Daydream thread continues.....

lucielle

I've been naughty and taken the plunge and bought the matting. No ebay challenge or anything just whacked it on the plastic! As its my special day tomorrow the chaps can help me get the beds covered.

Had a bit of other news and it looks like I'm going to inherit a half share of a croft with the option of buying the other half at some point in the future.
L

alfie_1

talking of poorly feathered friends.....
my poor male duck has had his "dingly dangly" dangling for days now ???? it doesnt seem to want to "go home"....:o

go on then....answer that one !!:rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

lucielle wrote: »

I've been naughty and taken the plunge and bought the matting. No ebay challenge or anything just whacked it on the plastic! As its my special day tomorrow the chaps can help me get the beds covered.

Had a bit of other news and it looks like I'm going to inherit a half share of a croft with the option of buying the other half at some point in the future.
L

COOL!!!! what do you reckon to living "up there" ??

lucielle

Not sure really. Midges adore OH and it will be a while (years) before anything happens.
L

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

We've been demolishing 2 wooden pigsties we've used as plant shelters, but unusually for a breaking job, it's taken all day. That's because we're keen to save the ply panels, but they're very well nailed together, and bolted too with well-rusted 5" M10s. It was much worse than digging!

Oddly, it looks as if there's a small spring in one of the pig sties; a very soggy area 2' across. Odd place to build I'd have thought.

We had a couple of downpours, even a clap of thunder, but during those I screwed the little chicken coop back together, having Crecoted it all twice for luck.

Ozzie looks like he might have scaly leg, but it's a hard thing to ID if it's not very bad, so it might not be that at all. He's also getting over a bit of chest trouble, so we've just been treating his legs with Vaseline every night rather than medicate. Apart from ivermectin, is there anything else we could use?

It never stops amazing me where water gets, Dave. A few years back (may have been the year Boscastle got flooded) a couple of properties locally had springs come up through their floors, one in a kitchen & the other in their sitting room. :eek:
I don't think it's ever happened since.
Water channels are constantly moving, though. They'll always take the easiest route at the time.

Scaly leg mite - Dip in kerosene/paraffin & linseed oil, mixed 1:2 ...... just don't do it near naked flame or you'll have an early Sunday roast

Nice one, lucielle :T

Ooops, alfie - that sounds like male prolapse. It would pay to speak to a vet as, if it is, that needs treatment. First make sure that none of the other ducks etc. take an interest in it. They will sometimes try to peck it off (sorry if that brought tears to the eyes, lads :rotfl:)
It can get infected very quickly & that can be really nasty.

alfie_1

THANKS, I will catch it and have a good look tomorow.

i have just spent hooooours listing on the bay !!:eek: new i was getting tired when i had put wrong pic on wrong item...:o

i am astounded tho ....a total of 114 watchers on the 3 kitchen items !! up to £93 on the units.
obviously a market for kitchen units [it is a posh make tho ] i will have to keep my ears open for any more that are freebies...:D
although this is my sons money..:( hes in london getting drunk/skint i expect as a delayed birthday weekend,so he'll be hoping to recoup his losses with this sale :rotfl::rotfl:

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Went to the local shop today, and took a bag with me to collect empty aluminium cans....came back with over 30! The shop I was going to is only 5 mins walk down one road, and I knew many residents/kids/workers round here were uncaring tramps, but you really do NOTICE it when you're looking for it...! So, while I know I have a long way to go/save yet (cans-wise), if all I have to do is pick up cans as I walk my usual route every day, then I'm gonna make money while on auto-pilot...!

Been sowing veg and flower seeds, plus my fave: COLEUS. I grew a few of these when I was a kid/teen, they're lovely plants and easy to grow/care for, so that's another little lot for my plant sale.

EBAY - I have lots of things to list, but when it comes to FreeListingDays - can I remember what I wanted to list???! I really must be more organised with this - I used to run a business on eBay, so praps that's why I have a mental block about it now...

LOVING hearing the rain hitting the windows. I can almost imagine I'm not in London!

Very skint at the moment, that 'dream' seems further away than ever...STILL I will fight and work towards it!


ETA - I went charity shop hunting yesterday as I need 'new' sheets and some net curtains...visited TEN charity shops and NONE of them stocked bedding or curtains!! Most were clothes and books, and 2 were books only (and hideously overpriced!). BAH!

choille

Well I'm pooped but the camera batteries went & the ones out of the clock soon flattened too. Things didn't work.........spent all day tiddling away at listing yet nothing went straight forward - one of those days.

Very cold out today & very starry & frosty out - gritter's orange flashing lights went up a few hours back & I'm gonna hit the sack, crawl into ma pit.
Night night.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Just a quicky... off to another fair, catch you later

Lotus-eater

r.a.i.n.b.o.w wrote: »

ETA - I went charity shop hunting yesterday as I need 'new' sheets and some net curtains...visited TEN charity shops and NONE of them stocked bedding or curtains!! Most were clothes and books, and 2 were books only (and hideously overpriced!). BAH!

I buy alot of books and always used to buy them from charity shops, was in one a couple of days ago, paperbacks £2........ my fav 2nd hand bookshop only sells them for a quid.
Needless to say, I don't buy books from charity shops any more. Or much else tbh, the prices have gone up massively the last few years.