Daydream thread continues.....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

It's clearly a 'Ding-A-Ling.'

Be careful, Chuck Berry was banned for singing about one of those! :cool:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T:T:T

what a blast from the past....

Just about to go to the monthly auction, but its th annual rare breeds one, soooooooooooo there are piggies, sheep, goats, donkeys, shetlands etc there too...ooo ye and dexter cows...Loads of poultry, there are 300 more livestock lots than the normal monthly auction, so I think its going to be a very long day...

Talking about carrots:D, local fruit and veg wholesaler sells horse carrots for £2.25 a sack (10kgs) so had 2 off him yesturday ( free delivery) for the piggies....they really do love carrots...

Autumn is def here....

I am shocked at the price of coal... told hubby to go and buy a sack this week, to keep the fire in over night, £9 a sack:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: it wasnt that long ago we would have 3 sacks for £10. last year they were 2 sacks for just over £10, but £9 for ONE sack... I told him to look out for any type of wood to burn...when it was really cold we would go through one sack in a day...

right better get my butt into gear and get ready to go, wanted to leave by 8.30am:rotfl:

rhiwfield

Was also expecting to be away by 8:30 am but DW had other ideas.

DS2 having a gettogether with friends while we're away and the first is being picked up from Cardiff by DW. Will there be a home to come back to? :eek:

Alf, my offer of 50p for the storaker ding a ling norbert fumbler is looking increasingly generous. Dave was spot on about its link to fertility rites though, as any norbert will tell you.

One of the curiosities about old wind up clocks is that they often dont work straight away in upright position BUT will work lying down/upside down/at a slant. So I have this little Aladdin clock, prob 50s/60s, that would only work face down. Oiled mechanism, which didnt seem to help, so used the slow and easy method, raising it a degree or so every hour for a couple of days. Too quick and it stopped, but yesterday evening got it fully upright and its still ticking away merrily. So I reckon that I've spent about 4 hours in total to get a clock going thats worth at best £5 :cool: But the satisfaction of getting it to work...priceless

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

Tell me, i have a pair of designer (via tk maxx) sunglasses..is it worth ebaying them or do they go for pennies and postage?

Lir, I suppose it depends on the designer. The quick way to check is to do a search on Ebay for the glasses then filter it to show completed listings only (from the box on the left).

lucielle

CTC be careful, feeding too many carrots to piggies will turn the meat orange. Still ok to eat just looks strange.

My uncle had a dairy farm and he managed to turn his milk orange!
L

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, we went to Marwood Gardens yesterday on the strength of the reasonable weather forecast, picking up the electric chainsaw on the way. It was a special event day for Macmillan nurses, but there was hardly anyone there, besides us. (Not that we mind, especially a this time of year!)

Anyway, it was a bit disappointing, probably because the autumnal colours aren't quite there yet and the summer bloomers are over......and it rained. Came home to lovely sunshine!

Nice to have a break, though.

I haven't been over there for years - not since well before Dr Smart died. He adored the place & put enormous effort into it. Going back a few years, one of our gardeners also worked for him & thought the world of him. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the heart left the place when he died.
September = Known for being the autumnal start of the Shearings & Geriatric Airways holidays The hills at Marwood are too much for many of them
No surprise about the weather, either although today is sunny .......... with a persistent cold wind.

lostinrates

It's beautiful here. We know it's going to be short lived.

lostinrates

Pulling out a length of garden hedging....(privet, some honeysuckle (might stay) elder and bramble and a clematis (which if I can find the base of in time might get saved...does anyone know if it would move? )

Anyway....by hand or call a digger man? We think we are going for one half of the frontage in bareroot yew this year, so need to get onto the prep very quickly. Besides clearing the ground we think we will use a weed membrane, most arduous part likely to be elders and soil improving/digging.

But time is of course tit, if we are to get bareroots in a couple of weeks....

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

I haven't been over there for years - not since well before Dr Smart died. He adored the place & put enormous effort into it. Going back a few years, one of our gardeners also worked for him & thought the world of him. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the heart left the place when he died.

It was probably around 1998 when we were last at Marwood.

You're right, it takes a special kind of fanatic to keep a place like that at its peak. It also needs someone with the guts to say, "This tree has outstayed its welcome," so that views don't become obscured.

It was probably the wrong time to judge the plant sales, but I thought those were erring on the side of pedestrian too, though I was gobsmacked to see one of these at £12.50:

http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=4937

Last time I saw one of those it was in a friend's arboretum and Roy Lancaster had just finished salivating over it! :rotfl:

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Anyway....by hand or call a digger man? We think we are going for one half of the frontage in bareroot yew this year, so need to get onto the prep very quickly. Besides clearing the ground we think we will use a weed membrane, most arduous part likely to be elders and soil improving/digging. ...

I got my 40 year old privet out by hand when we were in Bath, but it was a whole heap of no fun involving wrecking bars....:(

We mulch the yews here with a thick layer of grass cuttings. They have really enjoyed the wet conditions this year and put on loads of growth.

Pleased to say I have managed to get hold of this again:

http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=1186

It's always going to be a struggle to keep it here, but great for insects and so much more exotic than Joe Pye Weed. Didn't pay £16.50 either!

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

It was probably around 1998 when we were last at Marwood.

You're right, it takes a special kind of fanatic to keep a place like that at its peak. It also needs someone with the guts to say, "This tree has outstayed its welcome," so that views don't become obscured.

It was probably the wrong time to judge the plant sales, but I thought those were erring on the side of pedestrian too, though I was gobsmacked to see one of these at £12.50:

http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=4937

Last time I saw one of those it was in a friend's arboretum and Roy Lancaster had just finished salivating over it! :rotfl:

I think Dr S died about 10 years ago so would probably have been alive when you last went.

I was told that we have a rare-ish whitebeam in the corner of one of our boundaries. It's only meant to grow on this stretch of coast, I think. I've no idea if that's true &, if so, what type it is.
A tree is a tree to me unless it's growing somewhere that it's a nuisance when it's a big weed
Anyway, this particular tree is due to get a heavy haircut (again) as it's getting much too close to some buildings & it also makes a right mess on the driveway.

We used to have absolutely loads of the absinthe-type wormwood which stank to merry hell but we've got rid of most of it. It will still come back, though, given half a chance.

I used to enjoy the gardens at Hartland Abbey but haven't been over there for years either.
Personally I like either 'natural' wilderness or manicured with a mania parterres. My absolute chuntermakers are the municipal park type gardens with regiments of garish annuals.
I always want to dive in with a trowel & rearrange them into a clock :rotfl: