Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave... our local council will go onto your property or go around the back of your house to collect your wheelie bin, if requested, mainly for the elderly or disabled etc...

Those people sound as though they think they own the place..why did they complain about you selling stuff? did they go to the council, or tell you directly?

Councils make their own rules, I think. Here is still much better than East Devon, so I'm told by people who live there.

The complainers complain about everything. Their style is to go through someone else, so they did it through the secretary of the management committee at that time, an old lady.

More recently they complained to the council about the thatchers making cob blocks in the barn that adjoins both our properties, because the barn is only licensed for storage (or animals.) I'm not sure what the outcome of that will be, but the block making has ceased.

They also complain about tractors using 'their' lane, although, like us, the farmer has a legal right of way. I've heard that he finds it hard to get his big tractor down there without bumping their boundary shrubs on a fairly regular basis! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

they sound like right twonks Davesanve... I presume they are not country folk then:rotfl: I can not see what they gain by complaining about the person making the cob blocks??? Unless its some sort of personal thing against them... if wasnt for people like him/her old traitional skills etc will be gone...

do they work? or do they just sit there allday watching everyone else, and anything they dont like, they complain:mad:

alfie_1

evening all
well farrier came, lori behaved perfectly [obviously a night in mellowed him !!] iv kept him and flo in still, turn out tomorow, gave lori a good brush etc...
BUT apparently ruby called for him all night....:o friend said it was echoing round the land there and lori was answering her !! [ they are best mates as same age,makes for a funny sight as lori stands under ruby !] she had given up at about 5am
so hope its not repeated tonight !

i have just been volunteered/co-ersed/conned into helping with props re panto again....:eek: i was so determined to say no....:cool:
but i dont mind the props gang, its the wardrobe gang that sends me running for the hills

not till march so 8 weeks to gear up......

i have lost my camera :eek::eek::eek:

i am hoping against hope that it wasnt in the mud yesterday..:( i remember putting it in my pocket as i always do but it was in a side pocket and could have fell out with all my aerobics yesterday ....will have a look around tomorow but not holding my breath....gotta cover a 5 acre field as i wasnt compas mentos as to what route lori dragged me...:D

we have to get some more chooks at friends as numbers have declined rapidly via old age,rat attack!:eek: and ailments...dutch banties did not like the damp/rain and seem to get depressed..:o

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

they sound like right twonks Davesanve... I presume they are not country folk then:rotfl: I can not see what they gain by complaining about the person making the cob blocks??? Unless its some sort of personal thing against them... if wasnt for people like him/her old traitional skills etc will be gone...

do they work? or do they just sit there allday watching everyone else, and anything they dont like, they complain:mad:

They have been here some time, but the country life hasn't rubbed off. They're the only folk round here with a beautifully clean car and they're retired, not workers.

Not thinking things through is a problem for some. For example, if the thatchers give up using that huge barn, who do they think will move in? A silent order of nuns?:rotfl:

I've just realised, the way I describe things here, you'd think we were surrounded by loonies. It's true there's a higher than average % of ...er...unconventional people, but most of them are fine. One bit of good neighbour news is that the lad who began driving the dumper here a few years ago and then moved on to helping Pete part-time, passed his tractor driving test a few weeks ago. (Come to think of it, the twonks complained about him too!:p)

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

i have lost my camera :eek::eek::eek:

i am hoping against hope that it wasnt in the mud yesterday..:( i remember putting it in my pocket as i always do but it was in a side pocket and could have fell out with all my aerobics yesterday ....will have a look around tomorow but not holding my breath....gotta cover a 5 acre field as i wasnt compas mentos as to what route lori dragged me...:D
..:o

So long as you are OK today.

The camera will probably be caput if it's out in a field somewhere, but the card in it will be fine, if you can find it. ;)Years ago they used to make 35mm cameras for people like us, so I suppose they'll do some digitals the same. I had a waterproof one for school, and when that proved itself, I bought the same model for my Dad.....

He broke it! :(

alfie_1

my camera WAS in a case........... as if thats gonna help me find it !!!!

rhiwfield

Like an idiot agreed a shipment to NI via cheapest courier available.

0800-2000 collection.

Someone here all day.

No courier :mad:

Never use them again!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hahahaha, if mr & mrs twonk lived near us they would have writer's cramp, writting complaining letters about everything we do:rotfl::rotfl:

edit.... hope you find your camera Alfie..

Rhiwie... so annoying, what courier was it?

lostinrates

Ok,

Well, we are rural, but.......I can sort of understand mr and mrs twonk not wanting something with pp for storage or animal use to be a regularly used work shop.

The country side is living and workilng, but it's amazing how often those who work in it make little effort not to disrupt those who live in it. There are lots of silly, resolvable clashes.

E.g. A farmer here moved his sheep the other day. Up the road with quad bikes and sheep dogs. We are one of only a few houses on his route, and he knows we have dogs. I don't want my dogs seeing sheep as exciting things any more than he does, so why on earth he moved them noisily up the road at the time i usually feed horses with the dogs with me, alone, without calling to say...I'm moving the sheep...do you mind making sure the dogs are held or put in......he was furious when the kiwi terrier ran under the gate we were walking back from to join in excited running up the road, but so was I.......I don't want him thinking it's fun either. . I woul dhave left the dogs in had I known or at least had them in the yard, not be bringing them back from a romp by the lagoon while the horses finished their supper. Fwiw, I would not have fed the horses then either, the old one was terrified and we had pandemonium. (at least the hunt and the beagles always warn when they are in the area, as do most farmers moving stock on the roads). It's about knowing work happens, but making it as mutually least inconvenient as possible.

Personally, opf I were retiring to a little rural place I would not want to live with a workshop with a terrible radio station playing I think. (but then, nor would I want to live in the barn complex!).

Otoh, planning will most likely be granted if applied for, would you not think?

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Rhiwie... so annoying, what courier was it?

MyHermes, who'll now be referred to with a p instead of the second m

Usually use Yodel, local driver is really good and we've had a good service despite MSE comments. But in this case tried to arrange a NI delivery and alternatives were hugely expensive. Should have known better.

So get to book for tomorrow which is a bit like signing up for a second bout of more p*sstaking by MyHerpes :mad::mad: