Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Very muggy here.

Two loads of muck and DH is panting. We weren't planning to stop for lunch but I'm out of pain killers so we're nipping into town to drug me up in the hope of getting another load done this afternoon. I think it might rain instead though.

choille

I really would step carefully Alfie. I ended up in a similar situation & had to leave as it wasn't fit to live in.

Cess pits do work, but if you kill the bacteria in them say by using biological soap powder they stop working. Once they are emptied folks used to chuck in a dead chicken or something else dead to get the bacto going.........

Rummer

Alfie It all sounds grim, sadly I know nothing about these things so have no idea what to suggest.

We have ground to a bit of a standstill in the redecorating stakes. At the moment we are still waiting on quotes to get the bathroom done which seems to have taken forever

Yesterday I moved most of the baby things that were piled in the dining room up stairs so we can now get in the door but the pram and cot are still in there along with the new bath for the bathroom and all the usual dining room furniture. Problem is we need to clear the room to take pics of the table and chairs so that we can list them on gumtree and sell them. Once that is done we can go in and get the room painted.

Why do these things always take so long and have to be so awkward???

lostinrates

Failed with last bit of muck spreading but did get gutters on house cleared for autumn.

Taking care of this place really is a full time job. Haven't even looked at barn guttering yet

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

Failed with last bit of muck spreading but did get gutters on house cleared for autumn.

Taking care of this place really is a full time job. Haven't even looked at barn guttering yet

Yay for getting the gutters done on the house :j

I will need to think about gutters, my life just gets more exciting by the day :rotfl:

choille

I'm still in a foul mood, but got most of yesterdays bedding on the line as it's now stopped raining. Broke a box of eggs as trying to carry too many things at once. Now OH seems to have got my last year's birthday present working grrrrrrrrrrrrrr The 'new' camera, so will attempt to get some photoing done with that - hopefully. Weekends seem so stressful - non-stop.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Taking care of this place really is a full time job. Haven't even looked at barn guttering yet

I cleared some of the barn guttering when I was putting up the Yorkshire boarding today, but it's right at the limit of my tolerance for heights. :shocked:

As you say, just staying on top of everything is almost a full time job, which doesn't leave much scope for development, but we've finished the first bay on the barn frontage, so just one more to go. Theoretically, FiL is filling in the further huge opening we inherited with a set of barn doors, but as he's 79, I expect to have some input there as well!

Apparently, all my plants sold at the charity event yesterday. Someone with a new garden turned up and took the lot.

Can't say any more about the new chooks, except that two of them are in and out of the nest boxes & poking the fake eggs about, which they haven't done before.

lostinrates

I'm so envious of you getting your Yorkshire boarding in place dave. It would be such a help here in the hay barn, and the field shelter to have some of the gaps Yorkshire boarded. I might actually end up using corrugated on the back of the hay barn, in some years we might be moving some from some where else, so reusing it over there, where we wouldn.'t see it, wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Hot though.

I_have_spoken

Of my planned gardening tasks, only managed to get the vine wires done, 4 sets attached to fence and 5 climbers planted and tied in; two honeysuckle, clematis 'Mrs Cholmondeley', the evergreen clematis armandii and a russian vine :eek:

The last two I may come to regret, but I have a lot of fence needing covering...

Another 'rescue' orchid has come into flower.

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

I really would step carefully Alfie. I ended up in a similar situation & had to leave as it wasn't fit to live in.

Cess pits do work, but if you kill the bacteria in them say by using biological soap powder they stop working. Once they are emptied folks used to chuck in a dead chicken or something else dead to get the bacto going.........

in the 9 years iv been here iv not had a problem albeit the soak away is now kaput. this is a medievil cess pit !! brick, deep and 3 chambers. 1st is a open pipe en route to 2nd deep pit which leads to 3rd pit [soak away :cool:]
problem is prat refuses to believe that "outside" water is getting in.... and considering we've had such a DRY summer, its gotta be from leaking water ?? i had to pump deep tank again yesterday.
its when sewerage is backing up and emerging out of drain cover and STINKS .....................
im emailing agent again tomorow if i get no reply...again ...then im going to contact sembcom ? and the envoiromental services. i have so had enough and its wearing me down.
i will not NOW be morally blackmailed by thinking i could lose house by complaining cos i will BLOW THEM OUT OF THE WATER...:mad: they will wish they had just fixed the bl**dy pipe..

sorry to be a moaning minny but its not often i get this angry/worn out by events.