the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

Sour crop sounds 'orrible and choille's remedy, though no doubt effectual, even more so! I suppose I would, but I don't want to be in the position of trying it.
My guess is that the condition is probably missed until it's too late where there are lots of birds.

No idea about horse grazing costs. I wouldn't let a horse near our land after what the last ones did, though I recognise that was down to bad management. The horse lady with the field next door manages that superbly, so it's far better than any others locally, but then she spends every blooming day on it!

Very calm inside the polytunnel yesterday, despite the howling wind and no doors to close yet. The site is good for many reasons, including aesthetic ones. My only worry is that the trees which shelter it, will shed branches in a storm and.......:(

lostinrates

removed now CTC has seen it., not a state secret but none the less..

lostinrates

OK...so...it looks like the kitchen is about to crumble....there is movement. I plan to emp ty the wall mounted cupboards this weekend and the structural engineer is going to have to come over to see and sort out props for it. Otherwise its going to be a much colder winter than I had planned!

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

OK...so...it looks like the kitchen is about to crumble....there is movement. I plan to emp ty the wall mounted cupboards this weekend and the structural engineer is going to have to come over to see and sort out props for it. Otherwise its going to be a much colder winter than I had planned!

Eeek that sounds scary! Hope you are OK and can manage to get it stabilised. Hugs from Liverpool. (sounds like you could do with some hugs since can't get to you to help with anything more practical!)

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

OK...so...it looks like the kitchen is about to crumble....there is movement. I plan to emp ty the wall mounted cupboards this weekend and the structural engineer is going to have to come over to see and sort out props for it. Otherwise its going to be a much colder winter than I had planned!

Yikes. What is upstairs, if anything?

Do you have anywhere else that you can use for cooking and water if this is out of bounds for a while?

lir, do you now have the planning permission for this section? Does that assume renovate or rebuild?

Can you close off one end of the house if things get difficult, and live in the other til spring?

Were is the fire (mindful you only have one)?

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

Yikes. What is upstairs, if anything?

Do you have anywhere else that you can use for cooking and water if this is out of bounds for a while?

lir, do you now have the planning permission for this section? Does that assume renovate or rebuild?

Can you close off one end of the house if things get difficult, and live int he other til spring?

Were is the fire (mindful you only have one)?

Thankfully this is a single storey part of the house. (Phew!!!) Its on a corner facing the road.....the vcracks can be seen in the google street view pic but they just got a lot worse....precarious!!!

If you can imgine an L shap rotated upside down....the short part is north facing and is all single storey and has the kitchen on the corner of the L. (the long side is east fronting....so the kitchen looks out north through one window and east through another.)


I have water in the utility, which isfurther along the L shape (infact I have two belfast sinks in there)...so as long as I can get through to there...and if it falls it will fall outwards I think, I should be fine for water.


No where else to cook though on a cooker, but I have a slow cooker, so can live off that for a while...I did when we first moved here And a camp stove too.

We now have planning permission on the basis of a partial rebuild (propped roof, take out walls the full north length of kitchen and two thirds of the east length)....but....the cash is in very short supply!!! Also, its too late in the year to rebuild because lime mortar and frosts are incompatible.

the fire is right up the other end of the east facing L, so yes, I can snuggle down in there Ironically, I spent much of this week autumn cleaning the kitchen and getting it ready to move the dogs in there under a heat lamp over winter :rotfl::rotfl:

It is a bit heart in mouth...but if it happens (and I hope it doesn't) then its all part of the adventure..................................

right?

I have a bath and Choille doesn;t, and so I just have to remind myself I'm lucky and have lots of baths

Oh....will the immersion be ok though...its in the kitchen!!!:D

COOLTRIKERCHICK

flip LIR that must be scary....please be carefull....and please take care... dont want anything tumbling down on you..

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

flip LIR that must be scary....please be carefull....and please take care... dont want anything tumbling down on you..

to be honest, though I can see its precarious I can't quite believe it will. But if it does....well...not much I can do about it, might was well enjoy the experience for what it is if I can!

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

No where else to cook though on a cooker, but I have a slow cooker, so can live off that for a while...I did when we first moved here And a camp stove too.

Maybe check out freecycle for either remoskas, mini-halogen cookers or microwaves if you have to vacate?

glad you are saugine about this.

I recall one winter with the kitchen sink suspended in mid-air from the window frame, by two rough hooks made out of coat hangers. We could wash up as long as we did not use much water and did not put many crocks in at any time, drying and moving them elsewhere before adding the next lot. there was not a lot of elsewhere (nothing fixed to the walls anyway).

At the time there was no heating downstairs either, just the gas cooker so we used to light the oven and leave it on low.

The Ouse froze over and some twerp walked across, so you get an idea how cold it was.

We survived.

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

glad you are saugine about this.

what else can one be? The worse one reacts the worse it is IYKWIM.

we're involved ina very long legal wrangle to get our deposit back on the place we rented in Milan....(not far from the alps that city really!) which turned out not to have a roof.:eek: