the daydream fund challenge thread

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

yep ,i think 22-45. if stamps on other 2 pieces are 1985 stamp then,yes, prob later replacements.
well done on the welsh set . could be worth a bit if that old.

where did you get info re welsh T set?

Alfie, from the Museum of Wales in Cardiff. And had an e-mail yesterday from an auction house giving an auction estimate of £60-80, though I think DW wants to keep em. The other stuff £40-60, though she wants to keep that as well! We're having a big car boot/ebay declutter atm so we'll have room.

Seems to be a lot of hen problems out there, and sorry about your two Alfie. Suppose I've got this to look forward to

Must net the strawbs, the blackbirds have started to feast :eek:

lostinrates

Alfie, the roses you gave me only opened a little but its only today they've started to look tired, so I'm going to follow your instructions for planting them today.

Had ''Irish Mist'' style rain (of the persistant but almost invisable water variety, not the type you add water or ice too) over night and the possibilty of a little more today.

The bad news is I found broken eggs in with the chickens.....after letting them out. Foxes or feral cats? I know the cats break and eat eggs when they find the in the hay. But coming into the house is not on. It could of course be rats...I haven't seen any weasels or anything. HAven't seen rats either! Doesn't mean there aren't any I guess! In any case.....dh has wanted a bedlington terrier for ages and it seems a terrier might be needed here to be all terrier ish about what boundaries are what, and for rodents. I didn't want another dog until big dog wasn't about (Big dog is neurotic and I don't like the idea of training a pup while there is a huge lummox getting away with murder and telling the pup the sky will fall in) but perhaps I should re think that. I feel awful wondering how long big dog will live After the chooks are in I'll let the dogs run around the yard and leave doggy ''don't eat our eggs'' smells about.

lostinrates

The irony of this ''irish mist'' is that its making be want the scottish drink. I'm NOT complaining about the rain, and I'm glad its this, it has a chance of actually getting into the soil over this period of time not blasting it then drying out again before the plants can drink. I have had to pull the horses off the grass. Muzzle not enough for our fatties today.

I've had a good day getting some housework done. grass is thrughroughly disreputable now though.

I lost y new hedgecutter battery charger over winter. I need to do garden hedges and the petrol one is too heavy for me. I can't think where the charger could be:(

lostinrates

everyone must be busy, as I should be. I have soil coming for my raised bed tomorrow, and just in time, stuff is bursting at pot seams here, and I need to do another sowing of stuff. Its been miserable so far. Huge percentage failure on lettuce/parsley and radishes.

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

everyone must be busy, as I should be. I have soil coming for my raised bed tomorrow, and just in time, stuff is bursting at pot seams here, and I need to do another sowing of stuff. Its been miserable so far. Huge percentage failure on lettuce/parsley and radishes.

Seem to spend half my life on the Ebay, trying to list an evergrowing pile of stuff that DW keeps unearthing. And thats with weekends booked up for car boots as well! But as we're surrounded by skips on 3 sides atm there are plenty of opportunities for skip diving, especially for firewood and plant pots

Dropped off at Safeway to get boxes to pack stuff in for posting and picked up Jamie Oliviers herb selection knocked down from 7.99 to 75p and we got to "assemble" the best plants. So got a good rosemary replacement and plenty of seedlings to pot up and sell if they take.

Very much a day off tomorrow, some pleasant shopping and a nice lunch

choille

Heat lamp went - blew. Got from Inverness & cost £20+ so well hacked off as it's only been on for 4 weeks. The hassle too, but managed to get one in Ullapool for £10.99 but could havedone without the 80 mile round trip - grrrrrrr.
Rhiwfield - Free listing on ebay this weekend - so maybe hold your horses if you have owt else to list.
Heavy showers again today but managed to get a few plywood sheets sawn to length for beams - me holding, OH sawing. The midgies are bad when the wind drops & the rain stops though.

Got an airlock in the water pipe - so still no water in the caravan - grrrr.
Bad forecast for weekend - so the big push maybe off with helpers - grrrrr.

A grumpy Choille goes away to mutter to the sheep...................

Davesnave

Yes, it's busy all right..... DW was out training for some PT work in the local hairdresser's and I was hoovering yesterday morning, which is the wrong kind of busy:(, but I also worked on one of the field edges, watered the stock and got a few more plants potted-on.

On Wednesday, we were also out for much of the day on one of our circular shopping trips, visiting about half a dozen stores for different items, including wood, compost, water pipe fittings and vittals. Our next mini project will be to convert a couple of the old pig sty bays into temporary shade areas......so you can expect dull weather as soon as we do that!:rotfl:

Our friend's A'lorp chicks are doing well and our localish contact has secured a new cockerel, so it looks like there will be an informal group for breeding them by next spring.:)

We still need that rain. The rougher grasses have done well in the fields and are ready to cut, but the finer ones are only about 20cm tall, so there's a bit of a patchwork effect ATM.

I'm off to Bournemouth again today, picking up DD2, who's just completed her first year (year???) at art college. She will be another pair of hands here, when she's not working in Exeter, or clubbing.

choille

It snowed last night!
It snowed & the hills are white on the tops!
I thought it felt chilly & a reallycold wind & still got hail storms going over.

A nest that the girls were laying up over in th eveg garden was robbed last night - I'd marked the eggs with an indelible pen & was taking off the fresh eggs each day. The bluebells were all flattened as was a path to them by something(s) biggish. Do badgers take eggs - that would explain the width of path they've made?

lostinrates

Funn so much of us are having egg theft.

I think badgers would take eggs


Bit grumpy...had 6 tonnes of ''top soil'' delivered today which turns out to be 6 tonnes of okish but light compost. Not the plan. still, its here, so its going n the raised bed. I'll be cursing it in future years, won't I? At least I can add good poop.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Bit grumpy...had 6 tonnes of ''top soil'' delivered today which turns out to be 6 tonnes of okish but light compost. Not the plan. still, its here, so its going n the raised bed. I'll be cursing it in future years, won't I? At least I can add good poop.

I'd ring them up and ask where my top soil was and why had they dumped a load of compost here?
Top soil and compost, completely different.

Add alot of poo anyway, I don't think you can add too much tbh. In fact if you have soil at the bottom of the beds, I would just have added loads of very well rotted manure and used that.