Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

Leif wrote: »

This thread has become meaningless. LIR, DS1, DD1, EA, EPC, eh?

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:rotfl::rotfl: only meaningless to some.........

Davesnave

I thought :d:d:d:d:d:t:t:t:t was the music they used to play on "Countdown" or something like that! :rotfl:

Leif is puzzled by our TLAs. IRL I hate cliquey things, so I don't want our thread to seem that way:)

Perhaps we should have a FAQ.

On topic: a tree nursery have offered me replacements for some Downy Birch I bought in March. Two died and the other three all sprouted from the base. So, the largest one I have is currently about 10cm tall.

Alexelisey

Leif wrote: »

This thread has become meaningless. LIR, DS1, DD1, EA, EPC, eh?

:d:d:d:d:d:t:t:t:t:t

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Quick crib sheet:

LIR = Lostinrates, one of our regular posters

DS1 = elder son (dear/damn son)
DD = elder daughter (ditto above)
EA = estate agent
EPC = energy performance certificate

:d:d etc = trying to do emoticons when they're not working

Better_Days

Ohh sunny here in Suffolk this morning

Anyone tried the Ixworth breed of chicken - named after a Suffolk village.

Hope the good weather lasts, we are off to Sussex on our hols on Saturday. Taking both the dogs this time so with all their clutter DH and my stuff will be squeezed into the corner of the car.....

rhiwfield

lucielle wrote: »

Just playing catch up. Can somebody tell me what's happening to the power seller (we're power sellers) as I wasn't aware of any changes.

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Lucielle, its top rated sellers who are affected, basically a top rated listing needs to have UK free postage and express delivery to qualify for the 10% discount on final value fees. Starts August, lots of disgruntled threads on this!!

lostinrates

Lir, always meaningless. Or at least the meaning is hard to decipher.


I feel alive this morning. Got up, cut the grass, Hurrah. Half a week, needed a cut, badly. Hoping to get some docks topped today too. Of the three Main grazing strips I'd like to do one and a bit this afternoon. I need to go and buy petrol.


My sprayed bit looks frightful. But there is some new undesirable life cropping up.l. I don't know when I should top of the dying top growth and the not caught new weed? Or leave. I cannot find any of my old grass land management texts and spraying is outside my comfort zone of knowledge.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

My sprayed bit looks frightful. But there is some new undesirable life cropping up.l. I don't know when I should top of the dying top growth and the not caught new weed? Or leave. I cannot find any of my old grass land management texts and spraying is outside my comfort zone of knowledge.

Did you spray with a kill-all, or selective?

I find the trouble with glyphosate, is that being inactivated on soil contact, new weeds can germinate literally within hours, so by the time it's worked, a whole new tranche of weeds is getting going. I find it's best to sow new grass straight away. There is still a battle between the new weeds and grass though. On our new chicken area that's not a big problem! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Selective.....cannot remember which type ATM.

I don't have a pete but my nearest equivalent is going to pop in. He thinks maybe another blast might be a good idea this year. It already looks so much better.

Even before the spray, it was mainly docks and rummer's favourite yellows, which, considering you had to wear body armour for nettles when we arrived and we have controlled with the landroover and hippo bags full of poop as a bill dozer, a strimmer, and more recently a sit on lawn mower and by hand pulling, is some improvement.

Alexelisey

Better_Days wrote: »

Ohh sunny here in Suffolk this morning

BD whereabouts in Suffolk are you? I grew up in Hadleigh and my parents now live in Felixstowe

ukmaggie45

Phew! Finally caught up! :rotfl:

We've been digging and digging and digging and weeding and weeding and weeding at the lottie. Finally done some planting too! Just beans and courgettes so far, peas will go in over the weekend hopefully, it's a bit wet here today so not sure if we'll make it to the lottie today. We've stopped weeding the nettles for a while as they are full of caterpillars which we think may be from Peacock Butterflies.

Yesterday a lovely bloke gave us a big pile of winter beet, something we'd never eaten before. It was absolutely delish! :j He was clearing it for something else, so if we hadn't taken it would only have gone to compost. Which would have been a horrible waste!

It's so nice to meet up with new people who are all into growing stuff. :j

Choille, so sorry to hear about your Old Mon cat. We have our daughter's cat Brodie staying with us at the mo while she's on holiday. He is very frail now - vet says he has bowel tumours so only a few months left. We've been tempting him with roast chicken as well as his more usual food. Think we might try cooking up some mackerel and seeing if he likes that. Have been trying to groom him a bit too as his fur is a bit matted in places. Have made a small difference, and think he's comfier for me getting out some of the "thatch", hope will manage to clear a bit more of it before he goes back home. He's a very dear friend, and I can't bear the thought of him being uncomfortable. He's had a few trips out to the garden to sit in the sun, and does seem to have enjoyment of life still.