the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

I love having new people arrive. We just spent a while just watching the geese. They are really quite homebodies. They free ranged today and loved being at pasture rather than on the yard and scrubby ''bird paddock'', but they stayed near the yard.

Both nights till now we have herded them in, as our others go in early these days. But tonight we're going to see if they would wander in alone if left for a bit. My chickens and the neighbours peacocks are all telling me to shut the door whenever I go by the door. (nb, I shoo my neighbours birds out in the evening, but they are not impressed!)

J Egg K, of undetermined sex and middle sized, is certainly the boss. Egg is a bit more ''vocal'' too, hissing a bit and really bossing quackie about a lot. This evening I watched while they played ina box of water I gave them, or rather while Egg did, the others weren't allowed too. Quackie got some feathers removed from her each time she tried to duck her little head. Aristwaddle just placidly waits his turn. I think he's my favourite.

RAS

It is amazing how different in temperment livestock are. Even our bees; the text book hive are incredibly good tempered and placid - barely even shift on the frames when they are removed from the hive for inspection. The DIY merchants have alway been more flighty.

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

barely even shift on the frames when they are removed from the hive for inspection. .

Its amazing isn't it? I'm amazed at how placid the bees are. For the first time to day I think I saw one in the garden (maybe 100 metres from the hive.) Up until now when I see a bee its been a darling bumble bee.

I can't WAIT until next summer!

alfie_1

LIR... so glad the geese are settling in ! my G and D's are fascinating to watch. i often used to be mesmorised by mine .....usually when they are trashing the "wrong" pond...:D

ive cleared and sorted another shed this weekend/today....just not THE shed as yet...:o not brave enough to enter/sort/sell/chuck that one yet !!:)

my chooks are producing 2-3 eggs a day now... i will say no more for fear of that stopping....again:(

iv had results...NOT lymes. in fact doc said ALL my organs are functioning very well....considering my age...:(

just put me in the que for another scan...

Davesnave

Glad the Lyme test was negative, alfie.:) The son of a friend had a reaction to a tick he picked up, though he was wearing long trousers. Not sure what happens next, but it involves a course of injections, I think.

The cat had another one yesterday. By the time we'd got round to finding the remover she's whipped it out herself.

Got loads done in the glorious, windless weather today. However, the question is, do we really need 9 x 25' rows of leeks? Rather well stocked on the parsnip front too....:o

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

. However, the question is, do we really need 9 x 25' rows of leeks?

You can take the daydream out of Wales, but you can't take Wales out of the daydream?

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

You can take the daydream out of Wales, but you can't take Wales out of the daydream?

That's very good! But have you noticed how many of us on this thread are from the Western side of Britain (got to include Ireland, in a purely geographic, non-political sense!)

I have Welsh and Scots roots, but I'm at home in either, and my Devon upbringing means I can relate to the locals down here too.
I suppose I just feel at home on this 'side.' I'm certainly conscious of it when I go East of Milton Keynes. :rotfl:

covenanter

Davesnave wrote: »

That's very good! But have you noticed how many of us on this thread are from the Western side of Britain (got to include Ireland, in a purely geographic, non-political sense!)

I have Welsh and Scots roots, but I'm at home in either, and my Devon upbringing means I can relate to the locals down here too.
I suppose I just feel at home on this 'side.' I'm certainly conscious of it when I go East of Milton Keynes. :rotfl:

Now that's odd because, although I lived in the West Country for 23 years we moved back to the East and now I feel very much more 'in tune' with my surroundings. I could never get used to the amount of rain/wind in the West. Funny how you're eventually led back to where you started.:)

Davesnave

covenanter wrote: »

Now that's odd because, although I lived in the West Country for 23 years we moved back to the East and now I feel very much more 'in tune' with my surroundings. I could never get used to the amount of rain/wind in the West. Funny how you're eventually led back to where you started.:)

I don't mind the rain, but wind I find very wearing.

I don't remember it being this windy when I lived in Devon before, but even in our sheltered position in Bath we noticed an increase in windiness over the last five years of living there. Of course, as a teenager down here, I had other things to think about!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

That's very good! But have you noticed how many of us on this thread are from the Western side of Britain (got to include Ireland, in a purely geographic, non-political sense!)

I have Welsh and Scots roots, but I'm at home in either, and my Devon upbringing means I can relate to the locals down here too.
I suppose I just feel at home on this 'side.' I'm certainly conscious of it when I go East of Milton Keynes. :rotfl:

I feel the difference too, way before milton keynes though!

My family have a joke about the 303 and how you can tell how far west you are by how close the car in behind is. By the time you hit Yeovil they ar ealmost on your bumper. Having a bit of breathing space up past fleet is the nicest thing about being up there.

I sometimes think I'd like to live somewhere chi-chi and closer to ''Town'' like Marlborough or Romsey, but really I'd like where we are, I just wish we felt more isolated.


We had said, if we one the big lotto we'd move to the NF (I love it there, and Alfie is so lucky!) But in fact I think we'd buy a big enough estate to have somewhere big enough for long rides and isolation of our own. and share that with like minded people, to make a real idyll. (spent some time sitting in that always present traffic jam near the court on the forest on friday!)