the daydream fund challenge thread

rhiwfield

Omelette last night with 3 eggs from hens, potatoes, onion and basil from the garden. And the first ripe toms today from the GH.

But the horseflies are out in force to even things up

If I had room for a fruit cage, I'd put it in like a shot, netting individual plants is time consuming and often the blackbirds find gaps.

Sorted a major financial issue by moving funds into a SIPP and starting income drawdown, so hopefully the books will now balance at the end of each month. Even managed to keep the taxman up to speed!

And two photo links for the antique detectives amongst you, any help gratefully received:

• Date/era and maker of this very strange teapot? The metal spout seems to be part of the design and is not a repair.
• Date/era and use of this La Rochere glass?

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

And two photo links for the antique detectives amongst you, any help gratefully received:


Date/era and maker of this very strange teapot? The metal spout seems to be part of the design and is not a repair.

I remember teapots like that in the 1960s! Of course, that's not much help, as I have no idea how old they were then, but it looks a 'modern' piece i.e. post 1950s.

Feeling completely puggled after yet another 200 mile round trip to the old garden for what we hoped would be the last of the building materials. It wasn't, but we crammed so much on board the van, it was protesting on the hills again. Managed to avoid most of the late exits from Glasto, though the number of vehicles with sleeping people inside was notable!

While we were out, Pete was here, cutting the hay. He thinks tonight's heavy rain will be the last for a while. I hope he's right.:(

Had a conundrum before we set out this morning: a fair pile of Dorking feathers by the pop-hole. :eek:We feared the worst, but a quick tour showed all Dorkings present and acting normally. So, we have no idea what happened there! Whatever happened, it was between 6am and 9am.

cyclura

lostinrates wrote: »

Mine is most certainly not. Its the ground prep that really worries me (our chosen site are two rubble filled banks). TBH, if he pot the upright posts in for me I'd have a go at the rest. But the ground prep is the hard bit.

Same here but just replace the rubble with huge roots systems and weeds and you have the area "we" (DH) are working on, I am with you on the ground prep worry thats why I am letting DH go mad with his tools on it. I think he enjoys it really, he comes up with a big grin on his face every time a little more has had the majority cleared. Why not have a "clear the rubble and BBQ day" have a big group of friends come round, ask them to bring something like some beer or sausages etc and all get down to moving the rubble with a good knees up after to say thats. Or something similar :beer:

lostinrates

cyclura wrote: »

Why not have a "clear the rubble and BBQ day" have a big group of friends come round, ask them to bring something like some beer or sausages etc and all get down to moving the rubble with a good knees up after to say thats. Or something similar :beer:

Most of our friends are more desk bound than dh: they think he is incredibly brave to live like we do, or fey entertainment industry types who think we are nuts (or in despair at what they perceive as failiure in our own first careers, when we changed tack). Some won't do anything that risks physical damage for fear of losing their looks, others are scared a callus on their hands will mean they'll not be able to play their instruments. The ''useful'' friends areout doing their own amazing things or busy rearing babies And we live about two - three hours from most of our friends, who've moved to the other side of London from us! :o They promise they'll visit when we have a nice bathroom

ukmaggie45

rhiwfield wrote: »

Date/era and maker of this very strange teapot? The metal spout seems to be part of the design and is not a repair.

Very Deco, so late 20s early 30s maybe. Could be later as it looks more "mass produced", and the pattern is fairly slapdash. Nice teapot though.

rhiwfield

Yey!! Got a paycheck today so the new system is working.

Maggie/Dave, between you hit the teapot's date range I had! I thought Deco as well with 50s/60s as a possible alternative. And the glass I wondered Nouveau or Deco, with 50s/60s as backup again.

Davesnave, at least petrol prices are easing a bit if you have to keep going back to your old plot. And the forecast for the next 5 days is dry and sunnyish.

Not envying those of you with rubble and root systems to clear in the summer heat, that was always a winter job for me

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Maggie/Dave, between you hit the teapot's date range I had! I thought Deco as well with 50s/60s as a possible alternative. And the glass I wondered Nouveau or Deco, with 50s/60s as backup again.

Davesnave, at least petrol prices are easing a bit if you have to keep going back to your old plot. And the forecast for the next 5 days is dry and sunnyish.

Ha, I thought I'd cracked (?) the teapot ID by Googling it.......but what did I find? Yup, it was you asking about it on another site.:rotfl:

We should only need to go back to the old garden a couple of times more. I reckon there are another 15 slabs there, plus a bit of old junk to remove. a little tidying and then a severing of the old connections to leccy and water. The new owners of our house let us keep the water supply, but they won't want to provide the same free service for the next people to have the plot!

Meanwhile, we're likely to ditch the agent we had hoped to use for the sale, as his definition of 'reasonable' fees doesn't match with ours. He's a nice enough guy, which is why we chose him, but living in some parallel universe, I think.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi all:j

I have got to say sorry to you all for being so glum with my posts, and not posting enough....

I must admit, over the last few weeks/months it has been a rough emotional rollercoaster with the new development by our house, and the frustration of which seems like we were going backwards with our efforts in trying to to buy a smallholding/land.

Between my last post and now, has been a very low point in my life, but in that it has also made me re-focus and do alot of hard thinking... ( with the huge help of our very own Davesnave email).

Whether this is the right thing to do, I dont know, but with the money we have saved, we are putting this as a deposit for a Buy to let property. why? 2 things really..... with this thread going for 2 years i have realised having your own land is like a bottomless pit, when it comes to money, so i thought i would fast forward, skip a few stages inbetween, and look at how/where our money would come from if/when we had land etc... so We thought we would try and go down the buy to let route.....Is this the right thing? are we going to get our fingers burned? who knows...
Also, if we never manage to get a smallholding, then at least we have made some sort of provision for when we are older, as we have no pensions etc.

Over the years i have said i wanted a SH by the time i was 40,the when i reach that age i moved it to 45, I will be 45 in July, soooooooooooooooooo in theory i still have a year before i miss that goal:rotfl:

I have just under 2k in my Isa, so this will start the fund off AGAIN...but this time I really do need to not get side tracked and fizzle out at certain points...

Sending hubby to the scrappies this morning with some scrap, so that will be a £ or 2....lol...

rhiwfield

Ah, CTC, dont know what to say.

You've obviously thought long and hard about your way forward. We've talked a lot on here about the finances of a SH and the need to have other income and not be indebted.

And for most people that makes a SH a reality later in life only

FWIW I was 50 when I downshifted a decade ago, seldom regretted it though gave up a lot of material things.

Anyhow, you know you have our support, good to see you smiling a bit again!

lostinrates

CTC, I hope you are seeing a good way forward for you and that you are starting to rise from the loow point.

Moaning, having people who ''get it'' to listen is, IMO, one of the very healthiest functions of the internet. FWIW I also feel bad when I moan. I'm very aware how lucky I am, we are, in that we are here, we have the biggest piece of the puzzle slotted in plsace, but the keeping up with it is hard, and I feel that keeping up, or trying to, is all consuming and means we don';t break new ground much. e.g. I had really wanted fruit trees in last autumn....but we hadn't made choices, we needed a digger..

the feature of this place is that we can't do x until y is done, and y always involved money spent on other people, and timings, so we are left frustrated over x. Every single thing feels like that.

I guess what I'm saying is, after the dream starts you get a whole host of other frustrations.

And tonnes of rubble