the daydream fund challenge thread

Rummer

Maggie, try to keep your chin up. We are always here for you!

ukmaggie45

Thanks for your support. It means a lot. Lir am sorry you got the misdiagnosis stuff - as soon as you have the possibility of ME they often just stop looking. There is a lot of stuff around Lyme disease, which I think most of you on this thread should make yourselves aware of.

John was as infuriated as me by all of the awful stuff coming from Prof Simon Wessely and his associates, so has written a song about it all.

We rather ran out of both light and energy today but wanted to get it
up anyway even in this flawed version.

http://youtu.be/xlMY5_ZDBDc

We'll try and do a better version when we can.

Maggie

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

tbh, if its free it would be worth me paying someone to move it here....I'm not sure who one would apprach for moving wood ship...loading it would be the equipment necessary bit I guess.

i will get a close up pic of it and you can decide if MAY be suitable ?? iv used it for the big pens here as it stops em turning to mud !! no deaths/illness's so far.. the chooks love scratching about in it too.

i will see what i can lay my hands on ie truck/BIG trailer.... sure thats not too much of a challenge for me

Rummer

Currently I am sitting on the couch surrounded by seed packets :eek:. I was lucky to get loads for xmas and over the summer I sent away for all the free seed offers that were on and since I missed the start of the growing season due to illness I am swamped with seeds :rotfl:

Trying to write a list of what I have and then I am going to see what I need, probably just kale and the bulb type things like potatoes, shallots and garlic. Then I will have to face the master planning for next year.

After years of our currant bushes doing next to nothing I planted strawberries amongst them and low and behold the currants went wild grew huge and blocked all the sun from the strawberries so I am going to have to replace them and set aside a raised bed for them.

I will also need to extend the herb garden as there are many ones I want to plant and we have a giant something or other taking over most of the existing area. Oh and I have to find space for a tree onion next year

ukmaggie45

Rummer, you need to get Kale in fast now! Sorry have to get to bed. Get back tomorrow if can, Mags sending you good vibes from Liverpool. :beer:

choille

:eek:Maggie - sorry about all your trials but great you & OH wrote a song - well done you two.

Had a week of it & horrendous rain these past two days.
Eventually got the sheep sheared & shifted onto the lower apportionment to rest the ground. What a stress it was getting the shearer to come - says he's giving up as he's too busy. Don't know what we'll do next year.
Had very ill chicks & a dash to the vets, but miraculously I didn't lose one. Can't believe it. Rather a stinger with the medication charge - £51, but what can you do?
Had a successful ebay time so that's been a mega packaging time & off to the post tomorrow. It's a lot of work really but what else can I do living in the middle of no where?
Had the joiners again on Saturday & the back bit with over hang is almost there & almost all sheeted up. Haven't paid them for ages -:eek: the stress is getting to me. It's the thought of all that is still to do. Some days I just want to keep my eyes shut & hope it will all just happen.

The garden is an overgrown jungle & one to be ashamed of, but still eating lettuces - quickly before they all bolt - the chickens are getting their share. My carrots are also remarkably good - not weeding helps keep the fly away! That's my excuse. The tatties re like marbles so far.

Neighbour is away in hospital & they've dropped really heavy hints about the state of their garden - I feel guilted into doing something but will have to wait until it stops raining.

Night night I'm bushed. Going to crawl into my pit.

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Thanks for your support. It means a lot. Lir am sorry you got the misdiagnosis stuff - as soon as you have the possibility of ME they often just stop looking. There is a lot of stuff around Lyme disease, which I think most of you on this thread should make yourselves aware of.Maggie

What actually happened to me was that the NHS were not oming up with anything and sai it was al in th mind.....well..a it turned out it was all in the BRAIN at that point. I was collasping/fainting a lot, I put on a dramaic mount of weight very quickly (my endocrine system and hypothalymus malfunctioned) and then fell asleep. I went from being someone who only slept max five hours six nights a week..my schedule literaly didn't allow for seven nights of sleep...to being someone who couldn't wake up at all. Eventually, some one who I knew saw me and literally took me then and there to his own emplyed private doctor and said ''fix it''. They couldn't fix it, but they supported me in a coma for a while and found out sort of what it was by piecing toether an unusual puzzle...e.g. the endocrine system problem is probably only realted in so much as I come from a line of people with hypothyroidism and when the rest of the body was under pressure that went but not in a way directly realted...so a bit f a red herring. And the fact that I crashed not completely immediately was also irregular.....I was walking and talking, albeit not terribly clearly and inbetween ''sleeping'' for about ten-twelve weeks I think...here as usually deent would be more rapid I believe.

The fact is, the NHS can't be expected to divert huge funds to oddballs like me, mine is rare, it oesnt really make uch econmi sense. But ME is relatiely ommon and I think increasing.....it makes economic sense to find out more about it and get sufferers better and economially active IMO. (you have to look at it quite calmly and economically to cope IMO...otherwise why isnt every ill person given every last drug and chance)

lostinrates

hey, my garden has just remembered that it soud be being productive. I ha a hand ful of rsberries for brekfast, there are strawberries bursting through for a good bowl ful, not a smattering. A couple of the roses are making one last attempt...which is sweet them. (this year my Claire austin whih is possibly my favurite has been miserable, such a shame after its first year's jubilant show).

The apples are coming thick and fst, so I'm going to nee to set a day aside for freezing them. Really I should have defrosted the freezer but it will have to wait till next spring now..the apples need to go in.

Our pollarded trees have put on soe growth again thank goodness. we looke at pictures of them before pollarded this week and miss the overgrown abandon of them. I want that back soon!

Davesnave

Yesterday was windless and the perfect day for covering the polytunnel, but we're still about a week from being ready. This is because we're adapting it and finding/getting all the extra stuff we need has taken time.

Basically, we don't want those roll down blinds on both sides for extra ventilation as they look a bit flimsy, so I'll make polythene covered windows to either take in & out, or maybe I'll do them like tilting windows. All this has meant more poly, more wood and more fixings. It's the sort of thing one can only choose with experience, but the basics have to be there from the start or there won't be options without more disruption.

You're reminding me that I really ought to do some freezer defrosting, but the big one's so full, it too must wait for 'another day.'

Glad you kept your chicks, choille, but by golly that was some medication bill! :eek:

choille

LIR - Sorry to hear of all your travails - the NHS is a scary place sometimes, but what can most people do? Glad that you got diagnosed eventually, thankfully. Scary indeed.
Maggie - I had a post viral thing year sback & ended up really poorly in my bed for 4 months with docs perscribing anti-depressants. It was a bad time but I was lucky & saw someone who knew what was happening & I got a lot of help - again privately via someone else.

Chicks outside & tearing around their pen like hooligans - never believe they'd been so desperately ill. I must take some photos as it's a case of spot the Scot's Grey amongst the Dandies of the Orps - they are rather camp next to a plain, but wonderful Crofter's hen.

Must go, got a car full of ragwort & thistles & docks to sneak into a large wheelie bin - long story.