the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I got cut off three times last winter.
Normally it is once in half a dozen years, that I have to shovel and brush my way back to "civilization".

Almost enough to make one want a high ground clearance 4 x 4..

so long as we are stock up and dh gets snowed in and snowed out I'm happy.

It would be tough to get properly snowed in here, level roads to an A road...but trains meant it was better to snuggle in last year and work from home without them complaining about it. Last year we got properly snowed in at the other place. Even tractors and LR were finding it impassable at points. Five weeks!!!! Our old defender still coped, I slid in a ditch once, :o but spent the time getting stuff for other people at a painfully slow slipping pace and tugging people out of ditches and hedges.

I'd like to start building up a bigger stock of food, but not sure what to do about vermin. We don't have a big problem, but it only takes a few bags of feed to get a bigger problem.

kazschow

Stock up on loads of cans, and keep dried stuff in sealed drums if you can get your hands on them. FWIW, my modeo estate wth snow chains got me through any snowy roads we came accross, we were passing all kinds of 4x4's that were stuck.

lostinrates

kazschow wrote: »

Stock up on loads of cans, and keep dried stuff in sealed drums if you can get your hands on them. FWIW, my modeo estate wth snow chains got me through any snowy roads we came accross, we were passing all kinds of 4x4's that were stuck.

Our old LR coped better than all the new ones.....less fancy stuff on it, so you just drove with no funny ''helpful'' brakes etc, that was fine. we have the freelander now, which will be fine, but I personally won't trust it as much.


Though I say we're fine here, it was here that DH flipped the old landrover on ice, so maybe......:rotfl::rotfl:

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kazschow

lostinrates wrote: »

Our old LR coped better than all the new ones.....less fancy stuff on it, so you just drove with no funny ''helpful'' brakes etc, that was fine. we have the freelander now, which will be fine, but I personally won't trust it as much.


Though I say we're fine here, it was here that DH flipped the old landrover on ice, so maybe......:rotfl::rotfl:

Woops!!!!!!

Davesnave

kazschow wrote: »

Stock up on loads of cans, and keep dried stuff in sealed drums if you can get your hands on them.

We keep all the chook food in those tall, thick blue plastic drums (I think they have an acronym name) and nothing gets at it in there.

If we're snowed in, it's only a mile to civilization in the form of butcher, baker, veg and grocery shops (even a deli) so it's hardly worth worrying, as we can walk it. Last year, we even got the Christmas tree by walking there.

Like rhiwfield, I have to do something about the pipes in the garage before winter comes, but everything else has been well tested and not found wanting.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Though I say we're fine here, it was here that DH flipped the old landrover on ice, so maybe......:rotfl::rotfl:

When ours rolled away on the first major trip after a brake service I felt really :o:o, but when DW used a wall to stop it a month later, during the freeze, I felt much better! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

We keep all the chook food in those tall, thick blue plastic drums (I think they have an acronym name) and nothing gets at it in there.

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Ours are in rubbish bins, but I'm thinking a pallets worth or two of extra feed ....so it would be a bit of a faff. The easiest might be to keep it on a pallet with the door open for the barn cats.

alfie_1

evening all
it chucked it down again last night then really sunny and hot/warm all day ??? my magnolia is blooming again too?? my what a weird summer !!:eek:

well my mum has had her op so shes happier.. i went to B&Q while she was "in" and got a drill,jig saw and set of drill bits etc..my dads birthday present for me. he got me the same for my 21st birthday [much to the hillarity of my friends at the time !] and the drill only packed in last year !! so it certainly lasted.....30 + yrs.:D

i have ordered my "business" cards at last, kept working on the various quotes and got them £15 cheaper and it included a hard back notebook with my logo on the front [for all my hundreds of bookings??]

i was going to have a bbq this sunday but may not now as weather is not predicted good,still have some friends round but dont feel like any celebrating as tomorow is "the day" for my gorgeous georgie...:(

i will probably be a miserable moo for a while...as i said to my mum today it seems like the end of an era. lost my old pony,lost my precious alfie [fox] and 2 cats and now george. i still have my present animogs who i love,just they were always my original "crew".. anyway i will get over it im sure,just being maudling...:o

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

"crew".. anyway i will get over it im sure,just being maudling...:o

Yes, it will take a while, but my DD2 says she's glad she took the Big Decisions with her ferrets when she did, rather than procrastinate.
She was upset on and off for much of last year, but eventually she moved on and now thinks about them both without any sadness at all.