the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

I did that thing for the first part of our post code (which covers nearby small, low income for this part of the world, town) and we are a high crime area! 56.

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

Now we are down here, I think our main priorities are location, needs to be within walking distance of a village, with land, a property in good condition that would be lettable some of the year or one with convertable outbuldings/a second unit. If the village also had a primary school, that would be "perfect" ..

I've had time to look at the properties properly now rozee, and the thing that strikes me about two of them is the exposure of their sites, particularly the Moylegrove one. I looked at that and went...... :eek:

I know proximity to the sea is important to you, but when you're also wanting to grow veg and spend large amounts of time out of doors, the effects of the wind should be considered, as it can be very wearing and destructive. However, it's possible to find places, like St Dogs, where there's a bit of shelter from the westerlies.

Here in Devon, some folks in the village, about 100' above us, have views to Dartmoor at one side of the house, and Exmoor in the distance on the other side. It's a fantastic sight, but one for which they pay. On the other hand, big skies are great for solar panels, and in winter, any sun available is maximised.:)

Pete, who farms with us, is located down in the valley. He has fewer problems with strong winds, but his fields can flood or stay very wet, and it's a notorious frost pocket.

So, in a sense, you pays your money and takes your choice. Indeed, perhaps it's no accident that the guy with the most money and land around here, lives on a plateau half way down the valley side! Perhaps some folks really can have it all!

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

Here's our crime map. Interesting! http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Cilgerran,%20Pembrokeshire,%20UK#crimetypes

This is how our former address compared http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Norton,%20Sheffield,%20South%20Yorkshire%20S10,%20UK#crimetypes

Norton's not too bad compared with Sheffield itself, though population densities are different too, I expect.

I like Cilgerran. We had a tour of the church/churchyard there a few years ago, which included the Ogham Stone, though I'm blessed if I can remember about it now! It's old.....:o

The castle has some great views into the Teifi gorge there too. Lovely in the autumn.

Rummer

Evening Dreamers!

I have had a lovely weekend, yesterday we enjoyed what looks like the last of the good weather by going for a bike ride in the park and looking at all the gorgeous autumn flowers that were in their full glory.

Today I braved the howling winds and lashing rains to go conker hunting with my DD and my dad. Even though we went early this year there were very few left, seem to be falling earlier every year

The weather here is really growing sinister and you can feel the beginnings of the extreme weather that is due to hit Scotland tomorrow. We have cleared the things in the garden that we can but I am still expecting there to be quite a bit of damage.

alfie_1

evening all..
no 1- nelly no neck seems to be improving....fingers crossed

no2- i love my house ! 3 double bedrooms
dining room that has never been dined in !
cosy lounge with open fire
small/medium kitchen
reasonable bathroom
big round a corner and balcony style stairs
verandah
large garden,wood,mabel plot,big double garage size shed plus sheds and my shack...

BUT...................HAVING NO POWER IS A BU**ER !! ive "done" 7 years now so i guess im imune... worries my son how i will manage when i get old....i tell him i will but im not so sure [have to get me a young strong man to do it for me??]

anyway im happy with my lot.have the town [not sure how it got that status as its a SMALL town to me if it is] which has every type of shop including some very luxury shops, the marina,the nature reserve shore just down my lane. ferry to the iow down the road and fields or woods around me,also its a 3 minute drive to open forest so having no power is really a grain of sand to me ...

i drove to stansted airport this afternoon to fetch a friend and his 4 yr old daughter.he was "allowed" to take her on a short break to the canary islands by his ex but couldnt get a flight back to a local airport so i agreed to pick him up....nightmare traffic on the M25 took a 7 hour round trip !! but hey ho he's helped me often enough [he was my neighbour for 16yrs in beaulieu.]
i dont think i will ever be rich enough to buy my farm [which i would just FILL with animals needless to say] but my friend has land which she encourages me to fill.....[looking for some goats,alpacas that need rescuing at the mo!!]

alfie_1

p.s. my crime score here is ... 3 [bearing in mind 1 of those was my fuel/tools disapearing!!]

lymington is 150 plus !!!! didnt know that !

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

BUT...................HAVING NO POWER IS A BU**ER !! ive "done" 7 years now so i guess im imune... worries my son how i will manage when i get old....i tell him i will but im not so sure [have to get me a young strong man to do it for me??

Why not, you do a lot for local people, they could send kids to return the favour in a few years.

Its my concern with the wood powered boiler it looks like we might get to feed into the system here....wood chip ones can have a hopper to feed them, log ones need manual filling....fine, apart from the days I can barely lift a cuppa tea....or the days you want to go away for a weekend but not come back to a frozen house! (chances are we'd always have someone coming in for animals, so they'd also have to stoke the burner twice or thrice a day).

Incidentally, we're also having built in fire alarms, which seems prudent. That way they itare mains wired...no forgetting battery changes, and can me more geared up for houses where people cook and have fires...the ones we are having having have three sensors, smoke, heat and carbon dioxide...I think, and it requires two of the three triggers to go off.....so fewer times trying to stay with a pan and hit an alarm.



The winds were bad, but left the fencing up last night, and now its pelting down with rain. Its the perfect autumn day for chestnuts and a first fire, and hot mugs of hot chocolate and an old film.

Instead its a cuppa, some leftover salad for lunch, and probably the ironing!

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I will 'nick' your wish list, but change the land...and the house, i would like an oldie worldie type house like the ones in the link that Davesnave gave us, i would like a few acres, so i could have some livestock... poss a few pigs and sheep..

Crime score has just gone up

Winds still rising and chooks sheltering in coop. Sunflowers and sweetcorn taking another battering. With all this bad weather maybe appropriate I'm researching a painting/print I picked up in the last auction lot depicting the burial of the Royal Charter victims in 1859...just to see an item on Beeb News this morning about a forthcoming exhibition in Chester on the wreck. God help sailors.......

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Winds still rising and chooks sheltering in coop. .......

I think it may be cheering up here now, but still windy. All our hens are out and doing their thing, but egg production is still well down after the moult.

Nearly became a statistic myself this morning when a large bit of tree landed in front of the loan car I was returning to the garage. There was a lorry coming towards me, so I had to stop before the tree.... and almost did.....Luckily, just leaves and bits of twig on the front of the car.... and about two years off my life!

Anyway, I now have my car back with its ABS light functioning correctly, thanks to a new sensor costing £165. The ABS was fine , so I've paid that to make a light go out! :mad:

The loan car had no ABS...and didn't I know it! :eek:

kazschow

The wind is just starting to kick in here at the mo, it's supposed to be getting worse all afternoon.... not good in a caravan on the top of a hill !!!!