Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

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CTC CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

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Oh my, let the excitement and planning commence!

You know, i find you guys invaluable sounding boards.

I think ctc and her oh are more practical in skill than dh and i, but sometimes bouncing ideas of others who 'get the lifestyle' is just useful beyond belief.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

You know, i find you guys invaluable sounding boards.

I think ctc and her oh are more practical in skill than dh and i, but sometimes bouncing ideas of others who 'get the lifestyle' is just useful beyond belief.

COULNT AGREE MORE. and whatever the subject there always seems someone who has "been there ,done that" or "going there,gonna do that":D

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thank you Rummer:beer:

OOOOOOOO Lotus...... sooooooooo 'eggcited' about your new chickens...:T.... what do they think of their badger proof pad? Have you named them yet?

Totally agree with you LIR... I love this thread... as you say it is a great place to bounce ideas, thoughts etc....I must admit... my thoughts and ideas have been a bit irractic on times:cool:... You do get blinkered.. or blinded by an idea etc...But the advice and experience of 'our family' on here...is truely brilliant.... unbiased... and allways said to help.. encourage.... etc....

alfie_1

CTC.....have you had a :beer: yet ??

are you still :j

well we are all very:grinheart for you......

and i will enjoy a :beer: on your behalf.....

annie123

Bit later than everyone else but CONGRATULATIONS:j:j:j:j:j

I bought our first home at auction many moons ago and in spite of being an estate agent at the time it didn't help one little bit. Hubby pulled the bidding card away from me as he thought I would go too high...I was getting carried away but we got it at just over our price.
In fact I get carried away at car auctions too.

That sounds a really nice size just about what we could manage. Just think of the fun yet to come, building works, no power, no heating etc etc.......oh it's so exciting:T

I think the 3 years has gone quite quickly, but well worth the wait in the end

Could I be nosey and have an email pic please:)

annie123

Just noticed it's only 2 weeks or so since you started the new thread.........maybe that had something to do with it. I feel all motherly I realise, no different than if you'd said you'd just had a baby!...off for a cuppa to calm myself down and get a grip!

rainbowcattail

It's also a great thread for those that aspire to this lifestyle & are making small changes to get there, for example hens sound great & were on my future list but realistically I would worry myself into the ground about every ruffled feather, I'm bad enough with my cat - also reading LIRs recent crop tales & about the losses of others hens has made me think twice about my list . Its very useful . Also the veg growing info is too
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Itismehonest

OK Own up. Who here works for the Highways & has been out celebrating CTC's success in their lunch hour?

http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/trip-wonky-road-Barnstaple/story-15432164-detail/story.html
See both photos.

Lotus-eater

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

OOOOOOOO Lotus...... sooooooooo 'eggcited' about your new chickens...:T.... what do they think of their badger proof pad? Have you named them yet?

My DD has named them a very original and racism worthy (probably) Blacky, Browny and Whitey. :rotfl:

rozeepozee

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

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CONGRATUALTIONS


When i put the phone down.. i was a bath of sweat, physically tembling uncontrollably.....

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i waited until now, because, 3 years ago today the daydream thread was started:j

But now...... i cant sleep, because.... i am thinking, what the heck have i done...... as now..... we owe more money than we ever did....and a big sum has got to be paid off by september.......soooooooooo now no playing games....the easy part is over :eek:( compared to what is to come fiancially and emtionally etc)

so this is going to be a very long on going project:rotfl:..

so now we are the proud owners of a little smallholding of 1.5 acres ( 3rd of an acre garden and the rest is rough ground with loads of trees and over growth etc) and a cottage, which needs major work...

I will not post a link, but if anyone would like a nosey.. i can pm you a link....

CTC Mail me! Mail me! How wonderful, I'm sooo pleased for you! :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

It's been a particulary busy day today (see later..) and I've only just checked my mail, so followed the email to my last post on this thread and looked and thought "oh, no 3 pages to catch up on... what's going on?" I didn't realise that it would be this. I'm feeling all emotional. I do empathise with you in a big way having recently gone through a very similar process myself and having spent last night tossing and turning about the money, since we spent our life savings recently - no rainy day fund to fall back on!

I can't wait to see the pics and hear about your plans. Your joy is well deserved. :T

Today has been spent rounding up children whilst OH and the friendly quarryman dug out the ground for the base to stand the static on. We've decided to site it temporarily (it'll probably be there forever!) on the North side garden, which is pretty big in a long triangular kind of way. The little pond had to go sadly. Every newt tadpole I caught had had at least one leg chewed off my some fiercsome (spelling!?!) insects in the pond anyway, so I don't think there was much hope for them. Apparently, newts spend their adolescent phanse on land for 3 years and these newts weren't going very far with their peg legs!

Quarry man is fitting us in round his other jobs and we need a big digger for part of this job, so today they managed to level the ground and demolish the old block build boundary walls which will be going anyway when we extend the curtilage. We'll reuse the rubble instead of paying for tonnes of extra shale.

OH also dismantled and stripped the old caravan and burnt it.

The designer has sent the plans off to the quantity surveyor so we should have a costing for what it would take to achieve our dream home in about ten days. Scary.

Now that we almost have somewhere to live on the land (the static) my thoughts are turning to animals again...

Talk to me about poultry people please! Can we feasibly share a half ish acre enclosure with geese and chickens? Would they be good "starter animals" for us city bumpkins who know naught? You know I really want geese for some deep seated subconscious reason I cannot explain Thos of you who have geese, would you recommend them? I know they're really messy. The old man kept them in the smaller top field, from whence the spring springs, and they hung out in the stream apparently.... I may be quite happy with some large fowl for many years (although I suspect I may get rather attached to the geese - it's the way they waddle, y'know )

lostinrates wrote: »

We saw bees about a while ago, none recently, but it was a shock.

Ah, thats a point...i was going t put the snowballs on the bit of land where the miner bees were, that might have been a bad idea, hmm, rethink.

Right, anyone here want the tractor powered generator that needs a bit fixed...alfies bloke to,d me that, i had no idea. Otherwise i am gonna have to arrange to sell it.

We're seeing plenty bees of late. According to local bee man who sell the local hunny, there is no bee collapse round here. I was buzzed by a bumble bee that could have passed for a mouse with wings the other day. They do make me feel all spring like