the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

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Some pics of roof & progress - I think!

Alfie you'll love the Tall Ship thing. I went on the Malcolm Miler - hard work ( which comes second nature to you) you'll love it. Wonder where you'll go?

ukmaggie45

Rummer wrote: »

That sounds lovely and exactly what I would like for next to my path, what type of lavender works best for that type of thing?

I think it depends on how big you want your hedge! The stuff I bought (as tiny plug plants) is quite dwarf I think, wish I could remember which kind it is, but the details are on the laptop at home - will try to look it up after our hols. But some lavender grows to about twice as high. I chose the shorter one as we're edging some of the flower beds with it so it's close to the lawn and we can smell it as we walk past. At least that's the theory! :rotfl:

Davesnave

I guess the builder's loss is your gain choille. Great progress! I remember getting our old extension water-tight and feeling we were really getting somewhere at last.

A life on the ocean wave for alfie, just in case you feel like life is passing you by, eh? :rotfl:I agree about Shows, but perhaps a lot of folks go to them to meet up with other folks they haven't seen for ages. When I was a teenager, I used to attend Sheep Fair with the sole purpose of seeing girls who were normally off-limits on their parents' farms!

Not much to report from here. Warm & windless = much joy.:cool:

We have amaranths, about 1m tall now. Haven't a clue what to do with them though! Info seems to be missing from the packet.

"Negative energy vortex" - I love that! Could have sat here thinking for a week and still not come up with anything half as good....:):)

lostinrates

shows depress me now. Last time we went to Bath and West we got hysterical giggles because of the number of hot tub sales men....felt like dozens. Certainly more of those than useful stands like saddlery or small hoilding supplies.

Shows were, and should be really important ''shop windows'' for breeds and breeding, new information on health/welfare/farming or smallholding [practice. New products in practise, old techniques demos and their craftsmen advertising.

Some of this is still there of course, but most of it is over priced pseudogourmet food, cheap rubbish and tat.


Needless to say though, we didn't go this year. I fancy going to another big show one day. When I used to ''do the circuit'' B and W was never my favourite, but not really up for the journey to somewhere like Ardingly.

rhiwfield

Until about '91 our county show used to be held the adjoining village, we'd walk the mile there, enjoy a cuppa at our bank's stand, chat with friends, see the animals etc, very quaint and local. Its got a lot more impersonal since and though when we go we still see a few friends, its lost a lot of its charm for us, though obviously not for the thousands who attend!

Decided after all the talk on here that I'd get a new horse. Good looking, eh?

DD2 in hospital atm, we're keeping fingers crossed for safe arrival of GS2

Edit: 6lb, 13 oz, GS and Dd2 doing fine

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

Decided after all the talk on here that I'd get a new horse. Good looking, eh?

DD2 in hospital atm, we're keeping fingers crossed for safe arrival of GS2

Good luck to your daughter! And that is the best sort of horse.


Knackered, have pms to reply to but just can't ...too tired...had very little sleep last night, and tonight going out. want to sleep, not socialise!

First slightly firm and tart plum of season eaten.

Davesnave

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Whoops! Congratulations to DD2! That's a 'sensible' size for a GS too.:j

We've consumed quite a lot of stewed plums already, but there's no dessert fruit yet. So much on the trees, the chickens are now able to reach! We'll be plum crazy before long.

Raining ATM, but not usefully. We managed to do a lot of high wire stuff on the polytunnel today, balancing on ladders, so now at least it's rigid. It will still take tomorrow to get all the tubes in place, accurately aligned and the fixings tightened up. There are so many bits!:(

Also reached escape velocity from the Negative Energy Vortex by sending a satisfyingly blunt email to the chicken breeders and then blocking incoming mail from them. They don't have our phone number, so that's over Will send Cornwall Trading Standards copies of our correspondence for their files.

Sorry alfie, but we are going to keep the birds as (egg producing) pets. They are such happy creatures and very different from the others, even showing a genuine sense of fun. (Like pulling tails & running away etc)

alfie_1

DAVESNAVE.....im REALLY pleased you are keeping chooks. my offer was more to see them NOT GO TO SOMEONE WHO WOULDNT LUV EM !!...:D

uuummmm! ive had a phone call today saying the "sea trip" has now been made into a 2 week trip [twice price] still good value but i cant "do" 2 weeks.... WAS going from portsmouth to jersey...:(:(:(

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

DAVESNAVE.....im REALLY pleased you are keeping chooks. my offer was more to see them NOT GO TO SOMEONE WHO WOULDNT LUV EM !!...:D

uuummmm! ive had a phone call today saying the "sea trip" has now been made into a 2 week trip [twice price] still good value but i cant "do" 2 weeks.... WAS going from portsmouth to jersey...:(:(:(

We wouldn't have given them to just anyone, but it will be a bit of a faff giving them their own permanent space. As they won't fly when fully grown, we may use an electric fence set-up + small coop. We have an A'lorp coc kerel coming along soon, but he'll go into a run alongside the other hens and then join them in a few more weeks. Disease free A'lorp hens will have to wait till next year now.

Pity about your trip.:( Strangely, I had a nightmare a few days ago, in which a couple we hardly know insisted we join them on a sailing yacht for a trip around the north of Scotland....in winter! That would be our idea of hell! Well, it woke me up anyway...

ukmaggie45

Davesnave wrote: »

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We have amaranths, about 1m tall now. Haven't a clue what to do with them though! Info seems to be missing from the packet.

There's some info here and here on the Real Seeds website.

I think you can use the leaves too for greens... Will give them a try when we go back from hols and let you know. Tried the chard the other day, and have to say I'm not that keen on it. But mixed in with some other stuff it'll be OK I expect. Tasted a bit school cabbagey to me. :eek: :rotfl: