Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

choille

That's the grown up name for Elephant grass - never smoked it myself:D

COOLTRIKERCHICK

what a flipping day weather wise:eek::eek::eek::eek:

heavy, cold rain, with hail thrown in on times, good job it wasn't snow.

Davesnave I am with you on your thoughts, to anyone lurking, and are saving/dreaming of a smallholding def look for somewhere that has a wooded/tree area, or has scope to plant some..

over the winter/spring we will be thinning out, cutting out deadwood etc and seeing where we can potentially plant some new quick growing stuff etc

choille

There are grants going to plant indigenous woodland at the moment to help with costs if you have a bit of land. If like here you have deer or goats you have to deer fence & that's expensive ....as I know.......

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

That's the grown up name for Elephant grass - never smoked it myself:D

Yes, sorry, I didn't twig I'd swapped terms.

lucielle

Congrats to Stitchy for getting out of a horrible situation. Well done Alfie for keep attacking the landlords. Have similar problems myself.
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Davesnave

Anyone who's grown the big miscanthus may know that if you change your mind, they're not the easiest things to get rid of. Pick axe wasn't even touching it. So, sodium chlorate and a year to rot down a bit was the technique I used!

I'm concerned about Pete. He may be fine, but he's not rung or called-by since I visited him over two weeks ago.

At that time he was still very down over the bad year he'd had. It's cash flow which hits folk like him. Keeping all the plates spinning must be a nightmare.

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

Anyone who's grown the big miscanthus may know that if you change your mind, they're not the easiest things to get rid of. Pick axe wasn't even touching it. So, sodium chlorate and a year to rot down a bit was the technique I used!

I'm concerned about Pete. He may be fine, but he's not rung or called-by since I visited him over two weeks ago.

At that time he was still very down over the bad year he'd had. It's cash flow which hits folk like him. Keeping all the plates spinning must be a nightmare.

cant you ring him on a pretext.... advice re something ??

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

cant you ring him on a pretext.... advice re something ??

I will, if I don't see him/hear by Sunday. I'm tied-up myself till then.

The trouble is I told him we had some events to attend on the two coming weekends, but only on one day of each.

That was possibly remembered as, "Dave's away for the next two weekends."

alfie_1

hello.:D

well ive had an interesting day :D

first thing this morning had a call from envoironmental chap. asked for history then asked for agents name etc.
i got as far as his name when he said " oh yes, i have had dealings with him " ??:cool: didnt need his address etc !
hes coming out for a visit next week
i did pre warn him he will get "fobbed off" but he just said "no i wont" :j

so now im curious as to how hes had dealings with him......

so waterboard and enviro are now on board.... me finks agent might be saying bad words after this week......:rotfl::rotfl:

spent today helping friend move all her clothes and bits back into her re decorated rooms. must admit it does look stunning ! anyway 3 binbags of gorgeous jumpers and tops found thier way to me ....AGAIN :D
STILL LOTS OF MOVING STUFF TO DO ....;)
moving a room full of vintage /antique clothing [victorian wedding dresses etc] into a redecorated blank room so they can decorate that room...like musical rooms ..
must admit the workmen work like trojans and are actually ahead of themselves... carpet people cant keep up..:rotfl:
if i could hire these guys out to you lot, youde never grumble about workers again !! a rare bunch [decoraters,carpenter,electrician and plummers]

anyway, ive eaten, ive had my barf and now im gonna look through these bags of goodies :j

still got a stonkin cold but i find if i keep active i feel better for it.
bitter cold here, had a flash rain storm about 1pm but only for 20mins. overcast and mizzly rest of day
keep warm peeps

Better_Days

Well I think I could do with smoking a bit of something for some escape from reality. Anything will do......

Had a call from my bank on Monday. As it is 5 months since they approved the mortgage they now want some more info. So DH took the info down to HSBC Monday afternoon so it could go in the internal mail to First Direct.

FD only got the info scanned onto their system yesterday evening and now has to go to the underwriters for them to flip a coin and decide if they will actually give us the mortgage.

I have said somewhat testily (and justified I think) that as we are between exchange and completion I would be very grateful if they could make their minds up quickly.

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