the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Good day here but pretty brisk breeze - still good that it's actually not chucking it down. Good yesterday too - goodness two days on the trot, this year's record. Anyone need any water just give us a shout.

Hopefully get some joiners round this Saturday as it's looking an alright day weather-wise. Spent a bit of time yesterday moving a pile of wood that is in the way of a fork-lift that'll be lifting our beams up tonight. Farmer down the road gonna come up. Feel really humbled as he's so busy lambing but he's been so kind to offer to drive up & muck about getting the beams upstairs. OH had to go away down to get yet more glue.

I have someone paid me for eggs for hatching - just got the money through & the little beggars are laying up somewhere. It's coz they've seem Mother hen with her chicks & the weather's settled warm - so they are all putting away a stash of eggs - grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Sorry about the hen Dave - if I get a dead animal I always have a good look at it as I'm sure you did: colour of comb, eyes, look for holes in neck, check if neck is broken etc. But sometimes just a mystery.

Rhiwfield good for you getting away from building noises either side. It's okay if you're the one making the noise but when it's not it's annoying - like hoovering I suppose.

Must attempt to make a bit of room & tidy up any stuff kicking about outside that'll be in the way tomorrow.

bottleblonde

Great news re the work on the house, Choille. Does this mean the light at the end of tunnel is getting a bit brighter?

I've been catching up on a re-run of the series 'Build a New Life in the Country' (missed it the first time round). There was one the other night where the couple really threw themselves in to the re-build, had chickens, sheep & a pony and you had to admire how they put their own roof on, built the walls etc. The one I watched yesterday was a couple renovating a windmill and the woman was a royal pain! She moaned about everything and when they finally went back to see the finished article, it looked more like a home out of a Chelsea interior design magazine. I think the only relation to the word 'country' was the location. She had planted a few token potatoes in her greenhouse tho!

I'm really looking forward to this weekend - why do short weeks always seem twice as long as a normal one?? We've got a lorry going over to France on Sunday night (dropping off & picking up) and so it's endless paperwork, route-planning, etc. I'm hoping to spend as much time in the garden as possible, planting out some more veg and potting on plants in to their final spots in the greenhouse. This year I've got several varieties of toms, cukes, peppers / chillies and the odd melon. Yum!

BB

choille

Hi BB - Yes, I do see a glimmer of light. I have to as it's not an option to spend another Winter in the caravan - couldn't hack a third one after the last two horrors.

Good for you getting organised in the garden & work wise - my garden is suffering from neglect.
Know what you mean baout those programmes - often the folks on them aren't very likeable I find.

lostinrates

choille, I'm so excited for you.


I'm torn between prioritising getting a bed dug for some potted roses, or continuing with windows. I think windows will win


also, contining with home stuf or an all afternoon village event. I think we ought to show our faces, but I want to keep working. It would be better if it were raining, then I woudn't feel so guilty for leaving here.

choille

It's so hot! The caravan is baking & outdoors isn't much better - hark at me, one minute moaning it's too cold - the next it's melt down.

No what you mean about the guilt - I always feel bad if it's nice weather & we are away from here - my life is guilt.

lostinrates

Its not and it never will be as jaw dropping as choille's view, but its starting to look like home out there.



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we have some views of trees on too, but nowhere near enough of them.

bottleblonde

I want a view!!

The view out of my kitchen window, is across the garden, which backs on to the neighbours with the terrorist cats. Not so bad as they have a lovely big flowering tree to obscure one view of their house, and there's a large cherry tree on my side blocking the other half.

But I should say had a lovely big tree, cos they've chopped it down this week! I 'feel' their eyes when I'm washing up!

(Good excuse not to do it then )

A view is very high on my wish list in France...

lostinrates

bottleblonde wrote: »

I want a view!!

The view out of my kitchen window, is across the garden, which backs on to the neighbours with the terrorist cats. Not so bad as they have a lovely big flowering tree to obscure one view of their house, and there's a large cherry tree on my side blocking the other half.

But I should say had a lovely big tree, cos they've chopped it down this week! I 'feel' their eyes when I'm washing up!

(Good excuse not to do it then )

A view is very high on my wish list in France...

We get a fair bot of light pollution at night though. My ideal would be t live in a small valley, owning the land around so that we ''owned'' our view and could ''control'' it. TBH often I feel a bit like a fly on a microscope here, aware that the villages above us look literally down onto us.

bottleblonde

lostinrates wrote: »

We get a fair bot of light pollution at night though.

I can empathise with the light pollution.. I am within spitting distance from The Hampshire Rose Bowl and there is regularly a 'haze' in the sky. There's 20/20 on tonight so I expect it'll be light tonight. Even better, when there's some sort of event, they have obviously done a deal on a job lot of fireworks because they go off all the time. I wouldn't mind but think they should at least do a leaflet drop in the area to warn us residents. Do you remember that awful tragedy in Cumbria when the gunman went on the rampage? The night afterwards, just some random night (ie not Bonfire Night), there were all sorts of banging noises around midnight, but at first, no lights in the sky. It did panic a few of us in my close for a minute or two.

PS I'll buy the valley next to you

alfie_1

ixwood wrote: »

Alfie, I've read that foxes have infinite patience and will come by every day for years just on the off chance, so not sure that'll work.

possibly but theres plenty of wild food for them here, just taking extra for cubs probably and they are prob growing fast so will move on..