Daydream thread continues.....

rhiwfield

Davesnave, tell your machine its mizzling here, but yesterday was wall to wall sunshine.

Checked on chooks yesterday to make sure still in garden, nowhere to be seen, called them, they usually respond (:o), still nothing, lots of feathers but they are in moult. Check inside the coop and there they are, guess something must have spooked them.

Just one of the early/mid season apples fruited well, but dont look very good, all blotchy and uneven colour, but taste good so thats all that matters. The two late season (and late flowering) both fruited ok. One early, James Grieve, is heavily attacked by woolly aphids which I've tried to tackle without success by various methods. Any ideas on treatment?

Itismehonest

I'll join alfie in the offer to help design something if you want, CTC.

No frosts here yet just a bitter wind blowing off the sea.
In fact, it made a lovely change to see some real sunshine yesterday so we went out for a couple of hours & joined the grockles

Itismehonest

rhiwfield wrote: »

Davesnave, tell your machine its mizzling here, but yesterday was wall to wall sunshine.

Checked on chooks yesterday to make sure still in garden, nowhere to be seen, called them, they usually respond (:o), still nothing, lots of feathers but they are in moult. Check inside the coop and there they are, guess something must have spooked them.

Just one of the early/mid season apples fruited well, but dont look very good, all blotchy and uneven colour, but taste good so thats all that matters. The two late season (and late flowering) both fruited ok. One early, James Grieve, is heavily attacked by woolly aphids which I've tried to tackle without success by various methods. Any ideas on treatment?

Depending on the severity the RHS suggests scrubbing off with a stiff brush in spring or the chemical route.

On edible apples, including crab apples used for jam making, the trees can be sprayed thoroughly with deltamethrin (Bayer Sprayday Greenfly Killer), lambda-cyhalothrin (Westland Plant Rescue Fruit & Vegetable Bug Killer) or thiacloprid (Bayer Provado Bug Killer – ready to use formulation only). The minimum period that needs to be left between treatment and picking the fruit on apple trees for these pesticides is seven days for deltamethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin, or 14 days for thiacloprid. On non-edible crab apples, pyracantha and Cotoneaster horizontalis, thiacloprid (Bayer Provado Bug Killer – spray concentrate formulation) or acetamiprid (Scotts Bug Clear Ultra) can be used. Avoid spraying during the flowering period.

choille

Rained solid for about 48 hours. It's supposed to get really cold tomorrow. Have a bone scan over East - last of the tests - hopefully.
Not much happening apart from keeping warm & watching ebay stuff not selling.

Looks like an American organ Alfie. Sometimes they were quite bonny with candle sticks on swivels - people used to buy them for those, unscrew them & leave the organ at the auction. They seemed very prone to woodworm on their backs. I did sell one once & had to trundle it along pavements with a helper - they weigh a ton & some. They switch off - so if it won't pedal then they have a switch that needs switching 'on' - they can be locked, the pedals.

lostinrates

I am cold.

I want a bath and heating, a room clean and tidy enough to relax in, and warm enough to cover myself in moisturiser having soaked in scented HOT water.

I am not sure I am cut out fopr this business any more.

Instead I am living in a fridge on a mud slick, and just abo to head out into freezing dank grey darkness to wrestle with filthy straw and mud and hungry animals.

My skin feels like sand paper, I stink, I am frozen to thje bone.

lostinrates

Ok, sorry for that outburst.

I feel better now. Hope the duct tape the horse's rugs are wrapped up in holds for a while.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LIR....no need to be sorry, you carry on have a moan.... just wish I could give you a hug, and help in some way.I think the time of the year, cold, wet, dark, clocks going back just naturally makes you feel low..we have had suck a !!!!!! summer it doesnt feel as though we've had a summer....

cwtch up ( snuggle up) on the sofa, have a nice hot cuppa, or a nice hot chocolate.. and have something nice to eat...or even have a good cry.... you are not alone, we ALL have days where we feel low...

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LIR....no need to be sorry, you carry on have a moan.... just wish I could give you a hug, and help in some way.I think the time of the year, cold, wet, dark, clocks going back just naturally makes you feel low..we have had suck a !!!!!! summer it doesnt feel as though we've had a summer....

cwtch up ( snuggle up) on the sofa, have a nice hot cuppa, or a nice hot chocolate.. and have something nice to eat...or even have a good cry.... you are not alone, we ALL have days where we feel low...

No cuppa or hot chocolate, no fridge so no milk:eek:


I feel ok now, it was just a blah feeling of coldness and frustration and didn't last long. I was also a bit annoyed that while dh and I finished something parent had started but couldn't finish we got behind on our own chores and parent didn't even feed the dogs or anything. It's ok, it's my job, it just would have been helpful. So the dogs ate an hour and a half late, which means I have to do a wee break an hour and a half later than normal probably.:o

rhiwfield

Lir, no need to be sorry, we all have a moan here from time to time and this weather must make life really trying in the middle of a building project. I've stayed in nearly all day by the fire, just been out to lock up the chooks, squelch, squelch, squelch!

CTC, cwtch is a lovely welsh word, sort of wraps its arms about you

DW due back tomorrow, she'll be expecting the house to be a tip, so I'd better start making a mess!

Itsme, cheers for the info, I'll have a bash at getting rid of the overwintering ones and will spray in the spring

oldtractor

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

oldtractor, well done your achiving a dream of having chooks:T:T, before you know it, you will be wanting ducks, geese, turkeys, pigs:D

They are charecters, keep us updated on them, how many have you got? what are they? names? eating habbits?:p

Cant stop sneezing this morning, I know I am run down, but I cant afford to have a cold/flu....

right off to auction.... catch you all laters,

keep warm,

Hi, as they are some kind of German hybrid for cages they are called Olga,Helga and Eva.
Yesterday Olga ripped a nail but some blue antibiotic spray helped as it was bleeding a little.
she looked most fetching with a blue foot.:cool:
re pigs, I'd love to have pigs and a house cow, my DH's family had a Jersey house cow when he was little. Then I could make butter and cheese,. We have had milk goats in the past but I do prefer cows milk. Who knows, maybe one day????????????????????
And beware of auctions, we went just looking a few weeks ago and DH came home with a tractor.......................