Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

Rummer wrote: »

Choille Rumlets arrival is ages away so I am super excited about having a real grown ups bathroom :rotfl:

We stretched ourselves to buy this house as we know that, lottery win aside, it would be our forever home. However we have had to do wee bits as and when we have had the pennies and almost all of it has been done by ourselves.

So having a real bathroom tiled from top to bottom by someone else will be fabulous :j especially with rumlet coming

?????? is that wot "it" woz.... how did i miss that ....congrats :beer:

or have i just fell for that one....lol

Rummer

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: no we did not win the lottery :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

Rummer wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: no we did not win the lottery :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

so did i miss what your good news was or did you not say anyway.....:rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

Sorry Big Dog is feeling her age, lir. If we didn't look after these animals so well......

Those ipomoeas are the commonest variety, I think. They seem to take ages to get going.

Congratulations on the bathroom makeover, Rummer, and on all the roof works rozee and choille. Now I remember why we didn't go for an upstairs here.

choille, I missed the blooming blooming of my Marshmallow, and with it, the chance to take a photo. There's one in the stream, but it's gone all leggy and may not flower. Anyway it looks like I shall have some 'cheeses' to send you when ripe.
I also have CTC's peas, but I'll do any seeds etc in the late autumn when the pressure's off.

Spent ages tonight trying to work out how a picture of our DD1 aged about 5 or 6 got into a set of photos from the year we were married and not seen again till now. As DD1 wasn't born until 3 years after we were married, it was quite scary. :eek:
Then, looking into the background, all became clear. We realised that the child pictured was not DD, but a second cousin whom we only saw once as a young child. The likeness was amazing; even the hairstyles were the same. They don't look so alike today.

Rummer

alfie_1 wrote: »

so did i miss what your good news was or did you not say anyway.....:rotfl::rotfl:

The new bathroom is my good news

choille

Dave - that's so kind of you. I have another poppy of yours out. They are like bright beacons....above the weeds. lovely colours - dramatic. There has been a lot come from the seeds & the heads are looking plump.

I am glad about your new bathroom. Really can be a great chill out room so great you are getting it sorted out Rummer.
Our bathroom has thin horizontal windows that run around three sides so that when you lie in the bath - can't bloody wait to get that bafff - you can look out.
The son of the roofer who comes is all shocked as we aren't having frosted glass. We live in the middle of nowhere & I reckon if anyone can be bothered creeping about in the wood then they're allowed a cheap thrill looking in on our decrepit, jiggered old bodies!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Dave - that's so kind of you. I have another poppy of yours out. They are like bright beacons....above the weeds. lovely colours - dramatic. There has been a lot come from the seeds & the heads are looking plump.

I am glad about your new bathroom. Really can be a great chill out room so great you are getting it sorted out Rummer.
Our bathroom has thin horizontal windows that run around three sides so that when you lie in the bath - can't bloody wait to get that bafff - you can look out.
The son of the roofer who comes is all shocked as we aren't having frosted glass. We live in the middle of nowhere & I reckon if anyone can be bothered creeping about in the wood then they're allowed a cheap thrill looking in on our decrepit, jiggered old bodies!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We're not having frosted glass either. Farmer will probable see us a few times. Again.


I think your windows sound STUNNING.

My parents last has had a wet room with a window overlooking a field and a big tower in the far distance on the edge of a very large nt estate. The only people who saw one showering were the deer. Apart from at harvest. We got so used to it we never thought about it until DH and I wondered why the farming contractor driving past looked so embarrassed.......we were only showering....oh.....

rhiwfield

Bathrooms? 'Bout time we retiled ours and Rummer's got the right idea of getting someone in to do it.

Looking out over the Tweed we saw a team of guys net fishing for salmon on Monday, and they caught one! It had struck me how cheek by jowl the houses are, just one patch of allotments, tiny gardens for the most part and how dependent they all are for shipped in food, nice to see an old tradition still alive.

Had a whistlestop day yesterday, Eyemouth and seals, Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle and Cragside. Last time I visited Bamburgh was over 50 years ago, still so impressive, very very windy, but this time spent awhile enjoying the ceramics. Cragside was a disappointment, wanted to see the arts and crafts and early use of self generated electricity, but so did thousands of others, many laden with huge cameras blocking the passages :mad:. Just too crowded and we didnt stay long.

RAS

choille wrote: »

Our bathroom has thin horizontal windows that run around three sides so that when you lie in the bath - can't bloody wait to get that bafff - you can look out.
The son of the roofer who comes is all shocked as we aren't having frosted glass. We live in the middle of nowhere & I reckon if anyone can be bothered creeping about in the wood then they're allowed a cheap thrill looking in on our decrepit, jiggered old bodies!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Given how much of the opposite neighbours I can see through their frosted glass............

Would help if they did not put the light on and did not get quite so close to the window. I have to avert my eyes sometimes.

RAS

rhiwfield wrote: »

Looking out over the Tweed we saw a team of guys net fishing for salmon on Monday, and they caught one! It had struck me how cheek by jowl the houses are, just one patch of allotments, tiny gardens for the most part and how dependent they all are for shipped in food, nice to see an old tradition still alive.

Had a whistlestop day yesterday, Eyemouth and seals, Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle and Cragside. Last time I visited Bamburgh was over 50 years ago, still so impressive, very very windy, but this time spent awhile enjoying the ceramics. Cragside was a disappointment, wanted to see the arts and crafts and early use of self generated electricity, but so did thousands of others, many laden with huge cameras blocking the passages :mad:. Just too crowded and we didnt stay long.

Last time I went to Bamburgh it was RAW, vicious wind coming in off the North Sea in June. And so many people that I could not see much of it, so headed for the exhibition at the end of the tour.

A lot of those northern towns were built within defences which mean small plots or larger plots where additional buildings have been squeezed into the burgage plots. On the other hand being close to the sea means they have an alternative source of income and food.