the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hope you do well Davesnave and sell loads of plants, and start getting a local customer base... for future years plant ( and eggs) sales..

Choille......:T glad the beams are up......I think we should all have a moving in party ..when you are in your house....a little tipple of what we fancy:p and a few nibbles too......

Looks as though its going to be another hot one here....

we need to buy another van for work, so going to have a look this morning, and see what type of deals he can do for us.

loads to do around the house and garden, just dont know where to start first:rotfl:



Edit...... Alfie can i pick your brains please......do you think my make-up bags are good enough to sell on folksy/etsy? Also the heart thing? I also do brooches with those little flowers.. which i sell for £2.50 ..

was just thinking about the idea, dont think i would sell many, if any as there are some super talented ( and not so talented ) people selling on there...

CTC....you are way under valuing your talent !! they are VERY WELL made and are lovely.... my friend loved them, the fact it is blanket and that the linings are pretty...... the hearts is hanging in her kitchen [and can i say...LIR can confirm... my friend could afford ANYTHING and she wouldnt give it house room if it wasnt good!!!] i still want to order some more bits when you have time....please:A
perhaps i can be an agent to sell it to the "rich" down here!!:rotfl: move over AVON....:rotfl:

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

The wall doesn't look that bad from streetview, but that doesn't mean anything. Stone though too, which makes it cheaper for materials..... though not for labour

What an amazing place!

TBH I didn't look at Streetview. I looked at the garden and compared it with the size of my patch and thought "I'd need to be at least ten years younger!"

Great project for someone in their 40s though.;)

lostinrates wrote: »

As we drove home the lightening had started, but no rain .

We had torrential rain last night; about 3/4 of an inch in old money:), but it fell in a very short time.

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

now i feel like crying:o as i know we havent got, and cant get the money to buy it.....

That's the awful thing about looking. It's not the way above places that can cause upset, but rather those which are tantalisingly just out of reach.

alfie_1

my friend has just bought [auction] an 11 acre woodland....to stop anyone getting thier mitts on it and ruining it. its a site of interest and she wants to preserve it.....cost a bit in the end tho !!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

this place is a small Cwm, ( valley) and has lots of trees between the fields etc.... the fields are on diff levels, not ideal, but for a hobby smallholding for peace and quiet etc it is fantastic....

Alfie...its nice to hear people buying land/woods to preserve them...


Alfie great idea... could you sell enough of my make-up bags and hearts in the next 3 weeks so i can buy the farm please:D:rotfl:

Davesnave... this is the worst part of 'mooching' there is allways one property that you fall in love with, and it is not quite within your grasp....

Our problem is, is our mortgage on this place... and the negative equity.. and the no go sale-ability because of the supermarket:o

so whatever money we need to buy somewhere, basically will have to be hard earned cash....




right is anyone intersted in buying a half a mug of luke warm tea, and a half eaten bit size lidle make mars bar....lol...

Rummer

My ideal would be to have a fair sized house with enough land round it for a pond, vegetable garden and a formal garden with space for some chickens and other smaller animals. There would be a workshop/studio in the gardens. So not a huge amount of space needed and the quality of the land would not be too important as more of a large garden than a small holding although space for a horse would be perfect :rotfl:

The thought of project managing building work fills me with horror :eek: I would rather have somewhere like the first one you showed Dave where the bulk of the work has been done and I can just tweak it to my taste. Not that my day dreaming is getting me very far at the minute

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

That's the awful thing about looking. It's not the way above places that can cause upset, but rather those which are tantalisingly just out of reach.

we went to one of the most amazing places I've ever been today. The ideal village house. Seriously jaw droppingly gorgeous. The funny thing is, we thoughts we'd just been to an amazing place then ''popped in'' to this one on the way back.

What ever we do here it will never be ike that. For a while even DH (who adores our place in the kind of loyal way people normally reserve for inherited piles) felt a bit ''oh'' and envious. But c'est la vie. Billionaires we'll never be, so why waste time worrying over it. We have more than very many with our crumbing pile, and it is a funny sweet place.


what I did get reinvigorated today, as happens, was the desire to build my own again. But planning would be a nightmare and we're sinking a bomb into this place, so we'll make the best of what we have!

lostinrates

also question:

I have noted since moving we seem ''behind'' the villages ...heat I suppose, and exposure, but realised to day (NGS) just how much. our first poppies are just opening, others are already seed heads. Is this the immaturity of this garden too? even with poppies?

I'm still excited to have roses flowering, I know that's late here, but again...just how late is amazing. As for veg...grrrrr. But our fruit seems comparable stage of development.

Also, our conditions are MUCH more like the village to the north of us rather than the south. Same soil, both in the valley. But three weeks behind.

lostinrates

The more I think of it the closer to heaven that garden we went to day feels like it is to heaven. If you were all closer I'd be suggesting a dreamers meet up to inspect it next year.

alfie_1

a LATE good evening all...:)

ive had a wierd week...:(
dont feel very well but dont know why??? i KNOW iv done too much re my back:o, i KNOW iv not had enough sleep and i KNOW im not eating due to lack of appetite and i feel like my thermostat is bust....BUT i dont know what it is thats making me feel s**t !!:D i tend to work through any pain as if i just stop, i sieze up!!:rotfl:
a friend has suggested i get tested for "lymes" disease ?? as i did get attacked by ticks a couple of weeks ago and i did react badly...:( and then yesterday i got the same and my leg is a bit swollen ....?? i never did react to bites but seem to have a low tolerance at the mo....

sorry to have a winge but maybe some of "youse lot" have had/know of symptoms re lymes.

CTC.... Even with my DEL BOY selling techniques, even i couldnt raise the dosh to buy you your dream house.... [im PM ing you]

got an amazing handmade LARGE old dollshouse at the tip yesterday:) the roof lifted off to reveal the rather derilict upstairs but for some reason you couldnt get to the ground floor as all 4 external walls were fixed ? so today i prised off the front wall and....:j it was like a lost world... really strange to find cobwebby rooms,furnished with old furniture perfectly intact as it was sticky tacked to the floors ?? so strange but chuffed with my find...will do it up [but keep it as is in style etc] and will make a tidy profit on that one:rotfl::T....
glad you had a nice time LIR and LIROH. great to get ideas after youve seen things in situ...

well im taking my BF horse riding on tuesday for his birthday treat...:rotfl:hes never been on a horse and i need a good laugh:rotfl::rotfl:
iv booked at a stables as i dont want to be responsible for his welfare....:D if you dont hear from me after tuesday, please alert someone who can check my garden for newly dug earth.....:p

im now going to try and get some sleep...animal duties tomorow as friend away for few days....no peace for the wicked ! maybe i should just try and be good !!:D:D

rhiwfield

Worth getting checked Alfie. I hate ticks and, like you, I seem to have become more sensitive to insect bites, so during the summer I'm on prescription Loretadine to reduce allergic reaction. Course that wont stop diseases transmitted by sheep or deer ticks

Cleaned out the hens yesterday afternoon after the morning car boot then wandered round garden eating strawbs, peas and gooseberries. Then remembered I hadnt washed my hands. Shades of beansprouts but no ill effects, despite handling feed trough, water and other unmentionables :eek:

Car boot was hard work but we're seeing the results of 3 months car booting and ebaying in both bank balance and more usable rooms! Strange how things that appear valuable often dont sell well while stuff you wouldnt give houseroom to seems wanted by everyone

Anyhow off to cut and strim the paths, sadly neglected for a few weeks