Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

Davesnave wrote: »

I fully expect to read in the local news that the architect has topped himself, but perhaps he shouldn't design us a building where one has to go through a corner of the best room to reach the front door! We are a bit traditional....none of this open plan nonsense! I have emailed him 'our' version.

Update: Blimey, he's done it already...!:beer:

This means I can put up the final, final plan later on.

lostinrates

Open plan definitely doesn't work in small holding/farming/equestrian houses. Where do you leave the wet layers? The dogs? The chicken who needs to dry out or the sick usually out door four or two legged creatures? the soaking mashes that need heat and cannot freeze but must be kept away from those wet dogs who want to nosh them?

Open plan doesn't work for us well anyway (I dislike smelling yesterday's supper in my bedroom tonight) but our supper is nothing compared to buckets of various mashes and pulps or defrosting tripe for dogs.


The very heavy but not settling snow here did ice the top of the big bill and my view is once again dusted with icing sugar.

Like all the best cakes though, underneath the icing sugar, down here in the valley everything is very squidgey and wet. .

Thursday looks good so I am postponing mopping my concrete floors until then , in the hope I can throw the doors and windows open to get it all dry quickly and air everything.

We are having a site meeting on friday and hope to put bathroom plans in front of the builder.

pink_poppy

I think I'm more alex than alfie

I'm not actually after a place in the country, I've always lived by the coast & want that to continue with my daydream place. Coast to the front, my own woodland at the back ~ that'll do me nicely (& probably way out of my price range!!)

I'd love some chooks, geese definitely maybe. I couldn't do what you do CTC & rear piggies (or anything else for that matter) for meat, I'm far too soft I would buy the meat from you though, as long as I hadn't met them beforehand.

I would like to grow my own food ~ fruit & veg etc. I'm thinking a small polytunnel, raised beds, orchard...

I do have my sensible head on though & realise that what I dream of & what I probably end up getting are going to be 2 very different things. At the end of the day it's a daydream (or pipedream... escapism...), but I have to have something to hope & aim for to get me through the cr*p I have to put up with now

Out of interest, anyone else more coastal than country??

Itismehonest

Two fields (about 1/4 mile) between me & the coast. Woods about 150 yards in other direction. Make me an offer :rotfl:

Rummer

Alexelisey wrote: »

Now I feel I've been shunted even further into the "wuss" bracket :rotfl:20 years ago when we first wanted to move out to the country with the kids and have some land, I would have been fine. Living in suburbia has made me soft. Maybe it can all be regained, I don't know.

Perhaps I should just sit in the corner and keep quiet, because I feel a bit like I'm letting you all down. All mouth and trousers...

If thats the case then you can join me in the corner I would love to live the dreamer life however I know I would not be able to afford it or realistically cope especially after the curve ball we were thrown last year.

However I am living it in my own way. We bought a home with the biggest garden we could afford and step by step we are changing it to grow as much food as we can. I may not have chickens or other farm animals but we do have pets that we care for and adore.

I have all the home comforts that I crave and my wellies by the door. In my mind this thread is about creating your dream life on your own terms. Some have animals and land are are trying (or are successfully) making their living from their home and lifestyle and then there are others like myself doing things on a (much much) smaller scale.

What is important is that you build the life that suit you and that we all share our journeys

I will now shuffle off and get a cup of tea and a biscuit :rotfl:

Rummer

Itismehonest wrote: »

Two fields (about 1/4 mile) between me & the coast. Woods about 150 yards in other direction. Make me an offer :rotfl:

If only creepy buttercups were currency :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

Rummer wrote: »

If only creepy buttercups were currency :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You want bracken, gorse, ragwort, nettles, docks, wormwood & teasles instead? :eek:;):rotfl:

Rummer

Itismehonest wrote: »

You want bracken, gorse, ragwort, nettles, docks, wormwood & teasles instead? :eek:;):rotfl:

They do say a change is as good as a rest

Itismehonest

Rummer wrote: »

They do say a change is as good as a rest

Definitely a change but a rest?! _pale_
Anyone wanting to come here for 'a rest' (depending on numbers it may only take a fortnight ) will be gratefully received :rotfl:

Grey & cold today. Looks like we should miss tomorrow's snow, though ....... hopefully. Just rain (for a change - not). Temperatures for early March due to be around 12-13 degrees but still wet. Will it never end?

Davesnave

Had a bit of a :eek: experience today, but it may be nothing.

The meter man from an energy company came to the door to buy a dozen eggs, and whilst here he asked where a couple of properties are. For one of them it was difficult to answer, as two houses 100m apart have identical addresses.(it's Devon!:rotfl:)

Anyway, I asked the name of the person on the bill and he held up his electronic computer thingy, because he was having trouble saying it. It's not an easy, commonplace English-sounding name.

I said "Oh, Miss ******* that must be down at the barns!" Then my heart did a flip, because the reason I knew how to pronounce the name was because Miss ******** was our next door neighbour but one at the old place before she and her new man moved out.

She was what I'd call 'unconventional' and so were her kids. You'd see them out side at night in their pyjamas, playing musical instruments in the rain. ....Things like that, nothing awful.

Back inside, a bit of frantic 192-ing soon revealed that new man and both kids (now 18+) are on the electoral register at their last known address, but no Miss ******** The property concerned is a rental, which has just been let.

As I said, could be a strange coincidence, but it's starting to look suspiciously like history may be repeating itself!