the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Well - I can still hear the house plot guy's voice inside my head - The money would have been great, but a very lucky escape methinks.
What a still day with clouds of midgies & the loch like a mirror.
Another lav orp hatched out in the cooker but it doesn't seem too good.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

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?

I remember the Red Kites in Wales. I think a few have made it over to Exmoor, but we're already snowed out with Buzzards here. One makes a regular stop at the power pole in the bottom field, which suits me fine, rabbit wise. I don't think it'd have a go at our hens, as they're too heavy, and in fact it doesn't seem interested.

When we were baling, a couple of buzzards turned up, just to check if we were flushing out any rodents.;)

Forecast looks much better in these parts over the next few days. We have a decent sized sale happening mid week, so fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, very few eggs being laid. The Aus tralorps, having survived, are proving pretty lively, but also seem to be going for a moult in a big way. Maybe it's like my DD2, who had a very bad virus at 15, which made her hair fall out a few months later! Unlike her, the chickens aren't too bovvered.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Well - I can still hear the house plot guy's voice inside my head - The money would have been great, but a very lucky escape methinks.

Even if you'd sold a plot to him, there's no telling who'd have it in 5 years time.

We're conscious that although our present close neighbours are no bother, there's no telling who will follow them, or when......hence the installation of that beech hedge. For them, it will stop at 5'. For someone else.....;)

choille

Hi Dave - Youa re so right.
OH thought selling a plot would get us out of the caravan quicker, but there's no way I could stomache having such an annoying person living nearer than our present annoying nutter neighbour.
Hooo hum - back to the drawing board.
Poorly lav orp seems much better - just the exhaustion of hatching & a little blood but quite perky.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Hi Dave - Youa re so right.
OH thought selling a plot would get us out of the caravan quicker, but there's no way I could stomache having such an annoying person living nearer than our present annoying nutter neighbour.
Hooo hum - back to the drawing board.
Poorly lav orp seems much better - just the exhaustion of hatching & a little blood but quite perky.

Glad it made it OK.

Just thinking of Maggie's 5.5 hrs in IKEA.:eek: Do they give medals for that? We went to a bed specialist and got a v.expensive mattress on a much cheaper base, so it worked out about middling £. DW thinks it's brilliant, and I like it too, in theory, but it doesn't like me. I'm often up early and onto the sofa for the last few hours!

Having had time to think about the thatchers, who are our other immediate neighbours, they were wrong not to consult us before going ahead with their new business, so I suppose Mr Complainalot has done us a favour. Now, there will have to be some kind of regulation over hours of work etc, which is fair to both of us. I've no objections in principle though. If the barn went to one of the other uses it probably still has permission for, like keeping pigs, it would be much more :eek::eek:

ukmaggie45

Sitting eating our breakfast in the living room around 7.30, watching the birds at the feeders, and suddenly a fox strolls down the middle path and stands there for a moment looking across the lawn. OH thinks the smell of the bacon might have attracted him. He obviously decided there was nothing doing, so set off back up the garden and turned along the path at the end of the veg beds, looked like he was heading for next door.

OH just got the phone call to say the IKEA home delivery will be here shortly... Yay! Will sleep in a bed tonight! :j And looking at my receipt to check we'd actually got everything found that I'd got a £37.46 deduction from the bill for having an IKEA Family card¬ :money:

Lovely and sunny at the mo, have done a bit of very gentle weeding already! Van's just arrived, so better go!

alfie_1

BACON AND POTATO CAKES.... SOUNDS YUM !! [what are they??]

my front tooth fell out last night !!....its one of those on a pin sticky in ones.. anyway with the wedding tomorow and not wanting to look like Nanny Mcphee ,i raced to the dentist today who fixed it back in with cement ! i broke the bottoms off my two front teeth over 20yrs ago when the hedgetrimmer hit something making it bounce back and smacked me in the mouth. i thought i had just a fat lip so carried on ...when i got home and looked in the mirror i was minus a quarter off both teeth so had these put in...im impressed,so was the dentist that they had lasted as long as they had !! needless to say she did say that they may not last much longer......

maybe i can try pot/bac cakes sunday.....

its been sunny here today so far, the big food/drink festival is on here this weekend and they have had to shut my BIG gates as traders were trying to go down the track !! they look fantastic and the son of the LORD said its the first time he's seen them shut...and hes in his 40's. im hoping to go sunday.

p.s. MAGGIE....5 and a half hours ???? IKEA.... are you both alright ? id need a sedative if i was there that long....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

5 plus hours in Ikea:eek::eek::eek: well done:beer::beer: i just hope you dont have any lasting damage...

talk about brain wash city:rotfl:

Hubby and i have only been there once, and that was enough..... some people love going there, and practically spend the day there...soooooooooooooo sad..... that place should a crime against humanity

lostinrates

There is something I want in Ikea...well, two things actually, but I've been putting both off for months. (besides which dh always wants to eat meatballs, buy cakes and biscuits and reindeer sausage and cloudberry jam,..... he is a real ''shopper'').

It really is hellish imo!...edit...the worst thing is when you are oin there you see stuff you think you like and if you buy it as soon as you get home you realise you hate it!

choille

The best thing about IKEA is the meatballs. But you can get good bargains that you put in the shed & forget about until they may come in handy!
Well it's a splendid evening & as I 'lost' 3 days on a time waster I'm off oot to look at weeds & to ohhhh & ah at me hatching/hatched new chick chicks!