Daydream thread continues.....

pink_poppy

Fingers crossed for the tender, lucielle. And for the 4 teenagers!!

Itsme, we have had red-legged partridges here too but not seen them for a couple of years. Noisy beggars I seem to remember!! Btw, awful about the lamb, poor thing.

We get pheasants all year round, they queue up to be fed by our next door neighbour. The first couple of years living here we had the most adorable chicks coming into our garden I only saw a couple very briefly last year & the magpies looked like they were after them Too many predators around here.

lir, hope things pick up for you soon, the rotten weather certainly doesn't help.

We have had a grey day here & heavy rain this afternoon ~ too miserable to do anything.

lostinrates

Thanks pink poppy.

I truth I am coming to terms with it. I have had her since I was a teen so it was bound to be a big loss. I have managed to keep pretty segregated this week but spoke on the phone today to my non resident parent and will start seeing clients again tomorrow.

I always describe the relation ship with her as being not unlike one with a spouse or partner. We communicated lovingly and knew each other really well. A relationship like that with a horse, you communicate so well through body language, like with a partner....there is no where to hide from the pain it was going to leave. We have been watching old girl so hard it was unexpected special girl would have pipped her to the post!

But it's the end I would have chosen for her, well, loved, and not too long.

alfie_1

lucielle wrote: »

Yukky here as well. Been to outdoorsy type place to get DDs boots ready for when she goes to Thailand for a month.

Just thinking (always dangerous) that by May I'll have 4 teenagers. Please give me strength!

DS1 turns 18 in just over a weeks time.

Trying to put together a servicing tender for a golf club, its our first time at tendering and its causing some stress. It would be a great help to cash flow if we won it.
L

PLEASE make sure your DDs got good insurance and wears shoes / footwear in the sea !!....:o

also take care if hiring a moped....

alfie_1

LIR.... i felt the same when my old boy choccy went and barney the TB.

my friend [where horses are kept] and i had a sad moment when i told her youde lost your special girl and she was reminded of barney running up the field in dense snow followed by the mini's and sheep. we have a picture of this. my friend is not what i would call horsey but she had great respect for barney and had thier own bond of this.
memories tho sad keep them alive if only by thought. i am sure you will smile soon repeating to someone her antics....we do now.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all:beer::beer:

I dont think you truely ever get over losing a close pet, it is like losing a person..

Don't know what is wrong with me today, REALLY feeling rough,

so just about to dive in a hot bubbly bath, and then cwtch up all night on the sofa...

weather isn't as cold today, but accoring to the countryfile weather forcast we might have snow at the end of the week:eek::eek:

RAS

lir thank you. Would remembering good times make it easier?

I know I deal with grief differently; I need to talk about the "person" whose has gone a lot to get some sort of resolution. Still end up sniffing over the ironing at intervals though.

RAS

On a completely different note, somewhat freaked out by Cyprus etc.

18months ago I looked like redundancy might be around the corner and I started to look around. But things are better than expected and anyway I have been told there is no chance of being let off the hook in the near future.

So my plans of moving and getting something with a bit of land are a bit up in the air. It makes very little point to buy land near here when I want to move (and a lot of the land easily accessible is owned by big estates). I would then end up having to sell both properties which makes things harder.

But I do not want to sit on a fair bit of money which earn burger all in interest whilst land price soar and banks look dicy.

I know I do not want to stay local.

My ideals are

Land on the edge of a small/medium town. Happy to buy/rent non-adjacent house later
Town with decent access to public transport (ideally rail or canal).
South facing slope.
Area for growing veggies of less than half an acre but addiitional space for fruit and perennials.
Would be OK with additional grazing but would probably let out in the beginning, subject to ensuring ag tenancy could not be created. Not fussed whether this was grazing rights or land.
Would like capacity for woodland or copse or even better existing scope for firewood/small timber production, but am not going to plant good land with trees.

thoughts on other factors
Not in national park
West country - warm but wet and expensive
Wales - cheap but wet and anglephobic in places. I am not very good at languages so might struggle.
Scotland - poor climate and some places expensive and anglophobic (although I could use my mother's name).

