the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

ahhhhh!! iv just done my speciality and miss read LIRs request....:o do you have a hedge thats patchy etc and want to fence it to be secure??i wos finking it was just a fence:p

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

P.S. i dont often impart advice as i dont have much! BUT remember to put your goats away at night!! [ask LIR:rotfl:]

so funny and so incredibly sweet!


I asked Alfie to keep an eye out for some pygmy goats for my bramble patch (the fencing would do pygmies in that patch, I can't get an electric strand bramble free for current otherwise I'd go for biggies)

Anyway, alfie just happened to have seen an ad for two pygmies needing a home and she called while we were there. The woman to whom they belong had been ill when she advertised them, but was now feeling better and unsure whether to part with them. In part of the conversation the woman told Alfie in all seriousness that thy had to be locked away at night because otherwise the fox would get them! (of course goats need shelter but there must be hungry foxes to cart away a full sized pygmy goat!). :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

ahhhhh!! iv just done my speciality and miss read LIRs request....:o do you have a hedge thats patchy etc and want to fence it to be secure??i wos finking it was just a fence:p

I want to rip the hedge out in front of the house (road side) and plant yew....I should wait till we have more money but I'm itching to do something...:o:o

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

so funny and so incredibly sweet!


I asked Alfie to keep an eye out for some pygmy goats for my bramble patch (the fencing would do pygmies in that patch, I can't get an electric strand bramble free for current otherwise I'd go for biggies)

Anyway, alfie just happened to have seen an ad for two pygmies needing a home and she called while we were there. The woman to whom they belong had been ill when she advertised them, but was now feeling better and unsure whether to part with them. In part of the conversation the woman told Alfie in all seriousness that thy had to be locked away at night because otherwise the fox would get them! (of course goats need shelter but there must be hungry foxes to cart away a full sized pygmy goat!). :rotfl::rotfl:

Ahh, but you didn't see how small they were

Anyway, it's the bears you really have to watch our for

Unwanted advice for the hedge. Don't do anything, till you have more money and time.

alfie_1

LIR....i still cant understand where all the junior ewe went from my wood ????

i am going on an official ewe hunt this week, so you know me i WILL find some of the little bu**ers

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Temporary but presentable and CHEAP fencing ideas anyone? I've been avoiding looking at this hedge all day, but now I can't avoid it. Tose roll out brush screens even if attached onto good posts couldn't last a few years could they?

I'm assuming this is garden and that you want this screen to retain privacy while you grow your hedge, lir......

.....and I don't think those roll-out 5m long screens will really do it for you. They'd need not only good posts, but 3 straining wires top, middle and bottom, at the very least. Then there's what happens if the wind blows hard and all the strain is on where you've attached this 'sail' to the wonderfully strong post and wire framework! Many attachment points needed, I'd think.

Willow hurdles would do it, but 3x more expensive.

Is 2m tall windbreak netting too ugly? Black is fairly unobtrusive. Unfortunately, I have loads of bright green!!! :eek:

Davesnave

By the way, I think you'd be better to wait until autumn, at the least, to plant those yews. The bare-root ones I got from Buckingham Nurseries were fine, and pretty cheap, but they didn't like being planted in an end of winter drought. I've really fussed over them, watering about every other day, but they've only just started to pick up. I have lost 2/55, but I suppose that's acceptable.

If you bought yew now they'd be pot-grown, and about 3x the price. They might settle in OK, but you'd have to keep watering if the weather was dry, so that would be another job....:(

I say get the leaky soaker hose ready instead. Yews respond well to watering and they will soon make up ground when looked after nicely.

ukmaggie45

Very mixed weather this afternoon, had thunder so had to shut down computer for a while. :eek: Rained so hard we lost satellite signal too. I was reduced to reading Saturday's paper! So no gardening today - OH just popped up to the house to put out the recycling bin. We'll prob get an early night after the 4am start.

Hope the weather's a bit better tomorrow so we can get the garlic in. Plus need to get today's newly arrived spuds chitting in the kitchen at the house (it's cooler than the one here). I think I may have over-catered for spuds (though today's are to go to DD1's garden) especially since we have so many volunteers! :rotfl:

Twins 1st birthday tomorrow and we haven't even been organised enough to get a card, let alone a prezzy. Oh well, they won't be old enough to notice! Might get over for a short visit in the afternoon, so could deliver card and cheque then - think wisest to give cash to Mum who will know better what they'd enjoy most.

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

- think wisest to give cash to Mum who will know better what they'd enjoy most.

I had a friend's baby to play today, and she always brings a bag of toys and books. He's one as well. He always looks at me like i'm derranged when I try and get him interested in books. I think he's getting th idea that the quickest way to get me over t is to sit and quietly let me make a fool of myself reading it then get on with what he wants. Today the winner was playing peep-oh with the cats (the animals are amazing with him and amazed by him though obviously I am extra vigilant)

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I had a friend's baby to play today, and she always brings a bag of toys and books. He's one as well. He always looks at me like i'm derranged when I try and get him interested in books.

Babies & books always fascinated me. For example, how do very small kids work out that the 2D cartoon on the page is 'dog' and not 'horse,' even when there might be 20 different representations of 'dog' on the page? The human ability to see meanings in symbols and classify things is amazing.

DD1 could read words at a very early age, certainly before speaking & she knew exactly what they were for. DD2, on the other hand, couldn't even hold the book the right way up. We suspected, then had confirmed, that she was extremely long sighted. Glasses at 18 months - probably a bit like Paul on the road to Damascus! :A

Some of us can't see what's under our noses in a more abstract sense, so I want to say that I do appreciate what we have here, and all the marvellous mates I have on the interweb, who give such brilliant encouragement. :kisses:We have been very blessed, both in finding this smallholding, and in having such a great community around us, which is where the 'on the ground' support comes from. Yes, DW is pretty good at networking, but one has to have a framework within which to do that.

And on another level entirely....I have fruit on my fast-track tomatoes! :j