Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Doozergirl

There but for the grace of god. I can't imagine how I'd cope if either of mine decided to be a soldier I'm very sorry for the family. Regardless of whether you were close, it can't be nice at all for you either, viva.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

How does the cpnsevratory feel? If yur weather has been anything like ours what a great day to get it done. Lots of windows to clean though! The sun will pour in there and be super i can imagine! How do you think you will use it now?

It feel spacious and (for today at least) a source of personal satisfaction that I have finally tackled it.

It's going to be a lovely place to sit whenever it's sunny, even in winter, but gloomy when the sky is grey, even in summer, I think. The temperature's fine - there's a radiator for winter, and in summer a nice draught can be produced by opening lots of windows on one side and the door to the garden on the opposite side.

I want to get a coffee table to put out there. I'll probably take my laptop out there on sunny days so I can enjoy the sun while catching up with all you lot!

lostinrates

It will be glorius when it rains out there. I love that sound of rain on the right roof.

tomterm8

Oh dear, viva. I hope you know we are all thinking of you and your extended family.


Now... y'all know about the sewage problem from last summer? Well, eventually after homeserve bodged the repair job up*, we manually fixed the problems and the drain has been working.

Until now.

A manhole maybe 150 yards away from our property boundary is now fill of water and flooding over. It's not from the same location as the other problem, my guess is we have another collapsed section of pipe.

It will hopefully be resolved by the water company... sigh. 'tis there problem now.

* that is not quite the word for it... they fixed the collapsed drain with a piece of pipe that didn't fit, so to block up the hole they surrounded it with a plastic bag and some concrete. Then they filled the hole back up. What these guys were thinking...

lostinrates

Remembe strawberry and tne sluury pit.......??

Just been in again after one of the salveggtionists. This time i kept my tshirt and knickers on, and she wasless wet. No farmer......

But traffic on the road breaking and pointing ant the mad woman half naked and filthy walking barefoot, dripping with a chicken under her arm and filthy, water logged pants that kept rolling down under the weight of the sh!tty water. Yuck. Then ha to hose self down woth cold water and hibiscrub. Waiting for hot water now.

There should be a tv show like. That hole in the wall thing...chook in cpslurry"..

lostinrates

Ohhh, tt. Rather be in the arm slurry than my own, thats for sure!

vivatifosi

Is there any way of covering the slurry pit with long battens and chickenwire lir? I have the strangest mental picture now. Thank goodness my mental images don't have smellavision. Poor you.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Is there any way of covering the slurry pit with long battens and chickenwire lir? I have the strangest mental picture now. Thank goodness my mental images don't have smellavision. Poor you.

That would make it more attractive i think........chickens like getting under wire! Generally its ok, they love picking around in the poop and its healthy for them. In a couple of weeks we can take the rain water off it on to the veg garden, then they will not risk getting stuck.....its the rain water that makes it not safe, because it gets glooy, not dry:o. Like poo stew...sort of the viscusity of chili

zagubov

Sorry to hear your news viva. I sometimes need to pause and think it's a privilege, and not a right, that I've reached the age I have, and it's a privilege denied to many.


Lydia, don't do what we did when we first got a house with a conservatory- we put our inherited freezer out there (nowhere else had room for it)! It was south-facing so the freezer struggled (and eventually failed)and we couldn't use a computer out there either. Became our laundry room in the end, as it had a sink.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

That would make it more attractive i think........chickens like getting under wire! Generally its ok, they love picking around in the poop and its healthy for them. In a couple of weeks we can take the rain water off it on to the veg garden, then they will not risk getting stuck.....its the rain water that makes it not safe, because it gets glooy, not dry:o. Like poo stew...sort of the viscusity of chili

I will never look at chilli in the same way again