the daydream fund challenge thread

annie123

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

You can often download the software needed direct from the manafactures web site, might work easier for you or,

Download a trial of photo impact
http://download.cnet.com/Corel-PhotoImpact/3000-2192_4-10016652.html

easy to use software.
It will get you up and running so you can have a go with your new toy.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

or written description: http://www.whispering-trees.co.uk/products.asp?id=144990510914553&sectionID=16&productID=181

the smell really is amazing. I miss it a lot! but....do you think a sugar maple would give syrup in UK?


RAS must know this....where are you RAS???

Oh davesnave, being a girl I want a camera I can put in my handbag, now I don't have a phone that takes pics anyway! I think I'll just get a cheapy...its to share pics with you lot mainly...and get those garden plans online

edit: the confusion b=must be the maple name. I've always heard it as burnt sugar tree/burnt sugar maple...but it isn't a maple!

hiya, just a quicky... the camera i use is a canon powershot A3150 IS digital camera....about £100 ! i got a camera case from the £ shop.... it is very easy to use and takes very good pics.......

Davesnave

annie123 wrote: »

You can often download the software needed direct from the manafactures web site, might work easier for you or,

Download a trial of photo impact
http://download.cnet.com/Corel-PhotoImpact/3000-2192_4-10016652.html

easy to use software.
It will get you up and running so you can have a go with your new toy.

That's pretty cool software! Does much the same as my old, paid-for Corel image editor.....for nowt!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

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.

we don't have all that many photos of anything tbh, which is odd. DH's mother had literally dozens of boxes full to be sorted through. My parents only have about a dozen pictures of me as a kid I think.

BUT, my dad has a camera and takes pics every time something major changes. Mainly though he has pictures of DH up trees/ladders/towers. All a bit ridiculous.

edit: but no, the camera was a bit stupid attempt at money saving (it cost £25).

annie123

lostinrates wrote: »

edit: but no, the camera was a bit stupid attempt at money saving (it cost £25).

The camera may work fine once you get the hang of it.


Stupid was me, paying £180 for a Nikon.....14 months later it wont work, its dead as a dodo.
Cheapest I could get anyone to open and look at it was £100 plus the fixing costs which I was told was 50/50 anyway.
£100 for someone to tell me that they couldn't fix it? no way, that would be a £280 camera that doesn't work.
Nikon.........A very expensive disposable camera:mad:

I bought a samsung digimax for around £50, its been very good

soupdragon10

I've had a couple of Canon digital cameras and currently use the Powershot A590 which is a great little camera that I picked up from Amazon for a good price. Still don't take as many pics as I should, tend to get half way through a job and then remember I should have taken pics at the start.:mad:

Actually planted out a tomato plant in my polytunnel :j might not sound a lot but it's taken me a while to clear the ground in there. Also sowed some radishes and beetroot so hopefully things are finally moving along.

lostinrates

soupdragon10 wrote: »

Actually planted out a tomato plant in my polytunnel :j might not sound a lot but it's taken me a while to clear the ground in there. Also sowed some radishes and beetroot so hopefully things are finally moving along.

Hurrah!

Our poly tunnel STILL isn't up. Lack of soil problem! Have things in pots in the garden now...all ok, just not terribly bounty full. I can't see us living off it for very long!:o

we're still working on clearing the one border in the front/side garden. we've only got a about 10 feet left to clear, but they are back breaking, that's probably more than we cleared today. we got a recylcling box full of broken glass and shards of metal and ancient crisp/chocolate/drinks packets. A bout a dozen cattle tags. The complete set of buckles from a horse rug, a draft horse shoe, about eight feet of barb wire coiled up. LOADS of broken tiles of the original (?) roof of the now missing cart house (slate..presuming it was slate originally, the neighbouring barn is old stone) then the later roof....pan tile..lots more of that.

Plus the wheelie bins worth of ground alder that laughed at the round up.

a short length of this is what looks like it has once been a ditch. But the weird thing is it just ends at the wall of the coach house at one end...how can that be? (the other end looks like it curved round to a ditch that is there still between us and the road). There is a sleeper bridge over the ''ditch'' that is now level earth. I'd quite like to make a (cringe at the description) ''water feature'' here in the future, but not if it would look naff. I'd like a very shallow but wide but pond along where this ''ditch'' has been in the past, just a few inches deep with a gravel base...sort of mimicking the gravel based streams that run between road and homes in many local villages here. But can't see how it would look naff if it ended at a wall!


Also, this morning, in continued battle against the ground alder I bought bedding plants...busy lizzies and stuff like that. Never grown this stuff before but on the theory that where there is a plant there cannot be a weed i'm hoping it buys us some space for plants later in the season (if we can afford some more then!:o)

My back has given out now, so dh has brought me in, put me on the sofa and is doing supper and the evening watering alone. Hopefully I'll get a medicinal glass of wine soon.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Hurrah!

I'd like a very shallow but wide but pond along where this ''ditch'' has been in the past, just a few inches deep with a gravel base...sort of mimicking the gravel based streams that run between road and homes in many local villages here. But can't see how it would look naff if it ended at a wall!

I think you mean 'can see' here....

But maybe it wouldn't look naff if the water was passing under the building, or appeared to be, as it does with mills etc. Just in front of where the water meets the wall, have a little stone bridge, then under it, hide the water pipe, ball valve and solar pump you could use to keep it filled and the water circulating a bit. Yes, not exactly MSE, but this is a twiddly bit you're adding at the end, when you've made your fortune.....:)

Sold ten tomatoes yesterday and some other plants.:D Already sold two plants this morning and had to turn away an egg seeker....

Like you, I'm realising that the weeding/ground clearance is still a major issue. It seems our garden had something like oil seed rape planted on it when it was a field, so whenever new ground is exposed, up they come, in their hundreds. What's worrying is that the seeds germinate even in trenches, so they're right through the soil in places. At least each seed can only germinate once, but how many thousands are there still to go?

RAS

choille wrote: »

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!

What breed choille?

RAS

Anyone out there had rain in the last 6 weeks?

We have had about two meagre showers and that's it. Really really worried we are heading for a drought. Fortunately the water company are a bit better prepared this time (not planning to relocate half a million women and children and put firms on a 3 day week like last time) but it is scary.

Still very nippy in the mornings but heats up by 10 am. too hot later. Having to water everything; one lot of shallots has still not burst into leaf after 4 weeks (well just started).

Need to plant loads this weekend. Been going into little trips of joy; bought four vines (sticks really) as an experiment. This is their fourth season. I got fruit off the two white ones last year, although the seedless one (lakemont) would have benefited from being riper (very little sun and too much foliage last autumn). This year the one that I think is Mars/red (ruddy labels wiped off) has started shooting really early, before the white ones, and I have flower buds already!

Given I originally looked at growing vines for the leaves for dolmades, this will be a treat.