Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

Phirefly

lostinrates wrote: »

Enjoy the decorating. Forgot to say DH did buy me some eyeshadow.

Yes you can ask how old. I'm thirty

...again.:D

it went well last year, why change?

No wonder we're so alike - born precisely 4 days apart. Happy 30+1

lostinrates

Phirefly wrote: »

No wonder we're so alike - born precisely 4 days apart. Happy 30+1

Hello! Where have you beeeeeen?

You too, happy birthday!

Phirefly

lostinrates wrote: »

Hello! Where have you beeeeeen?

You too, happy birthday!

Thanks - the bunting and balloons are still up so I guess I'm still in birthday mode. 31 really is a non-event though isn't it. My Mum 3 kids by the time she was my age...

I've been having my gallbladder out and, being self-employed, frantically working every hour since to make up for 3 weeks off work unpaid.

Oh that and I spend most of my time on line these days geeking around self-build sites and looking for plots...

Hope things are going well for you.

lostinrates

Phirefly wrote: »

Thanks - the bunting and balloons are still up so I guess I'm still in birthday mode. 31 really is a non-event though isn't it. My Mum 3 kids by the time she was my age...

I've been having my gallbladder out and, being self-employed, frantically working every hour since to make up for 3 weeks off work unpaid.

Oh that and I spend most of my time on line these days geeking around self-build sites and looking for plots...

Hope things are going well for you.

Oh poor you! I hope you feel recovered now. Any plots on the horizon? I'm so disillusioned with home/land searches. I've not even looked bar the emails this week.:o

Phirefly

Yes all mended now thanks.

Mr P is determined he's going to unearth a plot rather than wait for one to present itself. We're still a wedge away from a 20% deposit on plot+build though so I don't think its going to be static caravan living for me for a while yet...

Don't give up hope! It'll fall in your lap when you least expect it....

LydiaJ

I've had an offer accepted! Details will appear shortly on the other site.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've had an offer accepted! Details will appear shortly on the other site.

whoohoooooo!

Champagne out nice people...

carolt

Congratulations! Let's go with 3rd time lucky...

lostinrates

carolt, I found this for you:

http://www.clarencecourt.co.uk/

the eggs I get are very, very similar to the two boxes at the top, blues and browns (and also pale eggs from my cochins.) Clarence court got a lot of flak for implying grat history to the breeds of chooks in those eggs, I note the description on the website is clear but brief on the fact they are new breeds. My guess is their own Cotswold is a better layer than my cream. The burford birds look pretty, I wouldn't mind a couple of them.

I'd LOVE a pink and a lavender laying bird, but very, very hard to buy, and you're paying for a fancy, not for any ''material'' value on a domestic scale. The hens egg colour is the same for her her whole life, so you have to buy a hen already laying to see what colour the egg is......its a bit of a faff for someone breeding on a commercial scale!

Davesnave

Crikey, I go out for the day and Lydia puts an offer on a house, while the rest of you discuss chickens!

We are still waiting to meet 'post-bashing man' who will sort out the essentials so that we can wire-up our orchard runs later in the summer.

We'd love to get into hens, but we've just enjoyed the attentions of 'digger man' over the weekend, who has re-shaped our market garden, resulting in an interesting series of new problems, like how to move about without being caked in the mud, which now covers areas that were formerly grass. Eventually, there will be paths and raised beds, but ATM we must go through a certain amount of pain.

Those who follow our antics will know that we inherited a huge amount of rubbish from the previous owners, much of it hidden in grassy mounds,. The largest of these, 'Silbury Hill' is no more, and from it we have so far collected an estimated 8 bags of non-reusable rubbish, the 'bags' in this instance being the 1 tonne builders' variety. Anything remotely like a brick or concrete is stored in a separate pile for re-use as we've a lot of hard landscaping to do.

Speaking of bricks, we had to visit Bath yesterday to collect a huge door frame to match the doors for the barn, so we popped into the garden we still have there and picked up another tonne of the blocks I'd squirrelled away. Trouble is, there's another 10 tonnes to come yet, plus a 25' greenhouse and assorted other paraphenalia. This will probably be one of the longest moves in history!

Still, we know what to do when the time comes to leave here.....just hire a digger, make a large pile and then 're-profile' an area of land! :rotfl:

PS. Cotswold legbar eggs have been available in the 'normal' egg section of Sainsburys for some time.....well, Bath Sainsburys anyway.