Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

choille

Better Days that's great news re your results. It must feel lighter. And also good with your rent too & also but cetainly not least - the chicken day arrival looming nearer too. Triple celebrations.

Rummer

What great news on the thread today :j:j:j

Welcome Sbowden, always lovely to meet new dreamers

Better Days sounds like you are loving up to your user name delighted to hear about your results and house buying success.

Rhiw :T for a great auction day

Alfie I bet you are very excited about the flight. When do teh ponies arrive?

Rozee Sounds like it will not be long before you are our resident chicken expert pictures would be lovely!

I had some unexpected news today which has floored me a bit so it really has cheered me up reading all your lovely news

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

hiya "BOW"...

welcome to the mad house...:rotfl::rotfl: mind you if you know CTC.....;)

well i have just watered my garden.....:cool: it will bl**dy rain now !!

fingers crossed tomorow i will be up up and away well for an hour if theres no cloud...:rotfl:

I hope it does. My head feels like its going to explode.

I reckon there is only one more day of fencing to go!!


It Looks great!!

Quite tempted not to stain because it looks so beautiful and don't want it to look too twee, but I have for d the colour after three years of paint swatches, so feel I have to :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

nice to see you here SB... We are a great bunch here, and have turned out to be a lovely cyber family...and do miss people and worry if they don't post:D:D

BD what a relief for you with the results:j:j and now that its going to be all go with the house buying:beer::beer:

Rummer.... what ever the news was, hope everything is ok.

LIR don't forget pictures of the fencing:D,

Choille that is a great age of your cat...

Alfie... hope you have a great time up in the air:eek::eek: I get dizzy just stepping onto a ladder..

Rhiwie.. hope the auctions go well,

Early starts for the rest of the week in work..

rozeepozee

Hello Sbowden! We are a friendly bunch I'm a little haphazardly here due to the realities of lving the dream and being in the middle of what has turned into a slightly bigger renovation project than we anticipated.

Things are coming along, although there have been some monstrous "unforeseen" costs along the way.

Right now, we have a new roof underway, the windows are ordered, the plumbing and electrics are being renewed. We are having a new woodburner which is going to heat the radiators and be our central heating system for now, also solar thermal on order.... It's all going to happen this month.

The external cladding has been decided. We went for Grey Green in the end, and approved by Planning.

The 'Rents have been called upon to extend credit to us (thank heavens for parents, eh?) and OH is working long hours to keep the unforeseen costs as low as possble. He's lifted roof flooring so we can reuse it, and is currently channeling out walls to save money on the rewiring/replumbing. We have high hopes that we will be in in October - famous last words?

And, far more importantly, I'm going to pick up our flock of Aracaunas tomorrow! There are five hens and one !!!!, so we have the prospect of little chicks around the place. It's amazing what you can't find on the internet. It would seem real chicken genetics is an esoteric artform. I can find relatively little about breeding Ameracaunas on 'Thinternet or Facebook. Does this mean it's as obscure a hobby as it may initially seem?

The birds are between two and three years old, so should have a couple of laying years left in them. The owner has personal reasons for getting rid of them, so they are going for a song. One apparently was purchased at the National Poultry Show last year and is high quality.... Watch this space I can also have some fun with egg colours. Now who can guess what colour egg an Aracauna-Silkie cross hen will produce? I have no idea, but you can bet I'll find out

Mad Chicken Ladies Are Us

BD, well done on the lower rent. As a landlord, I'd always rather have a good tenant than a high rent.

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

Playing a bit of previous catch up here...

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, I wouldn't have won tomatoes, even without the blackbird, 'cos I was disqualified! :mad: Apparently, my tomatoes weren't 'cherry tomatoes,' despite the fact that every web site that describes Gardener's Delight, calls them that. They are obviously all wrong!!!

Gardeners Delight - as you say - *IS* a cherry tom! That's exactly why I grow them! They're cherry toms with the best (apparantly) flavour!

How annoying for you!:mad:

alfie_1

r.a.i.n.b.o.w wrote: »

Playing a bit of previous catch up here...



Gardeners Delight - as you say - *IS* a cherry tom! That's exactly why I grow them! They're cherry toms with the best (apparantly) flavour!

How annoying for you!:mad:

is there a humanish rights group for cherry toms ??;) i think compensation is due for the poor toms hurt feelings....:D

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

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I think you must be referring to the link Better Days sent about the retuximab trials. To be honest I wonder now if I have ME as have few probs with my arms, but my legs just give up on me when I try to walk. Our garden is about 20 metres long according to OH, but have to have a chair half way as well as one at the end to sit on to rest up.

Great to hear your friend was able to retrain and do such worthwhile work. But sad she had to give up her loved job. Interesting she wasn't the first - outbreak?

A Question - for anyone in the know/with experience - what tests are done to confirm/rule out ME? What symptoms did you experience?

(Just wondering because I'm pretty sure I have had CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) since I was a child and the symptoms often cross over, or you could have both conditions at the same time...plus I have a friend who's having symptoms that he's putting down to giving up smoking, but I'm not so sure!)

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

Just read some posts about cherries, and it's made me want some, but I can't eat them! When I eat them I feel nauseous afterwards, I don't know why, but it's only really happened the last 10 years or so. I could eat them till they came out of my ears when I was a kiddy...

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

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

r.a.i.n.b.o.w :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: I am hearing more and more of this type of thing happening, a person who buys off me, told me her husband went to the dr over a year ago with blood in his poo, and the locum dr said it was maybe his diet, hard poo's etc, a year later, he owned up to his wife he was still getting blood in his poo, and went back to the see his proper dr, who has sent him for tests. for prostrate cancer..

Thanks CTC - sadly the medical people DID know what was going on, but it was my parents who didn't take it seriously enough. My father said "oh I just need some glucose tolerance test thing" and my mother said "oh it's up to your dad to sort himself out" and then nothing happened. And now he's developed full blown diabetes. *sigh*