Any ideas on where you would start if you had £200K

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Anglephobic.... you normally find incomers bring this on themselves... by being arrogant and having attitude to the locals, so basically they don't do themselves any favours...

I must ad the above is a minority.... most people which have moved into the area, are great.

With me it doesn't matter where you are from, if people talk down at me, or talk to me as though I am thick, then I don't even make the time of day for them...

I think most places in the uk have good points, and bad points, you just got to weigh up the pro's and con's, and see what you are prepared to compramise on

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

On a completely different note, somewhat freaked out by Cyprus etc.

18months ago I looked like redundancy might be around the corner and I started to look around. But things are better than expected and anyway I have been told there is no chance of being let off the hook in the near future.

So my plans of moving and getting something with a bit of land are a bit up in the air. It makes very little point to buy land near here when I want to move (and a lot of the land easily accessible is owned by big estates). I would then end up having to sell both properties which makes things harder.

But I do not want to sit on a fair bit of money which earn burger all in interest whilst land price soar and banks look dicy.

I know I do not want to stay local.

My ideals are

Land on the edge of a small/medium town. Happy to buy/rent non-adjacent house later
Town with decent access to public transport (ideally rail or canal).
South facing slope.
Area for growing veggies of less than half an acre but addiitional space for fruit and perennials.
Would be OK with additional grazing but would probably let out in the beginning, subject to ensuring ag tenancy could not be created. Not fussed whether this was grazing rights or land.
Would like capacity for woodland or copse or even better existing scope for firewood/small timber production, but am not going to plant good land with trees.

thoughts on other factors
Not in national park
West country - warm but wet and expensive
Wales - cheap but wet and anglephobic in places. I am not very good at languages so might struggle.
Scotland - poor climate and some places expensive and anglophobic (although I could use my mother's name).

Any ideas on where you would start if you had £200K

Pockets of west aren't so bad.

Here we are in a cheapest spot surrounded by some of the most expensive parts of wessex. Rail network, canal network and train links too.

Cons......not rural enough for me. Though if you want edge of small/medium town might be ideal for you! Light pollution.....where there are peoe there is some light and sound pollution. The well priced plots go quickly. A lot of gypsies buy around here,and what I see suggests they get planning for accommodation. Even the smaller communities have ASBOs to some, a revelation to me. Another con is that I admit, I do not love the landscape here. I someti,es feel a bit lonely in it. Not lonely like agoraphobic moors (which I would prefer' though my favourite is soft hills and deciduous woods, dark and deep). But lonely like in a marriage with a nice guy you don't love but probably should. You know what I mean?


Rain, yeah....had a lot of it in the last year, but most where I am falls on the hills, not in the valley where I am!

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Anglephobic in places..... you normally find incomers bring this on themselves... by being arrogant and having attitude to the locals, so basically they don't do themselves any favours...

I think one of the issues is that some incomers are ...well.... dire. I have met some whose basic understanding of local law is non-existant so they have upset half the community before they even opened their mouths. Trouble is that means that other incomers can get tarred with the same brush.

Heavens I was born a few miles away and my surname is local but came back with southern accent and I took a lot of hard work to get people to treat me like a human being. They assumed I was a toff. It helped that when they asked where I came from I replied well I was born a few miles away but family come from another local place. I could see the shock as they re-calculated my place in society.

The big leveller is the school run which I would not be doing and I would probably not be working, which is the other big opportunity to correct assumptions. I know how to treat the lowliest staff like humans and with them onside, I can work miracles but if I am not working....

Sorry - that last sentence might sound condscending but I have had to work round some real snooty birks at times and it is my relationship with the luggers and grafters that enabled me to get stuff done that defeated other people.