Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

Look at today's Middle Taw river camera @ 17:00

http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/south/Taw/Chulmleigh

We had visitors! (Fishing season's over.)

rhiwfield

Got back yesterday to find my desktop pc had gone kaput.

And with all the issues lately (excuses ) I hadnt backed up beyond 31/8.

So have been reconstructing accounts all day on 2nd hand laptop while dealing with queries on listings. Got 30 items to post tomorrow, but no new listings so its a week of plenty preceded and followed by a week of famine.

Ladies, let me have your week's numbers tomorrow and I'll update the list. After I've updated pls let me me know if I've missed any week's numbers and I'll correct. CTC/Alfie, you may want to cast an anxious glance north of the border in due course!!

Loved the hospitality this week of Itsme and Davesnave (and OHs) but Devon is even wetter than Wales!

Alf, managed to get up rather later than you this morning so missed the car boot deals. But picked up a bit of plated ware for £2 and a thunderbirds collection for a fiver. But still have to get to grips with the Okehampton stuff, think it will pay to research in depth, particularly the WWII North Africa negatives.

All else was well when returned (after DS2 had friends around all week) so there is a god after all Just one chook moulting so eggs at a premium:(

lostinrates

Haha, we are in moulting heaven here. All the 'front garden' chooks are fine, but it looks like a fox farms here out in the farmyard. The continual snow of goose feathers and my beautiful Sicilian buttercup looks like a small, curmudgeonly squab, not a fine rare breed little hen. Eggs would be patchy, but the little bantam is a trooper, so plenty of them. The other lawn hens are also laying, but somedays only getting one from that lazy lot out in the supposedly 'productive' area.

Didn't get half done what we wanted to today. Some fencing changed, but the winter stuff still to go up.

Davesnave

Hope the mist cleared & you got your hedging finished, lir.

We started to replace the failed Onduline roof on one of the scrappy barns with reclaimed corrugated iron, but as usual, it didn't quite go to plan......:(

We were missing some of the tools we really need, so after a day's cursing and making-do, we have about 1/3 of it done.:o:o

Mind you, we took an hour or so out to argue about the new fence line. DW won that. We'll see what Pete thinks! :cool:

In other news, our cockerels are no more. DW must think very carefully in future before bringing chicks into the world, especially hybrids that are difficult to sex early on.

EDIT: Just read your post lir and see it was fencing, not hedging!

Rhiwie, is it a hard drive problem, or power supply? Either way all may not be lost. ( I almost forgot, you have a young techie on the premises!)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hubby and friend managed to lift the flag stone path around the house, and managed to keep most of them in tact:T
and managed to drill through/break the deep concrete/wire in other parts of the path:eek:..
so at least part of the ground near the side/back of the house is now under the floor level. and is ready for when we hire a mini digger.. to clear some soak aways from the house,

mnaged to roughly work out the weight of the piggies, with the tape measure method... they are approx 48 kgs...so I think the best wight is arounf the 80 - 85kgs live weight???

no rain here today, even though they forcasted it...:mad: If I had known it wasnt going to rain all weekend, would have hired mini digger, never mind...

I know this sound like a silly idea, but I was thinking of contacting some film companies to see if I could put the house on their books for a filming location or do you think the house is too much of a mish-mash ? Just thought they might be looking for a house which is in 'limbo' land:rotfl: I heard they could pay up to £200 a day...

We once hired one of our bloodhounds out for the day... The comedian Russel something or other ( the 80's guy) for his sherlock holmes comedy sketch... think we had £50 for that, and hubby hired one of his snakes out too for £50 for the day

lostinrates

Ctc, I have been thinking about doing the same for some time, just very disorganised.

I think could be worth it. Cannot hurt anyway.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

Ctc, I have been thinking about doing the same for some time, just very disorganised.

I think could be worth it. Cannot hurt anyway.

I know the money would come in VERY handy for us...


Been giving the piggies the runner beans from the garden that have gone to big and tough.... I love to listen to them munching the veg..lol...

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

If I didn't love Alfie Her finds (and hoard) would make me green with envy. Sigh.....lace panels, and rugs.


I was given a cow hide rug recently, but cannot see me putting it down anywhere here for a while.....dogs.

I have a horrid 80s blue and pink rug that my neices coloured in with ornage fluorescent pen which will probably be going down on the concrete floor in the study in a few weeks, and a casa pupo (spelling.?) bottle green and navy monstrosity that will have to go on the kitchen floor. My mother gave me one of her oriental rug collection, a fairly thread bare (how I prefer them) woollen dark rug which is on our ghastly carpet.

I HAVE SOMEWHERE A REALLY PLUSH, HEAVY, SHADES OF GREEN RUG ,BIGGISH ..... WOULD DO FOR SOMEWHERE IF NEEDED ??? [ not a !!!!!y one may i add...:rotfl::rotfl: ]


lol..i got "edited":D

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hubby and friend managed to lift the flag stone path around the house, and managed to keep most of them in tact:T
and managed to drill through/break the deep concrete/wire in other parts of the path:eek:..
so at least part of the ground near the side/back of the house is now under the floor level. and is ready for when we hire a mini digger.. to clear some soak aways from the house,

mnaged to roughly work out the weight of the piggies, with the tape measure method... they are approx 48 kgs...so I think the best wight is arounf the 80 - 85kgs live weight???

no rain here today, even though they forcasted it...:mad: If I had known it wasnt going to rain all weekend, would have hired mini digger, never mind...

I know this sound like a silly idea, but I was thinking of contacting some film companies to see if I could put the house on their books for a filming location or do you think the house is too much of a mish-mash ? Just thought they might be looking for a house which is in 'limbo' land:rotfl: I heard they could pay up to £200 a day...

We once hired one of our bloodhounds out for the day... The comedian Russel something or other ( the 80's guy) for his sherlock holmes comedy sketch... think we had £50 for that, and hubby hired one of his snakes out too for £50 for the day

i had someone turn up a couple of years ago to ask if id "go on his books" re my house but i thought "sod it, that means he'd get big chunk of £s if chosen " :eek: then forgot about it...
if they are looking for a house that looks like a bombs gone off inside then ......bring it on...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

If I didn't love Alfie Her finds (and hoard) would make me green with envy. Sigh.....lace panels, and rugs.


I was given a cow hide rug recently, but cannot see me putting it down anywhere here for a while.....dogs.

I have a horrid 80s blue and pink rug that my neices coloured in with ornage fluorescent pen which will probably be going down on the concrete floor in the study in a few weeks, and a casa pupo (spelling.?) bottle green and navy monstrosity that will have to go on the kitchen floor. My mother gave me one of her oriental rug collection, a fairly thread bare (how I prefer them) woollen dark rug which is on our ghastly carpet.

i will mail you pics ,if any good for you ? panels are about 6ft + long min, and about 3ft wide.
smaller ones are about 3ft sq.
anyway i can show you them at "the christening";) if you dont like them, no prob.