the daydream fund challenge thread

Itismehonest

I'm pretty sure that, although both may be fertile, there's just never enough room in one egg for 2 chicks to develop fully.
Double yolker layers tend to run out of steam as they get older & revert to singles.

alfie_1

my tv arial is throwing a wobbly ! :mad: literally...i think the wind has shifted it..its like trying to watch a "guide to morse code" at the mo.. im catching the odd word with a frozen pic from 3 minutes previous.... need a bl**dy degree to work out whos doing/saying what so im giving up and going to bed soon ! im slapping neat sensodino toof paste on my teeth ! nows when i wish i drank whisky....:D

NOT MY DAY IS IT !!:rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

I hope CTC is OK, as we've not heard from her much since she decided not to buy that idyllic - at certain times of the year - plot of land.

I think she made the right choice; the physical and administrative restrictions far outweighing the factors in the plot's favour, but it must've been a blow to come so close.

A few days ago, when I was too tired to do anything constructive, so I went over the photos taken at the properties we viewed in 2007-9, including a couple we couldn't buy in the end because own house sale fell through. Almost without exception, they're places we'd not consider now, due to things we'd not known about, or felt relevant at the time. The only one that still looked very good was a 7 acre place in Powys, near the Shropshire border, and neither of us really wanted to live in that area, so far from the sea. We still wouldn't go there, but it was the right place for someone.

Finding that 'right place' is harder than most of us imagine. Being able to say, "Yes this is lovely, but it's not right" is the hardest thing of all.

rozeepozee

Davesnave wrote: »

I hope CTC is OK, as we've not heard from her much since she decided not to buy that idyllic - at certain times of the year - plot of land.

I think she made the right choice; the physical and administrative restrictions far outweighing the factors in the plot's favour, but it must've been a blow to come so close.

A few days ago, when I was too tired to do anything constructive, so I went over the photos taken at the properties we viewed in 2007-9, including a couple we couldn't buy in the end because own house sale fell through. Almost without exception, they're places we'd not consider now, due to things we'd not known about, or felt relevant at the time. The only one that still looked very good was a 7 acre place in Powys, near the Shropshire border, and neither of us really wanted to live in that area, so far from the sea. We still wouldn't go there, but it was the right place for someone.

Finding that 'right place' is harder than most of us imagine. Being able to say, "Yes this is lovely, but it's not right" is the hardest thing of all.

We've had the same experience, Dave. When we came down on a brief visit last August (2010) we were pipped at the post on a place that I "loved". With hindsight it would have been a bottomless pit of money to spend and in a valley, therefore quite dull, with no view. The place that OH thought was fantastic, that we had the bad survey on, OH now is totally grateful to the surveyor for saving us a lot of cost, grief and constant maintenance.

I would never have dreamt that we'd end up with a bungalow. I have to say that archotecturally they're one of my least favourite buildings. However, having viwed a number of "characyer" farmhouses, I really am quite over draughty old building that are damp and cold all winter, or phenomenally expensive to heat.

CTC, if you are feeling sad about the plot, go and see some others if you can. OH and I went to see the property we've just bought "for a laugh" as it looked so awful. Here we are a month on, the "proud owners"

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

I would never have dreamt that we'd end up with a bungalow. I have to say that archotecturally they're one of my least favourite buildings. However, having viwed a number of "characyer" farmhouses, I really am quite over draughty old building that are damp and cold all winter, or phenomenally expensive to heat.

Most of the places we came close to buying were bungalows or modern houses. The first one we went for was in late 2002, at Stoke Gabriel in South Devon, but the owners pulled it from the market when they decided on 'Relate' rather than divorce! Pity.....it would now be worth a fortune in that location.

The next one we could have bought was a very large modern house, a few miles off the M5 in Mid Devon, but we were not over the first and diddled-about. The phrase "Get over it!" has a very special meaning, because that place, with the benefit of hindsight, was actually perfect for us. It went to someone with better imagination at a knock-down price.

