the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

What do guinea fowl do? Sorry if that is a silly city question...

they look beautiful, taste better and lay superb eggs (hard to find as they hide them, but they have shells like rock!). They put themselves up in trees at night and act as alarms a bit like geese.

I've wanted some ever since I took care of some years ago.

lostinrates

oh, if any body sees any cheapish holly (must be standard dark grren, prickly and not variegated) let me know please. Some teens were the final straw for me last night, I'm going to try and get a digger in to dig a trench rood side of our drive way, fill it with some soil from somewhere here and plant a hedge. dog dog was gonna bite one of these terens who was goading her through the gate (enough motivation she'll get over/ under it) and then all hell would break loose.....

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

they look beautiful, taste better and lay superb eggs (hard to find as they hide them, but they have shells like rock!). They put themselves up in trees at night and act as alarms a bit like geese.

I've wanted some ever since I took care of some years ago.

I used to live near someone that had a small flock, they are really noisy!

I didn't know that about the eggs, very interesting.

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

they look beautiful, taste better and lay superb eggs (hard to find as they hide them, but they have shells like rock!). They put themselves up in trees at night and act as alarms a bit like geese.

I've wanted some ever since I took care of some years ago.

Want want want! I've just looked at some pics. They are lovely!

I'm so excited. I've been looking at our place on Google Earth and Street View and am beside myself.

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

I'm so excited. I've been looking at our place on Google Earth and Street View and am beside myself.

I did that weeks ago!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Glad that you are so excited though.

Our place hasn't had a new aerial shot for donkey's years and we've made the Street View out of date. We hope to make it even more irrelevant in a year or two.

Itismehonest

I was just amazed that Google Street View even found us :rotfl:
Like Dave, the satellite/aerial shot is over 10 years out of date, though.

I'm listening to all the hooha on street-lighting. As someone for whom the nearest street lamp is 4 miles away, I don't get it.
Around here you can see a torch hundreds of yards away & car light even further. Unless a ne'er-do-well wants to blunder around in the dark making enough noise to wake up the entire neighbourhood, they normally give themselves away long before they have any success. On clear moonlit nights you can see almost as well as in daylight so you can pick out anyone lurking around.

It isn't the lack of street-lighting in most of the places where people are complaining that's dangerous. It's the crime level. Sort that out.

rozeepozee

Davesnave wrote: »

I did that weeks ago!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Glad that you are so excited though.

Our place hasn't had a new aerial shot for donkey's years and we've made the Street View out of date. We hope to make it even more irrelevant in a year or two.

That's sweet, Dave. It's a nice little community this here

WE were taken "hostage" by one of the local architects yesterday and given a whistle stop tour of his work. Saw some lovely examples of new build and upgraded bungalows. Am wondering if I'll ever be able to persuade OH to go with the green oak cladding....

choille

Originally Posted by rozeepozee
What do guinea fowl do? Sorry if that is a silly city question...

Originally Posted by rozeepozee
What do guinea fowl do? Sorry if that is a silly city question...

Guinea Fowl eat ticks - worth getting some for that alone here.

We are on google earth which is weird when I found that out.
Hope you don't have too hard a hangover Alfie.

Gone mild but very, very windy.

Sorry all dave's right - shortest day today - yipee.

rhiwfield - the statuettes look like they were made in China a couple of years ago? Possibly - 'specially the one with the fish - which is nice but I doubt has any age to it.

Itismehonest

No idea on age but the boy riding the fish is possibly Melikertes Palaimon from Greek mythology, rhiwfield

rhiwfield

choille wrote: »

rhiwfield - the statuettes look like they were made in China a couple of years ago? Possibly - 'specially the one with the fish - which is nice but I doubt has any age to it.

Choille, they were part of quite a large auction lot of ethnographic carvings, all of which appear to be genuine, though vintage rather than antique. Several African items, Rotorua koruru, Sarawak shield and dragon, Thai suar wood buddha, Hawaiin tiki as well as the three posted. I have shown some to a leading museum who haven't raised a fake alarm. I'm not discounting they might be more modern and mass produced but it seems pretty unlikely. The fish boy, Melikertes (?) cheers Itsmehonest, has had an old repair (broken in two and glued back together).

On our Streetview you can even tell that I havent washed my car for ages

Lir, the only objection I have to holly is that when it does shed its leaves, they stay prickly enough to be a nuisance to the gardener.

Been down to the beach with the gks picking driftwood. Sunny, then 20 minutes later sea mist and heavy drizzle. Lots of dog walkers, lots of dog poo as well