As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

laineyc_2

Hello all

I have been busy and not on line for a few days so I have a lot to catch up on. Will have a lot of reading to do tonight.

Dh has gone to LA to a conference so it is just me and the boys. Well, hopefully he will get to LA tonight. He came home early yesterday and was working at his desk. I gave hime his passport and his case was all packed. He went to pick up ds from school. When he got back he commented that his jacket was a bit grubby. I said take it off and I'll wash it for you.

Went to get the washing out half an hour later and out into to the dryer and oulled out his rather sorry looking passport! I felt sick and started to panic. He said calm down. He is a much more laid back person than me. I used my hairdryer to dry out the pages so they could separate. You could read all his details although the laminate pages were separating at the corners. I did an extensive google search. Lot's of incidence of this mishap. It seemed to depend whether the passport could still be scanned. The airline (BA) could refuse to let him fly. I had hardly any sleep.

Anyway, his passport scanned no problem at Heathrow and the guy at the desk laughed when he saw the passport. Now I will be waiting for a call to say whether he gets in at LA. I think it should be fine because he goes to the conference every year and his fingerprints are on the system.

I really needed my yoga class this morning to de-stress! The garden is very colourful and I haven't need to water it for the past few days. I have some flower plants to put in pots tomorrow.

Thanks for all the kind words on me feeling under the weather last week. Feeling much perkier this week. I am trying to sort my diet out to get it balanced right now I don't eat meat.

Tiem to cook dinner and then come back and catch up on the thread properly.

ceridwen

While I'm thinking about "special little (green) area" - I have read that there is some sorta wildlife that is deemed rare/to be preserved and if any is found on an area that a developer has their eyes on then that stops things firmly in their track.

Only thing is - I cant recall what the particular wildlife is - does anyone know please? as I think I had better "import" a bit of that (whatever-it-is) into the area as well to help protect it.

lizzyb1812

I think there are all sorts of wild creatures whose habitats have to be preserved - birds, insects, newts, etc. Your green area would need to be the sort of habitat that a specific protected species required.

Have a look here:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1084063038&type=RESOURCES

silvermaid

Hi Ceridwen, it seems to me that plants are not huge problem for developers although I think some rare orchids might be. Many plant species are protected from picking and digging up, but not from developers.
This site seems to be about developers http://www.amaenvironment.co.uk/protected-species/
But it is all about animals no plants are mentioned.

ceridwen

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

I think there are all sorts of wild creatures whose habitats have to be preserved - birds, insects, newts, etc. Your green area would need to be the sort of habitat that a specific protected species required.

Have a look here:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1084063038&type=RESOURCES

Thank you for that:D

More plants it is then by the look of it - eg mosses and lichens sounds possible..will investigate..

ceridwen

silvermaid wrote: »

Hi Ceridwen, it seems to me that plants are not huge problem for developers although I think some rare orchids might be. Many plant species are protected from picking and digging up, but not from developers.
This site seems to be about developers http://www.amaenvironment.co.uk/protected-species/
But it is all about animals no plants are mentioned.

Thank you. Hmmm...rare orchids...some more investigation due here then...

I'm quite happy to import any plants that seem possible. A bit more problematic re something like toads - though in extremis...but I wont be kissing them hoping to find my Prince after all this time. Prince Charming obviously caught the wrong bus a long time ago and got lost the other end of the country...

Quick initial glance - badgers are mentioned. Yay! We have badgers...Now wonders how to find them - but I've had enough comments about them snuffling round the place..

pennib

kidcat wrote: »

Can I ask are the monkey nuts you are planting just normal in the shell type you buy at Asda? Our hamsters love eating them and if the kids could grow some for them it would thrill them to bits.

Hi Kidcat; yes they were monkey nuts. I unshelled them and stuck them into compost. It's just for fun really to see what they are like. It would fun to do with children.

pennib

Forgot to add that they are in the coldframe so they have some shelter. Or could grow them on a sunny windowsill.

meanmarie

Ceridwen...snails are a great 'stopper' for development....we had a motorway stopped for a long time some years ago due to a rare snail habitat on its designated path....think they eventually built a bridge to raise road over site...not sure if it would work against developers though...

Marie

Rowan9

Haribo - hope you have ended the week in a better financial position. It's not fair that people don't pay up on time for work already carried out.
Nice evening here now thank goodness.
Collected a library book I'd ordered - it's a brilliant book about wild places in Britain, called funnily enough The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane. I've read it before - really descriptive writing about woods, mountains, lochs. Fab stuff.
Off for an early night. See? I told you I was saving electricity;)