the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

Gigervamp wrote: »

We live right next to the M4. It's surprising how you don't notice the noise until it goes quiet. .

I know what you mean. We did plant sales at a NGS open garden which was near the Wiltshire section of the M4. It was a lovely location with a stream running through the farmhouse garden, but all the time there was the hum.

And then it stopped. There was a problem somewhere, so they'd closed the motorway. For a couple of hours it was a true rural idyll.

I have tinnitus, which can be quite strong, yet on most days I don't notice it. I guess traffic noise could be a lot like that.

Davesnave

All the best of good fortune tomorrow Rozee :j,but don't get carried away! (As if you would!! :A)

Surely it was a spag bol alfie. A sphag(num) bog is altogether less palatable!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

All the best of good fortune tomorrow Rozee :j,but don't get carried away! (As if you would!! :A)

Surely it was a spag bol alfie. A sphag(num) bog is altogether less palatable!

DUUUURRRRR !:rotfl: I did mean spag boL ... cant for the life of me think how i thought BOG :rotfl: yes i can...im a twit

kazschow

best of luck at the auction Rozee, fingers and paws crossed for you. Remember fortune favours the brave

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

Mr Paranoid jumped out on me an hour ago, demanding to know why I'd been looking at him through binoculars. I asked him how he knew I'd been using binoculars, because I'm sure I couldn't see him properly from that distance, even with binoculars.There are trees in the way.

Golly he must think he is important! Otherwise why would you spend time watching him?

I would suggest you tell him that you do not have enough hours in the day to spend observing him, even if you have the inclination. You have more than enough on keeping tabs on the sheep, which is why you use bins.

Davesnave wrote: »

Anyway, I got the threats all over again. He's talking about breeding dogs and making the pens face our way. He really isn't happy about me working near his end of the land, but I can't have a no-go area on my own property, can I?

I tried to calmly go through the assurances about his tree cover all over again, but then I added, "But if you do what you've just threatened me with, the whole bloody lot will go!"

On the one hand I'm annoyed with myself for almost losing it with him, but on the other I'm thinking, "These people only respect others who deal in the same coinage."

Suggest that

1. Once the hedge is properly laid the boundary will be more secure.
2. If he wants to block the view of local buildings, he needs to plant trees on his ground (not least because the closer the trees are to his the house the smaller they need to be to obscure the view.

alfie_1

Im sure im not the only one who is desperate to know how rozee has got on at the auction !!

kazschow

Nope me too lol

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

Im sure im not the only one who is desperate to know how rozee has got on at the auction !!

No, you're not!

....But I'm also worried about lostinrates, who hasn't asked for permission to go AWOL.

Had a good but very exhausting day today trying to keep up with Pete, who was here to fell four trees for us. The first was an elm that died, the second another elm that had grown as large as the first, so was in danger of dying, a bird cherry that was diseased and a tulip tree that had partially thrashed itself to bits!

After paying Pete, we have much more than his fee in logs and woodchip, so a definite win-win.

Meanwhile, in other news, I contacted the local police and the Community bobby will visit shortly to advise. Personally, I'm not sure whether his intervention might help or inflame things at this stage, so I will ask him what he thinks. Regardless, with a strong westerly blowing, today Mr You-Know-Who has had a good dose of screaming chainsaws to think about! :rotfl:

alfie_1

Regardless, with a strong westerly blowing, today Mr You-Know-Who has had a good dose of screaming chainsaws to think about!



OOOOOO whos a naughty mr davesnave....:rotfl::rotfl::T


p.s. i am wondering where LIR has gone too !!!! hope all is well ?

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

Suggest that
1. Once the hedge is properly laid the boundary will be more secure.
2. If he wants to block the view of local buildings, he needs to plant trees on his ground (not least because the closer the trees are to his the house the smaller they need to be to obscure the view.

The hedge meets Mr D's garden boundary at right angles on a corner so hardly touches his place at all. The last 40-50m is still largely untrimmed. We will have to do the bit closest to him by degrees, probably on the 'insistence' of the farmer whose land he overlooks. I'm sure this can be arranged in due course. He won't fall out with the farmer because he depends upon him to provide his wonderful view. Anyway, I will send Pete in to do that bit. No one messes with him!:rotfl: