Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

I think I might have to accept that hollies are not going to work on the road frontage where we park. They look really ill.

We have taken up the weed membrane and mulched. No idea what to replace with or what to do now.


Been looking ever where local for Alfie's 6 x, no one seems to stock it here.

rhiwfield

rhiwfield wrote: »

Copying Alf in listing a few high value items, cost me a fair bit so its fingers crossed for sales!

Offers galore, some high value stuff gone and awaiting payment. Turned down some offers as well so just catching breath!

Trip to shimmering sea earlier after coffee and cake, lovely day

alfie_1

http://www.woodhousestables.co.uk/

this is for ferretkeeper


sorry im having probs with my laptop...:( it wont let me into some sites, and as a techno scaredy cat i have not a clue how to cure it.... so any bright sparks out there....HELP :eek:
someone said it could be my firewall ??

i have a rather lovely springer spaniel laying at my feet that i found in the road 5.30pm today. she was with a black lab but i couldnt catch that one i toured the area for nearly 2 hours showing/telling/asking but no joy. police dont keep reports now and im not letting the dog warden take it [long story/history] . i have put a big sign up at the crossroads so hopefully word will have spread by tomorow morning.
shes so lovely, SO obedient......:o but i am worried how the black lab has fared ??

alfie_1

rhiwfield wrote: »

Offers galore, some high value stuff gone and awaiting payment. Turned down some offers as well so just catching breath!

Trip to shimmering sea earlier after coffee and cake, lovely day

:T:T well done.. aim high m'lad, aim high

put trailer back on and had instant bids..:D

alfie_1

LIR.........SOOOOOOOOO CUTE doesnt it brighten the day to see fluffy "life" bumbling around :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning All :j:j

sorry I didn't post last night when we got home We were pooped, thank you for thinking about us over the weekend...:beer:

Went ok, made money, people weren't spending like previous years, and this was right across the show..There was nothing the show organisers could have done any differently etc.. plain and simple people were not parting with their money..alot of the traders were saying they might go back next year..

Normally we cant leave our stall, but this year we were taking time out to wonder round the show one at a time, I have fallen in love with the Duroc Pig..:D. so I think this is the pure breed we would like to have as our main pig..

Alife hope you find the owner of the dog, and the lab is found as well,

LIR.. sorry about the tests on the pony, but maybe it is a sign to say hang on.

right I need another cuppa:rotfl:

Davesnave

Hmmm, I expect there are quite a few abandoned dogs nationally as a result of belt-tightening, not just the usual post-Christmas thing. I'd like to see a lot of legislation-tightening too, but realistically it isn't going to happen.

Plenty of dogs in this neighbourhood, but not many serving any useful purpose. Even Mr Dog's dogs are basically outdoor rug-rats, spending almost all their time in cages, though they must at least be useful in destroying the evidence of his 'extra-curricular' activities.

What is it with me & lawnmowers? I decided it was a good day to give the monster mower a spin yesterday..... I had a big area to cut, so it was worth getting the Beast out. Well, I got the majority of it done, but then it stopped cutting and I looked down to see the lever which controls the rotors hanging off. By then, smoke was starting to come from the belt area.....

I suppose the servicing place may have slacked-off the bolt holding the blade control for some reason, or maybe it was just its time to shake loose, but either way I shall have to sort that now. If the brand new belt is knackered, I shall sell the thing.

It seems to me that many powered tools aren't built to take much punishment, as I now have a Mountfield which is impossible to fix a silencer to and a Honda brushcutter with exactly the same problem, both caused by simple vibration. The engines are great, but the ancillary bits are poo. The handle is trying to come off the Mountfield now as well. :mad:

rozeepozee

rhiwfield wrote: »

Rozee, large or small plot the planning process is similar And if you plant quickly you might end up wanting to change it all!

I'd be interested in what others think but the large field seems to need a hedge windbreak if you are planning growing crops, but atm I'm not sure whether you plan to have livestock. I think Seymour may be worth a reread to help clarify your own wish list of animal and plants and how you plan to zone your land to fit it all in. But a smallholding is obviously much more work than a garden and I'd be thinking as well about ease of management, mechanisation, grazing etc, and wouldnt be inclined to make any rush decisions.

In the short term, if long term plans aren't firmed up, its not too late to make a temporary plot, close to house, where the youngsters can grow peas, beans, potatoes

Aw, thanks, Rhiw. We have a windbreak in the plans. Unfortunately, it will also be a view break as the field is gorgeous (to my eyes at least). I'm viewing this as a twenty year project, but I think as you suggest, that we'll put in four raised beds to begin and let the children have one each to wreck and one for actual growth. Patience is not my greatest virtue but I'm trying really hard to help the children start to enjoy the garden without shouting at them for wrecking my plantings. To view it as their school, rather than my product. It's hard but one of the three year olds is really interested and even did a fair job of planting up french beans yesterday. My attempt at salad seeds was probably better left for when they are at nursery

I think we'll branch out to a polytunnel in winter if we've managed to complete the build then and can find the cash....

My concern is that we don't put the more permanent structures where they are impractical. I think we really need to be in the house and using that accommodation first before we are sure where the pathways will be used and lines of entry and exit etc.

If I can find the time in the near future. I'll post the external plan up as designed by the architect's assistant (who I don't think is a gardener...)

rozeepozee

This isn't your dog is it, alfie? Long shot....
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=144880712362415&set=a.125641874286299.1073741825.100005214604636&type=1&theater

rozeepozee

alfie_1 wrote: »

http://www.woodhousestables.co.uk/

this is for ferretkeeper


sorry im having probs with my laptop...:( it wont let me into some sites, and as a techno scaredy cat i have not a clue how to cure it.... so any bright sparks out there....HELP :eek:
someone said it could be my firewall ??

i have a rather lovely springer spaniel laying at my feet that i found in the road 5.30pm today. she was with a black lab but i couldnt catch that one i toured the area for nearly 2 hours showing/telling/asking but no joy. police dont keep reports now and im not letting the dog warden take it [long story/history] . i have put a big sign up at the crossroads so hopefully word will have spread by tomorow morning.
shes so lovely, SO obedient......:o but i am worried how the black lab has fared ??

No, wrong sex.... Ah, well.......