Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

What i should have added to the beak and foot photos, is obviously i do not breed from anythiong with poor beaks or feet. Sometimes its irksome whena bird is otherwise nice. Feet get issues as they get older sometimes, so have some of those genes floating about, but if its not right to start with i do not put its genes ion my flock pot.

Hoever, i have found on buying penned birds from breeders some feet straighten out when birds become free range.

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

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.

Yes, pale pink flowers, always early.

Those trees sound like our 'hedge' here which was never cut or culled. From that, we have managed to keep one hawthorn and an oak....and the oak is 4' from a drain run! :mad:

rozeepozee

Just got some quotes for windows (double glazed in wood), joinery and plumbing/heating on the build.

There goes over half the budget :eek: Ouch!

rainbowcattail

Hi Davesnave

That was me with the lettuce seeds, I sowed them in the greenhouse & it was baking hot in there. We are supposed to get colder weather this week so maybe that will help them. I hope I haven't killed them!

Pleased to see my dwarf fruit trees leafing up now, it's their first spring with us and they were looking pretty unlively up until this week.

x

alfie_1

rozeepozee wrote: »

Just got some quotes for windows (double glazed in wood), joinery and plumbing/heating on the build.

There goes over half the budget :eek: Ouch!

bu**ar i just wrote lots and i forgot to press the reply button and i cant be arssssed to write it all again so heres a quick summary...:D

ROZEE...did u try a quote from wickes for yr windows ??
LIR...do u have roof rack on landy incase u want canoe ??

im trying to decide wether to go to the "hillbilly" auction again tonite ....
sheep are loving a hair free life...:D one RAN today !!:rotfl:

mum has cleaned all my windows today [ is there a cruelty to oldies society ??]:D

i did a boot sale yesterday and did well so paid my fuel bill today...:D

ive pottered around today only stopping for a cuppa and to check my mum hadnt nosedived into a bush !!:D

CTC... im saving my bonfire for thursday to do a "choille" style celebration on you gaining your KEYS...:j:j

rozeepozee

Is there any money to be made in saplings? We've got them all over the place, many in places we need to clear them from because they are on or near the paths.

I'm sure I could pop them in pots for next to naught.

rozeepozee

We have quotes from two of the very reputable window merchants locally. We knew it wouldn't be cheap. Apart from anything else, the house the size it is, there's just a lot of everything.

I'll look at some of the national companies, alf. We're vey exposed however, so I don't really want to cut corners on the quality of the exterior and structure. I'd rather live without a kitchen and a bathroom for a few years - there's always the caravan :rotfl:and to be honest, we can kit out the utility room and one bathroom, I'm sure and just leave the rest as shells until we have some more cash....

Rummer

Things here are ticking by steadily, although I have done nothing in the garden and it is looking shocking :eek: it really needs weeded again.

Just realised as well that my fridge freezer is a goner

Judging by the week I have had I think a lottery win is in order :rotfl:

Davesnave

I'm all aches & pains tonight as everything we've done in the last two days has involved grovelling about on the ground or lifting heavy stuff. Basically, we've been planting more yew hedging and tweaking those that went in two weeks ago, so now they are all at the same level and in pretty straight lines....I hope!

While I'm sure it will be worth it, I'm not keen to do any hedge planting for a while. Growing the plants on in a nursery bed for a year seems to have worked well from an economic and a gardening perspective though. We were able to lift the plants with most of the soil still attached, so hopefully they'll hardly notice that they've moved, and at £1.50 each, they hardly broke the bank!

rozeepozee

Oh boy... we are almost thinking we are going to resite the static caravan...

If any of you recall the torture we gave ourselves because we couldn't site it where we wanted it to be permanently because of that really boggy field that we couldn't get it and the tonnes of hardcore across?

Well, that really boggy field is now almost bone dry and the ground pretty solid.... However, the temp site has been prepared and the caravan delivered and is sitting on it.

We think it'll take an additional day and a half of man and digger to relocate at this stage, but as it's not yet fully plumbed in and it's going to have to be moved at some stage anyway, it'll be cheapest to do it now, rather than in the summer or beyond. Ho hum.....