Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Totally grim weather here today. Nothing getting done outside.

Still lots of grass growth.

I turned on an electric heater yesterday and have just done the same again.

The limes have started to turn, lots of lovely buttery yellow leaves among the green ones now, and the Virginia creeper is all set. The cruddy old apple in the back garden is dropping its manky rotten fruit over the garden. .

Its beautifully green, but another of those grey days when its hard to tell what time it is without a watch. Proper cold half of the year days those.

Davesnave

It's reasonably mild here and dull.

Having an easier day, as yesterday we went hell for leather to get some framing up on the front of the barn, ready to accept the Yorkshire boarding. However, DW has now thought of a way to overcome the fact that I ordered boards that were 'too short,' so it looks like the job will now be somewhat more complex. Her way will look nice, but take twice as long!

Sorry I can't take the geese, Alfie. The concept appeals, but we have nowhere for them at present. We had another green egg yesterday. Hers are definitely not blue. I'm cool with that. We just need a couple more to start laying.....

Sorry to hear about your two hens, choille. At first I thought you'd only been left with two. Losing any is bad news, but good layers is doubly bad. :mad:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

It's reasonably mild here and dull.

Having an easier day, as yesterday we went hell for leather to get some framing up on the front of the barn, ready to accept the Yorkshire boarding. However, DW has now thought of a way to overcome the fact that I ordered boards that were 'too short,' so it looks like the job will now be somewhat more complex. Her way will look nice, but take twice as long!

Sorry I can't take the geese, Alfie. The concept appeals, but we have nowhere for them at present. We had another green egg yesterday. Hers are definitely not blue. I'm cool with that. We just need a couple more to start laying.....

Sorry to hear about your two hens, choille. At first I thought you'd only been left with two. Losing any is bad news, but good layers is doubly bad. :mad:

My geese go in with the hens. Its not room we don't have, its the idea of more poop to sweep ATM!

What sex are they Alfie? if they are girls maybe I should let the boys have them?

choille

Mis counted, just found a pile of feather so lost one of the Light Sussex's too.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I could take the chickens at least Alfie.

oh and i may have access to a cream legbar cockerel [postie] if your interested ??

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

oh and i may have access to a cream legbar cockerel [postie] if your interested ??

Yes please, I've no boy out there, and don't mind if he's not breeding quality if he's going to guard the girls a bit.

.........no eggs hatched by my bantams...and about five from earlier this year look like boys. I can keep them as lawn birds while they all get on I think......

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Has anyone had any success with couriers collecting stuff bought on ebay...there is something I want......but its collection only, fragile and in, I think, Kent.

The only thing I know is that Alfie would approve but probably nobody else!

where in kent ? my brother lives there and i have tasked him to collect, bring with him to me when he visits dad.
if its near to brighton i can collect. if its on the sussex border i can collect.

:D:D

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

where in kent ? my brother lives there and i have tasked him to collect, bring with him to me when he visits dad.
if its near to brighton i can collect. if its on the sussex border i can collect.

:D:D

I think its near chisel hurst?

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I think its near chisel hurst?

thats not too far....;)

Davesnave

Our stream is still dry, so I decided that while DW is away visiting relatives, I'd clean it out. If I don't, it'll all come down to haunt me later, as my 'stream garden' is in the lowest section. DW would class this as 'non-essential' work, but it's important to my mental health that I get this sorted.

So far, only some persicaria, astrantias, arum lilies and hellebores have enjoyed it there, due to low light levels. The flag irises are flagging and even the lythrums are lacklustre!:( I will probably add some geraniums that suit, like phaeum and some of the ground coverers, like macrorrhizum, but I don't want it looking too prettified. Of course I have oodles of ferns there and ivy, but it's too early to tell yet if the silene dioica and primroses from the hedges will colonise now there is less shade.

I'm rambling.... What I meant to say was I managed 3 dumpy bags of assorted detritus, and having dragged those up to the bonfire site, I was cream-crackered, so I'm clearly unfit for this 'winter work.'

Kent is beneath East London on a map, isn't it? That's all I know!