the daydream fund challenge thread

Rummer

Davesnave wrote: »

Just wondering if I am daft rather than the other. Post box wouldn't be emptied till this a.m. and we had about -6C last night, so I hope tom & chilli seeds were OK!:o:o

PS. I have just planted my fast tomato seeds and they're next to the Aga.

Ooooohhhh does that mean I can start planting stuff too :j

Lotus-eater

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Also got the give up smoking lecture too. I've cut down from over 40 a day to around 10 a day, but that doesn't count for anything. :mad: Been hard enough to get it down that much, so am resting on my laurels at present and just trying to maintain the status quo and not backslide into smoking more.

Maggie, if you can't give up the last ten, e-cigs may be able to help to limit the damage.
You'll still be taking in nicotine, but it's alot healthier than smoking, supposed to be 98 or 99% better than smoking, depending to which doctor you listen.
Pm me if you want any details I may be able to help with. I've been using them for over 5 months now and stopped smoking the first time I tried one.

Itismehonest

We had a few call ducks amongst our motley collection, LIR. They can be real characters.

Excuse the ignorance, maggie, but what are the almonds for - as in what do they do?

We both changed our diet about 7-8 years ago. No added sugar or salt & predominantly Med diet. We eat meat but fairly infrequently. In fact, there isn't much we like that we won't eat occasionally.
The most important meal of the day, as they've been saying for years, is breakfast. Get that right & it sets you up for the day.
So we have a large breakfast but along continental lines. It means the other meals in the day are just keeping you topped up :cool: so it then becomes a "little & often" regime which seems to suit my digestion very well.

Sunny, blue sky but cold here.

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

Just wondering if I am daft rather than the other. Post box wouldn't be emptied till this a.m. and we had about -6C last night, so I hope tom & chilli seeds were OK!:o:o

PS. I have just planted my fast tomato seeds and they're next to the Aga.

They'll be fine They store seeds in the Arctic in long term frozen seed storage, so -6 is nothing
Plus all the tomato seeds that overwinter in my greenhouse always seem to produce better seedlings than the ones I coddle inside over winter.

Rummer, go for it! I really really need to dig out my seed heater. If I had the foggiest idea where it was. And I've lost 2 huge windowsills this spring that I can use for seedlings. So I'm really a bit stuck tbh.

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Ooooohhhh does that mean I can start planting stuff too :j

Ask yourself where you will put things when they germinate. It's OK for me as I've an almost frost free conservatory 25' long, and plenty of ways to cope with the 'almost' bit.

There are few things that will genuinely benefit from a fast getaway now. Most plants will soon catch up if you delay for a few more weeks yet. Indeed, if keeping early plants in less than ideal light, people may well end up with inferior specimens.

You could always sow some mixed salad in a trough. I've done that too. Tis a cheap way to experiment, though again, mine sit in the conservatory through winter. I've noticed they don't put on any real growth in December & January.

choille

I wouldn't touch ecigs with a barge pole - folks are addicted to them for years - just swopping one form of taking in nicotine for another.

Rummer my garden is in a right ole mess as I haven't manegd to weed at all ,but if the top layer thaws I'm gonna hoe & hopefully that'll kill the roots.

Rummer

I am just so impatient :rotfl:

Lotus-eater

choille wrote: »

I wouldn't touch ecigs with a barge pole - folks are addicted to them for years - just swopping one form of taking in nicotine for another.

You might get nicotine, but you don't get the things that do the real damage and are carcinogenic. Such as carbon monoxide, tar, the 4-5000 other chemicals that cigarettes contain.

Nicotine is about as damaging as caffeine without all the other stuff you get in cigarettes. So I hope you are on caffeine free coffee! Because I am.

I suppose you would prefer someone to keep smoking 10 cigs for years, trying to constantly give up, rather than be on e-cigs and limit the damage by 98%
If so, you would have condemned me to a painful and awful life, not to mention the end of my marriage, my mental health getting worse and the chances of a very serious disease increasing all the time.

So maybe before you do blanket statements of how you are swapping one form of nicotine for another, you might want to think about what comes with the nicotine with each device.

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

You could always sow some mixed salad in a trough. I've done that too. Tis a cheap way to experiment, though again, mine sit in the conservatory through winter. I've noticed they don't put on any real growth in December & January.

I keep meaning to do that, it's a bit crazy, I'm now eating lettuce from the shops, which is bonkers when I could be easily eating it from the garden, had I got round to sowing winter lettuce.
But tbh, I think that normal summer lettuces would have been fine this winter.

lostinrates

I am so glad to me a non smoker now.