the daydream fund challenge thread

Itismehonest

choille wrote: »

I'm not tough at all. I'm constantly whinging these days. Going into Winter after a non-Summer here is miserable & I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW.

Don't worry choille. The last 2-3 summers here have been lousy compared to what we used to have & we've had 2 snowy winters in a row.
Everyone around here is muttering so, with what you have to put up with up there (ours multiplied by ?), whinge away.

choille

The caravan is not too bad - The stove is a boon. It's all this sat down time wjen in as there aint really a lot of room - so I just sit after dark - not as if I can run up & down stairs.

Wish I could get some more money in - almost tempted to attempt to get a job away - live in somewhere, but don't think I could leave animals & all.....

lostinrates

choille, what are you temperatures like now?

I'm so bloody grateful its mild down here. of course mild is worse for the ground.....its never win win is it?

choille

We did have a mild spell but it's really cold at night -clear & heavy frost. It's so damp that you feel colder - loads of mould on stuff which I hate. But during the day it's been about 10oC but torrential rain & huge hail storms. Never had it so wet. Last month was well over 8" of rain. We only had 6 weeks dry weather this year. Drying to dry clothes in the van is depressing - sat amongst steaming smalls & socks trying to watch the telly.

kazschow

choille wrote: »

We did have a mild spell but it's really cold at night -clear & heavy frost. It's so damp that you feel colder - loads of mould on stuff which I hate. But during the day it's been about 10oC but torrential rain & huge hail storms. Never had it so wet. Last month was well over 8" of rain. We only had 6 weeks dry weather this year. Drying to dry clothes in the van is depressing - sat amongst steaming smalls & socks trying to watch the telly.

I feel your pain chollie Life here in the !!!!! van isn;t much of a joy either, the west od scotland seems to be the wetest i can remember this year, I seem to be living in a sea of mud!!!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

First time on the afternoon round that I had dragon mist mouth today.

Yes, a funny thing happened on the way to the shed man today; it suddenly became cold. We stepped out of the car and went "Brrr!" which was odd because we were near the sea, with its maritime influence & all.

Anyway, being so pleased with the last one, we ordered a new, larger chicken shed, as we think that rotating houses and land is the best way to stay clear of pests and diseases.

The guy who makes the sheds is such a nice chap. Before he took our order, we had an hour-long chat, taking in much more than mere sheds. Then, he promised us it would be made "dreckly," which can mean almost anything, but at this time of year it means after the Christmas Wendy houses have all been sorted!

So, a nice day out, away from Mr D's dogs, which were going at it when we left, but coming home I felt the old car wasn't pulling so well. Arriving here, I noticed a horrible pong coming from the offside front wheel, which was red-hot, so clearly, we have a brake problem. "Great," I thought, "we just drove past the garage 20 minutes ago!" :mad:

Fortunately, when I rang them and asked when they could fit us in, the rather stern receptionist didn't say, "If you'm lucky, us can do it dreckly."

No, it can go in at 8am tomorrow morning.

Davesnave

I've just caught up. Some of you are having it very tough at the moment, what with alfie's potential abcess and the extremes of weather north of the border.

We think we live on a small island, but with the East of England likely to suffer a dought next year, no matter what happens now, and an oversupply oop north, the variations are huge. Here, we're just pleasantly damp and still waiting for our first 'proper' frost.

I hope you find some relief from the pain, alfie. And please, let it be your last winter in the caravan, choille. You have the patience of a saint....Hmmm, St Choille has quite a good ring to it, don't you think?

Itismehonest

Yes, the extremes of weather different parts of the UK have had over the last couple of years is weird. I heard on the news today that Essex has been drier than some parts of the Middle East :eek:

I noticed that both LIR & I posted replies on another thread & it reminded me of something I often wondered about. What do people think of as rural & village life?

For instance, I live 4-5 mile from a bus stop, more than 15 miles from a train station. The nearest village shops are about 5-7 miles away depending on which direction one goes. We do have a pub half a mile away, though.
I don't consider that we are isolated but just think of it as rural. I know that there are many places much further from civilization than my little parish.

When people talk about villages how big do you take that to mean?
I often read about villages with thousands of inhabitants which, to me, seem more like towns

choille

Anyone want to buy any water - heard that on the news about the drought by you. Thing is in April/May we had really scary wild fires as it was so dry. We had the coldest, iciest Winter on record like the year before & we seem to keep having really vicious gales - really bad - wind is increasing derinately - even in August we had gales. Yet I have azelas flowing & some stuff coming into bud - the weather is mad.

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Yes, the extremes of weather different parts of the UK have had over the last couple of years is weird. I heard on the news today that Essex has been drier than some parts of the Middle East :eek:

I noticed that both LIR & I posted replies on another thread & it reminded me of something I often wondered about. What do people think of as rural & village life?

For instance, I live 4-5 mile from a bus stop, more than 15 miles from a train station. The nearest village shops are about 5-7 miles away depending on which direction one goes. We do have a pub half a mile away, though.
I don't consider that we are isolated but just think of it as rural. I know that there are many places much further from civilization than my little parish.

When people talk about villages how big do you take that to mean?
I often read about villages with thousands of inhabitants which, to me, seem more like towns

We moved from being in a hamlet of six (an a pretty ell pread out one at that) satalliting bigger small village, to being between three ''big'' villages. although we are just as far away fro people it doesn't feel ''properly'' rural here. I HATE seeing street lights (the bgger part of our old village didn't hve them, here we aren't to far from the county town who seem to believe every night is chritmas light night. :mad:). Bigger vllages mean village shop....one in either diretio from us. one won an award for being a village shop but lots of the stuff they sell actually has mould on it:eek: the other appears to be a souless chain, but is actually run by one of the hearts of the village so run as a good local shop.

Ideally, I'd be at least a few miles from anything that walks on two legs or drives.