Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

thanks for the link Ras, but they all look the same-ish to me:cool:

Is there anywhere, where I can send an apple, with leaf etc attached to see if they can identify it ?

CTC

Try this as well, when the fruit ripen (when you can hold one in your hand, lift and the stem falls away from the tree).

http://www.fruitid.com/

Just had a look-see and they now have 700 varieties on rather then the 120 when I last looked.

alfie_1

evening all

ive just stung myself on a huge stinging nettle plant...:eek:
what i thought was a single one ,when dragged out of bush, brought with it a specimen that kew gardens would be proud of...:o

and no i didnt have covered arms or legs !! the only thing not "on fire" is my poorly hand !

ive used a tube of aloe vera

ouch ......

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie what is about 8.01pm????

OUCH!!!!! NOT NICE

I have a headache, but its not a headache... think it might be one of those air pressure ones.

Davesnave

Rozee, I've seen quite a lot of you (:D) the hens and your gorgeous kids, but the one thing I can't find is the building file, which I'd guess is one of the ones marked 'Private.'

Not much to report here. 'Phoned ahead about wood, but got wires crossed with the man who answered the 'phone, with the result that I was given the wrong stuff at the wood yard. :(They tried to give me the same type of timber as I have already. :mad:Luckily, it came to less than £30, but as I'd had it cut to length there was no way I wanted to reject it.

Enter a nice guy (not the 'phone chap) who offered to cut the wood down to the size I needed. The day brightened up considerably. Customer confidence restored.

"What happens at the end of the work part of life?" I'll tell you: more work! :rotfl:I was still out there at 20:30 tonight, and so was DW. We've been here 4 years exactly, and I thought by now things would have quietened-down a bit, but there is always too much to do.......

Stinging nettles are a bit like chillies, Alfie. Hurts at the time, but leaves a warm glow hours later. :cool:

ferretkeeper

Oooooh spooky Dave, we too have been here 4 years as of the 17th August - just had to look up the deeds and house price websites for some investigating into council tax bands/ business rates type stuff and there it was - missed our moving in anniversary, but then I don't really feel like celebrating putting ourselves in a six figure amount of debt :sad:

I can't believe we are only now starting to make some real headway, what have we been doing all these years :wall: and more to the point where's all the money gone :eek: I dread to think

choille

15th Aug we been in this tin can for 5 years - Helppppppppppp ma boab.

Great day here today after all the downpours. Last night the sky was crimson. Tonight the moon is very bright. Lovely out in it.

Had raspberries for tea - mmmmmmmmmmmm

Still getting cackleberries, but not as many.

Lovely photos all hens & babies.

The church Dave in the photo of the walled garden - the spire is oddly the same as one here. somewhere, but neither of us can think where. It's strange, not the memory lapse, just the same spire.

I once very nearly rented a gardner's bothy that had one window looking into an acre walled garden.

stitching_witch

Morning all! I'm off to spend a weekend daydreaming on the top of a mountain in North Wales. My ex-DH lives on the side of the Arenig mountains outside Bala with his goats, chickens and massive kitchen garden - all the things I wanted before I left 27 years ago
:(:o

I'm driving up later today to collect four children so a peaceful drive up and a rather noisier drive home on Sunday. Shame I don't have addresses of some of you or I could have done a tour of Daydreamers on my way up today!

There is no Internet access (or TV reception, or mobile phone reception) where I'm going so I expect there will be pages and pages and pages to catch up on by Monday when I get back.

In the meantime, if anyone wants a visitor today ...

Rummer

Been another tough week however I have taken today to relax and organise the house and I feel a bit better, although there is still loads to do.

One wee blast of sunshine was a lovely big parcel of goodies from our own Alfie who as we all know is a lovely and very thoughtful person .

Tomorrow is the local allotment open day and we are all going to have a nosey as it is the place that I have my name down for a plot. OH thinks it is madness to get a plot when we have so much space at home that is not being fully utilised and I can completely see his point. However I am thinking about it from a produce and a social point of view, it is still under (slightly heated) discussion.

I have decided to give up trying to grow things in the border around the front patch of grass as it is hard to keep things alive and weeding it is a draining and irritating task as it is often flooded. What I am going to do is take out and relocate the existing plants and let the grass grow to the edge of the border and then just cut it when needed.

I was hoping the weather would improve as the garden needs a lot of work and there is a fence I would like to paint before the winter so that I can plant up it in the spring but it rains for a part of every day at the moment here is hoping for a sunny september!

ukmaggie45

Rummer wrote: »

Tomorrow is the local allotment open day and we are all going to have a nosey as it is the place that I have my name down for a plot. OH thinks it is madness to get a plot when we have so much space at home that is not being fully utilised and I can completely see his point. However I am thinking about it from a produce and a social point of view, it is still under (slightly heated) discussion.

My OH wasn't keen on the allotment idea either, as our garden is a mess at the mo! But once we got our half plot and he got into it he's really keen now! :j It really is nice from a social point of view - I get to see some people now, which I didn't at all before, apart from family that is. It will be totally weed ridden when we go home (possibly next week, not sure yet) but hope some of our veg will have survived the neglect!

If not it's not the end of the world - it was pretty late in the season when we found we'd been offered the half plot so late for planting seed... Come autumn we'll be ordering a load of garlic to put in, and will haul out my book on growing oriental veggies, a lot of them do OK over the winter. Fingers crossed the kale is OK (we're growing 2 kinds both at the lottie and at home), we did net them against the dreaded white flutterbies, but have a feeling that even netting won't provide complete protection!

lostinrates

Alfie.....

If you see this....thinking more about it, my tentative yes please is a very definite yes please to any carpet going. I'd like to replace that red monstrosity in our room that stinks, and if there is enough to do the landing and the old bathroom (that has to be and office for beaurocratic purposes this year) all the better. I also want to rip up the carpet on the stairs and front hall way ( smells of Tom cat)

I know you said there was a fair bit going spare.....would that be ok? Is there anything I can do in return? Btw I forgot to give you all the curtains and blinds back...I have them still!!