Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Davesnave

Exmoor's white, so Dartmoor will be white too, but here it's just heavy hail and sleet, with breaks between each cloud.

With the hedges leafless, I can sit here and see headlights on the different lanes around, much of it probably delivery vans full of Christmas goodies, bought on t'Internet.

Country life is soft nowadays!

Davesnave

PN, that bug you have looks like the thing I had, in which case you're in the right place for fixing it.

Might not be a two hour job though! :mad:

GDB2222

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's snowing

:eek::(

It's snowing here, too. The 80-y-o lady across the road has a chap round regularly to wash her car. Bizarrely, he's standing in the snow pressure-washing it at the moment.

GDB2222

Davesnave wrote: »

Exmoor's white, so Dartmoor will be white too, but here it's just heavy hail and sleet, with breaks between each cloud.

With the hedges leafless, I can sit here and see headlights on the different lanes around, much of it probably delivery vans full of Christmas goodies, bought on t'Internet.

Country life is soft nowadays!

Can you stay indoors (mostly) on a day like this?

lostinrates

I think in spring, when its warm again, I might advertise for a lodger. It looks increasingly like I'm going to be without dh here regularly for a couple of years and a lodger's money could be set aside to off set against flights.

chewmylegoff

Snowing in London too but definitely not settling. I'm an hour late for work already and I'm still 20 mins away. Whoops!

Wheezy_2

Davesnave wrote: »

With the hedges leafless, I can sit here and see headlights on the different lanes around, much of it probably delivery vans full of Christmas goodies, bought on t'Internet.

All of them on their way to LIR's place after the tip-off they got yesterday.

We had a bit of sleet here earlier in the morning, now it just rains. Not a nice weather to walk doggy.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can you stay indoors (mostly) on a day like this?

Yes.

Everything's so wet ATM I'd be fighting a losing battle with most jobs outside, but I have plenty of undercover space where I could, say, make a gate, or treat some plants against vine weevil etc

But it's nice & warm in here!

tomterm8

Have moved the sheep up closer to the house. Snow is very cold but wet, so it is not settling, but we are just being safe.

lostinrates

the thing is, don't know but guess its the same or worse where davesnave is, that the more you do in wet ground the more you damage the ground ....it gets compacts, and poached and muddy and yuck. Its best to hole away indoors. I might go out and paint some planks with wood preservative under cover though: nothing get damaged doing that:)


I woke up with a healthier frame of mind about the ''foreign'' thing this morning and keep seeing thins that support this position. We've heard, despite the grim news, things on the financial ground in Italy aren'tas bleak as one might think. There is a lot to like about being more fluid in our personl borders again, and the working environment was better for dh. Being paid in euros but a sterling mortgage does leave my heart in my mouth though! Have spoken to my family about the other option and they sound game for me. My heart breaks longer term if we do sell and go there for my dad, who wanted to live here with us, and who said to me that we musn't consider him in our decision. He'd be all alone now that my mum has left him, and though we were never very close I find it a heartbreaking idea. He's got lots of friends in London though. In any case, we'd sort something ut where ever th longer term future is, although it might mean I stop looking at plain english kitchens that we'd never get the money back on (and might not be able to save for with the exchange rate potential!). If we go to NYC longer term we've decided we'd weekend,but in an unfashionable direction so we don't weekend near in laws (been having a look at places for sale online), ...who knows I might even meet my MiL, lol. (if we do this look out for posts wondering how I can avoid meeting mil) Looking at figures over and over again we'd be so much better off in NYC....its hard not to consider that in a longer term decision.

In anycase I feel more resolved towards a long term future potentially being on the move again. Short term I'm not going anywhere


edit: I know gen didn't...so you don't have to leave MSE if you leave europe, right?