Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

Odd....I just quoted your last post CTC....and got the previous one, three in a row!

Anyway, what's under there definitely isn't Shergar, but there's a LOT of old concrete. The old bloke who once lived in our last house was a concrete fetishist, and we were short of soil, so when the foundations for the greenhouse and paths went in, anything resembling soil was removed and replaced with smashed-up concrete.

Also, in the corner of the plot, a big pond was shown on Victorian maps, so DW and I began 'mining' there to find over 2' of good infill soil, placed there presumably the stream was culverted. You can guess what went into the hole before we concreted over to make paths! :rotfl:

rhiwfield

Dave, when I moved to wales i got a solicitors letter saying I had taken the flue lining with me (from the coal fired rayburn stove) and that the stove could not have been used in its current condition. Basically told them to take a running jump, that the stove was in the same state as when we moved in 5 years previous and had given us sterling service over that period. Didnt hear a dicky bird after that

Well, its warmish, no rain, sun is sort of peering between clouds, got the garden as good as its going to be, just need to get washed and spruced up before guests start arriving

Summer raspberries dug up due to virus , to be replanted
Mainly growing dpm this year

alfie_1

morning all

suns out, flowers are out and im going out !!

son has informed me hes selling his subaru impreza now ! wants a van instead due to his work load and he cant fit a brushcutter in the sube....
weve just made a sign and stuck it on side of my parking area as this wekend is a food festival up the road so lots of passer byes.....

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

morning all

suns out, flowers are out and im going out !!

son has informed me hes selling his subaru impreza now ! wants a van instead due to his work load and he cant fit a brushcutter in the sube....
weve just made a sign and stuck it on side of my parking area as this wekend is a food festival up the road so lots of passer byes.....

So he'll want one of these I guess

COOLTRIKERCHICK

went to poultry auction yesturday....

I bought some 'crap' as hubby put it...:rotfl:

Ironing board 50p

'shabby chic' looking stool 50p ( only needs recovering before it can be sold on fleabay;))

metal kitchen stool with pull out steps £1:D could do with recovering, but will see

also bought 4 norfolk black/bronze turkey grown on chicks £4 each....with the main intention to have them on the christmas table....:o

I noticed the farmers were like busy bees around the place yesturday... tractors everywhere.... making the most of the sun... plus they want to get things done as its the Royal Welsh Show this week...


The 'Pig paddock' is now finished:T I think i have said that we bought some grass seed and springled it over the ground, so there is some sort of growth etc in there when we have some pigs at the end of august...but i will need some more....so if i go round getting the grass seeds from the grasses around the place can i just throw them onto the ground, and will they start germinating straight away? or have they got to be totally dried out etc or is it best to buy some more grass seed I bought it in home bargins... as i say i dont want to go over board its just to make sure there is something in there they can root up..

right off to carry on trying to find a very cheap caravan.. to use for a feed/food storage shed

Davesnave

The tractors were busy everywhere here too, including our fields, so now the hay is cut and it's been turned once. At this rate, it should be baled by Wednesday.

Then we can begin sorting that septic tank problem, which is worse.

A lot of grass seed will already have fallen, but you can sow whatever you collect right away. I find bonfire areas here seed themselves over in no time.

Davesnave

Forgot to mention, we've told the architect to apply for building control and get the structural engineer on the case, so that we can move towards a price for the work he's planned.

At the same time, we're going to get a before/after type of valuation from a local agent who prices fairly, and then we can do the sums.....;)

I still don't think this is a forever house, or at least a house I'll be in when I'm 75. DW says we could always rent out the barn and fields separately, and that's a very good point, but lir's analysis is right enough, that the best £££ would come from equestrians. Not sure I really want to go there, though. (no offence meant to anyone with horses!)

If we could afford the work planned, the house would then lend itself surprisingly well to B&B. Not sure about that either, but we could always dip our toes in and see....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I personally couldnt cope with my house being a B&B.. knowing that there are strangers in my house.. not knowing who they are or what they are doing, no i mean what they 'could' be doing:eek::rotfl:

I dont think i would totally dismiss LIR's suggestion, as you will not be involved except for taking their money:D:T
But if you feel this is not your forever house, then if you do go down the route of renting out to horsey people, make sure the lease/rental agreement states if the property is sold in the future, then they have no grounds/rights to stay, they are not sitting tennants and x amount of notice will be given for them to trot off:D but I know you know all this better than me..

with the agri ties, have you still got to be making some sort of living or partial livng from the land? or can retired land workers live there?

I know this sounds awfull after all i have gone through to get our new place... but after the initial heart strings twanging at the begining...I feel a sort of dis- attachment to the new place:o whether its because we are not living there, or I know its going to take loads of bucks to get it rightish.. or we havent been able to do more things in the garden etc due to the weather...

ooo well better list alot more items for my clientel;):rotfl:

Alfie i am suprised i havent had any bids yet on the little black number:p

I need to list some higher end/more items today, as hubby def wants a pig arc...so i need to sell loads so then we can buy one on fleabay...and one of these

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330755260433?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

unless anyone has got a spare one or can get hold of a seconhand one that i could buy (Alfie???;):D)

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

with the agri ties, have you still got to be making some sort of living or partial livng from the land? or can retired land workers live there?

I know this sounds awfull after all i have gone through to get our new place... but after the initial heart strings twanging at the begining...I feel a sort of dis- attachment to the new place:o whether its because we are not living there, or I know its going to take loads of bucks to get it rightish.. or we havent been able to do more things in the garden etc due to the weather...

You can be retired, which is what we are, though it feels suspiciously like work! :rotfl: Nobody has ever asked us to prove it though.

If we do this place up properly, it would probably suit a retired farmer. There wouldn't be too many younger folks able to afford it.

I think it may be natural to become a bit disillusioned with a holding once the dream becomes reality. I found it very hard to 'bond' with the land here, probably because it wasn't what I'd imagined it would be like, and we were even in the 'wrong' bit of GB from my perspective!

Over time, I've warmed to the place much more, and I see more of the positives. And the people here are great.

I don't have any big galvanised drinkers like that, just one titchy plastic one, which a pig would eat for breakfast....Must've been for a pygmy goat, or something!

Lotus-eater

It's been.......what's that word.....oh yes.... HOT, today! With the big yellow thing in the sky.
Made the most of it and had a BBQ with friends.

I did manage to cut most of the lawns, but the grass was so long, each strip needed a trip to empty the box, I now have a grass pile the size of a small hill.
After a few glasses of wine and sausages to recover, plus meaningless chat putting the world to rights, ie iphones and facebook is ruining society type thing (I do a very good old git impression), I watered the greenhouse and discovered in the sunlight that my toms are decidingly weedy this year and won't amount to much, so it's a good job I stocked up with 100 cans of expensive chopped tomatoes while they were really cheap.

I have the first flowers on my climbing peas, although they haven't climbed anywhere near enough. Should be 2 metres, mine are hovering at under a metre.

I'm sure I found the first signs of blight today on some pots, will have to watch them like a hawk.