the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

Thanks for everyone's support & comments over the chicken issue. We have had another incoherent communication from the sellers where they now accuse us of lying, but frankly I'm past caring, as it's like dealing with a 6 year old. We are waiting for a ring back from the lab and I'll be contacting Consumer Direct this a.m. to see where we go next. What a waste of +*&%$£ time!!!:mad::mad::mad:

On the home front it's good & bad news; we got the hay baled yesterday, and the added visibility meant we saw foxy checking out the chickens at bedtime! :mad: What was that I said about never seeing one?

The hay came to 32 bales on a slightly smaller acreage than last year, when it was 23 bales, so that's a bonus for Pete.:) The baler man said he'd been here before, so expected a pile of old weeds, so that was a bonus for me. :A

While they were baling, we were pulling up the garlic and comparing the shop bought bulb results with those from the cloves we saved,. It was interesting that we beat the shop bought stuff by a mile....until we realised the two didn't look anything like each other! Someone got their variety names muddled up, I think! :o

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Havent gone into work today, feel sick, been crying all morning. I have found out that the full planning application is going to the committee meeting tomorrow at 2pm..

they cut that fine,, i didnt even think we were out of the 2 weeks consultation period, or if we are, its only just..

Cor god help anyone who says a wrong word, or even looks at me the wrong way today... boy will they get a ear full...

choille

CTC - Will you go? I suppose there will be a meeting on site?

Dave - All the hassle & annoyance of the hen thing is what I call an energy sink, it depletes your energy - well it would of mine. I seem to have had a lot of energy sink things the last few years with one thing & another.
Are people more annoying? Or is it greed? I think that there do seem to be much more people out to get one over on you - not you in particular , you know what I'm trying to say. There seem to be some right chancers about - from individuals up to big businesses -like what CTC is having to contend with.
A bright, hot day & feel jiggered & a bit overwhelmed as there seems to be so much to do & I sit here sipping coffee.........

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Are people more annoying? Or is it greed? I think that there do seem to be much more people out to get one over on you - not you in particular , you know what I'm trying to say. There seem to be some right chancers about - from individuals up to big businesses -like what CTC is having to contend with.....

people have very little honour. It makes me v. sad. FWIW I think there is a high chance DNs people are partly a little scared.

We had one of those chancers try it on here....offering to do me ''a favour'' that would see himm 000s better off and give us nothing to show for it. I think he was surprised when the mad woman wasn't green and grass and I was surprised I managed to offload him without ban madders, I think just the shock of being seen through was enough to floor him and there was no need to be explicit about that. There are LOADS of wideboy types around here and they often stop in to introduce themselves. Conversation always starts the same way ''I was thinking about buying this place...'' followed by various reasons they didn't. I'm amazed the old carpets here aren't totally thread bare the number of people who had a good look in here in the time it stood empty. The simple answer is for most of them it wouldn';t have made economic sense or wouldn't have been financially possible. I really make an effort not to judge anyone by the gossip that wafts around them: its often inaccurate and I try to take people as I find them, but sometimes you can ''smell'' the chancers and its not pretty. There is that great saying: ''love all, trust few and always paddle your own canoe''. Well, I think sometimes it doesn't hurt to let someone help with the paddling,....or to help them. But very few people, because there really are few you can trust.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Cor god help anyone who says a wrong word, or even looks at me the wrong way today... boy will they get a ear full...

See if you can hang on to some of that anger for the meeting tomorrow. Planners need to be reminded regularly that their decisions touch real lives! :mad:

Just done the recorded delivery letter we'll be sending to the chicken breeders, as per the instructions of Trading Standards. Then they get 2 weeks to think.

After that we go direct for the jugular......

The pathology lab can't help us; they need a newly dead hen. They did give DW lots of good, free advice though. Some people are nice.:):)

Ticks - we pulled one out of the cat last week. That one always has her head in the grass.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

No i dont think it would be a good idea for me to go, think i would end up throttling someone:cool::rotfl: plus we are not aloud to speak, and put our views across:o

i have been scanning the local auctions etc, and found this one


lot no 12... so we went to have a look, went to talk to the people in the kennels, and they are adiment that no one would be able to live or build there, not even in a caravan etc, as they openly said they would report them to the council, and they would object ANY sort of planning, they did say then that there is problems with the old mining area, where the trees are... why are people so anal, but then on saying that if they have lived there for 18 plus years... they are used to having no neighbours.... but then he did say he tried buying it for 4k, but they refused.....plus he said there is no legal access route to the land... as he as asked the sagents etc, but why would he ask that question, when he has a gate joining his land to it;)

do i need the hassle...of a jobs worth twonk as a neighbour?????

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

:rotfl: plus we are not aloud to speak, and put our views across:o

do i need the hassle...of a jobs worth twonk as a neighbour?????

Sign language? :rotfl:

As for the nearby twonk, most of us have one, or more. If we didn't have extensive rights in our deeds, our neighbourhood plonker would be very active, but as we have, he & his appalling wife find me strangely invisible, even when I wave and smile. Odd, that.

The legals aren't ready yet I see, but access issues are to be avoided at all costs. Mind you, the twonk may be bidding himself, so treat any hearsay with appropriate scepticism.

Looking at the location, I think my main concern would be fending off local kids/youths/dog walkers who probably laid claim to the land yonks ago.

John_Pierpoint

Is "Primrose Lane" a public highway?
The local highway authority should know.
If the road is "mettled" then who paid for it? Us the tax payers?
[I have also noticed "Street View" gives an indication: My mum's house is in a private road (but that private road is a public highway) and "Street View" used to show the houses along the road; but it has been taken down.
My guess is that Google has discovered that there is a problem with publishing pictures taken from private land, even when there is a right of way over that land.]

COOLTRIKERCHICK

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Is "Primrose Lane" a public highway?
The local highway authority should know.
If the road is "mettled" then who paid for it? Us the tax payers?
[I have also noticed "Street View" gives an indication: My mum's house is in a private road (but that private road is a public highway) and "Street View" used to show the houses along the road; but it has been taken down.
My guess is that Google has discovered that there is a problem with publishing pictures taken from private land, even when there is a right of way over that land.]

Primrose lane is to be avoided at ALL costs.. i know the person who has a smallholding right next to that land.....

without saying too much on here, the company that owned that land used to own land where a local tesco's was built... there was contaminated land that had to be removed and disposed off;)

with a shaft mine. flip knows what has gone in there over the years;)

The same owners own the land next door to the twonk....

now this is whre the knowledge learned from the old cottage comes in, regarding contacting the local council regarding what would be permitted to be built or allowed on the land....

John_Pierpoint

Woops - sorry clicked the wrong one!
Primrose Lane is no 11.

The wooded offering is somewhat difficult to find.
Is it here at grid reference SN749063 - somewhere called Tareni Gleision - presumably some sort of farm?

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