Daydream thread continues.....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I would have loved to have seen the who...

Lapstock, looks like a local music festival, with local bands

Now that I have left the comfort of my sofa and come to work, its flipping freezing!!!!

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Now that I have left the comfort of my sofa and come to work, its flipping freezing!!!!

9C here and my summer top is not enough, had the heating on earlier!

I think I have an "itis" . I dont seem to be able to spend money without wanting a really good deal. So two pairs of shoes, style I wanted, half price for £30. Weekend away, self catering apartment in town centre, + parking just where we wanted, £100.

Even our boiler man refused to take extra money for coming back twice to fix an intermittent fault.

I want to loosen the purse strings but just dont know how any more :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

Well, permaculture is all a bit out of my reading area, but I know a few here have looked into it or experienced it.

A friend called to day knowing we need labour to tell me her apprentice had previously worked in a permaculture place, and is really keen to maintain this interest. She doesn't have enough work for him and I was thinking that it might be worth him looking at those banks of the muck heap which I want to turn in to a soft fruit garden.....

Davesnave

Result! :D:D:D

Op*nr*ach visited today and we've agreed a relocation of the errant pole, which on their records is on the other side of the stream, but on yet another party's land! :eek:
The OR surveyor man agreed that it looked like Mr Dog had had it shifted when lightning caused a re-jig a year or two before we bought. Clever that, as it wasn't even on his property!:mad: None of this was recorded, as it was a 'repair.'

Unfortunately, the other party isn't great on remembering stuff like this, or distinguishing between his electric and phone supplies, so we gave up that line of enquiry! :rotfl:

Basically, conditions meant OR had the choice of relocating the pole on our land, sticking it back on the other party's land (very difficult now) or putting it in limbo on the side of the road. The latter would have impacted on the other party's only view, so we agreed to the first option.

This means we'll soon have the pole off the boundary and I'll be able to secure the land properly. It doesn't mean that Mr Dog gets the pole in his garden, which is what would have happened if this was a movie!

I'm still quite pleased though.

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, permaculture is all a bit out of my reading area, but I know a few here have looked into it or experienced it.

A friend called to day knowing we need labour to tell me her apprentice had previously worked in a permaculture place, and is really keen to maintain this interest. She doesn't have enough work for him and I was thinking that it might be worth him looking at those banks of the muck heap which I want to turn in to a soft fruit garden.....

lir

Here's a link to the permie principles section http://www.permaculture.org.uk/knowledge-base/principles or
http://permacultureprinciples.com/

Things I would ask a permacultured trained gardener to do:

1. Do the basic work drawing up areas of light and shade, exposed and protected land, the way in which water is transported round the garden, how it might be better stored and moved by gravity (I know you have the swamp).

2. Zoning

That helps identify the best places to grow different types of plant.

If however you want a nice neat garden border????

The idea of guilds is that you have three (in the UK) storeys of plant; tree, shrub and low plant/ground cover rather than putting all the soft fruit together and an orchard elsewhere.

Maybe ask him for a chat? You could ask him to do a design for the banks? And then discuss his plans before deciding to what extent you want to go ahead.

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

lir

Here's a link to the permie principles section http://www.permaculture.org.uk/knowledge-base/principles or
http://permacultureprinciples.com/

Things I would ask a permacultured trained gardener to do:

1. Do the basic work drawing up areas of light and shade, exposed and protected land, the way in which water is transported round the garden, how it might be better stored and moved by gravity (I know you have the swamp).

2. Zoning

That helps identify the best places to grow different types of plant.

If however you want a nice neat garden border????

The idea of guilds is that you have three (in the UK) storeys of plant; tree, shrub and low plant/ground cover rather than putting all the soft fruit together and an orchard elsewhere.

Maybe ask him for a chat? You could ask him to do a design for the banks? And then discuss his plans before deciding to what extent you want to go ahead.

Thanks ras. That won't work for us at all i think, good to know.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hailstones:eek::eek::eek::eek: in bl00dy May, and I am sure I heard on the radio there are blocked roads in Scotland because of the snow...

never mind about starting to stockpile wood ready for the winter, flipping using it now:rotfl::rotfl:

Rummer

Davesnave wrote: »

which is what would have happened if this was a movie!

I'm still quite pleased though.

That just made me snort my tea in a very un lady like fashion :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

never mind about starting to stockpile wood ready for the winter, flipping using it now:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm doing all I can to avoid touching next winter's wood, so it's a case of rounding up all the small or dodgy bits lying around.

We've already burned the rotten bits of the pole barn poles and an old field gate, complete with the hinges. We've plenty of old, wormy oak too, but I don't know how to cut that up without wrecking the saw! Leylandii is better than I thought it would be, so the smaller bits of the neighbour's old trees are coming in handy.

But it all counts. Off now to track down this evening's fuel....:cool:

Itismehonest

Been really blowy here all day & now they've given a warning for tomorrow. I thought today was bad enough.:o
Not much other news except a friend successfully climbed Everest for the charity that the poor victim of yesterday's atrocity supported.