Daydream thread continues.....

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Dunno davesnave, doesn't look big enough for brocks. I have not seen badgers just here, have seen them (dead) up in the higher villages, but not down here. I like badgers, but my guess is my dairy farmer neighbour who is a paragon of nature loving might feel wary of them.

If it is badgers, that's quite ironic. A protected species attacking a protected tree you have to laugh.

On the plus side, you may have a load of oak firewood for free

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I think only badgers could go through a tree root like that, can't think of anything else that could do it.

Dave, fairy rings, fungus? Sounds like it.

Tell you what, having 3 hens that all are different colours and lay different colour eggs, makes keeping an eye on them and seeing any problems a cinch. Brilliant idea. :idea:

......wish it had been mine :rotfl:

Whose was it? I recommend it sometimes. . It does make life easier.

I am in desperate straights with poo picking again. The bags are no good now, the car cannot cope with pulling them in, so i am looking for other affordable solutions. There is a superp tipping plastic trailer on ebay, one second hand in norfolk for £200 which i could afford, but could not get to norfolk to collect. New they are 750. I need sopmeone within a coue of hours of me to want to sell theirs.

The problem is four people might poo pick on different days, it needs to be big enough to take at least a whole days poop. The big plastic trailer would i think, just do that.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Had a glorious day out yesturday in St fagan.. so it looked as though we went on the right day.. took pics of fire places:D

and this lovely greenhouse


:rotfl:

We have decided when we find a perminant place for our greenhouse we are going to build a higher brick blynth and def look out for an old rayburn fire with a back boiler, so we can run pipes aroung the greenhouse.. an old neighbour from when i was small used to do this, and it worked very well, and cost alot less than a gas heater..

found some old pics in the house, so they think they might have been previous occupiers of the house ( the cottagers have been in the same family for approx 100 years)



and we think this is the same guy but older


talking about fireplaces....

when hubby was trying to clear more of the fire place ( to try and get it back to the original opening... he had this and a load soot fall on him:eek: he said it was exactly like a cartoon...LOL....
Rhiwfield... no hidden treasure or single shoes up that chimmley, only soot, twigs and mummifed squirrel:eek::eek:





Maggie i bet your hubby will find he will be so busy that he didnt know where he found the time to actually go to work...:rotfl:

Home from work again today.... anyother blow again this morning concerning work and i am not dealing with the stress of it all very well....

Going to do some transplating in the greenhouse this afternoon... so i can have a clear head to think with no interuptions...

Lotus-eater

It was my better half's idea, I think, can't remember really, may have been part mine, or maybe I just remember it that way

Lotus-eater

Deffo the same guy CTC, look at the ear.

I love stuff like that. Got to run otherwise I would do you a longer reply.
:wave:

lostinrates

Gosh, what a beautiful green house. I want one, i really do.

Itismehonest

:beer: Congratulations on mrmaggie's retirement.

:j for Lotus' layer

Keep an eye open for what you can find outside the hole under the tree, LIR. Badgers drag large amounts of bedding in & out. You will probably be able to tell what it is from what droppings are around.
A trailer which attaches to your ride-on is the easiest thing to use for poo-picking. As I've said before, it will also come in for a thousand jobs you never even thought of (hauling fencing, feed, etc. around), so is well worth the investment.

Great photos, CTC.
Anything printed on the back of the old photos?
Is that a slate lintel over the fireplace?
:rotfl: Either the squirrel was very busy or you've had something like jackdaws setting up home up there. Nests in chimneys can be an absolute pain.

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

:beer: Congratulations on mrmaggie's retirement.

:j for Lotus' layer

Keep an eye open for what you can find outside the hole under the tree, LIR. Badgers drag large amounts of bedding in & out. You will probably be able to tell what it is from what droppings are around.
A trailer which attaches to your ride-on is the easiest thing to use for poo-picking. As I've said before, it will also come in for a thousand jobs you never even thought of (hauling fencing, feed, etc. around), so is well worth the investment.

Great photos, CTC.
Anything printed on the back of the old photos?
Is that a slate lintel over the fireplace?
:rotfl: Either the squirrel was very busy or you've had something like jackdaws setting up home up there. Nests in chimneys can be an absolute pain.

I like badgers for their beds. I used to find they would clear up any hay left out after winter, so it made chucking hay out through winter.:D


They cannot half shift earth thugh. We had a huge number where we were last and i watched them shift a rail way embankment in no time. Amazing, but pretty decestation if they move something you need.

Itismehonest

Completely OT but .........

What the hell is this country coming to? Are people who do this sort of thing - or maim any animal, bludgeon old people to death etc. -'normal' by today's UK standards?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17935405

lostinrates

Brrrr.

I am making pasta tonight, but feels like i should be making beef stew. Its so cold!