get the crystals for the hanging baskets (I wanted water retention, and they only had them in combination with feed, so that's even better! - as it's for cherry tomatoes).

I was also getting darning wool, while I was in that part of the city, for OH's jumpers. The Woolen Mills had a load of special offers on fabrics, and I found out that they sell the clasps for bags too, so I picked up a few extra bits. The sewing machine is finally starting to see the use I had hoped for this year (I've had too many work and family things intervening to get really stuck in). But if I want to get started on car-booting and craft-fairing, then I need to have stock ready.

And I think I am getting my head around a slight detour in the DCF road, that should result in a short-cut in the long-run. There is an overseas posting coming up at work, which would mean some extra funds, reduced cost of living for 4 years, and getting into a more ethical lifestyle in many ways. So I am organising myself to apply, and see if I can make that work in my favour, and come home with a much larger fund to get the smallholding faster than otherwise feared!

OK, going to get at leazst some sunshine while it's still there. I think walking in the green is winning though

Davesnave

Winged_one wrote: »

And I am intrigued by your current Sig Dave'snave - are you trying to be naughty but can't??!!

Oh I could be naughty, but really it's a jibe because a couple of people I know on here have had their sigs removed without so much as a warning.

They just vanish in the night.....:eek:

rhiwfield

Just watching the hens do a spot of weeding and pest clearance on a bed I want for the sweet corn, looks more like a scene from the great escape, soil flying everywhere and just the tail feathers visible as they dig deep. They've buried the feed tray but they look very contented

Started planting the hanging baskets, had some success growing thunbergia this year so its that and nasturtiums, with a central filling of upright lobelia. Thinking of selling the spare thunbergia, but never seen them in a garden centre so not sure of a fair price in a car boot sale. Scouting out Sully car boot this Sunday for a few things, then off to Barry for logs and wood chippings.

Other than that it's avoiding roads, beaches and shops in favour of lazy iced drinks on the patio looking over the valley.

lostinrates

I bought a camera...brace yourselves!

Poosmate

oooh look out David Bailey is about!

Evening all.

Congrats on getting a camera LIR.

Loving all the photos. I like weeds - well the pretty ones anyway!

Alfie! You are supposed to be taking things easy! Good grief woman - SLOW DOWN!!!!

Davesnave, I knew it was the Eden Project (a few pages ago), I went there about 4 years ago and really enjoyed it. I could have spent longer, lingering there but the party I was with wasn't as enthusiastic.

Well, I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend, especially as it's supposed to be a cracker! I'm going to go out into the garden tomorrow if only to take some photos! I can use my phone and then I just need to find some way of downloading the pics. As Dave said earlier, it's great to have before, during and after photos.

Good luck to all with chicks, chooks, horses, pigs and sheep and any other animals around and about and also for any sales and purchasing jaunts anyone's doing over this Easter!

Speak soon,

Poo

choille

4 chicks & I don't think there will be any more. Think I set the eggs just when the hens came on lay & their fertility needs time to build/
Lovely wee things in the shed under a lamp - ahhhhhh!

Took neighbours to airport & then into SERAD & ICAS form filled in & lodged - hate forms so that's a good one crossed off the everlasting list of things to do.
Wonderful weather & a spell down the slope this evening at the bracken & brambles listening to the bleeding cuckoo. Swallows are here - well a couple wheeling around the sheep field, darting in & out the byre - that's where their nests are.

Had to get meds for the ole cat & spot on for the sheep - over £65 for that alone - Jeeee, animals; who'd have 'em?

lostinrates

well, I've got the camera but I'm beggered if I can make it work. The soft ware keeps crashing when I upload it. Its a VERY basic camera, not so different to a phone camera, but now I think I underbought! I'll keep trying.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Wonderful weather & a spell down the slope this evening at the bracken & brambles listening to the bleeding cuckoo. Swallows are here - well a couple wheeling around the sheep field, darting in & out the byre - that's where their nests are.

Had to get meds for the ole cat & spot on for the sheep - over £65 for that alone - Jeeee, animals; who'd have 'em?

We heard a cuckoo two days ago. Nothing since. Swallows now well established and nest building too, but bird activity is generally a bit down, possibly because of the two harsh winters.

Our younger old cat was overweight and suffering joint pain, so we put her on a low dose of NSAIDS, which helped mobility a lot. Now, she's looking thin, having lost 3 lbs, but I don't think that's a 'healthy' sign. We've withdrawn the drug treatment, and she's still getting about really well, enjoying life, so we'll see how it goes. A strange animal, that one, having begun life as a sort of autistic cat with no voice, or purr, a passion for eating and a terror of getting anything wrong. We have slowly improved her confidence, so she now seeks attention, purrs loudly and almost miaows, though her voice is odd. That's only taken about 13 years!:rotfl:

We got our peas and new chard plants in yesterday:D and managed a few more jobs, before a sudden realisation that the grockles would be on the M5 within 24 hours. A hasty visit to town confirmed that many had already arrived, but the supermarket car park was still just about OK. I'm not going out again until Tuesday!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Its a VERY basic camera, not so different to a phone camera, but now I think I underbought! I'll keep trying.

I know it's none of my business, but is that sensible? This is stuff you're recording for posterity! What will your posteriors think of you?

A camera's a tool, just like a chain saw or a brushcutter, and I bet your DH wouldn't go into B&Q and buy a cheapo one of those.

Your call though. I listen to music on a Sony boom box that cost £50, and I'm happy, even though it'd sound much better on a proper hi-fi system.

choille

Ole cats get thin often when their kidneys are going - t'other ole cat is getting thin. Fat cat gets a rhinitus thing & when it gets bad I have to get him steroids & a some anti-biotics. It clears it up. Vet thought he'd be on steriods permanantly but I wait until condition kicks off again before getting them. He is fat - not the vet, but the cat & we got him when he strayed in about 16 years back Vet reckoned he was about three then! He is wonderful & as round as a rugby ball!

Wonderful day with a slight heat heaze - very Colin Baxter photograph looking up the Loch.

God the caravan looks like a slum. I must shovel it out.