the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

alfie_1 wrote: »

CTC.... i am delighted with my parcel....you are very clever !! i will drop some dosh to you the minute i get back from IOW. you are def undercharging for the bags .... they are sooooo sweet...

right im off. have a good weekend all.

Glad you liked them....dont worry, dont want paying,

have a nice weekend...

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You may notice that the vehicle in question is definitely across the solid white line and he's in a built up area with a phone in his hand, taking a photo.
Pretty sure that would be a solid 6 points in court :rotfl:

Not really over the white lines, but guilty in other respects, as charged. It was difficult, because the van was going so fast. I got it coming out of a speed restricted hamlet, as there was no way I could safely shoot a piccy at the speeds it was doing most of the time on a very wiggly road. It had overtaken me, honest.....;)

Nope,we don't really get holiday traffic here, CTC...or if we do it's people who are lost! Locals might cut through to reach the M5 on this road, but that's 30 miles away. People who travel to us from there do 22 miles of fields and woods, because the road misses most villages, so they think we are right out in the middle of nowhere. Then they get a shock when I say I can be at the shops, garage, library or health centre inside 4 minutes flat.:D We're rural, but not isolated.

Hmm....looks like it will drizzle most of the day today. Time to fill in some tax forms maybe.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I thought you might have had holiday makers passing you due to a remark you made in a previous post, pitty as this might have been good for 'drive' sales..

Its a mixture of drizzle and rain here....

In work for a few hours today....we really need to start sorting out the 'dumping' ground... its the place where i tell people yes put it over there and i will sort it later.... and a year later... the pile of vintage, blankets and other bits has now grown and spread to a fair wack of the factory....and now things are getting damaged etc...

hopefully tomorrow and monday i can spend some time in the garden/greenhouse...

might take a look in focus too as i had an email to say they are having a closing down sale....

choille

Lashing down - yipee.

lostinrates

choille, does it make you feel better to know we're envious of the heavy rain?

What we have today is MORE howling wind, grey skies, but as yet no rain. even after everything had a very heavy watering yesterday its dessicated again, even after early dew
because of the wretched wind. DH is insisting on a brunch break even though I'm sure the drizzle will drive us in, yet still not saturate the ground....

He's hoping we'll go to the nursery again I think.

lostinrates

Watering the garden earlier



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That's the garden that has veered a little from its pale apricot theme but its so zingy. Lots of bare ground, but hey....give me a few years...it'll come good.


Food!



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How many pics can you put in a post?

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Cheeky interloping red poppy in the white border...which needs a bit of TLC...there are some pot there but if you look closely you can see its a bit of a nursery border...e.g. buddlia not an ideal front of border plant!



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for choille....bless your rain, this is what its like here!



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lostinrates

Is that too many? I took 114 today and have to remember you won't want to see them all!

choille

My lupin spikes came out & got blown off - such a shame.

Really cold & breezy - 'ssposed to get bad tomorrow.

We were all cracked ground until 3 weeks back & it's rained since. The mortar at my bridge that holds the wooden bridge is all loose & some rocks gone down the gorge!

I lost more plants that were in pots during the dry spell than I lost over the hard Winter - my fault for letting them dry out.
A big red broom, was tiny a few years back snapped off, but it'd got too heavy & was shrounding an apple tree that I'd forgotten about as it was totally hidden by the broom. I've got a lot of red & yella ones that are a bit tarty, but cheery nevertheless. I've grown them from seeds. If I go to garden open days I allus nick seed pods & scour the paths for stray seedlings, have a quick weed of the path & pop them in my handbag.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

My lupin spikes came out & got blown off - such a shame.

Really cold & breezy - 'ssposed to get bad tomorrow.

We were all cracked ground until 3 weeks back & it's rained since. The mortar at my bridge that holds the wooden bridge is all loose & some rocks gone down the gorge!

I lost more plants that were in pots during the dry spell than I lost over the hard Winter - my fault for letting them dry out.
A big red broom, was tiny a few years back snapped off, but it'd got too heavy & was shrounding an apple tree that I'd forgotten about as it was totally hidden by the broom. I've got a lot of red & yella ones that are a bit tarty, but cheery nevertheless. I've grown them from seeds. If I go to garden open days I allus nick seed pods & scour the paths for stray seedlings, have a quick weed of the path & pop them in my handbag.

we've had some wind damage, but obviously not as much. (some lupins, roses, snap dragons, even the currants and gooseberries have had bits snap off - oh, and branches of horse chestnut and oak!) I also have three big piles f burning that its just never safe enough to do ATM. I hope it does soon! The cracks came early and are huge, some are big enough for the side of my foot now :eek:.
The dry is also hard. Its a challenging year to start a garden, its too dry, too windy and too harsh. Baking days other weeks, then, cold nights still. Even the tough plants are just shrugging their shoulders and its more like trying for survival rather than growing.