Daydream thread continues.....

rozeepozee

Rummer wrote: »

It was very cold and slippy here today and I am glad that I do not have to venture out tomorrow as I gather it is to be just as cold :eek: I am having trouble with condensation in my car and it takes me as long to scrape the inside as the outside :mad:

I really should get myself into action and get the pressie wrapped and the tree up but I am feeling decidedly unfestive which is not like me at all

After having a good think about the garden I spoke to my OH and he agreed with all the things I suggested apart from the moving of the raspberries as he feels that we have just started to get a good crop from them and thinks that moving them would ruin that.

I have a raspberry dilemma too. We've got a lovely bush, but it's in Yorkshire. I really want to bring it to Wales, but don't know when the best time to move it would be.

It's miserable here. Cold, wet and windy. We're hunkered down with hot water bottles. Everything is very damp... On the plus side we've done a bit of practical research on builders and have made some progress there. Things are going forward, even though it's at a Pembrokeshire pace :}

COOLTRIKERCHICK

eldest is due home any minute,

so having a nice bottle of crabbies, and watching AC/DC live on bbc4, before that i was watching guitar heros, showing old footage of man, rod stuart, gary moore, judist prist etc....bliss..

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

eldest is due home any minute..

I'm sure he will be fine.....wobbly perhaps, but fine. :cool:

It's a big thing reaching 18 now. Back in the mists of time, the process was more gradual.....

I remember that from the age of 14 we'd occasionally buy rough cider at 9d a pint from the back door of a local pub, but we had to supply our own bottle!

Nobody ever challenged me when I started visiting pubs from the age of 16. No ID cards then, and beer at pocket money prices. You behaved though, or you'd be out!

And because we wore school uniform right up to the age of 18/19, no one thought it odd when 6th formers would go into town on Market Day and have a pint & a pasty rather than school dinner! (Well, the school would have had something to say if they'd known, but no one phoned them, as they would nowadays.) Again, we behaved.

So, 18 was mainly about getting the vote, which wasn't that exciting. Then, the 'adults' still made a big fuss about being 21.:(

Rozee, move your raspberry later in the winter, while it's dormant.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

yep davesnave... came home with a big grin on his face and a bit slurrrie..Hubby had called in the pub, earlier on in the night, when he was on his way home from town, and a load of our friends were in the pub, soi they had the heads up, but they ended up buying him drinks:mad::rotfl:, he stayed in the same pub all night, and it was our old regular pub.

hubby used to the pubs when he was 16 and drink regular in the 'back room' play darts etc, but never caused any trouble... mainly went to watch the bands.

I used to go to the CB club at 14:cool: which was held in a pub..But the difference from then to today, is that you would see people sprawled out on the main road spewing everywhere, running up to people who they dont know and just piling into them, and girls would no way be lying in the gutter with their allready short skirt over their heads, showing everyone their skimpy knickers, or even the lack of them:eek::eek::eek::eek:

I bet his head was spinning when he went to bed last night:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::D:D


what this I hear watch out for SNOW next week:eek::eek: Think we are ok, but its peeps on the east coast and down south that are suposed to be 'aving it'

rhiwfield

Using up the miniscule onions that are hardly bigger than the sets I planted. Reminds me what a bad year it was for veg. Still finding packets of frozen fruit in freezer from 2011, they'll do for pies.

Coming to the end of the Red Falstaff apples, skins were heavily blemished but they are sweet and juicy despite their appearance. Cox, James Grieve, Scrumptious, Cobra and Bountiful were all washouts, Fiesta I have a few apples to try which just leaves the two late ripeners which cropped well.

Winding down the listings now so I dont have items ending near/over crimble.

Davesnave

My onions from seed were quite good, but I don't think their storing qualities will be. Quite a few Ailsa Craig going bad already, and as they are a bit wishy-washy on taste, I won't grow them again.

The old French ones are better. They are a 'flat' onion and also make multiple bulbs, whch can result in a lot of waste. Seem to get a lot of that with seed-raised.

Apples are largely unknown varieties, but the russets were great and the pig-nose shaped also good. Hens are still getting a good ration of many others.

The fruit we have from 2011 is OK stewed. Not noticeably inferior, but then I mix most with ice cream! :rotfl:

Sambucus_Nigra

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

eldest is due home any minute,

so having a nice bottle of crabbies, and watching AC/DC live on bbc4, before that i was watching guitar heros, showing old footage of man, rod stuart, gary moore, judist prist etc....bliss..

I was watching that last night - didn't realise it was live. Had alot of 'OMG' moments as I realised just how old those songs are.

Alexelisey

Davesnave wrote: »

Alex, did you get a feel for which agent you want to go with? It isn't easy if you 'interview' about five, though a couple may write themselves out of the script pretty quickly!

Yes.. that happened to two of the agents out of four. One came in last week but never came back to us with a valuation or any contact at all, and the other one :rotfl::rotfl:oh I wish I could show you DH's FB post of how that went! He's still chuckling over that. We're down to a choice of two, so next step is to discuss their fees. That's for him to do, he's going to be negotiating hard as it's a £250k property. I already have expressed my preference as to which agent to use so we'll see.

CC is taking a bit of a hammering at the moment as I'm trying to do as much Christmas shopping as I can before it gets too busy, but don't get paid until next week. At least DH is going halves...

Davesnave

Alexelisey wrote: »

, he's going to be negotiating hard as it's a £250k property. ..

I take it you mean £249 950 in view of the stanp duty threshold?

alfie_1

morning all....

im still freezing [think its in my bones now !] waiting for this bl**dy courier to arrive...... thier feedback on line is NOT GOOD.... we will see !

poor mabel hates this cold mushy weather. shes struggling in the mud. her weight sinks her to her belly ...... few more donuts as compo seems to help...lol


CTC... well done on DS's 18th survival....you i mean not him......