Daydream thread continues.....

choille

Hi Alfie,

Thing here is the ground is extremely fragile. Very thin top cover over peat or maybe maran sand on the commons - in the main. Once the top layers gone, then with our high rainfall the rest is gonna end up in the Loch leaving just rock - same happens with over grazing. Once all the heather & grass is off then you get nowt to hold the top coat on & you get slippage & whoosh you have a bare rock landscape. It's taken a heck of a long time to get that thin top layer on - we need to keep it there. It sustains such a variety of insects, fungi, creatures - the whole gammet. Once it's off ..then you lost a lot. Me on me band wagon again.

Rhiwfield - forgot to add that the flowers on the spoon are symbolic of love & with lily of the valley it suggested at one point(Victorian era) - purity, chastity - was popular in Brides bouchet [sp?}- still is for the symbolism. I'd be tempted to advertise it as a wedding item /bridal gift - maybe?

Alexelisey

katep23 wrote: »

:rotfl: I think I'll like it here

I reckon you will, as you'll have worked out from the pages you've read so far we're a great group of people - and everyone is so generous with knowledge and advice if you ask!

I'm one of those still in suburbia, we have a 70ft garden, not more than 20 ft wide, with a cherry, plum and apple for trees, a large rhubarb patch, a chicken (ex-bat) and some fruit and veg in pots (the rest of the garden is ornamental). My DH has lived in the area since '82 and I have since '91. We're both country folk by birth and have been trying to get out for over 20 years now. We're on the last stepping stone before we go, as we've raised three kids along the way and ended up with a large Victorian house. It's put us in the position where we can - finally - look at smallholdings. It's been a long slog, I'm now in my forties (DH is in his fifties) and wondering how much we'll be able to do, but we refuse to give up on our dream!

I would recommend you think long and carefully about what you want to do, perhaps make a long-term plan and, whatever it is, throw your heart and soul into it. Dedication and patience will get you a long way. :j

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Had a mega strop on with the workmen, they started work, at 7am RIGHT outside our house:mad:, they are re-doing our road etc, but when they use their big cat diggers etc its not only noisey, but it vibrates right through the house..( no rude comments please:p)so they stopped, plus one of our cars is in the way, for the electricity contractors cant get passed:D, so they are sitting in their van waiting....

We are not getting a penny of compnesation, not even a bl00dy £10 supermarket voucher.....Alfie knows how close ot is to the houses... not flipping nice..

Sorry Hi Kate:beer: Please join in, its for ALL daydreamers and people with land etc... as we are all here to help, support, and basically make the dream come true..

Doing pretty good on the works fleabay, so need to getlistings on my private account.... Alfie might try the handmade quilt... myself rather than giving it to the linen ladies and splitting the profit...

Got a Proper stonemason coming some time on sunday to have a look at the ranch.... and compare what he says with the other builders opinions... and most of all see what the cost will be:cool:

Yes I was eager to move in etc in the begining, but now I know it will take loads of time and money:rotfl:

Right the workers are back:mad::mad::mad:

Davesnave

"Hi" to katep23 :wave:and sorry I wasn't around yesterday. Just catching up....

Started burning the felled leylandii and all the other rubbish, because we had a NW wind, but it was slow-going because the stuff burns so intensely. I also had to move some of the trees to make enough space for the bonfire. I told the man who deposited them there to make a nice semi circle, but he was too tidy!

Then the wind changed and I nearly had a much larger, smellier fire than I'd have been happy with!:eek:
Anyway, I was totally cream-crackered, sat down to watch Sarah Beeny, and that was the last thing I remember.

Hope the pills, treatment or whatever works quickly for you choille.

Our hens have pretty much moulted now and we are down to just two or three eggs a day, so the customers will have to be given the bad news. Hopefully, the new hens will come into lay in November......

rhiwfield

CTC, dont forget to send me last week's Ebay warm up totals (business/private combined) and I'll send round the warm up weeks stats by pm

Game on now peeps:D

lostinrates

Had to nip in to hospital last night. This mornign told them, ta very much, i have to feed my chickens now....where do i get a bus to the train station? As would have it my parent woke up at about then and called to say he got my message to do animals this morning and could come and get me.

All fine this morning, no panic. As i agreed with dh , any more trouble and i won't put up more fights and will have the lumbar puncture and discuss further treatment,

There is wisely waiting and there is stubbornly sitting down.


The chucks all told me off loudly when i got back and the poor little cats were on the sofa where i had left them, instead of tucked up in bed with out me. Little mauve squeaker looked as if the sky had fallen in.

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

Had to nip in to hospital last night. This mornign told them, ta very much, i have to feed my chickens now....where do i get a bus to the train station? As would have it my parent woke up at about then and called to say he got my message to do animals this morning and could come and get me.

All fine this morning, no panic. As i agreed with dh , any more trouble and i won't put up more fights and will have the lumbar puncture and discuss further treatment,

There is wisely waiting and there is stubbornly sitting down.


The chucks all told me off loudly when i got back and the poor little cats were on the sofa where i had left them, instead of tucked up in bed with out me. Little mauve squeaker looked as if the sky had fallen in.

Oh Lir, look after yourself and get sorted soon!

rhiwfield

Davesnave wrote: »

"Hi" to katep23 :wave:and sorry I wasn't around yesterday. Just catching up....

Started burning the felled leylandii and all the other rubbish, because we had a NW wind, but it was slow-going because the stuff burns so intensely. I also had to move some of the trees to make enough space for the bonfire. I told the man who deposited them there to make a nice semi circle, but he was too tidy!

From past experience Leylandii brash gives off a lot of smoke :eek:

S-E is the no habitation corridor I guess

Got a mobility chair coming today that I should be able to sleep in and get out of while back heals. Has some unfortunate side effects though

BTW, totally on topic as this is the Green Fingered Forum :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

choille

CTC - 1. Has a risk assessment been done on your house, foundations etc - are they monitoring YOUR structure. This is very important. Structural assessment - I mean.

2. Also take a look at the conditions in the Planning - work hours etc. Sometimes/often - should have put in 'reasonable hours' work only to be carried out within. Worth contacting your MP - also may be worth consulting neighbours and going in as a united front.

Contact Environmental health now.

Let the battle commence.

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

S-E is the no habitation corridor I guess

Yes, and the "no tonnes of thatching reed in a barn with an open entrance" corridor too!

Lir, be good, and at the slightest sign....:exclamati

Just mowing & strimming today. Beware, the Mole Valley fluorescent yellow strimmer line is pants!:(