the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

We used to live really near a council run skip site & I was allus diving into the skips. I rescued lots & lots from land fill - including a Victorian dresser that I got nearly £300 for at an auction, all the wood we could burn, a child's gold ring from 1750 - which I still have & an oak table that was covered with Formica that I did up & still have - perfect huge rag rug that's in the shed somewhere.
Once went & it was stacks of old mannequins that must have been out of an old shop. Some joker had posed them as if it was a murder scene - really should have gone & got a camera it was hilarious. I rescused one & had it in my then garden. Got a complaint from the golf club that was about quarter of a mile away saying it could be seen from the greens!

Kept the hands & have them appearing out of the ground in the shrubbery as if there's been a corpse buried. I really must get councelling someday when I'm rich!

Itismehonest

Are they roosting up or on the ground, alfie?

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

Are they roosting up or on the ground, alfie?

the chooks all roost on the shelves.
i have a garden umbrella up in the centre [for in the summer for shade,not that we really had a summer !!:o] the ducks and goose goggins sleep on floor level. the door is open all day now and in the summer i had a wire door so air circulated if it WAS hot at night

not ideal but i needed all available pens this year for my bubs...

alfie_1

CHOILLE......... i would LOVE to run a council tip !!! id be rescuing SO much.... trouble is youve got to sell it to pay wages !! id be like fagin !! hehehe

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

the chooks all roost on the shelves.
i have a garden umbrella up in the centre [for in the summer for shade,not that we really had a summer !!:o] the ducks and goose goggins sleep on floor level. the door is open all day now and in the summer i had a wire door so air circulated if it WAS hot at night

not ideal but i needed all available pens this year for my bubs...

From your description I would think they should be OK unless it goes well below freezing.

We lost a load of hens once when a whirlwind picked up one the henhouses in the night, they went to roost in the open greenhouse & a fox cornered them in there. We went down to let them out in the morning, found the henhouse upside down in the next field & carnage in & around the greenhouse

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

From your description I would think they should be OK unless it goes well below freezing.

We lost a load of hens once when a whirlwind picked up one the henhouses in the night, they went to roost in the open greenhouse & a fox cornered them in there. We went down to let them out in the morning, found the henhouse upside down in the next field & carnage in & around the greenhouse

that reminds me of the either 87 or 89 storms here when i lost a "shed".... in my then horses field amongst various sheds i had a big alluminium workmens bender shed [my then BIL was a scaffolder with a big Co. and he "aquired" it for me ] anyway i went to check horses after the storm and was puzzled as bender had gone ...as it was approx 12x8, i thought some scrappies had taken it ?? i put a big sign by the road asking if anyone had seen it ?? some local kids told me they had seen it in the woods !! i trcked off a good 1/4 mile and plonked in amongst trees was my shed !!!! it had literally taken flight and judging by broken branches had "landed" in this wood... it took 4 of us [plus a mathematician/map reader] to eventually find a route out of the woods with it. we just casually strolled up the road back to the field,dragging a corner each as if it was the norm to take a shed for a walk..:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

that reminds me of the either 87 or 89 storms here when i lost a "shed".... in my then horses field amongst various sheds i had a big alluminium workmens bender shed [my then BIL was a scaffolder with a big Co. and he "aquired" it for me ] anyway i went to check horses after the storm and was puzzled as bender had gone ...as it was approx 12x8, i thought some scrappies had taken it ?? i put a big sign by the road asking if anyone had seen it ?? some local kids told me they had seen it in the woods !! i trcked off a good 1/4 mile and plonked in amongst trees was my shed !!!! it had literally taken flight and judging by broken branches had "landed" in this wood... it took 4 of us [plus a mathematician/map reader] to eventually find a route out of the woods with it. we just casually strolled up the road back to the field,dragging a corner each as if it was the norm to take a shed for a walk..:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl: Sounds very similar. It's amazing how far things can get blown.
Right, I'm off to bed. Tomorrow looks like another grim day - I won't even comment on Tuesday's forecast. So, the highlight of my tomorrow looks set to be several loads of washing. Oh joy :rotfl:

Darn it. So dopey I didn't even say goodnight. Night night all.

alfie_1

im half watching COLD MOUNTAIN.... but its loooooooong !! nite all

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

CHOILLE......... i would LOVE to run a council tip !!! id be rescuing SO much.... trouble is youve got to sell it to pay wages !! id be like fagin !! hehehe

Alf, but if you sell some you make space to buy more and free up some cash. We love the crimbo feeling when we rummage around the boxes of stuff we buy. Its that sense of discovering something that is the same as tip rummaging. Went to take some broken glass to our centre and there were 5 childrens bikes that someone had thrown away. Madness.

Listed 20+ items last night, but spent most of the time researching catalogue items to work out bid/saleprices.

Its batten down the hatches tonight, fire lit and candles burning. Might just put another lashing on the coop as well, and tie down the GH vents. The saving grace of this weather is that our fuel use is way down but I'm sure we'll get a cold spell or two before long

Stay safe all.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi All

HAPPY NEW YEAR.....

Hope that 2012 is a good one for everyone....

havent made any new years resolutions, but i am determined to knuckle down... and get a bit further with trying to get a place or land...


Alfie dont talk gto me aobut bills...:mad: my vat, business rent etc are all due the first week of January...so when i go into work tomorrow, one of he first things i have to do is the payment run:eek:

Welcome joyfull...... try not to be a lurker.....

I have started having the seed catalogues through the post, but i am going to try and get things cheaper..

so this year i want

gooseberries...

raspberries..

new strawberry plants ( the variety i have are not much cop)


so if anyone sees them at good value ,or if any of you got any cuttings etc i could have i would be extremely gratefull,

Our eldest (17 yrs) is now working for us full time, so we have told him he has got to pay us £20 a week lodge ... so this is going into the daydream savings tin....


Stitchy i am sure i had a copy of home farmer before... I cant remember what it was like?

I havent re-newed my smallholder magazine subscription...as after a while it does get a bit 'samey'