Daydream thread continues.....

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Great video alfie.

As you said, it looks like rush hour in Tokyo! :eek:

My own pictorial effort is more modest. It's my comfrey bank, planted yesterday, with DW in the background getting ready to plant her geranium slope.



Do you think I might have a bit of bother with the comfrey invading the polytunnel? I suppose I might, but I'll have thick membrane on the floor on that side. Anyway, any that does will end up in the pongy barrel of feed!

Blimey, I'm glad to hear that photo was taken yesterday, Dave. If you've had the weather we've had today Mrs Dave & the barrow would be half way down the Taw by now :rotfl:

I don't know whether the comfrey will give you problems under the polytunnel but it usually grows pretty tall so am guessing you aren't concerned if it blocks the sun on that side.

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

im on a roll now............wonder if i could set up a web cam ?????

Don't do things by halves, me gal. How about the NF answer to this place in Dave's old stomping ground.

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

Don't do things by halves, me gal. How about the NF answer to this place in Dave's old stomping ground.

yep...i can see possibilities...:D
i can do cream teas [as long as LIR makes the cakies ] i can "do" a good mug of yorkshire...:D
get a few planks for people to sit on...on the driveway...:rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

yep...i can see possibilities...:D
i can do cream teas [as long as LIR makes the cakies ] i can "do" a good mug of yorkshire...:D
get a few planks for people to sit on...on the driveway...:rotfl::rotfl:

Well, the covenant on your place doesn't say you can't sell honey from the gate, does it? Who needs to sell eggs?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

Well, the covenant on your place doesn't say you can't sell honey from the gate, does it? Who needs to sell eggs?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

this is actually serious now...
do you think there is a way to get the honey ? without dismantling my bay window.!! if i could get a funnel fixed into the bottom of the bay, would it drip into a tube, into a pot ???

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

this is actually serious now...
do you think there is a way to get the honey ? without dismantling my bay window.!! if i could get a funnel fixed into the bottom of the bay, would it drip into a tube, into a pot ???

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I wouldn't want to be the one poking about at the wax on the comb to try it. :eek: :rotfl:

On a totally different subject ........ I've just found an online walk around my place which seems to either left the guy awe-struck or terrified. I can't work out which :rotfl: I'll PM it to you. Tell me which you think it is.

Afterthought.....
Who was it here who said they'd like to live miles from anywhere?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Yep honey is the way to go, maybe start a new trend with 'free range' bees

think you should have a listen to this Alfie:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2skW43HNpE&feature=fvwrel

ITSME... you have one great sense of humour.. very quick..:rotfl:


We are now totally stumped with the house now...we have hacked off 2 walls in one room, and done a 3rd wall this evening... notice i said the 'royal' we:p( i mean hubby did..lol)..
now this wall is the original wall seperating the 2 cottages, but when we hacked it off, by the dividing door that was put in, just before the new brick, the stone wall is totally straight? Like there was an original wide opening there when it was built???? I will take some pics tomorrow to show you, PLUS this wall also has raising damp, but when we took the old concrete and plaster off the stone work, there was a load od what looks like coal dust between the stones????

This house is def making our brains work..lol... so i am going to phone one of the local museums to see if they have any paperwork etc of the old coal mines that owned the house/ had it built..

Rain started this afternoon, and hasnt stopped, think its forcasted until thursday night/friday:o

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Yep honey is the way to go, maybe start a new trend with 'free range' bees

think you should have a listen to this Alfie:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2skW43HNpE&feature=fvwrel

ITSME... you have one great sense of humour.. very quick..:rotfl:


We are now totally stumped with the house now...we have hacked off 2 walls in one room, and done a 3rd wall this evening... notice i said the 'royal' we:p( i mean hubby did..lol)..
now this wall is the original wall seperating the 2 cottages, but when we hacked it off, by the dividing door that was put in, just before the new brick, the stone wall is totally straight? Like there was an original wide opening there when it was built???? I will take some pics tomorrow to show you, PLUS this wall also has raising damp, but when we took the old concrete and plaster off the stone work, there was a load od what looks like coal dust between the stones????

This house is def making our brains work..lol... so i am going to phone one of the local museums to see if they have any paperwork etc of the old coal mines that owned the house/ had it built..

Rain started this afternoon, and hasnt stopped, think its forcasted until thursday night/friday:o

oooooooo be caretull...i have this image of your OH tapping his hammer on a stone in the wall and evrything just falling all around it !!:(
seriously tho, i am assuming you have had/got structuall advice before you are taking down these wall !!:eek:
old places are not built with the same symetry as the new ones... its not seen as read that one wall is above/ below another without curving off ....:D
be interesting to see if historically the "black" infills could be solved.

sorry if that sounds party pooper just worried youll end up stuck in a pile of rubble...:D

choille

Lovely bright day but a chilling wind again - think the trees I moved have died of fright as they are all drooping.

Alfie - the vid of the dog with the ball an hosses was hilarious - the bee one plain scary.

CTC - goodness - mould? Ask a local historian about what they did buildng wise? Ask an old builder - they'll know about old constructions.

Just finished paper work stuff an ready for me pit.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

I don't know whether the comfrey will give you problems under the polytunnel but it usually grows pretty tall so am guessing you aren't concerned if it blocks the sun on that side.

It won't grow that tall, because I'll be harvesting it for feed in the summer months. My mature plants are up to about 2' now and just ready for a first cut. The bank needs to be covered with something, so my solution was comfrey, since nothing can compete with it. DW will still need to weed her geranium bit!

Itismehonest wrote: »

Don't do things by halves, me gal. How about the NF answer to this place in Dave's old stomping ground.

Ah, Paddy Wallace's place. I lived opposite him when we first arrived in the town and we were friends. At that stage his family was extremely poor. I remember being sorry for him, because they lived in an old church hall which always seemed to be freezing cold. His dad was a ginger haired Scotsman who kept his bees up on Exmoor and used a Land Rover to reach them. To this nine year old, it seemed a wild and precarious venture.....

Huh, Paddy could buy me out a few times over, nowadays! :rotfl:

If anyone wants to be seriously freaked-out, look at Bee Beards on the link above! :eek: