Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

No Alfie today?

Hmm. Hope she is ok.


We are still ok. We have had to flood our field again to help the cake from flooding it's own pump engine, (I will be glad when we can get an overflow ditch). Getting the goose for christmas lunch was fun though, I just got through in the barbie lr,(would rather have been in the defender) but there were idiots trying in hatch backs and I tried to flash the, to turn back and go the long way around. We came back the same way, on the side the water is deeper and I wish we had not. Most of the way I was able to drive right in the middle which was fine, but when two way was trying to get through it was not fun. Peoe fropm the village there had walked down today watch thje idots driving through.....it floods there every year.

Also notice the farm supplies shop road was flooded a bit. Always floods in the fields round there, but not the road. The only creatures venturing out are the geese, who seem to be enjoying it.

alfie_1

CTC..........£70 for a donkey? that is sooooooooooo cheap. here £4-500. just seen ad in scats here for an 18month jack , £550 :eek:
cost a couple of hundred for gelding so maybe why your offer was cheap if a jack....

i had my donkey 20 years but he died of a broken heart when my horse had to be put down. they were foals together.:(

its forecast to rain here tonite....OH JOY !

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie....being realistic we dont need/want a donkey, even though i should imagine they are great charecters...

how is the water around you alfie? hows mabels piggy paddock?

did you manage to find somewhere for the horse whisperer's horses. anda place for to stay?

looks as though we might have sold 2 of the turkeys for
pets:rotfl:

school of rock just started good film with jack black

Itismehonest

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

yes, an entrance to a farm on top of the mountain was there, so he had a steel container and his transit van parked down there,,( you can just see the white blob transit, behind one of the trees) so he is not going to be able to get access to his farm:eek::eek::eek:

19th december 1965 there was a huge landslide, since then the houses along that road, were un-mortgageable... up until a few years ago.

The mountains has pipes put in to take the water away, I just found out that about 3 weeks ago the council were informed that one of the pipes were broke,

http://www.familytreecircles.com/transcript-from-south-wales-evening-post-20-dec-1965-landslide-flattens-house-47245.html

i would be suprised if another part of the mountain goes

Interesting if somewhat scarey article. Thanks :beer:

There have been quite a few cliff falls including one quite close to here. That, too, was where there had previously been a considerable loss of land but back in the 19th Century. Luckily, both times happened without harm to anyone ........ other than peeing off the landowner
The weather is making so many places unstable. I think we'll see a lot more landslips.
This article speaks about the falls around the SW Coast Path.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

As we've had some water on the barn floor again, I spent a bit of time investigating the slope and ditch behind it today. There's a blue, unperforated pipe buried there, which suddenly goes uphill at one end, turns the corner and then goes downhill, following the yellow soakaway pipe carrying water from the roof.

I have no idea where these pipes terminate yet, but I know that the blue pipe cannot be doing much, if anything! Meanwhile, below the blue pipe, in the channel I've dug along the back of the barn, a fair amoount of water has collected. It will be interesting to see what happens when it rains again tonight.

I can't understand why the people who built the barn didn't think about drainage. They built some rubbishy small barns and remembered it then. :mad:

At the moment I think I'll have to either build a French drain type of thing behind the barn, or raise the floor level by around 6cm in the rear part of the barn. Getting the levels right for the drain won't be easy, but a drain will be cheaper than concrete, probably.

OTOH, bit of form work, concrete lorry, whoosh, tamp, tamp, tamp and Bob's your uncle, job done! Decisions! :think:

We have both (French & solid lined) plus culverts & an amazing array of various forms of plastic, terracotta & alkathene in all different colours & sizes :rotfl: It can still only keep up with so much.
The water is coming out of the ground like a water cannon. It's beautifully clear ...... just too much of it :rotfl:

I'd guess the blue pipe was just land drainage run through a part which historically suffers, Dave. Sometimes old ones end up full of soil & stop working.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

I'd guess the blue pipe was just land drainage run through a part which historically suffers, Dave. Sometimes old ones end up full of soil & stop working.

Well, it seemed to be solid pipe and it's definitely 2004 vintage. No sensible solid drain starts at a random point and then falls away both sides, with nothing happening at the high point.

It must be perforated, surely? But even if it is, the level of the water coming into the barn is pooling two or three inches below the base of it it, so it's no good.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, it seemed to be solid pipe and it's definitely 2004 vintage. No sensible solid drain starts at a random point and then falls away both sides, with nothing happening at the high point.

It must be perforated, surely? But even if it is, the level of the water coming into the barn is pooling two or three inches below the base of it it, so it's no good.

Not necessarily, Dave.

If there was a spring or something like an aggravating area of running surface water then someone may well have put a 'solid' pipe there to catch it & take it away.
I've seen examples of similar pipes running from entrance ways (where surface water encroached onto a property) to take water to somewhere it could soak away more readily or to an area which was seldom used & didn't matter if it became a bit boggy.

It could be that the ground has moved & the pipe dropped or, in fact, that it was used to carry something TO the barn & not water away from it. Cabling for instance? One comes across some very strange but innovative ideas ....... why pay for xxxx when using yyyy will work? We all still do it to some degree.:D
The water may just be taking the easy route & following the line where a pipe has been laid.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Not necessarily, Dave.
The water may just be taking the easy route & following the line where a pipe has been laid.

Well, we shall see when I find both ends of it, but it's not electricity. I know where that runs and I have the details from the guy who laid it.

He wouldn't have put his name to this though!

The lady rescued at Umberleigh was lucky it was a warm night. Over confidence in a 4x4 by the sound of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20834577
When we stopped yesterday because I 'forgot' about a river, a guy came through in one of those big 4x4s that can raise their suspension. Looking at the route he'd just taken through the torrent, I thought he was bonkers.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

the landslide on the top road, was just below the farmhouse on the mountain, so it looks as though the house is going to be condemed....


the rain has started here

Davesnave hubby has a discovery which has be 'lifted' so he would do something like that

I have left everything to the last minute... wrapping pressies, cleaning the house, put decorations up. go shopping once at about 1pm and then about 6pm.


ooo ye and i have started sneezing:eek::o

Rummer

Oh I am so disorganized this year :eek:

Still have to clean the house, wrap ALL the pressies and get the food prepared and I still haven't decorated the dining room :eek:

I think it is going to be a long day