Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Dave, I am always outside in night clothes (they wash and dry better than most things so are great for yard work) and also love being out in the rain. Wouldn't take an instrument out to damage it, but we sing out there sometimes in the rain.

Tbh, mr dog would see more than a risqu! nighty here outside.

Alexelisey

Rummer wrote: »

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.

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

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

Rummer, you're so right. Thanks so much! I think I'm still a bit down after being so ill and can't be objective or positive easily at present. Your words make perfect sense, and made me feel better. :A

Pass the biccies :rotfl:

rozeepozee

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement, Alfie. We're feeling a little worn down.

And Alex et al, please don't feel bad. I think we're a bit bonkers frankly and I long to be in a house with conveniences. We never choose for it to be like this, we sort of fell into it. We planned to buy a house that we could more or less move into.....

Itismehonest wrote: »

Yes, it's far from the idyll people think.
I, too, was a Young Farmer & had farmers in the family so I knew what it was like. My uncles & aunts could seldom attend family functions unless they could fit it around the farms.

Having lived here for more than a quarter of a century I can tell you that, even when young & fit, there were times when fighting the elements - chasing things the winds were throwing round or nursing poorly animals through the dark & freezing winter nights - have reduced me to tears through complete exhaustion.
It's constant hard work & the older you get the harder it is.
Nature never stops growing. Animals & birds always need feeding, checking & generally looking after 365 days a year.
Then, of course, there's the house & any other buildings, fences, walls etc. that need maintenance. It never ends.

As LIR says, I now dream of a small place like a nice apartment that I can lock up & leave to go off where I want when I want.

We have our eye on that goal in the longer term. One of the many reasons we are hanging onto our properties in the city, despite that city being five hours drive away, is that we may want to move back before we get too infirm to look after the acreage - or, if not back to that city (unlikely as we have no ties there), somewhere where there are many more amenities for the older generation and we worry that if we don't keep a foot in the city, we may be priced out of city living. When we were travelling round Aus, pre-children, we met lots of "Grey Nomads", retired people who lived half the year in their winnebagos in the North of the country and then when it was too hot to stay in the North, went down South to spend the Summer in their lock up and leave apartment by the coast. I aspire to that kind of lifestyle! When the children leave home, perhaps.... If we're not TOO old

Davesnave wrote: »

It'll be all right on the night....I hope! :eek:

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.

Glad to hear you're making real progress, Dave. We looked at our detailed plans today. The next thin is to work out how much of them we can afford :eek:

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

Our plans allow for some open plan, but we've also allowed for a front porch (that we may not be able to afford initially - see above) to take off boots etc. or an access in through the utility room at the side of the house so as to avoid the need to trail ourselves and children either through the open plan area at the rear or the front hall.

I have major cognitive dissonance/cold feet about our plans at the moment though because, having lived in a 34' x 14' caravan that would fit into the extension we're planning, I'm wondering why I ever thought we needed to extend this place at all...... However, we're now in too deep to revisit doing the bare minimum...... Ho hum.....

Sorry for the essay, guys. I think I may have given the multi quote function a seizure after that epic post!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Dave, I am always outside in night clothes .

And do you also climb lamp posts, then sit up there playing a penny whistle?

I forgot to mention, Miss *******'s christian name began with the same letter as I saw on the leccy man's computer thingy. :cool:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

And do you also climb lamp posts, then sit up there playing a penny whistle?

I forgot to mention, Miss *******'s christian name began with the same letter as I saw on the leccy man's computer thingy. :cool:[/QUOTE

Well. I cannot climb a lamppost. If I could climb our very climb able tree I would. Instead I hang from it in a hammock.:D

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

We planned to buy a house that we could more or less move into.....

Glad to hear you're making real progress, Dave. We looked at our detailed plans today. The next thin is to work out how much of them we can afford :eek:

We planned to do that too, but I never could resist a bargain.:o At the time I saw a quick tart-it-up job and a sale in 3 or 4 years, giving us a small return and the chance to move on to something "better." After all, experience teaches us we rarely get things right first time.

And last summer agents confirmed we could indeed expect a modest profit if we simply tore down the more "characterful" additions to the bungalow and stuck it on the market with a fresh coat of Dulux.

But despite Mr Dog etc, we decided that wasn't going to happen. We enjoy it here most of the time, as there's so many advantages with the location/site. Besides, we'd never agree on where to go next!:rotfl:

So, the modified plans are a bit less ambitious and they're flexible. We may or may not do everything on the application, but everything we are likely to want is there.

Rummer

rozeepozee wrote: »

I have major cognitive dissonance/

This phrase always makes me smile it reminds me of a past life.

Davesnave

Oh well, the lady with the unusual name isn't our former neighbour after all.

DD2 knows who she is. She's a Sophie, not a Sarah.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all:j:j

ok davesnave you have lost me now:rotfl::rotfl:

Rhiwie.. that's how i work things out, by splitting things right down to days etc when it comes to money... in the house and in work..

Looks as though the snow might miss us, but with work it does mean we need to go to an area, which will prob be hit by the snow, so will see what its like later on

COOLTRIKERCHICK

As the nights are getting lighter now, it will not be long before we can start on the ranch again..( unless we have anther we year)

With this being our first winter owning the place our anniversery of buying the place is the 6th march, and had the keys on the 6th April ( where has the time gone:eek::eek:).
dont
Its been really hard, as the dark nights means your working day is shortedned by umpteen hours, and with juggle work, running back and for to see to the pigs, don't leave any time to do any work on the place..

This type of thing, even though you know things are going to be hard on times, you don't really understand/know until it happens...



EDIT..... ITS SNOWING!!!!!!dont think it will stick as even though its big blobs, its wet