Daydream thread continues.....

rainbowcattail

Wow sammykaye You have done brilliantly

Davesnave

Sammy_kaye that's great :T, but you do realise that most of the lawn will go......It's only a matter of time!

sammy_kaye18

rainbowcattail wrote: »

Wow sammykaye You have done brilliantly

Thank you.

Davesnave wrote: »

Sammy_kaye that's great :T, but you do realise that most of the lawn will go......It's only a matter of time!

Well my thinking is that my boyfriend has built himself a workshop at the bottom of the garden, and there is a nice big grassy park across the road from my house for the kids so the garden should be my little haven - surely - shouldnt it? only seems fair.

Itismehonest

Absolutely fair, sammy kaye There'll be no stopping you now :j

Congratulations on the win, Dave.

It's donkeys years since I went to the old London markets. From what I've seen of them on TV they've all, particularly Portobello, gone 'a bit Brighton' :rotfl: We used to pick up some great bargains in the 60s but they seem to have all gone very upmarket & professional.

Anyone remember Strongy? The Strong family sold all sorts at the markets. My favourite pastime was watching them stack a dinner service around a plate & then toss it to & fro between them while they did the patter. I don't think I ever saw them drop anything.

annie123

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

There is a monthly fair in spittalfield, London every month, and we were thinking of trying that... ok nearly 4 hours to get there etc, but maybe one good one a month would help us out a huge amount in work etc..

Traders market is open every day except Monday and Saturday
http://www.spitalfields.co.uk/traders.php#.T3DLwcUgduo

DD stops in the on the way into work sometimes, full of vintage stuff. Busiest on warm Sundays as it gets lots of tourists too.

alfie_1

a really quick hello and goodbye ! ive just got in from a real FOREST village hall auction that i didnt know was still running ! went about 10yrs ago. well it was full of some very "odd" people to say the least ! the "deer hunter" came to mind..... the prices were very low but then so was the standard of goods...the odd gem that went for good money. i ended up with a pair of vintage wood inlayed musical boxes from capri ???? a rug ????? and a set of ornamental vases with a matching figurine ????? i am hopeless..... but it totalled £11....
it was still going when i left !!
must add there was a bar there ! and 2 blokes and a lady [loose term] were absolutely plastered..one man had bought a crate full of cars for £16 and was convinced hed got something else for £90. but couldnt remember what! he was arguing with the cashier and getting cross cos he didnt have his number,didnt know what hed bought and then it turned out he didnt have any money either...i was P'ing myself laughing... classy auction or what !!

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

DAVESNAVE.... i use what looks like a huge corkscrew to screw out a hole start manually then i usually stand on a wibbly wobbly chair and wildly swing a sledgehammer in the direction of the post top ....

lostinrates wrote: »

Dave, re bashing in posts, doesn't pete have a driver on his tractor? Its the best solution as far as i am concerned!

Thanks for these, and itsme's input too, which hasn't popped up in the multiquote.

Pete does have a basher, but getting hold of Pete can be tricky, as he's a man in great demand, and there are little bits here that aren't worth getting someone in for.

Alfie, the auger you describe might work here or it might not because of the light soil and big stones. I reckon the ones that can be fitted to tractors might, though.

We shifted a fair bit of earth yesterday, skimming off the top of the area which was once 'field' (and with it about 20cm matted, mainly dead couch grass) replacing that with soil from the big heap we inherited that we dumped in the field two years ago. The 'heap' stuff has matured nicely, but it still has a lot of debris in it to be picked out. So, now we have a big heap of rotting down couch and more workable soil in the area that will be garden/small copse.

We also pulled out another tonne of dumped breeze blocks from the area by the stream. Thought we'd done them all, but closer inspection showed more were still lurking beneath the surface.:(:mad:

It's more soil shifting today, with the main garden area getting its full quota where there are hollows and a new pathway needs pulling out. We also hope to reclaim an oak, which was growing in the yard when we arrived and wasn't dug up quickly enough.:o Oh, and the polytunnel will be levelled inside with some of the material that's just outside. Then I can stabilize the bank that's left with a mass comfrey planting.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Congratulations on the win, Dave.

I think it was a one-off. The set-up was supplied locally and must've cost £500 - £600, but the old lady who was given it "did about 5 or 6 hours" and then announced she didn't want it!

That was 18 months ago, and she didn't change her mind.

Me, I'd have put a proper postcard ad in Chulmleigh, I think! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

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Alfie, the auger you describe might work here or it might not because of the light soil and big stones. I reckon the ones that can be fitted to tractors might, though.

the debris in our ground is part of why dh hates the two handled basher. He tends to hand dig a hole to start, check for debris, sometimes needs a pickaxe, then drives with the wood and mallet. Hips opinion is that he gets better 'feedback' as to whether what he is doing is possible, or if he is tring to drive something into breeze blocks.

Lotus-eater

alfie_1 wrote: »

must add there was a bar there ! and 2 blokes and a lady [loose term] were absolutely plastered..one man had bought a crate full of cars for £16 and was convinced hed got something else for £90. but couldnt remember what! he was arguing with the cashier and getting cross cos he didnt have his number,didnt know what hed bought and then it turned out he didnt have any money either...i was P'ing myself laughing... classy auction or what !!

This made me laugh over my breakfast