the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Dingies deflate!

Yes, thats what happened to the last one:D. He has got a coue of fibreglass ones on watch and a small wooden boat.

Our inflable dinghy wasamazing. We bought it to use as a bath in a flat with no bath but have also used it as a bed. This summer i put it on dh 's big paddling pool....yes, his paddling pool....because i wanted to lay in the sun. I was co
D so i lay covered in a blanket, on a dinghy in a paddling pool, wearing a huge straw hat.

We are slightly odd really aren't we?

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dingies deflate!

Is that like "Workers Unite!" ? :rotfl:

CTC I'll get details of the toms up here soon, but like you, I'm a bit pushed ATM. Basically they are the very fast, straggly ones and some Golden Sunrise.

To be honest , much of my life before 'retiring' and coming here was 'just a blur.' Mind you, it was a happy blur, but I wonder if I had those years over again...... No point thinking like that though.:o


Very naughty lotus! I see plenty of mismanaged woodland about though, so sometimes I'm tempted too. The big branch I nearly collided with six months or more ago is still there beside the road, but I bet if I took a saw to it, someone would turn up in five minutes too!

choille

rhiwfield - electric stuff must be certified to sell or cables cuff off I think. I would think you'd be best selling it private once you know it's working & I would think 50% less than new price?

We have a half deflated rib that OH has not used & I nearly cry walking past it as it's such a waste.

I have a legal fight aboutto start with a neighbour who is trying to get some land out of common use & he's sooooooooooo nasty & twisted it's gonna be abattle & a half. Feel all head mush but have a few days to lodge an objection.

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

The geese will not come in to night, and i am not going top go swimming.


The gate isn't hung very high, they must have really shimmied under with determination!

But you could send one of the dogs in for a swim? Or mabel?

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

But you could send one of the dogs in for a swim? Or mabel?

Mabel is alfies not mine, though i'd like her, lol.

My dogs don't swim......not unless pushed to. Its hard for sight hounds, because of the shape of the chest and floating! They tend to tip a little. Because i love to wild swim they will follow, bt grudgingly and whimpering. They like wading. But the Cake is far too deep or that!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Is that like "Workers Unite!" ? :rotfl:

CTC I'll get details of the toms up here soon, but like you, I'm a bit pushed ATM. Basically they are the very fast, straggly ones and some Golden Sunrise.

To be honest , much of my life before 'retiring' and coming here was 'just a blur.' Mind you, it was a happy blur, but I wonder if I had those years over again...... No point thinking like that though.:o


Very naughty lotus! I see plenty of mismanaged woodland about though, so sometimes I'm tempted too. The big branch I nearly collided with six months or more ago is still there beside the road, but I bet if I took a saw to it, someone would turn up in five minutes too!

Neglected looking is not necessarily mismanaged, any more than pristine is well managed. Fallen wood: the start of many viral food chains

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Neglected looking is not necessarily mismanaged, any more than pristine is well managed. Fallen wood: the start of many viral food chains

I knew someone would say that, but I've walked enough woodland to know the difference between intentionally left timber and that which has just fallen by the wayside as being uneconomic to recover etc.

You could argue that stag beetles or whatever don't care, and I'd have to agree, but well-managed, wildlife-friendly forest just looks good, in spite of the concessions to nature.

Near here there's a wood which is neglected. It's been for sale for ages. I dare say the animals love it, but it's a resource wasted. To me, it's about balance. Long term, you never get owt for nowt.

Itismehonest

It's also a ruddy menace if there's a fire.:(
In other countries they have changed their views on "leaving it for the insects" because it just ends up as forest fire fodder.
I'm also not entirely convinced that some of the insect argument isn't just a way of saving work/money while maintaining a good front.

The powers that be around here used to leave the bracken "because of the butterflies" until it was pointed out that the butterflies actually needed wildflowers, too, & the flowers weren't growing because of the bracken. They then started to cut some of it back &, yes, wildflowers now grow in those places.

alfie_1

But the Cake is far too deep or that!


:rotfl::rotfl: :T

cake is NEVER too deep for me !!:D :rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

I'm also not entirely convinced that some of the insect argument isn't just a way of saving work/money while maintaining a good front.

I was thinking particularly of the New Forest and parts of the Forest of Dean where the management seemed good and there was quite a bit of human footfall, yet also clear places for wildlife to thrive at all levels, from insects up to birds and large mammals.