Daydream thread continues.....

alfie_1

has anybody else noticed that ROZEE has blossomed !!:T

to me when she 1st posted here she was hesitating about her dream and needed a wee bit of a boost of reassurance....NOW....theres no stopping her ..:rotfl::rotfl:

its great [imo] that she is embracing this new life , hitting the ground running ,and is very much now a leading light in "going for it"
well done rozee.:)

CTC....the next chapter is yours...:D

oops..apologise for the ground running bit, forgot littlun did just that ...:o:o:o

Itismehonest

Hi Coff & welcome :hello:

Sorry to hear about littl'uns mishap, rozee.
You need the welly socks to go with your particular style of Hunter. The ordinary boot itself isn't designed for warmth, as you say.

LIR - Love the Miss World photos. Do we get them in bathing suits & evening gowns next?

ukmaggie45

Rummer wrote: »

Remember to check the book people for fabulous bargains and there are usually discount codes about on the boards too.

Back when I was doing the school bookshop (mid 80s) we had sale or return from a local bookshop (now sadly gone). All profits went to the school, but I got to say how spent! :rotfl: One memorable year on International Book Day we had lots of balloons (aaarrrggghh we did use a balloon pump but it was still hard!) and gave every single child in the school a balloon and a Ladybird Book of their choice (we hadn't made enough profit to give more expensive books). Every Christmas we purchased a book for the school library that they might not have bought otherwise. Usually hard back books with great illustrations. Terry Jones "Fairy Tales" possibly springs to mind as one. This was all back in the mid 80s, so no Amazon back then, we didn't sell books cheap (nobody did back then) but we did offer a service to local Mums so they could see and buy books without having to make a trip into town. And on Parent - Teacher evenings we'd always set up the bookshop, parents would buy a book if kid got good report from teacher.

I kind of miss it still, but now will be indulging the GrandTwins with books I guess! :beer:

rozeepozee

Maggie, I know the twins aren't your's in that they didn't pop out of you But as a grandma, well, in my book they're your's too. Grandparents=very important in my opinion and, I don't know if it's my Asian heritage, but I consider kids belong to the family, not just the parents.

LIR thanks for the pics of the chooks. It's good to know what an ideal beak looks like. When I lived in Pakistan, I adopted a chicken that had a totally crossed over beak so bad that I had to feel it little pieces of chapatis by posting them into the side of its beak. I think Pakistan is where I got my love of Anglo-nubian goats from too. All these animals were around and about the back yard: plus the buffalo, snakes and scorpions :eek:

Glad we have a lot less creepy crawlies here, but I am being eaten alive by mosquitos. I killed one in the bathroom the other night but today I have 15 bites on my legs, arms and back! Thanks heavens for my aloe vera plant or I would be itching to death.

Thanks for your feedback, Alf. It's always fascinating to hear how others perceive you. I think you're right. I had a very comfortable, risk free life in Sheffield and a nice community of friends which I had built up over the years, but I've always loved change and a challenge as a youth. It was just whether or not it was a sensible thing to do when I was in my forties and had just had two babies! We were only just settling properly having moved back from Sydney in 2004. I did a Decisional Balance Sheet in the year before we made the move to Wales. I'll have to dig it out (probably on my iphone) and remind myself what it said. Basically, it was a gamble, I've lived in very large towns or cities all my life, but you're a long time dead and I've always felt in my zone when in touch with nature and animals. Even if it doesn't "work out", which I believe it will, at least we gave it a go. One of the things I live my life by is Charlotte Bronte's quote "Better to try all things and find all empty than to try nothing and leave your life a blank".

Books! My kids love 'em. We're half and half Welsh and English in our cobbled together home collection and believe it or not, I am teaching my son to read - in Welsh :eek: However, saving furiously to fund the refurb means new books are more or less out. Thank god for charity shops. We have a good library in town so I'll see if they stock the ones you mention, maggie.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie.... I totally agree with you on Rozee...She is blossoming..and feeling totally at home down here in wales...

I like the bronte line Rozee... I allways say its best to regret things for the right reasons, rather than the wrong...

If things go belly-up for us, well at least we tried, and i did have my dream for a while ( havent had the bl00dy keys yet..lol.)

Weather has turned quite cold here today...so i am glad the only thing i have planted out is the garlic.

My Bluebell Cockeral isnt looking very good:o He is getting on a b it, and the younger cockeral is now trying to take over from him, so he was picking on him yesturday...so we put the bluebell in a run of him own now...

Got eggs coming out of my ears now:rotfl: we had 10 all together yesturday... and we have one girl who is laying huge eggs with double yolkers:T
Made 24 mini bacon, onion and cheese quiches, within half hour of them coming out of the oven, they had scoffed the lot:rotfl:
I think one day, i will just spend most of the day making them, to mainly use some of the eggs up, but to put in the freezer too.

LIR.... WOW your ground is dry!!!!!! i should imagine with huge cracks like that in the soil, its hard to walk on without twisting your ankle in those cracks....

rozeepozee

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Alfie.... I totally agree with you on Rozee...She is blossoming..and feeling totally at home down here in wales...

I like the bronte line Rozee... I allways say its best to regret things for the right reasons, rather than the wrong...

If things go belly-up for us, well at least we tried, and i did have my dream for a while ( havent had the bl00dy keys yet..lol.)



