the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

We had a lovely day yesterday too, back at our old stamping ground, attending celebrations for our niece's 21st. This involved a couple of hours lazily cruising along the Kennet & Avon Canal on a narrowboat, for which the sun shone brightly and the wind was nowhere to be felt, so in our short sleeves etc we were able to pretend it was still high summer. Came home in a bit of a downpour though, but this cleared close to Glastonbury, so I took a really atmospheric shot of the Tor in the dying light.

Regarding youngsters and 72 hour weeks, Pete the farmer lost his normal helper for the summer due to an accident, which gave a local lad, who'd met him here and helped-out for free on many occasions, his big break. All through the school hols, he's been on the farm and shown great sense & ability......doing 10 hour days. He's loved it!

My DD2 is another putting in the hours. Her days in the shoe shop really start when she leaves here at 7.20am to get the train, and end when she returns at 6.45pm. In between, she & her pals go hell for leather (literally!) as there are various bonuses. For example, if she sells a pair of last season's shoes, she may get about £3 extra, and then there's a whole shop target too. Last Saturday, the shop was still about £22k short of its year's target, which the staff felt was a mountain to climb in a day, but the weather went their way (not good enough for beach, not bad enough to keep people indoors!) and they took the £22k by 4.30pm. As that was worth £250 or so each, you can bet there were a few celebrations!

None of this has much to do with our usual topics, so I'll just add that before leaving after her week's holiday here, our other daughter & her young man placed a muddy rubber egg in the grass by the hen house door. My DW was very tired last night, so when she went to check on the locking up, (done by a friend) she collected the egg along with all the others in the nest boxes! :rotfl:It remains to be seen if she'll 'spot the difference' when sorting them this morning. If she doesn't, she'll never live this down!

kazschow

morning everyone A gorgeous sunny morning here for a change hehehee Well we had an interesting weekend, lots of fights between the trades on the site, nowthing to do with us, so I'm keeping well out of it, but this morning they're all grumpy, what a waste of a lovely day I spent saturday breaking up scrap slate to be made into paths, and sunday gave into the cabin fever and headed out to tkmaxx for some retail therapy, got some warm clothes to make life in the manky skanky caravan a bit more tollerable, we were supposed to be in here for three weeks, I'm now goign into my 4th month!!!

Don;t suppose anyone has a recommendation of good warm winter socks to wear inside my wellies do they? I know it's weird request even for this thread hehehee

I'm interested in all the plum talk, as I have a few very old victoria plum trees, who flower profusely, then set freuit, after about a month the fruit shrivells up and dies! We're' lucky to get 1 or 2 frui on a tree, but get fruit on our younger trees, is this some kind of visrs do you think?

It was so wet last night, you couldn;t here the tv over the sound of it bouncing off the van roof, the dogs refused boint blank to go out for last pees too heheheee

lostinrates

kazschow wrote: »

Don;t suppose anyone has a recommendation of good warm winter socks to wear inside my wellies do they? I know it's weird request even for this thread hehehee

I'm a fan of the two thinner pairs idea. Or even a pair of old wooly tights with a hole under a pair of socks. I HATE the super soft fleecy socks with a passion. My favorite socks are ''Elle'' knee length ones, not cheap even at tk max, which I wear under another pair.

I also recommend real sheep skin insoles at about a tenner they too are not cheap, but they are warm. They are very thick though, and in fact I'm just about to order a pair of muckers a size up in order to be more comfy.

Davesnave

I agree about socks; a thinner pair next to the skin and then something heavier over them.

No idea about the plums. You could try a Google of 'silver leaf disease,' which is something plums can suffer from, but I've no experience of it, so not sure if relevant.

Very variable here today. Torrential rain interspersed with odd sunny glimpses. Inside polytunnel weather, I think.

lostinrates

Our new nesting box arrived via parcelo force today. I HATE plastic, but then, so do redmites, and I like spending less time cleaning chicken houseing, so plastic seems a reasonable compromise for nest boxes....I'm hoping this is a solution to some of our egg issues of this year. If they like it we'll get a few more.


the new chickens are still rather unsettles and the generation above are really being very beastly to them. They still won't go out unless I shoo them out, and then they run ''the wrong way'' out on to the concrete yard, not into the grassy paddock.

The weather was watery sun this morning, and now just watery!

Big week this week....planning meetings on site again.

rhiwfield

kazschow wrote: »

Don;t suppose anyone has a recommendation of good warm winter socks to wear inside my wellies do they? I know it's weird request even for this thread hehehee

You probably want socks that move moisture away from the skin, like coolmax, and i go along with the idea of oversocks for added warmth.

Have managed to find a source of reaonably prices seasoned logs so will get the last load this Friday to make 7 cubic meters in store (all the pallets are now broken up) enough to see us through winter (hopefully) alongside the oil. And have lined 3 NW facing windows with insulation film or bubblewrap and will do a few more over next week or so.

alfie_1

LIR.....the wood chipping mole hill !!

davesnave....sorry..i was in no way knocking the youth in general just those i see around my vicinity, mostly the off spring of hooray henries who struggle to wash up! you have also probably instilled in your children work ethics that show you "reap what you sow" as i hope i have with my son.. i have nothing but admiration for those of any age that do the best for thier abilities and dare i say it [more foot in mouth!] that children learn by example from thier parents/seniors........

anyway i hope i have not offended !

i bought a tatty sheepskin coat from a carboot and cut out insoles for my various boots that i pop in ,in the winter.

oh b*ms, i was just going out and the heavens have opened ! it is hammering down..... [been sunny all morning!]

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

anyway i hope i have not offended !

Certainly not! There are loads of lazy youngsters today, but then there were plenty when I was young too.

When I had my very first outside-the-family job, (with Tesco! :o:o) we weren't told that the three of us who started on the same day would be surreptitiously assessed for 2 weeks. At the end of that time, the manager said to the other two, "You can't be trusted to work alone, so you'll go into butchery and provisions where people can watch over you!"

To me he said, "You get recycling and roving." This meant that most of the time I had the cushy job of crushing cardboard with a machine, which was next to the lift, so I got to chat with everyone too. It was also next to the damaged goods dept.....(lots of free biscuits!:D) "Roving" was filling-in where help was urgently needed, so it added variety, and it included a bit of customer surveillance too.:eek:

(The other two didn't like me after that, but they didn't stay long! )

alfie_1

well evening all..

have you had the storm we've had? :eek:

as nobody has posted and if you have had the storm...i hope you are still in your own county!! i have felt like i was going to take off and land in Kent evry time i was outside !!:)

well i hope you are all safe

kazschow

yup we've had it in the west of scotland!