Next, there was a place in Somerset; a bungalow with 11 acres and an occupant with a deadline to meet. We stuck our house on the market, but it was the start of the summer holidays and viewings were scanty. As we'd not sold 6 weeks later, the vendor sold it to a neighbour she hated, without allowing him to view! :rotfl:

Those were all agriculturally-tied properties.

After those experiences, we began to realise that the Westcountry was not throwing up enough affordable smallholdings, and that taking my Dad with us, wherever we went, was no longer feasible. We therefore switched tack, discovered the delights of West Wales and spent 3 years getting to know the area; one of them in 'buying mode.'

No one can say we didn't do our homework! Even so, there's no teacher like real experience.

Itismehonest

I think CTC is still around posting on other threads.
It's a tough time for many people to keep their dreams alive, whatever the dream maybe. Many of us are just on hold waiting to see what the hell happens.

Yes, it's strange how things turn out. When we were looking to move to this area we viewed a place which had just gone under offer. It was beautiful but we were too late. When this place turned up (it wasn't actually up for sale when it was offered to us) we knew it would be many years of work & a huge amount of money to get to what we wanted but we took the plunge. We soon decided we'd made the right choice.
It's time for us to move on now but, at the moment, it looks like we'll be hanging around here for a while waiting for the property market to sort itself out.

Itismehonest

Itismehonest wrote: »

Just the 2 old boys. The mini is a complete (in all senses of the word ) chestnut.
Do you know, I have absolutely no idea of the height of either. They haven't been measured since they brought the passports in & I can't remember what they were then. I'll see if I can hunt out the passports & remind myself. That's easier than running up & down the hill after them

Sorry for self-quoting

The height isn't on the passports, alfie. Seems a bit daft & I could have sworn it was. OH has the metre rule handy for the next time he goes out :rotfl:

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

Sorry for self-quoting

The height isn't on the passports, alfie. Seems a bit daft & I could have sworn it was. OH has the metre rule handy for the next time he goes out :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl: oh he will thank me for that ,scrambling around in high winds and mud trying to measure them!! not vital,just curious
my minis average 28 to31 inches [7-8hh] ruby i reckon is about 13.2 to 14hh as a yearling so think she may make 14.2 to 15hh at a push . poor old barney is 15.2 but we think this winter will take its toll on him .hes at least 28/29yrs old . i "rescued" him with a horrific hoof injury 7 years ago. they said he was 21/22 then... his hoof was virtually split in half up through the hoof and through his heel.and had been left unattended to. he was a dressage/show horse in his prime.... BUT with staples and TLC hes ok now.:) grumpy old moo tho... love him just the same

lostinrates

A day of two halves. his morning was simply gorgeous this afternoon its horrific. Even the geese were in. I didn't check the hay today, but Bags who the dog got yesterday is fie a had lai her egg i her normal spot.


Itmehonest, my chooks laid all about before the others arrived.....they are just adventurous. They live in a milking parlour so the chooks have the well to lay in, where the geese and the peafowl ever venture. I think making the area under the milk bottles re private would help though.

alfie_1

i can honestly say i have never known pain like it :eek:.... it is the whole left side of my jaw now. i think it is some sort of infection that is spreading.. i went to the dentist today and having pleaded my case to the two VERY young glamorous receptionists,didnt pass GO and didnt collect £200 !!!! tomorow is the earliest at 10.30...:(

i then went to boots to get something to help but they didnt sell sledgehammers instead i got a woman, who would make a member of the adams family look normal, who informed me that having paid £5+ for a miniscule tube of "cure" that "no, they dont have scissors on the shop floor" when i asked if i could snip the top of tube to get this miracle cure in my gob asap ????:mad: i SOOOOO nearly said something that i definately WOULD NOT HAVE REGRETTED !!:D needless to say a quick visit to "new look" had the girls passing scissors asap !:) it worked...for about 20 minutes

SO as you can probably guess im not a happy bunny today