Daydream thread continues.....

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

I know...i will have to go crazy with fleece and pull the pelagoniums in again:o

Big splodgey blotches. Like blackspot on a rose. But without the yellowing. Not all have it, one has worse than others, and his neighbours are fine. The ones that have it also seem to have naturally darker leaves and stems ( i wanted all dark ones, and thought ilex aquafolia native would all be the same)

It sounds like it could be holly leaf blight

alfie_1

hello everybody....

LIR...yes im FREE...any day but only if it is spare to you which it sounds like it will be a sqeeze....:D my mutts are all friendly but i wont take em to L's so yours can have a good gambol round the big field without my BIMBLE bossing them around....:rotfl: he wants to play but he gets vocal and that can be perseeved by some doggies as agression but its not...:o .

ROZEE ....welcome to kacker ville once youve got a trailer thats it, stig of the dump, steptoe...:rotfl::rotfl:

RUMMER...hope you are ok:)

CTC....glad you did well with your sales..:)

sorry memory of postings now blipped....:o

ive been having sheep shorn today....:o i know ..the bl**dy temperature will drop now !! its cooler here but still 13d. im paranoid about them getting fly strike so they had a short back and sides...:D they have to be clipped twice a year. they love it cos they can wiggle thier tails now..:rotfl: theyve got 2 big sheds to go in and a years subscription to weight watchers that they obviously ignore so they will be fine..

my mum and dad have been collecting long logs/branches etc and sawing them into logs each time they walk thier dog in the woods behind them and i was asked to collect it from thier shed today.....i FILLED a trailer !!:D i did glance towards the woods to see if there was any trees still standing !!;)
bless em, at thier age too !!

RUMMER....i have brought the best of the fleeces home and i will sift through it BUT can anyone tell me at/in what state rummer will be able to work with them ie...do they go as is or do i have to clip off the tatty tips/tops . underneath is a golden yellow almost...like pale butter.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Wow it was cold this morning, did warm up later..

well luceille the money elves did come out:cool::D

There was stock fencing in the auctions 3 lots of 5, had 5 x 50 metre rolls for £135, which wroked out just over £26 a roll:T
normal price in local agri merchants was just under £44 a roll, so a really good buy..

Also bought a 6 foot cast iron feed trough ( with the sectional wire over the top) got that for £35:eek: but the other ones, which were shorter went for approx £50:eek:, I think the other buyers wanted them for planters.....

could have bought more bits, but had to restrain myself, but i am only buying the essential....

Well done on the trailer Rozee....

Our friends said we can use theirs, so this will save us spending money....

There was soooooooooo much carp on the field for auction, and some of it was going for silly money, soooooooo any junk we have we are going to take with us next month

alfie_1

GOOD BOOK FOR ANYONE WANTING "RURAL" STYLE IDEAS......

PERFECT ENGLISH FARMHOUSE by ROS BYAM SHAW

maybe at yr library as its a £30 book ! maybe cheaper on amazon? but beut book

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Dave
The drainage field or mound should be sited at least 10m from any watercourse or permeable drain;
At least 50m from the point of abstraction of any ground water supply & not in any Zone 1 groundwater protection zone;
At least 15m from any building
LIR
Not sure about where you are but the temperature will go down to freezing or below in some places next week.

Ha, Mr Dog has made a muck of that then, though it would have been OK perhaps until he disturbed it. Now this is a new installation, so surely subject to newer Regs. Thanks for the info. Always good to have stuff like this up one's sleeve!

I phoned the other neighbor, who said they'd had serious trouble around Christmas, drained the tank right down and had a leak repaired. He thought it was all fine now. I wonder if this black stuff is some residue from that event?

The wet area is about 30m from where their outflow pipe enters our land. I dug beneath the black water and the soil was a normal colour, which is encouraging. If we're not happy, we'll get the digger on the case when it returns here.

Our drainage field starts almost exactly 30m from our tank and it's easily ID'd at present, but there's no water at the surface.

LIR, it might even touch freezing tonight.......:(

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

It sounds like it could be holly leaf blight

Oh !!!!!!ation.

If i gcut off all efeected leaves i think that will be all leaves. . I will also contact the nursery i bought them from on monday. !!!!!!, !!!!!!, !!!!!!.

lostinrates

I will ask dh to bring pelargoniums in to night then. But everything else will have to tough it.

lucielle

Davesnave wrote: »

Having just caught up with the thread, no we are not in a ANOB, though I reckon we should be, and there are SSSIs nearby in the valleys. Here, we've mixed arable and pasture because there's a finger of good soil and relatively flat land on the tops. The arable is all managed via huge tractors & machinery, probably very efficiently too, but it can be quite noisy in spring, and later, at harvest time. I prefer that to the earlier use of the land close to us, which was as a huge pig farm!

Sorry to hear of possible problems for your business lucielle. I think the tough times have a long way to run, which is why I'm here and not wantonly spending the kids' inheritance! They may need something to fall back on yet....Only this week DD1 received news that part of the organisation she works for was to be axed....and it then took another 48 hours for them to say exactly who was going.:mad:

Not her, fortunately.

As for cars and youngsters, both of mine passed at 18/19 and then had no vehicle to drive for years. It was the same for me, with 5 years between passing and driving again. I still remember my girlfriend of the time asking why I kept hitting the hedges!

Ah yes, my mate was given an early 1950s BSA Bantam when I was about 14 or 15, which we used in a rough field for scrambling. All was well until someone unused to leaping over bumps went through a barbed wire fence and needed a hospital stay. Once our parents found out about the bike, and why we were coming home so dirty, that was the end of that!

Sorry not made myself clear. We both work, me 4 days and OH does shifts, as well as have a business. At the moment OH works 2 days on and 2 off, we employ somebody to cover his 'on' days. Its these shifts that are changing and the proposed pattern isn't conducive to running the business.

Ultimately OH wants it to be his full time occupation but as you can see from my siggy, we need to get that cleared and a buffer zone in place.

DS1 had his first driving lesson, it went well. I think I've managed to get DD1 some lambing experience, the only downside I'll have to be up at 4.45am to get her to the house for her lift.:eek:
L

lostinrates

Alfie, mine would love a vocal bimble, so long as he runs! Will sort out next weekend an tomorrow and let you know which day tomorrow,

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Ha, Mr Dog has made a muck of that then, though it would have been OK perhaps until he disturbed it. Now this is a new installation, so surely subject to newer Regs. Thanks for the info. Always good to have stuff like this up one's sleeve!

I phoned the other neighbor, who said they'd had serious trouble around Christmas, drained the tank right down and had a leak repaired. He thought it was all fine now. I wonder if this black stuff is some residue from that event?

The wet area is about 30m from where their outflow pipe enters our land. I dug beneath the black water and the soil was a normal colour, which is encouraging. If we're not happy, we'll get the digger on the case when it returns here.

Our drainage field starts almost exactly 30m from our tank and it's easily ID'd at present, but there's no water at the surface

Black stuff certainly sounds like some sort of organic decay ...... unless you've struck black gold, Texas tea (altogether now) Beverly Hillbillies style :cool:

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh !!!!!!ation.

If i gcut off all efeected leaves i think that will be all leaves. . I will also contact the nursery i bought them from on monday. !!!!!!, !!!!!!, !!!!!!.

Oh heck I hope it's not then if the bush is that bad already. How many bushes have the spots?

Lucielle - Ah, the joys of lambing. I hope DD has a strong stomach & a body clock which can function at strange hours.