Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

I like to think that one day, when all the major expenditure is done, we may be able to live pretty cheaply here.

Of course there will always be extras one doesn't pay for in a 2 bed bungalow on a housing estate, but I think living like that might soon make us even poorer.....:(

(My pension reduces to 50% when I'm dead!:rotfl:)

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I like to think that one day, when all the major expenditure is done, we may be able to live pretty cheaply here.

Of course there will always be extras one doesn't pay for in a 2 bed bungalow on a housing estate, but I think living like that might soon make us even poorer.....:(

(My pension reduces to 50% when I'm dead!:rotfl:)

Honestly, I don't see our expenses getting less. In the medium term I see them rising, considerably.


Short term, I am awaiting the fencing quote and the stupid, horrid car is overheating, badly, so will have to go in urgently (ATM just me here so I cannot get it in even if I can limp it down to the garage...which in itself is dubious. )



It's freezing here to day. The difference with a north wind is gruesomely clear. All through that snow the wind was not from the north, even though it was cold, now it's swung it feels painful out there. But it's clear and dry, and I take cold and dry any day over mushy muddy wet and a little bit less cold!

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

this is a pump where you put the hose into liquid and it pumps up through to wherever... like a big hoover.
i never intended to supply a gurt big pump ....:rotfl:

just thought it would help....:o

I wasn't having a go. LIR initiallly spoke of a slurry pump so I was going with that & it being submersible.
That's different from the dirty water pump you're describing above which usually works from dry land or in less sludgy places

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

I like to think that one day, when all the major expenditure is done, we may be able to live pretty cheaply here.

Of course there will always be extras one doesn't pay for in a 2 bed bungalow on a housing estate, but I think living like that might soon make us even poorer.....:(

(My pension reduces to 50% when I'm dead!:rotfl:)

Sadly, it doesn't seem to work that way, though, Dave.
Very, very little in life gets significantly cheaper &, as one gets older, there's more & more that someone else has to be paid to do if you want to keep on top of the place. Fall behind & we'd all end up living in exactly the sort of place we started off with before we all spent years trying to get it decent. :rotfl:
That's what keeps up the supply of cheap, run down places for other dreamers to snap up, though.

Itismehonest

Posted because it may be of interest to people looking for tenancies
http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Castle-Hill-dairy-works-open-tenancy-offers/story-18209832-detail/story.html#axzz2LXZmohEO

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Sadly, it doesn't seem to work that way, though, Dave.
Very, very little in life gets significantly cheaper &, as one gets older, there's more & more that someone else has to be paid to do if you want to keep on top of the place. Fall behind & we'd all end up living in exactly the sort of place we started off with before we all spent years trying to get it decent. :rotfl:
That's what keeps up the supply of cheap, run down places for other dreamers to snap up, though.

I didn't say how long we hoped to be here for, though.

However, the guy playing Mrs Buxom in the panto is our westerly 'neighbour' (over 1/4 mile distant!) and he has ten years on me. He doesn't look ready to stop yet. Years of brushcutting and forestry have kept him going.

Of course we all need to recognise the time when it's sensible to downsize. I hope I'll be brave enough to do that early enough for it to be another 'adventure' of some kind. Quite fancy a complete change of scenery one day......:)

Itismehonest

As we can personally prove, you can't always decide it's time to sell & do it as quickly as you might like.
Yes, you could cut the price way back - which means you have much less to buy somewhere else & less to use for your 'pension' - but even then someone has to want to buy. There's no way of knowing whether a property will take a month, a year or more to sell. Health usually doesn't give much notice of changing & accidents (all to frequent when working on land) give no notice at all.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Posted because it may be of interest to people looking for tenancies
http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Castle-Hill-dairy-works-open-tenancy-offers/story-18209832-detail/story.html#axzz2LXZmohEO

They've poshed that place up quite a bit since the days when I used to go past it on the school bus.

...And the times when we used to go to the army rifle range there, sieve out the bullets, take them home, melt them down and sell the results for scrap....:D

..till the kilted keeper caught us. Somehow, being told off by a man in a kilt was more frightening, so we never returned! :rotfl:

alfie_1

LIR.... is this pump for the sloping bit where the poop/water was ? where plants were growing last year..:rotfl:

thats where i thought you meant it was for...

if you like i can drop it off sunday ? as long as im not having to collect the sofa ive been given that day although if i do it early i can still come....:cool:

its a big L shaped sort of chaise type thing in old green velvet...posh or what !! came from a £4m house in london..:D:D
intend to put it in the back room and make room back into a study /ebay room..... i hope...:o

im going to have a garage sale next weekend and try and a] raise some dosh and b] get rid of carp...:D

sunny but bitterly cold day today. had to put flo and dora minis in lawn paddock with sheep as started to show signs of lami again ....:( the others were not impressed and gathered otherside of fence as if commiserating with thier jail.... then they decided it was too bl**dy cold to stay there and all bu**ered off to thier field shelter :rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

oooooooo rhiwi ... what goodies did you get.... radar up and working :D