Daydream thread continues.....

alfie_1

lir..............thats fine. c u tomorow.

Rummer

CTC I am so delighted for you :j I know how hard you worked to make the dream happen and I know you and your family will make a success of it.

LIR and Alfie sorry to hear your girls are tender, laminitis is a horrid condition.

To everyone else, I have been reading however my mind is a bit of a muddle. Been a tough week here however we are looking forward to a couple of days off over the weekend to relax and regroup.

Alexelisey

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

we have the keys!!!!!!!!!!!

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Fantastic news! :beer: We'll have a drink for you tomorrow - shame I didn't catch up with the thread until tonight! I will admit I haven't sorted the seeds yet but it shouldn't take too much longer... I'm off work until Tuesday (one of the perks of an office job) but I WILL do them - promise!

Have a great Easter weekend all :j

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Rhiwie.... when would you and DW like to come and give my place the once over? the only thing is there is no cold water:eek: and cant find the outside stopcock, so will have to phone the EA to ash the 'previous':D owners where it is, either that or one of the neighbours are playing funny boogers

CTC, will pm with tel no. Lets make it soon as you are ready!

Davesnave

Good to hear Special Girl looked OK this morning, lir.

After quite a nasty-looking, but relatively harmless frost, we had a lovely morning here. However, reminded of that prayer about things we have not done which we ought to have done, I was in a bathroom painting the ceiling... :mad:

Later, I was allowed out, so we planted a few trees in the new copse area, notably an oak rescued from the yard, and a European Nettle Tree I grew from seeds planted in 2007. The latter should be of interest to Lotus Eater, being the 'Lotus' in question, but it's under 5' tall ATM, so nothing to eat yet awhile.

Narrowly averted disaster tonight, when DW decided that it might rain and therefore I should move the vibrating road roller we've been loaned under cover. It all went very smoothly, until I tried to stop the thing, but having started it on choke, it wouldn't respond to closing the throttle....... :eek:
So, there I was, in a tight space, throwing this thing from forward into reverse & back again to buy some thinking time....and I couldn't think of anything, except, "Help!!" Luckily, before I demolished more than our recycling bin, I saw where the panic button was, but it was only afterwards that I understood why the thing wouldn't behave in the first place.

OK I'm a bloke, but next time, I will listen properly when people explain how to work machinery!

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Good to hear Special Girl looked OK this morning, lir.

After quite a nasty-looking, but relatively harmless frost, we had a lovely morning here. However, reminded of that prayer about things we have not done which we ought to have done, I was in a bathroom painting the ceiling... :mad:

Later, I was allowed out, so we planted a few trees in the new copse area, notably an oak rescued from the yard, and a European Nettle Tree I grew from seeds planted in 2007. The latter should be of interest to Lotus Eater, being the 'Lotus' in question, but it's under 5' tall ATM, so nothing to eat yet awhile.

Narrowly averted disaster tonight, when DW decided that it might rain and therefore I should move the vibrating road roller we've been loaned under cover. It all went very smoothly, until I tried to stop the thing, but having started it on choke, it wouldn't respond to closing the throttle....... :eek:
So, there I was, in a tight space, throwing this thing from forward into reverse & back again to buy some thinking time....and I couldn't think of anything, except, "Help!!" Luckily, before I demolished more than our recycling bin, I saw where the panic button was, but it was only afterwards that I understood why the thing wouldn't behave in the first place.

OK I'm a bloke, but next time, I will listen properly when people explain how to work machinery!

It never fails to amuse/exacerbate me that so many men in the world are employed to produce Manuals for all manner of machines & gadgets just to have almost every man ignore their existence.
It sits in a mental slot next to "Why will male drivers never ask someone directions?" :rotfl:

Happy Easter everyone :EasterBun :easter_ba

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

It never fails to amuse/exacerbate me that so many men in the world are employed to produce Manuals for all manner of machines & gadgets just to have almost every man ignore their existence.

Point taken, but to be totally fair, the instructions went something like:
"You see this switch? Well sometimes it doesn't quite catch, so just keep turning it and....hang on....if I undo this wire....yeah, that's it. Well, anyway, these rods control forward & reverse and the throttle's here. No clutch; it's auto."

And I said, "Yep, no probs."

Nobody mentioned stopping.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Point taken, but to be totally fair, the instructions went something like:
"You see this switch? Well sometimes it doesn't quite catch, so just keep turning it and....hang on....if I undo this wire....yeah, that's it. Well, anyway, these rods control forward & reverse and the throttle's here. No clutch; it's auto."

And I said, "Yep, no probs."

Nobody mentioned stopping.

Instructions from the last man who didn't read the manual, either, then

I am pulling your leg, you know?

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

I am pulling your leg, you know?

Yes, but you're right about not asking for directions. I always make DW do that! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Dh will ask forndirections, but has the worst swnse of direction and has often forgotten them in five steps or quarter mile in the car.

When he is wandering around london i quite often get a. All saying 'i am on the corner of this road and that road, where am i, how do i get home/ to the office'. And with in weeks of living with dh i jnew my way round hamsptead ( which before i had considered ome strange outpost of london in the remote north) and was showing him the way round.