Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

I_have_spoken

Not my favourite flower, but this pan has colchicums and a hosta which co-exist quite happily, cut back the yellowing hosta leaves to reveal the "naked ladies"



Lovely weather in Glasgow, I got the wall flowers planted, tub of tulips planted and the patio jet-washed!

Alexelisey

So sad for you Choille, mega hugs :grouphug:

I think I have found a home for my 3 hens which our kids cannot look after in our absence, so that's one less thing to worry about. I wish I'd found one for us though! Trying to find something that meets all our criteria is very hard... I'm quite dispirited tonight.

Rummer, half of my prediction is true then, I wonder how close I'll be with the other bit? :T

Itismehonest

choille wrote: »

Thanks for the condolences.

Just been at the sale of work & someone told me they'd seen a mink down at our shore - so possibly mink! Traps are being set tonight.

Yes, you do have precedence if you're moving livestock, but try telling that to those up from the Cities to come shooting. The arrogance is astounding with the 4x4s.

Dull here, but very murky - 20+ degrees.

Lovely cakes at the sale of work. Also bought a couple of plants & some black Aran tatties

I was just about to reply to your earlier post saying that I completely sympathised because I remember the carnage the mink caused to our fowl.
Mind you, it left not a sign it had been until it tried to get a large duck through a small hole & only part succeeded _pale_ Prior to that there wasn't a feather to show it had been around. It took the birds clean away.

We get the Townies & holidaymakers in their cars doing much the same. Plus they all seem to need something the width of the M25 to reverse in :wall:

Useless piece of information for today - I've decided that when I'm rich & famous I fancy learning to play the theremin.

Davesnave

Commiserations for your further losses choille, and I hope you get the beasty that's done it, sooner rather than later.

It's something all of us dread, even those with Fort Knox style security.:(

rhiwfield

Choille, bad news

Lir, did you see the film soundtrack programme that featured the theremin?

Woken (again!) at 5:30am this morning by a very young duet singing a random Happy Birthday repeatedly. It's no ones birthday here atm but it was a lot better than being woken by crying and screaming. Bringing up children needs the energy levels of a younger person and the ability to get by on a few hours broken sleep

The two GSs enjoyed the engines at St Fagans yesterday, and the visit from their cousins later. Garden has been neglected lately but the boys had fun apple picking and we had fresh beans and carrots to go with their dinner

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Useless piece of information for today - I've decided that when I'm rich & famous I fancy learning to play the theremin.

rhiwfield wrote: »

Lir, did you see the film soundtrack programme that featured the theremin?

Woken (again!) at 5:30am this morning .....

You need to go back to bed rhiwfield; it was itsme having the Hawkwind moment! :rotfl:

And one doesn't have to be that rich....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Moog-Etherwave-Theremin-Standard-/330873623236

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

You need to go back to bed rhiwfield; it was itsme having the Hawkwind moment! :rotfl:

And one doesn't have to be that rich....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Moog-Etherwave-Theremin-Standard-/330873623236

True. I am of the era when the theremin hit its' giddy heights.
No, they're not too pricey but, having no income, I can think of better things to spend a couple of hundred quid on ......... & I don't use the Bay.

It's every time I hear Midsomer Murders that reminds me, rhiw.

Rummer

rhiwfield wrote: »

Woken (again!) at 5:30am this morning by a very young duet singing a random Happy Birthday repeatedly. It's no ones birthday here atm but it was a lot better than being woken by crying and screaming. Bringing up children needs the energy levels of a younger person and the ability to get by on a few hours broken sleep

I am still comfortably in denial about the whole broken sleep bit

Has anyone heard from Rozee?

Better_Days

choille were your chucks OK last night? Very sorry to hear you lost so many.

And Rummer and LIR recovered from your hospital visits I hope?

Windy but bright here today. Have shut our daft lurcher away in the bedroom as he can't cope with wind blowing through the house - he starts to whine and shake and is even more neurotic than usual.

DH has gone off to rehearsals for his part in Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' playing at the lovely Theatre Royal in Bury next month and which is already sold out for the matinee

House purchase is still proceeding, we hope to exchange in the next fortnight and complete by 25th October. We will see. Given that Help to Buy 2 is being bought forward, I think we made the right decision to buy this house.

choille

Seems quiet without Big Shoogie crowing like a thug. He was amazingly loud.

Slept with the light on last night & Mr Choille slept in the house build as it's that bit nearer the hen houses, but nothing.

Stunning day again here - really warm. All hen houses were reinforced yesterday so just a waiting game. You can't kill Pine Martens as they are protected, so trapped ones will be taken away & released over the thane where there aint anyone living.

Won two prizes in yesterdays raffle - box of veg with a massive, knobbly , yellow courgette thing in & some really gorgeous other stuff & a mega box of malteasers so I'll make some Rocky Road later, or I may just eat them raw!