Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Been digging out buttercups today...making the most of the rain and soft ground and then soaking it more with lagoon water. Lots of nice clean removal.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Been digging out buttercups today...making the most of the rain and soft ground and then soaking it more with lagoon water. Lots of nice clean removal.

this is a really weird request but can you send me a picture of your pond/lake of the bit where we stand with the big concrete? bit and the edge of the water going about 10ft around it please....;):D

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

Been digging out buttercups today...making the most of the rain and soft ground and then soaking it more with lagoon water. Lots of nice clean removal.

Ah you need to get a Fiskars gadget, weeding with a little extra sparkle

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

this is a really weird request but can you send me a picture of your pond/lake of the bit where we stand with the big concrete? bit and the edge of the water going about 10ft around it please....;):D

Yes ...tomorrow will snap one, its a bit empty ATM though.....:o

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

Ah you need to get a Fiskars gadget, weeding with a little extra sparkle

We have one, but this area is too heavy duty sadly.

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

We have one, but this area is too heavy duty sadly.

Oh no :eek:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ALFIE:mad::mad::mad::mad: I hope you and your bro sort it out... take it all the way.... don't take no !!!!!!

Rummer... my contract phone ( which is £13 odd a month) ends in August, I hardly use that phone, it has been kept as an emergency phone, so I am going to stop it...
Food wise I am getting used to just buying for mainly me and hubby, as the boys are allways out, as long as I got cereals and nibbley type food for them, they are happy..

The cats, I have a plastic create ( the ones you use for under bed storage) and fill it with a mix of fullers earth cat litter and the wood pellet one, as it is deep, I spot clean, and give it a total clean out about every month... this way I don't go through half as much litter as I used to using normal cat litter trays around the house...

I also give them fresh a few times a week, and I find they get fuller quicker than feeding tinned food all the time, they have liver, fish etc... tinned pilchards in bryne etc.. so even though its more expensive than a tin of food, they don't eat as much.

Def prep now for the autumn and winter... we will be starting getting wood ready soon.. I have a duvet perminantly thrown over the sofa now... def saved us money on coal etc..

Rummer

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

The cats, I have a plastic create ( the ones you use for under bed storage) and fill it with a mix of fullers earth cat litter and the wood pellet one, as it is deep, I spot clean, and give it a total clean out about every month... this way I don't go through half as much litter as I used to using normal cat litter trays around the house...

I also give them fresh a few times a week, and I find they get fuller quicker than feeding tinned food all the time, they have liver, fish etc... tinned pilchards in bryne etc.. so even though its more expensive than a tin of food, they don't eat as much.

Our cats have a cat flap so we have not had a litter tray for them since they were tiny and it has saved us a fortune. Food wise they get permanent access to dried food and they really like the sachets from ASDA. They also get fresh food from time to time.

rozeepozee

I'm typing this on the loo. Only place you can get any peace in this place.

Lots of interesting posts. Alfie, I assume you know your father is entitled to access to his medical records? There is an application form and procedure, and they have a certain timescale in which to provide them.

I'd love Sebastopols... Think they may be the fancy geese we're looking for. I'm holding out on a breed before we commit.

We have confirmed a builder! Work starts 30th May. Can't believe it.

Rummer, I've been looking hard at our finances and, like you, there's little to trim. Much of the expense is business related. Everything else has been pared down before. We just don't spend already on the sort of things "normal" households can cut back on. I realise that growing our own probably isn't going to save much at least this year....

We have just bought two huge sheds, mind.... We urgently need storage for anything that comes out of the stripped house that we're saving. I hoping that in future years, when the kids are at school, big expenses like that can be cut back on as we'll have time to do the work ourselves.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rummer our cat use to go out ( we have 3 now) but we stopped leaving her ( an the others) out when the supermarket opened, as that area used to be her 'hunting' ground, I was just soooo freightened she would get run over..

Had a good chat with hubby last night about my plan:D

before Christmas I I mention that I had set myself a time scale to get money in to start doing part of the ranch, but that went astray due to other issues we had to sort out.

It is my birthday in approx. 10 weeks, so I told hubby I want to set that date as a target date to get money in to start the house..:eek: When I told him the amount, he did give a sstrange look, and just started 'pretending' to grab money from thin air:rotfl:.

so after going through a bit of our finances yesterday, and ordering new bank cards/pin numbers etc from old dormant bank accounts, I am going to use one of them to stash my farm money in..

Plus he has agree I can book more vintage/craft fairs etc to try and get money in:T:T ( I think now that he has his shed up he don't care:rotfl:)