the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I used to do ebay, but found i was just too busy, but i really do need to find the time....Just wish there were another few hours in the day...lol..

did try doing a website a few years ago, but only sold a few things..again time needed to keep it stocked and 'looking fresh'

I have put 2 hanmade brooches on etsy this weekend, and was thinking of putting a couple of welsh blankets and bits of vintage linen on there to test the waters so to speak...but i am not holding my breath on that one...:rotfl:

was also thinking of doing a once a month sale at our place... and advertise it locally....

can you pm me how to find you on etsy?

btw I found the bag I love, and wondered if I posted it to you if you'd be able to make me a blanket one the same? And what your charge for commissioned pieces would be? I might ask for it for it for my b'day next year from dh.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, if the branch had fallen on the car it would have been dodgy. There weren't many branches down yesterday, mainly just large twigs, so we must have fared quite well compared with other areas.

Yet another bit fell off my tulip tree though. It's looking so battered I think it probably will have to go, after all.

I think most of us are under money pressure & 'going backwards.' I know we seem to do well for a while, and then two or three major things come along in rapid succession......:o

we'r ethinking of planting a tulip tree here. There is one on the way to T town that I adore. I also want foxglove trees.

I'd plant one of those huge wisterias in the back but that back stretch is where the cows go...so not terribly fair on them for
poisonability, so will probably put on the back of the house...if I can find out about the roots of the huge gradifloras...if they are risky.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I also want foxglove trees.

At least I can have those, because they can be stooled down to zero every year. No 'foxgloves,' but massive leaves instead. Paulownias are very easy from fresh seed; I used to pick mine up from the Botanical Gardens in that city to the left of you!:cool:

DW went to Hatherleigh market with a friend who was selling her two Australorp hens this morning. They're related to our cockerel, so we couldn't have them. Anyway, the guy who sold us the sick hens was there, and he clearly noticed two ladies who he really didn't want to see! No doubt he also thought the two 'lorps were the ones he sold us, and he certainly didn't bid on them....:rotfl:

A man who does freelance aerial photos appeared this evening with a framed piccie of our house & land.....well, half of the land. A nice chap, he's been doing this for ages, and so spoke knowledgeably about the changes in the landscape over the years. Apparently, his club have a huge archive of photos going back to before the War. I'm amazed by the detail in the photo, which scarily picks out all kinds of stuff, down to the size of a chicken! :eek:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

At least I can have those, because they can be stooled down to zero every year. No 'foxgloves,' but massive leaves instead. Paulownias are very easy from fresh seed; I used to pick mine up from the Botanical Gardens in that city to the left of you!:cool:

I know they grow quickly, but how quickly? What is the closest I could plant them? (dutch barn screening thoughts!) Now I'm thinking a couple for flowers with others lopped at a lower height for BIG leaves every year.

alfie_1

CTC... i think it was you that said your lads wanted to "alter" a landrover ?? well this is what a friends son has "done" to one of hers !!!
it WAS only 3/4 yrs old too !!

alfie_1

this is one of my welcome garden visitors



and this an unwanted one !! [please excuse my dirty looking finger...been gardening !]

ukmaggie45

We're back at home this week as we're cat sitting for DD2 and SiL. They dropped him off on Friday evening, and we didn't get back from caravan till Saturday evening (they left plenty food and water down needless to say). So that's why we didn't cat sit at the new house - Brodie knows this house, to have left him alone in a place he had never seen before would have been a bit weird for him we thought.

Probably will go to house tomorrow and try finish pruning the quince in the front garden... This is an ongoing project! Also want to start off sweet peas in root trainers - haven't tried an autumn planting before, but if we get earlier flowers will be a happy bunny.

Had an exciting time on Monday - taxi trip to Women's Hospital for routine screening - oh my poor boobs! OH came and collected me from hospital as he's on earlies this week - 8 to 4, which I think is my favourite of his shifts. Shocked at cab fare! :eek: Not MSE at all, but had cancelled screen 3 times already so really wanted to get it over and done with for another three years.

Just checked our July crime figures. 198 :eek: .

All crime and ASB 198

Burglary 23
Anti-social behaviour 84
Robbery 2
Vehicle crime 19
Violent crime 21
Other crime 49

One of the burglaries appears to have happened in our road, or very close by. 2 vehicle crimes close to us too. But nothing particularly close to new house. :cool: Mind you there was a particularly nasty robbery in new house road just after we completed. Unusual circumstances we think. Posh cars outside house etc etc which we suspect might have had something to do with it. That house (which since then they bought next door and converted the 2 semis into a single house) looks like Fort Knox now!

rhiwfield

One of the downsides of digging up our lawn is that we no longer see the family of green woodpeckers eating the ants, but the greater spotted woodpecker is a welcome regular when we put out nut and fatball feeders.

Last day of ebay auction for 2 items, always a difficult call whether to start with a low price and no reserve, which often builds up watchers but can leave you with a low end price, or start with a higher price and risk scaring people off entirely. Roll on tonight and a flurry of bids please!

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Also want to start off sweet peas in root trainers - haven't tried an autumn planting before, but if we get earlier flowers will be a happy bunny. !

I've done this a few times, and yes, get earlier flowers. I do mine a bit later though, and can't do them here because no south facing window or any where I think they'd surive winter. I like planting three times, autumn, early spring indoors, and a later sowing outdoors....

this year my sweet peas were the worst they've ever been with one spring sowing indoors. But I think the weather was more to blame.



I've been thinking about a very small heated greenhouse near the west facing kitchen wall....it would be easy to run electrics through the wall there, but it would have to be a skinny greenhouse...would it be worth it I wonder, for a small space?
as well as a more normal sized unheated one over on the veg plot?

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

I've done this a few times, and yes, get earlier flowers. I do mine a bit later though, and can't do them here because no south facing window or any where I think they'd surive winter. I like planting three times, autumn, early spring indoors, and a later sowing outdoors....

this year my sweet peas were the worst they've ever been with one spring sowing indoors. But I think the weather was more to blame.



I've been thinking about a very small heated greenhouse near the west facing kitchen wall....it would be easy to run electrics through the wall there, but it would have to be a skinny greenhouse...would it be worth it I wonder, for a small space?
as well as a more normal sized unheated one over on the veg plot?

Lir, I guess that it wont make financial sense but thats beside the point. When we put in our gh we did a 20 metre run of armoured cable laid under new flagstone path. Cost a lot at the time but it gives us so much flexibility and its a sunk cost now. We still start off most of our seedlings on windowsills but the gh is used to take them thru to planting out times.

A lean to against the kitchen wall should benefit from the house warmth (and vice versa) so heating will prob only be required in severe weather. But being so close to the house it will be easy to care for the seedlings and you can have the wall lined with staging with a walkway, so maybe 4' wide?