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the daydream fund challenge thread

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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I remember seeing a guy on tv who had one and it was stressed that he was out in the boiler shed, what seemed to be all the time, adding wood, or mucking about with it in some way.

    I suppose it would be best if you could find someone with one working and go along for a look.


    done that, they reckon they feed theirs by necessity twice a day, but usuualy three times a day. Its a Scandinavian thing, with a distribution/maintainence contractor point not too far away. That's part of whats holding us up with the other thing: the methane capture thing: that there is no maintainance people in the area, the ones we've researched and think are viable are mainly in Kentucky:o
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    oldtractor wrote: »
    Can I join in? We have recently enlarged our allotment space in our field by 100% and am looking forward to next year already. Our apple trees hgave fruit for the forst time this year and they are delicious. I am looking for a cider recipe.


    welcome!

    My apples aren't good this year. They weren't last year either, and infact may be they are less diseased than last year. I can't wait to give the two I'm keeping another good prune this winter. :D the third has proven its not worth keeping, so it can prepare to be firewood. :(



    As a matter of interest how many of which varities of fruit do others here have?
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    My apples aren't good this year. They weren't last year either, and infact may be they are less diseased than last year. I can't wait to give the two I'm keeping another good prune this winter. :D the third has proven its not worth keeping, so it can prepare to be firewood. :(



    As a matter of interest how many of which varities of fruit do others here have?
    At least you have apples! I haven't got one apple, pear or plum :( Frost if you remember.

    I have 4 apples, 2 plums, 2 pears, plus lots of soft fruit, although I have been relying on the Joan J raspberries and the loganberry mostly the last couple of years.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • rozeepozee
    rozeepozee Posts: 1,971 Forumite
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    Y'know, I always quite liked geese until I joined this thread!

    We're still house hunting and there are a few new properties come to the market, but very little with land. As you guys have pointed out and now we're here and see the reality, some of our criteria drafted from the armchair internet browsing, are actually mutually exclusive in real life!

    Plus you have pointed out the drawbacks (nay!) of owning land. We have come across a few downsizers, maybe only ten or fifteen years older than we are, who are starting to find their acreage or grounds hard work and are looking for somewhere less burdensome. And we've also made friends with a few locals who are "living the dream" but "the dream" is actually bloody hard work :D

    If we don't find something at the right price in the next few months, I think we'll turn our search to finding a more appropriate rental property for the next six months or we may go slightly loony with 5 of us in a small starter home. There may lay the next challenge - decent rental property where we want to live is also pretty scarce!!!
  • rozeepozee
    rozeepozee Posts: 1,971 Forumite
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    oldtractor wrote: »
    Can I join in? We have recently enlarged our allotment space in our field by 100% and am looking forward to next year already. Our apple trees hgave fruit for the forst time this year and they are delicious. I am looking for a cider recipe.
    Welcome Old Tractor. I get off on reading Thompson & Morgan brochures these days ;)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    rozeepozee wrote: »
    Y'know, I always quite liked geese until I joined this thread!


    keep liking them, they are wonderful but not as ''tidy'' as chickens thats all. That said I have three chickens (only three ATM) moulting atm and I've just given up sweeping for the time being.
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    You can blame me for anything you like :D

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    my goodness...marriage has mellowed you !!
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    You can blame me for anything you like :D

    Monday morning and all seems back to normal, apart from the slight leftover from the overdose of wine yesterday :p

    I managed to find time to harvest the squash this weekend, not a particularly good year tbh, about 14 from 6 plants.

    I have a problem with rats eating my tomatoes, never had this before, I've caught two in the last week and I think I need to catch more. Horrible things, but better they are gone.
    i think im going to hire out my JR Bimble.....no rat is safe with him about, he can hear one outside while hes inside !!:D
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    PS. although bimbles good,i did lose my amazing clematis when he dived so hard at the rat sat at the bottom of said plant,[which has a broken clay pot to protect the base,]that he snapped clean in half ,the sturdy stem.....:mad:
    it is sprouting again but it was over the arch over my gate and took fooooorevvver to grow :(
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    sorry HELLO "oldtractor"...what a brill name....conjurs up all sorts of images...:D
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