the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

cyclura wrote: »

Hey all,
hasn't it been wonderful, its another glorious sunny Devon day here, gate sales have been up and running over a week now..........

How is everyone else?

Well, having much the same weather as you, and wondering where all my gate sale customers are.....Now I know! :rotfl:

The road has been very quiet the last few days. It's never manic, but I reckon only one vehicle every 5 minutes, at most. I miss it when the buses don't run, as I know what time it is by them.

Just been brushcutting for England again. We must get a petrol mower for the larger areas of grass, as I think we have finally cleared almost all the stones and debris from under our 'lawns.' Mind you, I thought all the baler twine had gone too, but no, twisted up on two more of those today. :mad:

Our friend in the village brought us another hedgehog this morning; at least we think it's another one. A month ago she brought us one that had become entangled in her rabbit netting, and today's had met the same fate. However, hedgehogs can 'home' up to 2 miles.....This time we released the hedgehog, it was marked with a white spot!

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

This time we released the hedgehog, it was marked with a white spot!

What a good idea, it will give the badgers something to aim for in the dark

Ooops

alfie_1

This morning will be spent sorting out the chicken area (they make so much mess!) and then DH and I will be riding to the New Forest and having a picnic lunch. I just hope my little 125cc bike can keep up with his 800cc monster. It's not far, but I can never remember the way through the back roads.:rotfl:

ooo you would have been welcome to a cuppa here ! if ever you are down this way [and you want to !] do call in...

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

What a good idea, it will give the badgers something to aim for in the dark

Ooops

Not many badgers just around here, thanks to a certain neighbour. Not many magpies or pigeons either.

He is to 'inconvenient' wildlife what the Gestapo were to saboteurs in Hitler's Germany. :eek:

Me, I'm rehearsing for the part of Switzerland.

alfie_1

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RAS

choille wrote: »

What breed choille?

Scot's Greys.

In which case, your 4 chicks from 12 eggs is not that unusual

http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/scots-grey-chicks-hatching/

http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/no-scots-greys-for-sale/

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

Not many badgers just around here, thanks to a certain neighbour. Not many magpies or pigeons either.

He is to 'inconvenient' wildlife what the Gestapo were to saboteurs in Hitler's Germany. :eek:

Me, I'm rehearsing for the part of Switzerland.

We've alot like that round here. Amazing how many badgers end up on the side of the road dead
I wouldn't do it, but I'm not a badger lover.

Magpies, ever since I worked on a farm and saw what they did to the new lambs, I haven't been able to look at them in the same way.

I have a pair of pigeons that come and feed at the bottom of the garden, my neighbours love them and I've been threatening to shoot them if they ever attacked my brassicas..... which they did a couple of years ago and they're still there (the pigeons)

choille

Hi RAS - The incubator is a new purchase from ebay prceeds.
Hens do rear broods but didn't last year as not a good year for it. They appear from under reeds, bushes etc. I have one sitting under a golden fir on a pyramid of eggs! In the past I have had 11 chicks out of 17 sat eggs - very good I thought!

I put the eggs from Orps & scots into incubator just when they came back on the lay - not good I find out later as the fertility builds after they come on the lay.

On another note: I have a deid weeping willow thing that was grafted & very cheap out of Morrissons t'other year. The very nice pink weeping bit is the bit that is crisp & definately deid. There are sprigs coming from the base but these won't be the nice grafted on pink bits. Anything that I can do? Prbablt best just to let it revert to a normal willow?

I started off with 20 eggs in incuabator & ended up chucking a lot after 1st candleing & another load after 2nd look at them with bright torch. The 4 hatched are doing really well. I have them under a heat lamp but I found another device that will be much cheaper on the juice! ( electrickery) so I ordered that from ebay with ebay proceeds. I'm turning into an ebay junkie!

Today is glorious & after lunch we will get on clearing ground under polytunnel - should of been done last year but wasn't poss. nearly there with it so that is a big thing.
All the blossom on the crab trees - just splendid will take photies & reboot blog I feel it in my waters.

RAS

Ah right, have been a bit intermittent recently and missed the bit about candlng.

Lucky you with the weather, now cold and sometimes blowy here. Brrr.

rhiwfield

Found myself repairing a wall basket lining today, now there's frugality for you

Now dont anyone tell Lotus-eater but my outdoor toms and peppers were planted out today. Will cover them tomorrow night when it gets a bit chilly. GH toms now in final places and pots so let the season start!

The recent cucumber and butternut squash sowings were rubbish, but given that I used 2 different composts and also a heated propagator for half of them, suspicion falls on the seed, some of it 3 years old. In contrast Marketmore bought a few days ago is already germinating, as are Black Beauty courgettes from the dig in packets last year.

Lots of rain this weekend