Daydream thread continues.....

Yurtman

Hi I run a yurt holiday business Natures Path Yurts in Norfolk still not made any money i live in a council house but my dream would be to buy a patch of land with a stream and some woods and live in a yurt and spend the days fishing and the nights sitting around a campfire drinking dandelion wine:beer:

Rummer

Hello Yurtman sounds like a good dream

The day here seems to have brightened up and I am just setting my potatoes out for chitting on the window ledge

I think what puts me off DIY is all the little bits of prep. My forte is very much destruction and I love removing wall paper and ripping up carpets etc however I have no patience for sanding, plastering and painting which are all the things we have left

The other issue is, as is often the case, is money. We have none. Currently we are working hard to get ourselves in a more secure financial footing so little is left in the budget. Most of the house just needed decorating but we have been buying parts for the bathroom over the last couple of years and now we only need a bath :rotfl: at this rate we should be able to afford the kitchen some time within the next 30 years :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

It also doesn't help that we are not gifted at DIY and we have walls that are almost impenetrable to all drills and when the drill dies break the surface the wall then starts to crumble trying to put up curtain rails becomes a real battle of wits

rozeepozee

Yurtman wrote: »

Hi I run a yurt holiday business Natures Path Yurts in Norfolk still not made any money i live in a council house but my dream would be to buy a patch of land with a stream and some woods and live in a yurt and spend the days fishing and the nights sitting around a campfire drinking dandelion wine:beer:

Hi Yurtman, we like the idea of Yurts or the like on our land. We've got the woodland (although it's a narrow-ish strip, rather than a proper wood!) with a stream running through it - no fish!- and a three and a half acre field with views over the fields to the sea. It seems like a yurt camp could happen, but like all these things, the capital outlay makes the relatively slow income return to make the prospect not entirely sensible.....

Ferret, we're becoming quite hardy living in this caravan. Wherever we go now, the children peel off their clothes as they're not used to heating. It's getting embarrassing having half naked kids running round the place! It can be tough though. Days like these, low temps with no sun, are a challenge, but at least it's dry! And there's no snow! I am thankful for small mercies these days :rotfl:

Rummer

It has been so lovely having a bright and dry weekend

rozeepozee

Rummer wrote: »

It has been so lovely having a bright and dry weekend

We haven't seen much of the sun all weekend....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

WHO ARE WE?????? JACK ARMY!!!!!!!


WOOOOHOOOOOO Swans won 5 - 0:beer::beer::beer:

sorry but I am sooooooooooo excited:j:j:j

ukmaggie45

Greeting Ferretkeeper and Yurtman, welcome to the thread!

We're not on a smallholding or anything exotic like that. After living since 1973 in a terraced house with just a small walled back yard we bought a semi with a decent sized garden with money left to me by my parents. After renovation plus extension (it all took ages!) we moved in nearly 2 years ago. Garden been disastrous ever since - rain and slugs+++ but maybe we'll do better this year! First year we did have a great garlic harvest, but last years rotted - not sure if we have white rot or if it was just a rotten wet and horrible summer.

But we feed the birds, and have lots of them coming to visit. Watched a thrush hunting snails today - saw it pick one up (looked a bit like a mushroom from the distance!) and then bash it on a stone. It was the bashing on a stone bit caught my attention, couldn't work out initially what the "tick tick tick" noise was until I saw it was a thrush.

So we're city dwellers, but we still have the daydream of growing our own... Maybe this year we'll manage to get some beans going and not lose them all to the slugs!

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

We haven't seen much of the sun all weekend....

Nor us, but it's been dry, mainly, which makes me very happy:j


In fact we have had snow very lightly each of the last three days. It's come to nothing each time, and it's just so nice for it to be DRY.

Alexelisey

I've done more weaving today (last week's smaller panel for comparison)



I need 64 panels of approx a square foot each to make the bedspread. At one panel a week, it'll keep me busy for over a year :rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

We planned to see the spectacle of thousands of crocuses and snowdrops in a local manor house garden, because the early forecast was for a sunny afternoon. Didn't happen, but we still went.

The manor was a thatched Georgian building with the same aspect as ours, so we were interested in their garden ideas. They have a much better view, but we could still copy their ha-ha if we want to:


Their chickens had great scope to run in that field, but they had scaly leg and didn't look too lively. Being posh doesn't make people good chicken keepers!

Half-frozen, we then had tea & cake in the local village hall, only to find out that theirs has a similar problem to ours, namely a leaky roof. In our case the bill will be £20k, but the materials for theirs will only be £2.5k because theirs is thatched.

Got home to hear that the Panto had raised £1465 towards that £20k....a record.