Got eggs coming out of my ears now:rotfl: we had 10 all together yesturday... and we have one girl who is laying huge eggs with double yolkers:T

Thanks, CTC

BTW, double yokers are like gold dust around here. My son loves them and i buy them off the Egg Lady at the market for £1.25 per half dozen. They're not guaranteed double yokers as she goes by how much they weigh but about 4 in 6 are. That's a nice little earner with a 25% uplift on your average half dozen price.

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Alfie.... I totally agree with you on Rozee...She is blossoming..and feeling totally at home down here in wales...

I like the bronte line Rozee... I allways say its best to regret things for the right reasons, rather than the wrong...

If things go belly-up for us, well at least we tried, and i did have my dream for a while ( havent had the bl00dy keys yet..lol.)

Weather has turned quite cold here today...so i am glad the only thing i have planted out is the garlic.

My Bluebell Cockeral isnt looking very good:o He is getting on a b it, and the younger cockeral is now trying to take over from him, so he was picking on him yesturday...so we put the bluebell in a run of him own now...

Got eggs coming out of my ears now:rotfl: we had 10 all together yesturday... and we have one girl who is laying huge eggs with double yolkers:T
Made 24 mini bacon, onion and cheese quiches, within half hour of them coming out of the oven, they had scoffed the lot:rotfl:
I think one day, i will just spend most of the day making them, to mainly use some of the eggs up, but to put in the freezer too.

LIR.... WOW your ground is dry!!!!!! i should imagine with huge cracks like that in the soil, its hard to walk on without twisting your ankle in those cracks....

Its not that dry everywhere, but its a great comparison to the beds which are like loam. Also goes some way to explaining how hard the Wreck has to work to stay standing upright, its not surpsing she has a few cracks and droops, is it?:D

RAS

I have a photo from 26 April 2010 after the long cold spring. it shows the lotties in hibernation; one solitary plum (possibly damson) tree in full bloom and the rest huddled up against the weather.

lostinrates wrote: »

In flower of leaf now:

peach, japanese quince, tulips, black thorn, plums, still some daffs, wall flowers,

Flowering currant and the first red currants, first wild strawberries

and the forsythia.....?

Based on last year, the peaches will be fine. They survived a much later frost here when the buds on some vines and the early potatoes were knackered.

Pears, apples and later plums in bud up here as well. Could be out in a week/10days if the weather had held up, which would be 3 weeks early really.

Dave - question for you. Very early flowering prunus with red leaves used in ornamental planting? it turn up in our park as a tall thin tree and have medium small black plums in August although it may well have been planted post WW11. it flowers a lot earlier than sloe here, maybe two weeks earlier?

Bit of a panic with the bizarre weather; plants and bees.

My vines are budding up nicely, just starting to unfurl, so I have dragged them off the ground and onto stakes to keep the buds clear of the low frost. It has worked in the past two years; get the bottom half metre shorn of buds but otherwise OK.

Our bees colonies have done rather too well.

The one that we feared to lose is now in a better state than when they went into winter - we had to give them another brood box. Everyone says this is a mistake but they filled one already drawn comb with nectar between Sunday and Wednesday last week. Everyone tells us there is no nectar out there at this time of year.

The other colony needs to be managed by artificial swarm as soon as they have queen cells as they are abundant (nearly filling two boxes). For this time of year they are huge and the queen is laying like a trooper. Just we cant find her and her marking has worn off!

Both will be set back by the turn in the weather. If it is a few days, they have enough feed to see them through; if it is a week or more, we need to keep hefting and to feed if they go light. Whatever happens we need to get the larger colony under control ASAP.

The good point being that the weather is supposed to be better by Friday.

Davesnave

Wow! Lots to catch up with here! Where to start????

Maggie, I too ran the school book shop from the late 70s and through the 80s. Guess who my supplier was?.....DW! She was then in charge of the children's dept in her parent's book shop, but they sold up prior to the Net Book Agreement ending. A wise move!

Personally, I think books are rarely 'too old' for any child; it's the presentation that matters. Once we'd given our baby Usborne's First 1000 Words there was no going back.....the Ladybirds were unceremoniously dumped....not enough going on! Similarly, I've done Dickens and J L Stevenson etc with top juniors lapping it up, but not whole books. Bit of this, bit of that to show 'em what's out there, and those who want to, run with it....:cool:

I digress...Who was it cooking their lettuce seed? Can't remember, but it's not a good idea. Lettuce germination is inhibited by high temperatures.;)

Ooh yes, thanks for the teach-in on beaks & feet lir. I will look at the hens in a more informed way now. We are giving them a pretty good once-over ATM thanks to an outbreak of lice, which has only affected the 4 low perchers. Everyone has been diatomed, and the diatom dust bath is back too, but we seem to be clear following a few drops of Ivermectin on the 'unclean' birds. Lucky we can do egg withdrawal just for the treated hens.

RAS, could it be a variant of Prunus cerasifera pisardi? I think that's what my neighbour said she had in Bath, and the description fits, except for the fastigiate habit. Hers was definitely a wide tree.

Keys Thursday eh, CTC? Have a housewarming drink for me! :beer: :j

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

RAS, could it be a variant of Prunus cerasifera pisardi? I think that's what my neighbour said she had in Bath, and the description fits, except for the fastigiate habit. Hers was definitely a wide tree.

Looks good - very pale pink flowers?

The reason the trees are tall and thin is that they were planted too close together and not culled, so everything in the canopy is tall and thin.