Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Alexelisey

Well I wasn't on yesterday as I didn't get home until 6. Nothing exciting to report, work is ok, it's something new to learn which is good for the old brain, but long term I don't know. Wait and see I guess. At least it's money this side of Christmas!

Welcome Farmers-wife! Do you have actual planning consent terms on the holiday cottage e.g. x weeks per year, or is just called a holiday cottage to differentiate between it and the main house? I don't know enough about that side of things to offer any advice but if you can get money in from letting the big house and are happy in the smaller one (less to heat?) then it's got to be worth considering.

I'm having a weekend doing not much - going back to work was a bit of a shock to the system :rotfl:but I shall be doing some cooking over the weekend. I've got a bit of stuffed pork shoulder in, but I bet it won't be anything like PROPER pork such as CTC has Maybe I should sort my freezer out so I know how much room I've got, and badger DH into parting with some money for good quality meat.

And I'm going to start writing down all my possible choices for treating myself to something once the first pay packet comes in. This has become a tradition of mine The first full time job in 2008 was an expensive concert ticket, the second was the wedding and honeymoon. This time... something to give me a great deal of pleasure and enjoyment, but under £300.

So there we go folks, a little something to think about. If you had a spare £300 to spend and NO obligations/worries/unexpected bills what would you spend it on? :beer:

lostinrates

Just asked DH.....he says another iPad. Gosh, I didn't expect that.

Me, a saddle a friend is selling. Its really nice, but its GEneral purpose, not my fav. Its actually three fifty, but I reckon Sh'd give me mates rates, she knows I've lusted after that saddle for years.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

£300 to spend and not feel guilty????

Me I would end up spending it on hubby and the boys, or something for the ranch... I am not into shopping sprees anymore... I crinch at the thought of the money I have wasted in my younger years:cool::cool::cool:

If I had to go and spend it, I would prob see what good bands are playing and book me, hubby and the boys to go, have a few drinks in a local pub before hand, and if the money would squeeze to it, a fastfood burger meal on the way home... As I personally get pleasure just spoiling my kids..doesn't matter how much I moan and groan about them, they are my world... and I have, and will if need be give them my last penny, and stick up for them to the end... and when I say kids I also include hubby in that too, as he is one big bl00dy kid:D

lostinrates

Thinking about it 300 would cover Christmas and so I'd probably do that.

Or some fabric for the house. Or a bit of furniture.....

A Nice Thing.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Now that I have had time to REALLY think:p I have always wanted a ragdoll cat, a big huge floppy bundle of fur, but that doesn't mean I don't love, streaky, the kitten ( who is now a year old) and ugly ( the stray)...But I haven't got £300 plus to waste on me, plus it would be totally unrealistic to have another cat... ( we don't leave them out because of the busy road, and supermarket traffic)

Rummer

Oh £300 would go in the maternity fund or away for a rainy day. If I am really honest I have everything I need except time

If really pushed into an item then a long waterproof coat and a pair of boots

Absolutely pouring with rain here today, that kind of miserable rain that soaks you to the skin when you are out in it. At least it makes me feel less guilty about being in the house.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Ok..just seen the new john lewis Christmas advert... it makes me cry:cool: I think I better walk out of the room every time it comes on the tv:cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWig2WARb0

Itismehonest

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Ok..just seen the new john lewis Christmas advert... it makes me cry:cool: I think I better walk out of the room every time it comes on the tv:cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWig2WARb0

The answer is to realise that in real life half the furry friends would already have devoured the other half & be starting on each other by the time the ads finished, CTC.

Farmers-wife wrote: »

Hi everyone, thank you for the warm welcome.

Also thanks for all the suggestions, we've definitely planning to keep our thumbs in many pies and see what works for us.

Today hasn't been the most productive owing to the weather, but we've spent the day sanding beams and painting walls in the main house ready for us to move back in, out of the holiday cottage. We have been thinking of staying put in the cottage and renting out our house as a holiday let. It would bring in a much bigger income than the two bed cottage and we're quite happy here.... another thing to keep me thinking long into the night.

I hope everyone else has had a more productive day than we.

Hi & welcome.
The thing to remember is that larger properties can bring in more money for the weeks they are let. Smaller places tend to have longer seasons while bigger places often are only full during the traditional holiday periods - Easter, Summer, Half Terms, Christmas & New Year.
You'll also find that larger places taking more people get more damage done.
Much will also depend on what your planning allows.

Itismehonest

lovefullshelves wrote: »

lostinrates - we have ten acres and its in four fields...just depends how you look at it...the big growers further down the road could put our entire farm in the turning circle of one of their tractors! And that is a lovely light fitting by the way :cool: (I can talk, we have industrial strip lights in the living room and bedrooms!)
Row of potatoes before it hulled it down, loving the 1950's spinner, makes me grin everytime we use it! (and I'm sure I can hear dad chuckle on the breeze as he loved it too)
So, rain having stopped work, decided to raid the last(oh I wish, but I can't reach the rest) of the grapes and make some more grape juice for canning. I don't drink:A so no fermenting for me (mis-spent youth, technicolour yawning thanks to shots..now I have a sherry at xmas, and there's medicinal blackberry [STRIKE]brandy[/STRIKE] cordial)
An hour on here..a hot bath with bubbles ,that was what I missed when we first got this van..it was only half a van ..so I had to wait for bath and toilet and kitchen and we used a tiny caravan for cooking and measly shower and that was BAD in the winter. Its all well and good this here good life, but a flushing toilet and a bath and I'm anyones! (Just ask OH;))
Ooh I remember..pit latrine when I was a kid! Oh dear, I'd blocked that out!
I'd better go before anymore old memories come back (like walking with greatgrandmother to pick up sticks, then going back to her tiny caravan and making a fire:D or the holiday home caravan, that was so cold you scraped the ice from the inside of the windows in the morning!)
Hope everyone stays warm and well this weekend x

Have I said HI before? ........ elderly moment, sorry.
I think that was pretty normal before CH became popular. It didn't much matter whether one lived in a small place or a stately pile, ice on the inside of windows went hand in hand with the British winter brrrrrr.

Nothing much happened here. I seem to have been extremely busy but done nothing :rotfl:

lostinrates

Another boring day here.

Too wet to do much here, so sorting and dehoarding in side. Got a car ful for the tip.

Outside pulled the horses in for people, but no one wants to do much. Will take last of summer fencing down today. Probably won't put winter fencing up, though might start tomorrow. Soon as its up its a job done til march. Its not that bad anyway, only two lengths to go up.

Realised today its time to start wearing gloves outside. Brrrr.