the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

I'm writing for a dressage thing bank holiday weekend.

Importantly did you have a nice time Lotus? The forest is lovely. I like rufus stone. I really grumpy old mare once took a dislike to dh there, the only animal I've known to ever do so. She followed him around and kept turning to try and double barrel him.

alfie_1

RIGHT !! i have made MAJOR purchases of original 50s prom style dresses !! :Dfrom classic to bling....:D

my mode of thinking is we have a lot of posh schools round here and all have thier "proms" so i want to hire out dresses.. also for hen nights and poss for 50s style weddings.....:grinheart

PROBABLY I AM MAD..... BUT if all fails i wont lose on the costs [:shocked:] and just sell em on. iv sourced some beautiful dresses.i LOVE textures and colours etc and will offer to bring stock to private houses for group try ons.... can cover wider area that way as people less keen to travel too far.

if CTC has any ,im interested

John_Pierpoint

PiggyBankShaker wrote: »

Sorry about the link. Does this one work? http://www.flickr.com/photos/66027431@N03/6011546141/

I've referred to the these as "hedgerow plums".

Picked a big basket full of the red ones, boiled them up and removed stones, ate some for breakfast and froze the rest.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Importantly did you have a nice time Lotus? The forest is lovely. I like rufus stone. I really grumpy old mare once took a dislike to dh there, the only animal I've known to ever do so. She followed him around and kept turning to try and double barrel him.

Great holiday thanks. We were only passing through the forest, en route further south and west. We were camping and we had great weather most of the time.
The kids got really close to some ponies about the parking area, like within a few feet.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Great holiday thanks. We were only passing through the forest, en route further south and west. We were camping and we had great weather most of the time.
The kids got really close to some ponies about the parking area, like within a few feet.

Some of those ponies are pretty darn tame. I once had a tiny donkey mare and her foal trying to get into the boot of the estate car I was driving. It was very hard not to take them.....this was pre passports and they were very cute and obviously liked me.


I always recommend being VERY alert and still, but squatting, letting them sniff you. Never reach out to a pony when in such a vulnerable position and NEVER sit down, because it could change its mind and turn around, and then you want to be able to get out of the way quick-smart. Usually you find one or two at least, who with good manners on the part of the human will eventually allow a scratch on the shoulder.

But then I'm the sort of person who lays down in fields of cows.:o

alfie_1

nice to hear that trips to "MY" forest are a success.... anyones welcome here if they are passing....

im still buying either potential success buys or HUGE white elephant buys... :rotfl: ?? hey ho, dont know till i try...but huge fun !!;)

ive got an old [80s] lady in on the idea as she is an amazing seamstress and wants to do any repairs alterations ...to amuse herself [her words]...:) i am sweeping her paths of debri leaves etc and watering for her in return [and i had to force her to let me do that !] oh and she wants some tomatoes !:D:D

i have been deadheading everything in the garden and keep sitting just looking..... have dedicated an area for veg next year that wont get overtaken by flowers...:)

off to get mabel fodder now, hope all have had a good day:)

lostinrates

well, I look like some sort of weird leg self harmer, my back started to spasm and as I fell my ankle got wrapped in a bramble underneath my trousers. it took dh about five moinutes to get his ''flame thrower'' turned off and get around to me. during which time I was hanging off the slope side tied by my ankle, with relief, as I thought a few ankle scrapes not as bad as a dunking head first into that water!

Meanwhile one of the cats, the one who is into every bit of diy we do to, has been monitoring progress. The hedgecutter, the rubbish strimmer, the flame thrower and the chainsaw, combined with the brambles, steep incline and filthy water all being hazards to her as well as us mean its getting quite stressful.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Some of those ponies are pretty darn tame. I once had a tiny donkey mare and her foal trying to get into the boot of the estate car I was driving. It was very hard not to take them.....this was pre passports and they were very cute and obviously liked me.


I always recommend being VERY alert and still, but squatting, letting them sniff you. Never reach out to a pony when in such a vulnerable position and NEVER sit down, because it could change its mind and turn around, and then you want to be able to get out of the way quick-smart. Usually you find one or two at least, who with good manners on the part of the human will eventually allow a scratch on the shoulder.

But then I'm the sort of person who lays down in fields of cows.:o

I do know a bit about horses I know enough to know I don't like them :rotfl: horrible, smelly, bumbling, dependant, expensive, dangerous, super strong lumps of flesh
Not that they don't have their good points. Little girls adore them (for some reason) and the GF's I've had in the (distant) past with horses, all had very strong muscles in the legs and whatnot.

There's a horse race going past my front door this morning and they are leaving valuable compostable material all over the road. So they are good for something

I think I've said this before, but when I was young, it was expected that I'd have lessons and learn to ride properly, I did one lesson aged some youngish age, then put my foot down HARD and insisted I never did it again :rotfl: not till I was 17 did a GF get me on a placid old mare of hers...... and that was the last time I went on one, I've never felt so out of control give me a motorbike any day.


The NF horses were perfect tbh, quiet, still and secure, they kept a few feet away, just moving a bit if you got too close, so perfect for inquisitive kids. Although you will be glad to know I held onto their hands and didn't let them walk round the back or startle the ponies.
Do I pass?


Cows? I don't like cows either. Daft, daft things. Why would you want to lay down in a field with them?? You wouldn't believe my first job was working on an animal farm would you? :rotfl:

I've got a bean glut atm to get back on topic. I've 2 carrier bags full to process for the freezer

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Cows? I don't like cows either. Daft, daft things. Why would you want to lay down in a field with them?? You wouldn't believe my first job was working on an animal farm would you? :rotfl:

You pass, I do not. Friend with toddler is here a lot, and we let him sit on them (while we hold him and or them). She is v. horsey too. But if I saw anyone doing what we do I'd tell them off....usually the horses have nothering on their heads....so we hold toddle so he can just be slid off,, Or the horses are held, but the toddler just held by the leg. he has no hat. Other wise he toddles around, and sometimes not with us holding his hand, so we tell him ''no'' around the horses we do not trust. Three of the mares adore him, and do as good a job of us of making sure he's not hurt, and if there is anything unusual...feeding time, windy weather etc we are far more restrictive. But he'll be riding independantly by the time he gets to school i think:D My neices ride very nicely, but no better than they did at five. IMO the best time to learn is before school age or even better as an adult or in mid-late teens. The age we normally start kids up they are old enough to have got tense and fearful and want to control, but too young to adaquately control their bodies.

If you lie in a field of cows, they all come and stand around you making inquistive and nervous breaths and grunts and then when they have established you mean no harm they lick you. Its wonderful. But not without risk. Something that saw them scared could see you trampled. Never happened to me, but I'd not encourage someone elses kid to do it necessary. I love cows.

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

anyones welcome here if they are passing....

And here, but no one leaves without a courgette, or five.

Too much stuff getting ready at once now, and with the Outlaws descending, no time to process anything. Still, FIL will do the polytunnel doors for me, I expect.

At least the grass is cut and the weeds are semi-controlled, but my back has taken the strain and I'm on light duties today. Also had the guy in to do the roadside/field hedges, so we are quite tidy.

Did I say we now have a coc kerel? I have named him Ossie (he's a very black Australorp.) In a day or so he will be introduced to a dozen ladies, but for now he has the indignity of being housed in an adapted ferret run....which is just outside our bedroom window. :eek:

And we thought the ferrets were noisy! :rotfl: