the daydream fund challenge thread

John_Pierpoint

alfie_1 wrote: »

nope...no birds have kamikasi'd a chimney !

i have just put out fat balls/seeds for the birds....37 fat balls are out and that's twice a week ! i know there's lots about for them to eat but i like to see em up close..i get SO many different types...i love to see them flitting and queing...the tits all scarper when the woodpeckers and nuthatches appear tho.!

Beware you might be creating a feeding station for a sparrow hawk.

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd put up with a lot for a digger driver with a cheap day rate......

Rather reminds me of my second extension - it was after the depth of footings on clay had been deepened to 4ft (in old money) so I had to get in a man with a JCB - you could get away with the 18" bucket
if you did it accurately.
So I marked it out really carefully and organised the dumping of the
the clay nearby.
I must have picked a half blind one eyed driver, because he had taken the first set of scoops correctly and then managed to jolt backwards and got it skew-wif.
You could see the dogs leg effect with the naked eye.
I got him back to "square up" that corner of the trench - but no prizes for guessing who had to pay for the extra concrete.

alfie_1

just a quick one for now.......
GIRLS....YOU MUST GO SEE THE FILM...BRIDESMAIDS... it is hilarious !! from start to finish i laughed so much AND i stayed awake !!
no disrespect to you "lads" but its a girl film in my opinion. all females will recognise a charactor in it from experience.....i will say no more.

Davesnave

Finally finished emptying the van we loaded with slabs on Monday, but then I had to......it's MOT time tomorrow! I always sweep it out and tidy the shelves for that, though I doubt if they dock any points if it's scruffy inside.....indeed I doubt if they look inside! :rotfl:

After that, a 45 mile round trip to Mole Valley Farmers and Sainsburys, then back to pick DW up from her little PT job. The hassle I go through to avoid Mr T....

Speaking of hassle, our resident jobsworth & his awful wife in the barn conversions have been at it again, reporting the thatchers who own the barn behind our yard to the council. Last month, they began making traditional cob blocks, which I thought showed enterprise, as an extension of their craft, but of course that represents a change of use, from storage to manufacture.

So, I don't know what will happen, but I shall back any retrospective application they put in. We are the people most affected, but their machinery isn't very loud or operative for long hours. As for Mr Complainalot, he can't even see them! I loved the letter another resident wrote to him when he leafleted, asking for support. She replied " It's a great pity you and your wife have nothing better to do than sit around all day thinking of the next thing you can complain about...." :rotfl:A bit direct that particular neighbour, but I like her style.

I won't be leafleted anyway. After our victory in the 'Offensive tomato sales' debacle of 2010, Mr C and his missus can't even see us!

rhiwfield

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Beware you might be creating a feeding station for a sparrow hawk.

Used to blame the cat for the circles of feathers on the lawn, until I saw a sparrowhawk take a blackbird. Reminds me of a recent meeting I went to where a photo was shown of a peregrine eating one of the (rare!) choughs that had recolonised local cliffs.

Some of the "family silver" went up for auction yesterday, all part of the decision not to dwell in the past. Went well above estimate so some money maybe to put to visit DS1 in NZ (or help pay DS2 college fees) . Ebaying and carbooting as well so cash flow is doing ok and corners of rooms beginnning to emerge. Got 3 lego auctions on Ebay atm, fingers crossed they do well.

choille

Well hello newbies.
What a two days I've had - people getting in my face....I have realised that I do spend a load of time on my own & when someone decides to talk at you for two days & tell you why they should ........took me all my restraint to grit my teeth & be polite.
Thing is it's been a faboulous time weather wise & I've been talked at & .......my head just turns to mush & I start to tune out.

Good news is chicks are hatching out in the cooker & first out today three lavender orps that I bought off ebay - yipee!
Bad news I haven't managed to do owt much this last couplea days apart from clean up & serve tea & listen to an academic talk & talk a talk & talk & - my ears are bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeding.
Well glad we didn't sell him any ground as life is tough enough without getting any more thouroughly annoying neighours - I feel I need urgent councilling!

alfie_1

iv never had a problem with hawks here. i have a lot of trees around me and i think they need a clear view to drop and get birds.... iv got buzzards nearby but plenty of rabbit/carrion for them .
also the fact iv got a BIG european eagle owl in a big enclosure helps

nelly no kneck is getting to be quite a charactor !! she being quite bossy to my silky male ! if he chases after a girlie NNK sorts him out...:rotfl: sort of the "bouncer" of the clan ...:rotfl:

Rummer

Evening,

I got a little bit done in the garden today which was lovely.

ukmaggie45

Looked out the window last Sunday and there was a sparrowhawk perched on top of the bird feeders! :eek: And 2 days ago we found feathers close by.

We've been at the new house a week now, gradually trying to sort it out a bit. IKEA hell yesterday, rushed round to choose 2 new beds and mattresses before 2pm so they could be delivered today. (I've been sleeping on the floor and OH on a camp bed.) Then a spot of lunch and we went back round again to get sheets and other odds and sods. We ended up being there 5 and 1/4 hours! :eek: OH was so shattered he took the wrong turning on the way home and we ended up in M&S carpark and had real probs finding our way out of it!

Bacon and potato cakes for breakfast coming up imminently, so will just report we've planted out the quinoa (sp?) plants and harvested around half the garlic... It's drying out in the kitchen on the staging from a blowaway. Hoping to get the kale and chard in over the weekend, and then we're going back home for a few days while OH is at work.

rhiwfield

Well, after a dry car boot yesterday the weather turned with a vengeance. Cloudbursts yesterday pm and raining hard this morning. Even the wood chip paths are flooded!

Need to get onions and garlic out to dry but will have to wait for more settled weather.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi all,

same old poo happening here, but just on diff days:rotfl:

thank crunchie its friday........its the weekend.... but i still got to go into work tomorrow..

dont know why, but this summer it just seems as though i am in limbo land...like i am in the starting blocks of a race, but nothing is happening..... weather wise, or anything else wise...

well my runner beans are officially a no go this year....:o but loads of people i have spoken too, have said their bean crops have been bad, and some of their summer bedding plants...

we have some welsh kites around the place now and again....i love watching them..

I have noticed lately there are one or two finches with bald heads lately? is it their moulding time too?