Daydream thread continues.....

Itismehonest

Mornin'

Rats - ugh. The first thing to do is check whether or not your local council still deals with them. If they do, the local pest control man will be the expert on what to use.
We had a problem when a neighbouring property pulled down an old lean-to & made the rats homeless. They all decided that our animal sheds & chicken houses made ideal holiday homes The pest man came & put down the appropriate bait, gave specific advice on things we could do to discourage them & also suggested cats (we hadn't kept them before that). As he said the cats can make sure any young rats are disposed of which baiting may miss.
It certainly worked in our case.

Terriers can also be very good but, if you live in an area with loads of rabbits you have to be careful that they don't disappear down holes & get stuck. It happens fairly frequently around here. Some starve down & escape themselves, some are heard & get dug out but, unfortunately, if the dogs have gone off by themselves & disappeared, some are never seen again.

CTC - You were going to send me a link? I'm eagerly waiting.

Weather - is sort of doing ...... nothing. Grey, air fairly still, mild....ish. Uninspiring probably says it all

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

:cool::cool::cool::cool: i will settle for a crummy house, even if it a little bit of land:cool:;)

So would I, but DW won't, so we will spend the savings.

Then, no more interest payments to bolster the income, but by then only a year till I'm an OAP. Timing is everything here!:rotfl:

Weather here better than yesterday, but then, so am I, and that makes a big difference.

lucielle

Lovely, shiny day here but am stuck in work.
L

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Itismehonest wrote: »

CTC - You were going to send me a link? I'm eagerly waiting.

just pm'd you...... sorry but my head is all over the place ( as usual:D)

annie123

Back from holiday and a nice new thread I needed that time away and feel so much better for it, except for the tooth abscess that I have, but never mind.

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

free listing weekend on fleabay, so it looks as though they are doing 2 a month on average....

what i have read on other threads, people are doing the listings on fleabay, but putting them to start on x day and x time ( so actually starting doing the listings on a friday), BUT when the free listing days arrive, they are then going into the listings and changing the listing time to start straightaway...so this saves some of the hassle of doing the listings one after the other etc, and the listings can finish on a certain time in the evening;)

Thank you for that, I'm just starting lisiting again after many years as DD has now moved out with her junk (DS already gone) and hubby and I [STRIKE]want to move before she moves back[/STRIKE] can now start to think about where and what we want to do with our lives, as living in a 3 bed 1st floor maisonette with non direct access to a small garden in London isn't it.

I have learned lots from here including:
Remember your body will be 50 this year, (even if your brain thinks it's still 30) and it may not want to look after loads of acres of land by time you get round to doing it or a few years after.
So we have decided that an acre is plenty for us, enough for a good veggie plot, small fruit orchard, bees, chickens, ducks and a pond and a flower garden. I'd love a small woodland bit too.....well maybe a bit more than an acre but not much more.;)

lostinrates

annie123 wrote: »

Back from holiday and a nice new thread I needed that time away and feel so much better for it, except for the tooth abscess that I have, but never mind.




Thank you for that, I'm just starting lisiting again after many years as DD has now moved out with her junk (DS already gone) and hubby and I [STRIKE]want to move before she moves back[/STRIKE] can now start to think about where and what we want to do with our lives, as living in a 3 bed 1st floor maisonette with non direct access to a small garden in London isn't it.

I have learned lots from here including:
Remember your body will be 50 this year, (even if your brain thinks it's still 30) and it may not want to look after loads of acres of land by time you get round to doing it or a few years after.
So we have decided that an acre is plenty for us, enough for a good veggie plot, small fruit orchard, bees, chickens, ducks and a pond and a flower garden. I'd love a small woodland bit too.....well maybe a bit more than an acre but not much more.;)

Imo the shape of the plot is also important. Our garden garden, is about half an acre, but it surrounds the house, provides at least four, maybe six different 'rooms'. With the veg plot and the Cake and the orchard its around an acre......but the veg plot can feel very far away from the house.

An acre is just enough to keep on top of with hand tools, though i find the grass in the half acre to be a long days, more like two half days, when mowing with our insufficient mower. With dh full time here we could keep on top of more, but he isn't and frankly, want some life too!

Having the digger in has almost made me weep with the comparitive fulity of much of our effort. Particularly the veg plot. Weeks and weeks and weeks went into half the one long bed, the other half finished before eleven am yesterday. The day dh spent digging holes for the pear trees, the last hole took five mins, becuase the digger had to change to the small bucket, other wise it would have been one.


I once read an artical by a rural property agent that said its too tempting to buy too much, and actually well maintained acre or two was worth vastly more than poorly managed ten, and was more economical to run.

Also, if you have more than small paddocks and expect farmers help there is a point.....i think more than around five/six acres and less thana bout thirty, where you are not that popular a customer for a contractor. You are nopt a premium charge five minute whipe round, not are you a serious days work ata time.....so you are the bottom of the list.:o

lostinrates

Oi , alfie......over here !!!

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Oi , alfie......over here !!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Too late - she's gone shopping. She was in such a hurry that I'm not sure she even registered we'd already left :rotfl:
Do we lay a trail here or should we just PM her a link to the new place? :cool:

lostinrates

Can you pm her itsme?

I have still to repsond to a pm from you too...and another, and my n box is full and i just never get round to it atm....i am being a bit hopeless i am afraid!


Digger man spotted me eyeing up snow drops to move in the green, and with a basket of reduced primroses and frittlaria and asked me not to pllant up new wild flow garden yet as he might have to dump more soil there. Now am i to plant my holly, but i am aloud to put some rotted manue in the new trench. I love my new trench, it isn't a lot but its something big we have changed and a first step at a little bit more security.

Itismehonest

Yea, no prob. I'll do it now

Don't worry about a reply to me if you're busy ...... it was just a chatty PM as I recall - it didn't really require a reply.

Digger man is wise.
What doesn't get dug up has a good chance of getting squashed beyond oblivion or floating away in a large digger-induced puddle if it rains.
Keep everything happily & safely away from all builders & equipment. You'd be amazed where they do things like empty out the wash from cement-mixers. _pale_