the daydream fund challenge thread

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

current utility becomes Pantry/freezer store and downstairs loo,
Current store room becomes kitchen, small store room becomes utility.

One point from me.

I would NOT put a freezer (or even second fridge) in a pantry. You need that room on a north wall with nothing electrical in except light to keep it cool.

The freeze could keep the chill of another room?

Can you borrow space (for example dead areas where floor cupboards are in corner) to accomodate things like the washer? So they are flush with the other wall?

I know someone who has half a very nice house, the bit with all the posh rooms. The kitchen is very fine but the only place to put the washing machine is in the loo.

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

One point from me.

I would NOT put a freezer (or even second fridge) in a pantry. You need that room on a north wall with nothing electrical in except light to keep it cool.

The freeze could keep the chill of another room?

Can you borrow space (for example dead areas where floor cupboards are in corner) to accomodate things like the washer? So they are flush with the other wall?

I know someone who has half a very nice house, the bit with all the posh rooms. The kitchen is very fine but the only place to put the washing machine is in the loo.

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I know, its a big compromise, one my sisten and mother befor have made and i didnot want too. Its ona north side though, and will be cabinetted and vented below stoarage above, so the best we can do really.

The washer and dryer will go in the south facing utility, with an airer....the dryer was a luxury this year as we had no dheating but i do not want to get into the habit of it, so an airer and being right in the gardnej with a washing line......i know some people are too posh for them, but line dried washing really is my favourite way when possible.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

.i know some people are too posh for them, but line dried washing really is my favourite way when possible.

Are they You learn something every day.

Washing always smells so much nicer when it's done on the line I think.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Are they You learn something every day.

Washing always smells so much nicer when it's done on the line I think.

Well...posh not the right word, but yeah...some people won't have a,ine up and despair of it. Fresh air really is nicer thoguh.


I think we are really going to have to think about getting some help. We have swept and forked the muck heap and done other chores. The backlogue of poo in the fields is immense and i feel like we are trying to hold a flood back keeping up with chores. While we are doing these chores we are not breaking new ground to improvements.

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

i know some people are too posh for them, but line dried washing really is my favourite way when possible.

Oh, yes. The National Trust used to frown on them. To be fair I think that was more in their larger properties than in the cottages they let to DSS though No chance of seeing the Lady's frilly undies then :rotfl:

Brrrrrrrr My nose is froze. The forecast says snow & ice coming in.

lostinrates

The weather on the radio said it was a frost this morning, i was disappointed to have slippy mud instead. But its freezing now. So tired and cold. I'll have to go and sort rugs and hay out later, but right now we cannot determine our own summer and are just sitting here trying to work up the energy to light the woodburner. We should have stopped 20 mins before we did, and should have lighted the wood burner before sitting down when we came in.

choille

Cold run over to the vets & all the hay we'll need in the borrowed trailer brought back. A successful day, but feel jiggered now.
Loads of stuff will end today on ebay & hardly any bids...................

Heard of loads of folks losing poultry recently with foxes - always get that when the weather chills.

All the babby goat kids hatching out - aaaahhhhhhhhh. Hunners of them - like wee square teddies they are running up sheer cliffs. Quite early again this year. They have the same ability as deer - can delay gestation or even reabsorb the foetus if weather bad & they need the feed/nutrition for themselves - nature is a mavellous and sometimes harsh thing eh?

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I think we are really going to have to think about getting some help. We have swept and forked the muck heap and done other chores. The backlogue of poo in the fields is immense and i feel like we are trying to hold a flood back keeping up with chores. While we are doing these chores we are not breaking new ground to improvements.

This is why we've stopped selling plants, apart from the fact that we now have enough losses to tide us over until I'm an OAP! :rotfl:

Starting up again will not be a problem if we want to, but we'll only do it when we see a 'proper' garden here. Mind you, it's taken a year or two to decide what we really want.

Your business is much the same I'd guess. It could easily swallow-up all the available hours if you let it.

alfie_1

evening folks..
it is very cold here but dry so fingers crossed it will last !:)
must just say ,DADS ARMY has just come on the telly and everytime i see it i remember them filming alongside a great uncles farm in suffolk. when i was but a lass [12-14] i used to go stay at the farm and watch them filming. i was there watching the episode where the dippy lad was wearing a german uniform by default as hed got wet and that was all they had...he got chased by confused bloodhounds and he had to fall in the river and say "oooooo im all wet again mr mannering "....funny how i can remember it so clearly....i think the bloodhounds were the star attraction for me tho !!:D

rhiwfield

Frozen here too, and will feel it tomorrow morning at the car boot as my long johns have gone awol :eek:

Lots of competition at the auction today. Bought books, sheet music (loads for piano!!), umbrellas and bric a brac, but paid too much

Choille, we had a purple patch on ebay, then suddenly no bids though lots of watchers. I nearly bid on those figures you got from Alf (missed the auction end) and I notice you havent finished buying yet

Just reading pages from the Times, Tuesday, September 8 1914. The War news makes all our problems look trivial, at least the Canadians had sent 47,000 bags of flour as a gift and there was a letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suggesting ships should be fitted with a steel trident or fork to explode contact mines before they reached the hull!

On the same page there is a long list of officers of the Gordon Highlanders dead or MIA.