Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

FK... good weights on them then... maybe not only is it the weight factor, but maybe the cost factor too for the restaurant.

still hammering it down here...:o:o working week hasn't started very good, so yep you guessed it, its just going to go down hill from here.

decided to work on till 6pm every night now, to catch up on stuff, might as well, as there isn't much we can do in this weather up the ranch..

step father is in hospital today having another op on his back.. basically this is sh!te or bust.. he has crumbling disks, trapped nerves, all sorts, and is in constant pain, the last surgeon has left something in his back:eek::eek::eek: but that's a story for another day..

Rummer

CTC I hope you are well stocked up with tea and biscuits

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rummer wrote: »

CTC I hope you are well stocked up with tea and biscuits

funny enough, when I am in work, I don't drink tea, and eat biskwits, its energy drinks and crraaaap I eat:cool::rotfl:

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Unusual to get them in clean,buildings though, in summer...usually in fields eating where its more plentiful..

If they are hugging the yard now they'll be swarms in winter. I was really thinking we'd got on top of the problem.

Although we've had 'rats' before, we have never had rat problem and frankly its freaking me out.

Alfie. The terrier better get some lessons in with bimble, can we arrange that? I'm radio active a week On Wednesday and then booked out for a week and a half, when I should be good to go. I'm not dangerously radioactive( though bimble is a bit wee to risk) , just I'll be tired because at hospital ALL day so will need a few days to recover, then a few days to catch up.

They'll come for water if they can get it somewhere around the yard, LIR. They may just be using it as a rat run on their way to & from their nest & pink caught one on its' travels.

Itismehonest

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

FK... good weights on them then... maybe not only is it the weight factor, but maybe the cost factor too for the restaurant.

still hammering it down here...:o:o working week hasn't started very good, so yep you guessed it, its just going to go down hill from here.

decided to work on till 6pm every night now, to catch up on stuff, might as well, as there isn't much we can do in this weather up the ranch..

step father is in hospital today having another op on his back.. basically this is sh!te or bust.. he has crumbling disks, trapped nerves, all sorts, and is in constant pain, the last surgeon has left something in his back:eek::eek::eek: but that's a story for another day..

Hope all goes smoothly for stepfather.

Hammering it down is what we have, too. I'm watching a brown river rush down the lane. It's literally side to side of the tarmac & inches deep. I pity anyone down the bottom who hasn't checked the culverts are clear :eek:
The warm, dry weather already seems like ancient history. Hopefully this is only meant to be for today & that tomorrow should be dry again (lives in hope)

Davesnave

It's not been continuous here, thankfully, because the same hedging guy showed up who came last year, and I didn't want to send him away completely empty-handed.

So, we negotiated and I got the road hedge done for £20.

He was also pleased, because they'd given him a shedload of work over this way and he felt he might not get through it all. Mind you, he is dead slow....all round! :rotfl:

I thought this would also please Pete, as no one likes doing the road, holding up the buses etc. Also, we can see now where some remedial tree action will be needed this autumn, so Pete will get the bits of that which I can't reach.

Overall, the road hedge is looking much more dense and less likely to clout passing lorries, so it just needs a bit of tweaking. I'm glad I didn't succumb to earlier advice to cut it right down for easy management. Seeing the one dormouse in there stayed my hand, but I now think it's worth it for the sheep-sheltering it does too.

Anyway, just finished dragging the detritus off the road...:D

alfie_1

hello all

CTC... that bed frame has been in my shed for 2 years ? i had it in my spare room when my friend lived here for a while. i lose track of what i swop...:o so dont be :mad: be:j .......:D
also got 2 boxes of nice [posh] cream small tiles which may do [brand new] also the fire bricks, the quarry tiles, the wood kitchen top and an old fashioned enamel topped kitchen unit [cupboard and 3 drawers] size of a chest of drawers.........fill ya boots..:D

i have just sold a load of s/crap to a local scrappie and bimble was having a field day catching rats that shot out when they moved stuff. one rat ran so close to "going up chaps trouser leg" that he leapt so high, it was olympic....bimble got 9 by the end of the sortie :D

LIR.... yes i can bring bimble to show jack spratt the ropes

my generator is pooped i am covered in oil etc checking every bit but BF is coming over 7.30am tomorow :eek: to have a look before he goes to work... likkle petrol genny does for now but VERY expensive to run.... needs must

im waiting for a fuel delivery tues/weds and am in the process of swapping tanks [via LIR] so why did i get :mad: when i got call 8.30 am today telling me it was enroute !! i said NOOOOO, so hope i get it when ive swopped tanks..........:cool:

yesterday was a glorious day and i got sunburnt !!
weve had showers at night but suns out day time. bit of cloud but high up and puff balls rather than low spread.

son sold his road bicycle on the bay 760. buyer then said could he pay deposit, go on holiday, pay balance on return AND meet him half way [london] to deliver it !!:mad::mad:
hes told him pay or cancel in next 24hrs. he is sooooooo P'd off

Better_Days

Very humid here today, and promised rain hasn't materialised yet. No sign of the moors here either, but that is probably due to the fact that we are in Suffolk :DHave taken a few dianthus cuttings, so hopefully they will take.

CTC - hope step fathers op goes well and he gets some relief from the pain. Alfie - hope the generator recovers, do you have any back up for power?

Lying in bed a little earlier, resting, minding my own business when I hear a squeak in the hall. Nelson, our black cat has bought a field mouse in again (well it makes a change from voles). Now knackered from moving furniture and scrabbling around trying to catch the poor little thing. It scurried off quite happily when I let it go in the garden. Just hope the cats don't re-catch it and bring it back in again.

Years ago we lived on a house next to a sheep farm in the Fens. Two of the cats we had then (now sadly no longer with us) were excellent ratters. We would regularly find rats heads in the garden - a rat a day helped the cats work rest and play. After we had been there a few months farmer said rats had gone, cats were much more effective than poison. House was in a lovely spot but sadly we didn't stay. Property was one of a semi and NDN was a nasty piece of work and I didn't feel safe there.

Davesnave

It may not have been continuous rain here but, wow, did we have some pluvial action here just after I last posted! :eek:

I went down to the poly to sow a bit of this n'that, when the heavens opened and I was practically deafened. I had to retreat to the barn, but as soon as there was a break I visited the stream.... Nothing, just a trickle.

Then, suddenly, there was a whoosh as a wall of muddy water and sticks, leaves etc came over the mini waterfall and started racing down towards me; it was like the Severn Bore in miniature! I'd imagined a more gradual build-up, rather than a tsunami, but as the stream's been dry for a few months, the rubbish probably held it back somewhere upstream, until it could be held no longer.

Sun's out now. Back to work.....:)

Rummer

Been thinking about the garden, which has been a washout this year apart from the soft fruit, and I wondered if there was anything I could plant now?

There are lots of pots on the patio that want to fill with spring flowers however I could fill the long bed with veg if there is anything worth starting now?