Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

Oh Rozee what a terrible shock you must have all got. I am sure that they will take good care of him.

choille

Rozee hope son is comfortable as poss. What a shock.

So midgied this evening.

Dave I meant my shed was stuffed with clutter. Hope you don't think I was being rude about yours which I'm sure is as orderly as ...mine isn't.

Spent ages relisting stuff on the bay - think my computer is breathing its last - sounds wheezy.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave I meant my shed was stuffed with clutter. Hope you don't think I was being rude about yours which I'm sure is as orderly as ...mine isn't.

No, course not, I just thought what you said was very funny.

I'm not half as tidy as people seem to think. As a teacher, I noticed that people's classrooms reflected their personalities and level of organisation, so I kept mine looking presentable, but it was never wonderful. I knew I was only just about keeping up with things, so I couldn't afford the luxuries of either chaos or total order. It's the same here on the holding.

Oh rozee, let's hope DS is very soon back with you, recuperating at home. Don't beat yourself up over it; kids need physical fun, games and challenges. When I used to do residentials, I'd quite often bring a child back with a plaster cast. It was force of numbers. I can't think of one occasion though when the accident was from doing something hugely difficult. The most common was injury from messing about on bunk beds.

Speaking of kids & exercise, I've been heartened lately to see the kids next door out in our fields, rushing about, making dens and generally getting up to mischief like they've never done before. Dunno what's happened there....

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

No, course not, I just thought what you said was very funny.

I'm not half as tidy as people seem to think. As a teacher, I noticed that people's classrooms reflected their personalities and level of organisation, so I kept mine looking presentable, but it was never wonderful. I knew I was only just about keeping up with things, so I couldn't afford the luxuries of either chaos or total order. It's the same here on the holding.

Oh rozee, let's hope DS is very soon back with you, recuperating at home. Don't beat yourself up over it; kids need physical fun, games and challenges. When I used to do residentials, I'd quite often bring a child back with a plaster cast. It was force of numbers. I can't think of one occasion though when the accident was from doing something hugely difficult. The most common was injury from messing about on bunk beds.

Speaking of kids & exercise, I've been heartened lately to see the kids next door out in our fields, rushing about, making dens and generally getting up to mischief like they've never done before. Dunno what's happened there....

DH never broke. Bone as a child and I think its actually a gap in education. Its important to learn boundaries of ability but also vital to know from most things we break and hurt but then mainly fix quite well. Its recovery and the ability to bounce back that separates adventurers from the timid, not a special Teflon coating!

Still a complicated elbow break is a tricky way to learn this sort of lesson, poor ds. Hopefully he'll be putting your heart in your mouth in some other way very soon rozee;)

Davesnave

It's the Big Breakfast in the village this morning. We all go to the Hall for a slap-up, all-you-can-eat breakfast, which is a fund raiser, of course. I look forward to it now, though it almost signifies the end of summer. It was the first 'event' we attended here.

Would peas be any good for your piggies, CTC? I've harvested the seeds of our 'Bijou' peas from Real Seeds and I'm drying them now. They're a mange tout, but they make proper peas if left. They are prolific, but they do need something at least 6' high to climb!

moneyistooshorttomention

Enjoy your Breakfast Dave.

Hopefully I'll be able to stop lurking on this thread soon and join in a bit. Contracts should be Exchanged tomorrow on house I am selling and house I am buying (or you'll probably be able to see my vendors ears wrapped round his head from where you're sitting if they aren't:cool:) .

I'm going from a tiny little backyard to garden space that (as far as I can work out from the plans of house-to-be) comes to somewhere around the 1800 square feet mark in total (after counting out and mentally allocating space for 2 visitors cars):D

Have got to get in a whirligig clothes line, outdoor table/chairs and a fair-size shed into that space and the paths round the house, so it wont all be growing space. But I've made out a list of what I want and hoping to get in a lot of it. Hopefully, I'll have around 1400 square feet for growing purposes:D

"Exotic veg" and fruit first and hope I might have some space for "basics" (like potatoes/onions/carrots). It makes sense to get in the dearest stuff first doesn't it and, even more so, the stuff I cant get for love nor money from the shops?:)

choille

Hi Money I T S T M - welcome & good luck with the house buying & selling.
I found tatties, potatos a useful crop for clearing ground & the price they are a very useful one too. Onions are dead easy to grow & very handy as are carrots, but less easy with carrot fly. These are the veg I use the most so those are the ones I grow in the main & also a sprinkle of salad leaves from Spring to Winter if I'm lucky.

Fruit is a good one to establish early on & currants are very easy to get going from someone's prunings.

Beautiful day here again. I've let wee one out of the pen with his mum obviously. I'm worried that it's not socialising properly. It's mum feeds it but it doesn't run off with the food - no competition of siblings. So it's out with the fray at the mo. But really as it's a male it won't........won't go there just now.........................................

Still free listing but it's a bit sole destroying as it's been so slow of late but will get some more stuff listed later on.

Lifted my garlic which is okayish - not as fat as I would have liked, but it was so dry I suppose. Off to hack my way into the onions.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Enjoy your Breakfast Dave.

Hi money.

I certainly did, though we first had to battle past two large ladies in the entrance hall, who were way-laying everyone and extolling the virtues of eating brown bread....

....I think they were Hovis Witnesses.

stitching_witch

Your jokes don't get any better Dave!

Well I'm back from the top of the Arenigs in North Wales If I hadn't been going up to collect four children I would probably still be there and never ever come home at all. My ex-DH now has the set-up we were looking for when we first moved there 30 years ago. I helped with the milking again, which brought it all back, except now he has a milking machine for the goats.

It has strengthened my resolve to get out of this life I currently have and to go for the daydream...

moneyistooshorttomention

I have certainly been wondering about "green manures" to try and get the soil into good order to start with.

The thought of potato plants to start with has certainly crossed my mind more than once to help get the soil up to scratch to start with. Right now...I'm wavering on those green manures though...eg red clover, I gather, will do the trick on this.

Basically, I think I will throw everything "food wise" I can at the soil to start with after a comment I heard recently of "I feed the soil and then the soil feeds me". That made sense to me. Right...green manure, nettle tea, comfrey tea, seaweed...they are all in my frame of reference about getting nice rich soil to start with.

THE single biggest thing I face though is a pretty high proportion of this soil has been covered for years now by tarmac:eek:. That will be coming up (complete with me wondering/worrying whether there's anything underneath that might be a bit close to the surface, eg telephone or electric etc type connections:eek:). Wonder if anyone knows just how far down anything "functional" might be if its in the wrong location?:think: I am definitely wondering about just what condition that soil is in underneath that tarmac:eek:. I think I might be best off just resigning myself to shipping in loads of new topsoil and then feeding like mad for a while to bring that poor little bit of garden back up to scratch:(. Meanwhile, I get on with things as best I can in the rest of the garden. Does lots of "feeding" over winter and then go full speed ahead in spring sound like the way to go?

I feel so sorry for my Little Patch as it stands at present...but I would think its got great potential.

The basic plan is to whack in, as far as possible, perennial stuff that (I hope!) will fairly much take care of itself and "come back" for year after year.