the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

what a BOLD looking chook you have there davesnave ! hes a beaut.
my oldest [prehistoric rescue] chook has popped her clogs today just quietly sat down and went ...good way to go:)

p.s. WHAT are the caramel with dark chocolate topping chooks in the back ground ??.... [gosh wonder what i was thinking of with that description ]

Sorry to hear about your old chook, but she probably saved you a difficult job.

Ozzie Australorp is even bolder than that now, being a few months older. I must update his profile. :cool: He's still a big wuss though. Comes up to me and flaps his wings, so I flap back and he runs off! :rotfl:

The caramel and liquorice chooks are Vorwerks, originating in Germany as a general purpose breed. They are very inquisitive and into everything, but none has a stand-out personality.

Very quiet here this morning........looks like it'll be a scratch breakfast and Christmas dinner some time around 3-4pm.:o

alfie_1

rhiwfield wrote: »

Alfie, Snowy's elephant this morning

GKs waking, pressie opening and mayhem about to commence

im glad to see SNOWY'S elephant has got new dentures.... what a handsome heffalump it is now

alfie_1

hope youve all had a fab day....:D

my son and i have had a lovely MASSIVE xmas dinner at my mum and dads.... yummeeeee. :T

p.s. i seem to have been given a lot of plumper/anti wrinkle creams this year ????:eek:
this time next year i will have to show a "proof of age" card ...:rotfl::rotfl:

Rummer

Evening

Hope you have all had a lovely day! I do think the saying is true that you should never work with children or animals. Today I was standing coat on ready to go out for dinner and pathetic cat came in clearly in pain. I then got to drop off DD and DH at my sisters house so they could have dinner while I got to spend some quality time at the emergency vet .

Mercifully he is safe and well however I now no longer have to worry about what to spend my xmas money on as it may just about cover the £120 consultation fee :eek:.

Anyway now I am safely home I am going to crack open the wine and the chocs :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

stitching_witch

I had a computer-free day yesterday so have just caught up on your events of the last couple of days. This year has been a very mixed one for the witch with some disasterous lows but some equally brilliant highs. I'm still reading most days even if I'm not posting much and still feel very much part of the "family" we have on this thread.

At the end of every year I always say "next year can only be better", but I'm sure next year will be even more difficult with my employer forcing me to drop another day in May and DH still insisting he can't get a job, but as always, I will cope because that's what I do.

My business is growing, albeit a lot slower than I'd like so I must get my behind into gear this week and write some copy for the website. Perhaps then it won't matter what my boss and DH do

All that's left to say is that I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope 2012 brings you everything you hope for!

stitchy x

lostinrates

I can't find the post from the person who said he/she lurks and dreams and lives vicariously through us...but perhaps he/she is near one of us for some close up interaction with weeds or animal poop?

Its almost a crime not to be working in this weather but we have post festivity exhaustion...and have just got back from a dog walk and drive across salisbury plain, where the roads are temporarily open over christmas for access to Imber church. Its very beautiful up there, despite being scattered with junk tanks and imber is a breeze block village mockup, but so much of this county is ''in production'' or densely occupied that spying gotrses growing on the plain is a breath of fresh air. I couple of deer crossed our path too, horrified at the number of drivers/cyclists and walkers in their normally civilian free territory.

Rummer

I am hoping to get out for a walk today as it is dry, if increadibly windy :eek:
It is at this time of year that I love to start planning my garden for the new year too and I think I may have to order a packet or two of seeds

lostinrates

stitching_witch wrote: »

i. I'm still reading most days even if i'm not posting much and still feel very much part of the "family" we have on this thread.x

of course you are!

Rummer

Just thinking about the potatoes and shallots I am going to plant next year, does anyone have any good recommendations?

lostinrates

well.....decided not to sit totally bone idle today after all and got a couple of the long posts for our trees painted.

Now, please tell me I'm not mad.......we want the pears to grow eventually to about 10 feet (and they are on quince c...um, well, which ever is the appropriate root stock for that ) so..our posts sould be that long too, right? The right height for the eventual top support wire? We're not sinking the posts but rather attaching them to exisiting and strong fence posts. This has obviously be the cause of lots of chin rubbing, but sinking them behind the pears would have meant bring the pears forward into the garden more, because the wall they are infront of has foundations, and the posts for the fence above it are bolted through. its reasonably sheltered in that spot....being between our house and a big agricultural barn, and a fairly narrow bit of garden...but feels risky none the less. For much the same reason we're ging for 4 posts not six. I have a feeling this corner cutting is going to hurt later on.