Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

peaceandfreedom

moo2moo wrote: »

My garden resembles a scale replica of The Somme post battle. Trenching from the house to the farthest flung corner of the garden in order to supply OHs new home with power. The hound from hell is hindering progress somewhat by randomly digging craters and back filling the bits I've dug. Looks like we'll have to take out a 60' tree rather than undermine it and theres the small matter of a rotten landie chassis right where I want to dig. Much garden rearranging is in order.

Blimey, you do take on some daunting projects! :eek:
I asked our nice electrician man how much it would cost to run electricity out to the shed at the end of the garden (we are not talking a huge garden either). He pursed his lips and said 'Oooh, about 400 quid'. I said, 'I see'.

So now I run an extension lead down there.

Piquant_2

moo2moo wrote: »

My garden resembles a scale replica of The Somme post battle. Trenching from the house to the farthest flung corner of the garden in order to supply OHs new home with power. The hound from hell is hindering progress somewhat by randomly digging craters and back filling the bits I've dug. Looks like we'll have to take out a 60' tree rather than undermine it and theres the small matter of a rotten landie chassis right where I want to dig. Much garden rearranging is in order.

Good lord Moo you're going to have arms like Madonna!

That is a heck of a task you've set yourself, hope the weather holds for you.

Piq

moo2moo

Am currently 15m down the garden. This involved an angle grinder, a pnematic concrete breaker, several wrecking bars, a saw and a very near miss with the LPG supply pipe. It also took two days.

Spent yesterday moving tat from in front of the rotten landie in order to shove it forawrd six feet so that I can tunnel under its current position in the hopes of rolling it backwards and continuing on my merry way. Plan B involves digging a much larger hole into which I can bury the entire landie thus dramatically improving the outlook from my future craft room window.

Hoping to get another 10m done this afternoon at which point I'll need a couple of days with a chainsaw to reduce the giant weeping willow to a heap of firewood before its roots start to invade the septic tank. Planning to stick a couple of dwarf fruit trees in its place in the autumn.

Watched American Pie the Reunion yesterday. I howled with laughter. Its so cheesy its funny. The acting is still abysmal as is the storyline, its still the best thing I've watched in ages.

Piquant_2

I don't know how you do it. I'm aching if I have to muck out a few horses.

Hope the landie rolls in the correct direction for you.

Piq

butler_helen

Morning moo - i thought id say hi, as i havent done so for nearly a year! I read your diary every day on the train - if you've not posted then I know I'm running early!

moo2moo

butler_helen wrote: »

Morning moo - i thought id say hi, as i havent done so for nearly a year! I read your diary every day on the train - if you've not posted then I know I'm running early!

or I'm running late or I haven't got anything to say, which seems to be happening more and more lately.

Hallo you! Hows things?

moo2moo

So much for a long lie in. I was rudely awaken at 5:30 by the OH stomping around the house in search of his new uniform which arrived earlier in the week and was dumped in a corner. He seemed rather surprised to find it in his wardrobe. Means I can finally chuck out the oil stained shirts and the ripped trousers and a whole heap of manky jumpers and better still I gain a new jacket for work. I suspect at some point someone at HQ will realise that every year OH orders XL everything apart from my jacket which comes as an XS but they insist he orders the lot even if he never wears it.

moo2moo

Royally !!!!ed up the current jumper. Used a kids age 8 pattern for the last one which came out as a 34" chest so why on earth I felt the need to use the adult small which is four pattern jumps up is a complete mystery. Its resulted in a jumper with a 40" chest which will swamp me. It doe explain why I'm about to run out of yarn way before I expected to. Hoping it will fit my little sister who has been hinting she'd like a bigger version of DD1s jumper for ages.... but I have a horrible feeling it will be too small for her.

Pants, pants, pants.

Managed a whoopsie raid at the village shop resulting in a weeks worth of shopping for a tenner. Everything was whoopsied. Milk was 5p a pint, bread 7p a loaf and fruit anything from 5p to a very extravagent 19p. Came out with a trolley full just before they shut for the weekend.

Had a shoite day at the Country Market. Didn't sell anything again but have arranged to borrow a drop spindle and have a few lessons on a spinning wheel. Am ridiculously over excited about this. Even discovered one of the marketeers keeps alpaccas and has a stash of fleece in her garage.

Plans for today involve further impersonations of a mole. Managed to move the chassis out of the way but will have to move it back again to tunnel further later on today. The DDs have riding lessons and lots of odd homework to do. Apparently DD2 is to cut pictures of stained glass windows out of magazines and catalogues. Not that I've ever spied such things in Argos or Tesco Direct and we tend not to subscribe to Church Window Lovers Weekly. The alternative suggestion is we visit a number of recommended churches and take photographs of their windows, thats assuming you can see them under the anti vandal covers, and assuming one has the time to nip to a cathedral or three.

moo2moo

Running late..... but I've made the leap into the great unknown.

mooomin

Ooh how exciting