Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Do you have machinery suitable for shifting 15 tons of logs?

Yes, two arms and a wheelbarrow.

Logs are not delivered all at once, but in 3 tonne loads, pretty close to where you store them, but no machine can stack them up properly.

People should buy logs at least a year before they are needed, because they need time to dry out. Our problem has been a lack of storage for them, so we've never had more than 5 tonnes at any time.

lostinrates

Tomterm THAT one is where I am!

Davesnave

tomterm8 wrote: »

Er... you go out and work even if it is too cold and wet to go outside to work. This is something hugh exceedingly-longname does not tell you about smallholding.

No, he's always off on some jolly jape, like finding mushrooms in a weird place where no one else would go, like behind the local sewage works. He then takes them to an old wise woman in an obscure Dorset village, who turns them into an ungruent for athlete's foot, or possibly a bouillion for boiling up with sheep's tongues.

Anyway, whatever it is, it is so incredibly popular, he sells out at the next farmers' market. :cool:

I just don't know where he finds the time. There's a river full of trout less than half a mile from where I'm sitting..... and I haven't snaffled one of them yet.

Edit: Please carry on discovery learning about Wordpress. I just might, next year......;)

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

No, he's always off on some jolly jape, like finding mushrooms in a weird place where no one else would go, like behind the local sewage works. He then takes them to an old wise woman in an obscure Dorset village, who turns them into an ungruent for athlete's foot, or possibly a bouillion for boiling up with sheep's tongues.

Anyway, whatever it is, it is so incredibly popular, he sells out at the next farmers' market. :cool:

I just don't know where he finds the time. There's a river full of trout less than half a mile from where I'm sitting..... and I haven't snaffled one of them yet.

Edit: Please carry on discovery learning about Wordpress. I just might, next year......;)

He finds the time because he has STAFF. And needs them, not a slight on him. I'm personally getting abit fed up of shows that are essentally advertising, like, Beany's new house for a wedding (though I think its beautiful and I like her), all the chefs with stuff to push and Kirties home made home (available to rent..) I don't deny some of them are good programmes, just I feel so utterly preached to by people whose ''simple way of life'' is paid for and gets advertising from tv and then suggests we can all do it the same way without the same cash injection! Some things can be done, eating well from scratch, making stuff etc...but not over night when people have other things to do...jobs, kids, dogs to walk!

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

He finds the time because he has STAFF. And needs them, not a slight on him. I'm personally getting abit fed up of shows that are essentally advertising, like, Beany's new house for a wedding (though I think its beautiful and I like her), all the chefs with stuff to push and Kirties home made home (available to rent..) I don't deny some of them are good programmes, just I feel so utterly preached to by people whose ''simple way of life'' is paid for and gets advertising from tv and then suggests we can all do it the same way without the same cash injection! Some things can be done, eating well from scratch, making stuff etc...but not over night when people have other things to do...jobs, kids, dogs to walk!

I do deny that some of them are good programmes!:mad:

I have become quite sick of the gratuitous rubbish on tv which is all about advertising, & telling us what we want. It is overkill. Food/chef shows appear to be taking over from the sheer amount of property shows that used to exist. I hated them too. I see the point, & indeed some are worthwhile, where they educate on cooking, nutrition etc. At the same time some of them are gratuitous cr4p.

TV nowadays is pretty rubbish, isn't it? here is so little on nowadays that actually entices me to watch.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I do deny that some of them are good programmes!:mad:

I have become quite sick of the gratuitous rubbish on tv which is all about advertising, & telling us what we want. It is overkill. Food/chef shows appear to be taking over from the sheer amount of property shows that used to exist. I hated them too. I see the point, & indeed some are worthwhile, where they educate on cooking, nutrition etc. At the same time some of them are gratuitous cr4p.

TV nowadays is pretty rubbish, isn't it? here is so little on nowadays that actually entices me to watch.

Yep. We should make a collection to fund ninky to make a programme we'd like to watch. I like the C4 show 3/4 in a bed....I'm getting tips for when we do B&B.

It is the most beautiful day. I'm wondering whether to cut the grass or not. Its dry, which it hasn't been when I've had time before, but its definitely going to frost tonight. Its looking very unkempt out there....

edit: I decide...YES to grass cutting, its too beautiful to not be ut there today. And I have watercress to make soup from, which is a bit of a treat so need to go and do some thing that deserves being heated up from.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Yep. We should make a collection to fund ninky to make a programme we'd like to watch. I like the C4 show 3/4 in a bed....I'm getting tips for when we do B&B.

It is the most beautiful day. I'm wondering whether to cut the grass or not. Its dry, which it hasn't been when I've had time before, but its definitely going to frost tonight. Its looking very unkempt out there....

edit: I decide...YES to grass cutting, its too beautiful to not be ut there today. And I have watercress to make soup from, which is a bit of a treat so need to go and do some thing that deserves being heated up from.

:eek: Sounds worryingly like something off those "adult" channels :eek:

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

:eek: Sounds worryingly like something off those "adult" channels :eek:

The behaviour of people on it is more like something off one of those kids' channels. Puts you off going to B & Bs and makes me think I could do as well as any of them.

I'm taking a break from the grass. Its really warm out there if you are pushing a lawn mower! I'm about a third of the way through

PasturesNew

B&B looks lovely, but you're tied to the house.

You have to think about where the bookings are coming from, you're inundated with sales calls and people wanting you to advertise on their website/directory.

Then, somebody's actually booked .... you have to be there when they arrive, you have to have aired the room/made the bed, you have to have gone out shopping for breakfast stuff. Then they turn up and you have to be there for questions they have etc.

Then they go out - what do you do? What security do you have? Do you give them a key? Is the B&B address on it? Who ARE these people? When will they be back? Do you wait up? What if they don't shut the door properly?

What if they stagger in at 3am, drunk, with friends ... and wake you up - you're going to have to get up and tell them to !!!!!! and chuck their mates/birds out.

Then you get up early for breakfast, make it all .... no show. They're hungover. All that effort/food wasted... and you never got to sleep after the 3am wakeup.

Then they leave, great.... except one's peed the bed. Should have checked that before they left. Maybe you can chase them up the road if you're fast enough. And they've broken the bed leg - need to get that fixed immediately, there's somebody else arriving at 2pm..... chase or mend, chase or mend....

Then strip the beds, remove the peed on mattress and replace with your handy stock of new ones, do the washing. Clear away the breakfast things.

And ... go shopping for more bread as the next lot are due in just 2 hours....

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

B&B looks lovely, but you're tied to the house..

I would prefer to work in McDonalds than own a B&B. It's horrible.