the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

and this is just cos i fink its gorgeous !!!

choille

Jarvis Cocker,,,,,,,,,,,:rotfl:

Glad you had a good time....eventually Alfie & of course your as sane as the pink pixie I keep in me marrow patch...........

lostinrates

Clear blue skies again here this morning. Very pretty. Over night the weeds have SHOT up but not the flowers/veg.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Clear blue skies again here this morning. Very pretty. Over night the weeds have SHOT up but not the flowers/veg.

Same here. Nice but chilly night, down to 3c, supposed to be a cold night tonight also, but without the part cloud cover that helped us last night. Hopefully the last cold one, although I keep saying that.
I've got the week off from most duties, so I could get alot done this week, if I get myself down to work.
I think I'll do a full weed of the garden beds while it's damp today, can't do much else in the garden as it's wet (not complaining ), then I'll try to force myself to sort out my sheds and all my tools, which are in a right state. I'm very tidy at work, but at home my tools get thrown anywhere when I've finished with them

Lotus-eater

bottleblonde wrote: »

Ewwww! :eek:

Chopping slugs in half with scissors doesn't seem that bad to me tbh. Not that bad on the smallholding scale of yuckyness. I thought you had animals? You must be used to things like that?
Septic tanks, there is something I don't relish very much playing around with.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Chopping slugs in half with scissors doesn't seem that bad to me tbh. Not that bad on the smallholding scale of yuckyness. I thought you had animals? You must be used to things like that?
Septic tanks, there is something I don't relish very much playing around with.

Oh for a world with no nasty garden life and no poop. But plenty of nice, pretty and useful wildlife and garden fertiliser.

lostinrates

EGGS! Having go t through winter with only one eggless day, and usually with a severe eggsess (gettit?) this eggless spell has hit hard. I kept them in yesterday only letting them out for a couple of hours in the evening (no one call the RSPCA, they have a whole milking parlour as their ''inside'', no restriction of movement occured, just a day inside). This morning THREE EGGS! Hurrah. I've left one under the broody....as she'll have to have the incubator produce soon, I hope thats a successful clutch!, and also my very old cuckoo bird was sitting on an egg that isn't hers. If she fancies going broody I'll give her half the incubator clutch, she is an excellent Mama.

So two eggs for inside. It seems ages since I had to worry about eggs. I've let them out now, but will see what happens later/in the morning. It might be John Seymour's advice of keeping them in till midday is the best compromise. Its just a bind in the middle of the day...and of course, they eat more when kept in!

edit: oh, and we've got ur first comedy crow attempts from the baby boys of this year. It makes me laugh so much. These boys won't make decent meat birds, and none are any use to me for breeding so they all have to go. They will inevitably end up as cat and dog food I guess.

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

edit: oh, and we've got ur first comedy crow attempts from the baby boys of this year. It makes me laugh so much. These boys won't make decent meat birds, and none are any use to me for breeding so they all have to go. They will inevitably end up as cat and dog food I guess.

Chicken soup?

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

Chicken soup?

Yeah....I could. My DH is Jewish and I make a mean chicken soup as taught my my auntie in law. I tend to cut the wings of our birds and use them but there is plenty on these for soup and stock its true.

lostinrates

And hurrah! My goslings have hatched!!! Yippee!!! I'm so exited!

Now I might get some guineas too. I really like guinea eggs and guinea meat. Any one hatched these at home, and know what they are like to rear? As ''people''? I've only known adults!