Daydream thread continues.....

Itismehonest

Yep, Lynton up top & Lynmouth below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xby6edgp4zk

rozeepozee

I hope we've come to a happy medium as far as project management is concerned as our quantity surveyor is on hand paid by the hour as and when required, plus he has lots of contacts so he can hopefully recommend others when things don't work out. It is reassuring to have someone in the business to hold our hand.

All the builders we are planning to use are fairly big outfits with a hands on "main man" to oversee the work and manage the main build and subbies. Sometimes I think it would be great to just hand it over to a project manager but not only do you have to pay them a handsome percentage of the build, but they don't always get the best price. We have found a significantly lower price for the windows than they said we would. Our designer/QS said we couldn't afford aluminium, that it would blow the budget, but I've found a supplier at a massive percentage less than both the architect/QS said and basically, it is affordable at that price. If we'd left it in the hands of the experts in this instance, we would have been forced to settle for uPVC, something we didn't want to do.

pink_poppy

Thanks for clarifying top & bottom I'm guessing 'Lyn' must mean something?? I'll google

Itsme, I've watched the first couple of minutes of your link, thanks for posting it. The railway did bring back bad memories though _pale_:o I'll watch the rest later, with sound hopefully as I had to have it in 'silent movie' mode when I watched the first 2 mins.

rozee, glad you're going to get the windows you want.

Itismehonest

The East & West Lyn are rivers..... so Lynton & Lynmouth.
Don't worry about all the video. Most of it is just about the workings of the Railway.

Davesnave

Speaking of rivers, someone with a property overlooking a valley near Tiverton has named their abode "Little Dart House." This is annoying, because as a newbie around here, I assumed the stream at the bottom of their valley was the River Little Dart, which passes my local town.

Wrong! One day, I noticed the stream was flowing the 'wrong' way; it was going towards Tiverton, not our neck of the woods. That stream is the River Dart and there's no "Little."

Of course, just to confuse people further, neither of these Darts, which originate within a few miles of each other, is the River Dart of Dartmoor & Dartmouth fame. :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,

wired weather yesturday and this morning.

flurries of dry snow blowing everywhere, sticking, and then gone within minutes, and then sun comes out:rotfl: but BITTERLY cold:eek::eek:

They say this cold snap will last all week, poss into next week too:o:o

I bet alot of the people who rushed to the garden centres last week, and bought plants might be sorry now

Davesnave

The weather is going to hold us up a bit here, I think, although I can do another useful day in the polytunnel. After that, I'd like to be getting on with stuff outside.....:(

Outdoors, we have begun making raised beds across the slope, which is only about 10 degrees, but that complicates things a bit. Academic at the moment anyway, as the ground's solid!

Seedlings are doing OK. I can put them in the conservatory during the day, but yes, a lot of early starters will be caught out by this change back to winter.

Arty daughter is here for a couple of days. She's almost there as regards her graduation, but isn't talking of coming home, which is just as well with the things we have planned for this place! :rotfl:

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

They say this cold snap will last all week, poss into next week too:o:o

I bet alot of the people who rushed to the garden centres last week, and bought plants might be sorry now

You so often see tender plants put out early in centres, only to go half dead and remaindered. Tender bedding plants used to become available in early June, when suppliers knew they would survive and that late frosts had gone.

Even my rhubarb doesnt like the conditions atm!

pink_poppy

Davesnave wrote: »

Outdoors, we have begun making raised beds across the slope, which is only about 10 degrees, but that complicates things a bit. Academic at the moment anyway, as the ground's solid!

Ooh, I'm interested in what you come up with as we have a slope complication too

CTC, I'm sure I heard sun being mentioned on the weather forecast for Thursday :cool: Bitterly cold here too, but at least the wind has died down a bit today.

lostinrates

So cold. Ice inside windows again, ground hard as nails. Wood pellets being chomped through to little effect.

We're trying to decide what path to take now for heating, and just cannot decide.