the daydream fund challenge thread

Rummer

Oooohh pigs! I would love to have the space for livestock but at the moment I have to content myself with family pets. We have an allotment sized patch at the side of our house so 5.5acres would be heaven!

Rummer

Just realised I had posted 999 times so I am going to share my 1000th post with you!

Yay!

choille

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::beer::beer:Wow - excellent.

Happy thousand to you.:T:rotfl::j:beer::money::p:D:A:T:A:rotfl::cool::D;):p:j:beer::money::beer::rotfl::T:A:j:money::beer::j:p;):D:A:T:rotfl::money::beer::j:p;):cool::T:rotfl::money::beer::j:p;):T:rotfl::beer:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi guys and gals...:j been reading the thread and you lot make me sick:p:rotfl: with your apples and willows and gales and poly tunnels etc...lol...

not much has been happening in the cooltrikerchick household really, apart from i am now starting to save again:T:beer:

hubby bought a bluebell cockerel to go with our girls here he is



thing is he is a noisey blighter, and the other cockerels are competing with him, so hope he quietens down a bit, otherwise i might have to sell him:o its quite hard tring to find a blue bell cockerel,

we have decided to carry on hatching the eggs out during the winter ( while they are still laying) as young chickens in the spring do fetch good money in the auctions around here)


Davesnave i would love all those apple trees, as choille said chutney would be a good way to go with them, apple sauce apple pies for the freezer etc, just make sure you buy loads of sugar first, by the sounds of it.lol..

just reached £5 on slice the pie, so going to cash that out and start my fund total again...lol...


edit, i was wondering why my puter went a bit wired..lol... ignore the heading part of my post... lol...

Rummer

He looks fabulous CTC! It would be a shame if you had to part with him. Today it is dry clear and crisp so I think I will head out into the garden to get a few jobs done. I really should tackle the front which is grim!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rummer wrote: »

He looks fabulous CTC! It would be a shame if you had to part with him. Today it is dry clear and crisp so I think I will head out into the garden to get a few jobs done. I really should tackle the front which is grim!

thanks rummer, he is a lovely looking bird, and he was only £6, which i was suprised at, considering you dont often see a bluebell cockerel around.

i know bluebell chicks/younsters were going for anything between £4- £7 last spring, and hens were going for £8-£15

so now i have my little harem of bluebells, cochins and silkies:D and a few pekins too,

but i have had great sucess with crossing my silkie cockeral with my cochin hens, so hopefully should make good broaders next year

Hubby is now on myside with getting a smallholding at some point, which is brilliant, and also half the battle.

better go and add that £5 to my sig....:beer:

Rummer

I am still working on my OH! I do think however that our current house is a good compromise as we have the land to grow a fair amount of veg, just a shame that we can't keep livestock . Maybe if we win the lottery! I just want a smallholding with space for a good sized vegetable garden a small orchard and room for some livestock. Oh and as Hyacinth Bucket would say "And room for a pony!" I doubt we will ever have enough money although I am determined to make the most of what I have!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i nkow where you are coming from Rummer, somehow livestock sort of finishes the whole thing,

we are trying to make the most of what we got too, mainly using the waste ground by the side of our house for the chickens,

but with a supermarket and petrol station loaming, it sorts of makes me feel depressed...:o

i have seen a house with 5 acres, which is just tehy type of house i want, sort of 'dingle chic' lol..

i might aswell put a link on here as i cant flipping afford it anyway, so its pointless trying to 'hide' it.. until or when i can..lol...:rotfl:

http://www.vebra.com/property/652/18100948


so if i got any long lost relatives out there who are reading this, who has loads of wongas this is what i want:rotfl:

rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

I am still working on my OH! I do think however that our current house is a good compromise as we have the land to grow a fair amount of veg, just a shame that we can't keep livestock . Maybe if we win the lottery! I just want a smallholding with space for a good sized vegetable garden a small orchard and room for some livestock. Oh and as Hyacinth Bucket would say "And room for a pony!" I doubt we will ever have enough money although I am determined to make the most of what I have!

Rummer, I think we are in the same position as you, we have the size of garden that we can grow a fair amount of fruit & veg, but not enough room for livestock, though the moles, mice, bank voles, birds and inverts seem plentiful. TBH, I dont think I could manage something much bigger, so happy to make the most of what we've got. Just up the road is a wildflower meadow of about 3 acres that is on heavily sloping land so mechanisation is difficult. Our local rangers have just cut half of it with Allen scythes so it now needs raking. Its when we start that job that I realise just how big an acre is!!

Cooltrikerchick, glad to see you are saving again, dont let go of the dream

Davesnave

Gosh CTC, I have two sets of relatives just down the road from that smallholding, at Saron, on Nant y Ci, and on Dyffryn Road.

Looks a nice little place that one!