the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Seems to have got even colder with the wind getting up. Everything is iced over & very tricky.

Pigs in your house Rummer? How do they do in the cold?

meanmarie

hi all,

managed to add €225 to my fund to-day....had €75 and then found that I had €150 coming in interest...pleased at that as we have quite a few expenses over the next couple of months...new tyres, glass for greenhouse as it has been almost stripped by winds, car tax, more oil due to horrible cold spell and big service in preparation for MOT which is due at the end of the month.

Sorry that the weather has been so rotten....UK seems to have had it worse than we have and it was bad enough here..

Here's to a good growing year for all

Marie

Davesnave

Well Marie, I'm going to upset a few people by saying that I was working in shirtsleeves today! OK we had torrential rain last night and more late this pm, but in between it wasn't bad at all. Even had the brushcutter out.... I swear the grass was growing all the time under the snow!

There's a lot of water about; with the run-off from the snow and the ground un-freezing there is nowhere for these cloudbursts to go. DD2 was 45minutes late off the train tonight as they were going at walking pace through the floods.

Good news for you on the money front!:D Good luck with the MoTtoo.

Lovely thing, interest, when you get it... On Wednesday I discovered that my A&L (Santander) ISA had been reduced to a ridiculous 0.10%. I was so livid, I closed both my other accounts with them on the spot.:mad:

The ISA is going to my 'posh' bank, Aldermore (formerly Ruffler) who never change an interest rate without telling you and they are pretty competitive too. Before the takeover, as Ruffler, they'd send odd little gifts. The last one was an umbrella...or maybe a sunshade; we never made up our minds. I bet that stops now.:rolleyes:

Sorry, rambling-on here. Roll on the end of the month and a chance to plant a few things!

meanmarie

Actually it was quite spring-like here this afternoon too Dave....will be getting into garden for at least an hour a day next week, it looks as if a hurricane has been through. Have decided that Kerry, our border collie six month old pup will need to be given some type of run or she will wreck anything we manage to do...OH won't like that as he hates to keep dogs in any kind of pen.

Marie

Rummer

choille wrote: »

Seems to have got even colder with the wind getting up. Everything is iced over & very tricky.

Pigs in your house Rummer? How do they do in the cold?

Guinea pigs are not designed to live in the cold so we brought them in so we would not lose any more. Sadly we do not have actual pigs!

choille

I was wondering about your carpets.
Guinea pigs -lol.

Davesnave

Nothing wrong with guinea pigs as food animals, especially if they are the super 'Peruvian Breed.'

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/19/world/main650148.shtml

For consumers, being Peruvian probably helps a bit too!:rotfl:

JayneC

Hi all, just thought I'd 'check in'

Have received my real seeds order (is it really sad that that I got very excited?!) and have bought a bag of seed potatoes and pack of early carrots too. So raring to go... Where's Spring, lol? Need to keep myself in check as planted lots too early last year indoors and then couldn't get them out before they went all leggy.

I'm going to dig up the concrete in the yard and just have paths between planting areas so should get a fair bit in. Am going to try square foot gardening too, just need to make sure I curb my enthusiasm and don't plant too much!

DS1 had the idea of making a kind of leanto affair at the side of the house with corrugated plastic. We could fix it to the wall above the kitchen window and then to the wall at the side of the garden as a kind of covered walk way, which will make a kind of greenhouse effect, if I actually manage to get round to doing it....So make garden space more flexible. Still need to finish my chicken shed, I will do it, I will...

Well take care everyone, think I'm going to bed now (early start this morning...)

Jayne x

COOLTRIKERCHICK

was just wondering if anyone just watched monty don's programme dream farm

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-dream-farm

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

was just wondering if anyone just watched monty don's programme dream farm

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-dream-farm

Though not a Monty fan, it sounds good. If the satellite box thingy has done as it's been told, we should have it on hard drive to watch later. DW is out with the ladies' skittles team.....Well, that's what she says she's doing!

How is everyone, now the weather seems to be moderating? We have been out digging quite a bit, and today we took yet another huge van load of rubbish down to the big dump in the Town-Near-The-Sea. One more load and we'll have seen off all the junk left by the last owners.

Worst today was a huge lorry tyre, complete with wheel. I had to manhandle that up a flight of metal steps at the tip; then, when I got to the top, I almost couldn't lift it over the bar. At that moment , DW shouts ' It says here, "Tyres only, no rims!"' Funny, at that moment I went a bit deaf, and with one last heave, it was in the skip.:o

We've been walking around with a tape measure, trying to site a new polytunnel. Wherever we put it, it will be a bit of an an eyesore, but only to us. We are lucky in having a site where what we do hardly impacts on others at all.:D

My salad greens are through in the conservatory, so that's us properly started on the 2010 season. Anyone else planted anything yet? That's all I'm risking ATM.