the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Are you sure they are not "gold" plated the height of luxury in the 1960's and killed off some decades later by the air of Essex chavdom about them?

Mind you 9 carat gold is only 37.5% gold, leaving plenty of scope to add all sorts of other metals - so perhaps "brass" is the best description.

darn, lost a post.

Hope not gold: L A installed! (60s is probably about when though).

The thing I'm looking forward too next is when the kitchen moves, having a sink which doesn't need a bucket positioned underneath it to catch water for the invisable but present hole. This year that might be the belfast sink from the utility room. There is a second sink in their, china again, but with a intrinsic draining board, which I want to go into the new utility room. The current utility room is going to be a utility cupboard/store cupboards, downstairs loo and back door/boot room.

choille

I use sawdust - large saw dust as you say it does make it easier to clean the house.
I have had lino in the past & that is good for washing out & if you curve it upwards at the edge it does make a good liner.
Well it's pouring down & very midgey out so will gad off somewhere for sanity sake.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

when we were buying our new chicken sheds we bought off cuts/remnants of lino, it is soooooooooooooo much easier for cleaning, plus because of the ducks, we found on a previous shed, the floor seemed to rot quicker..

nice sunny day here... but to be honest it frosty as hell inside ( hubby and i having a bit of a itff...lol...)

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

nice sunny day here... but to be honest it frosty as hell inside ( hubby and i having a bit of a itff...lol...)

Hope things calm down. I was a bit ''hormonal'' yesterday and dh, who refuses to argue, told me to get a grip. I was very thrilled he told me off and so today have indeed, got a grip.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

But dustier! Might benefit from a rethink when the newcomers join the flock?

We have. Agree.

The over-flooring we use is heavy duty polytunnel plastic. It stays down OK. When we clean, it goes into a barrel for a wash, gets hung up to dry and is put back, all inside an hour, usually.

Must be something in the air today. When I visited my digger driver friend with some surplus chook food, I was met by his very attractive wife instead:
"He's up in the field, under the dumper.... again!" was all I got.
"Not the dumper?" I asked, remembering the one DW drove that was as old as her.
"No, not that one, another dumper....an eBay dumper!" :mad:

Whoops! Left the food in the LR and exited, sharpish, stage left! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hubby doesnt exactly argue, he is the silent type:rotfl:

i have hardly seen him all day, he has even cleaned out the duck pond/ water hole so he doesnt have to be with me:rotfl:

Rummer

Hello everyone! We kept our guinea pigs in a wooden shed and lino made the whole thing much easier to keep clean and off cuts were free so when it got nibbled it was easier to replace than the bottom of the shed. Plus it made it a bit more homely

Although most of the food in our garden was trashed in the horrid winds we have been dining like kings and queens on raspberries and strawberries which have been delicious, definately the best things we have planted in the garden with regards to money saving and abundance of produce.

We have also had a few peas which as always are delicious and there have been fights over the couple that have grown, our neighbours are very bemused by my OH and I chasing each each other round the garden and wrestling peas away from each other :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Finally I have won the battle of the paint and I can make my shed all bright and cheery! At pay day I will get white paint to brighten the back of the house and some wood paint to cheer up the shed. However I now have the dilema as to what colour to paint the fence running alongside it?

Do you know if there is time to plant any other veg now or have all the planting dates past? Time seems to have passed at a scary rate this year and I was so disheartened after the storms that I didn't replant anything else. Now that I have a bit of time off I thought I might be able to pop in a couple of things?

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

However I now have the dilema as to what colour to paint the fence running alongside it?
?

We bought some of the not cheap cuprinol stuff in a darkish greyish toned green called: WILD THYME. And its lovely. I wanted something that would disappear not something that would bring the fence forward, so wanted a greyish ''nothing'' colour. Also it's in front of the grey agricultural barn and I want the same colour troughout the garden boundaries (not the farmyard, or maybe the farmyard too)..all to make ''melting'' ''weak'' rather than visually strong boundaries. (after all, who wants to be reminded where their garden ENDS!).

I'm pleased with the result. Its not overbearingly dark or in any way oppresivre and it does ''lose'' its self against gloomy days. On bright days its refreshingly shady.

Its dark enough to be sympathetic to the ''period'' aspect of the house, and yet at times feels refreshingly modern, (especially as people tend to opt for the very much paler greens, which are mouthwatering in their loveliness but also serve, in that lovliness, to accentuate a feature you tend to want to lose.) I'm planning to turn the portable chicken house into a lighter, brighter, candystripe pale coloured delight to make it pretty, but I like my crisp yet ''lost'' fences.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

that sounds a lovely colour LIR

I painted my shed a bright pastal blue:D

going to be a close night tonight....

I made a chicken dinner yesturday,

so tonight i am making a chicken an veg curry...using up the left over veg, will be having htis with boiled rice and fried new potatoes

choille

Colour is crucial - I've painted what windas are in a green/grey as I don't want them to stand out. I'm contemplating staining the wood silver as that is how it would mellow down as it will be clad in Douglas Fir. I should google wooden houses & have a shufty I suppose.
Went off & looked at an art gallery this afternoon it's in an old church - nice to get away from the rain & midgies.