Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

phoebe..... oh my lord !! i bet your life [house] flashed before your eyes seeing flames !!
can you get skip moved a bit more away incase some burk does same again ??

phoebe1989seb

alfie_1 wrote: »

phoebe..... oh my lord !! i bet your life [house] flashed before your eyes seeing flames !!
can you get skip moved a bit more away incase some burk does same again ??

It sure did Alfie I guess we could shove it away from the house a bit more......dozy me hadn't thought of that It's the umpteenth skip we've had over the couple of years since buying the house and nothing like that has happened before, so fingers crossed it won't again......it was nearly full too, and if it hadn't been for me catching DH's *man-flu* (lol) I would have had it filled and away......got to finish digging up some nasty Tarmac......after that don't think we'll be needing any more, thankfully

It really does make you realise how quickly fires can escalate out of control......I just thank god that we were home at the time!

Look forward to hearing how your temper holds out with *Mr Pratt* tomoz!!!

ukmaggie45

Alfie, I think Mr Pratto had a real nerve to ask to use your gennie! :mad: Lets hope he gets his come-upance from the waterboard and environmental folks. I can't believe how long his procrastination has been going on! What a farker.

Oh Phoebe, what a scare! Hope your heart is in good condition, must have been feeling like heart attack time! :eek: :mad: :eek: Thank goodness you were both at home and able to put out the conflagration! :T

We've had some not so good news from home, so tomorrow we're packing up the car and heading back. Had changed our minds from earlier and intended to stay here till Friday to finish off, but guess we'll just leave the undone stuff undone (hoovering the van, pruning the buddliea, sorting out some of the pots and prob more stuff too) and try to get back early in the spring, or possibly even around New Year if we can get plumber organised to turn on water again and then turn off and drain again... :eek: (expensive)

Basically my dear Mum in Law (always a good friend to me, not a MiL in "normal" terms) has been in a Nursing Home for a while now - certainly most of this year, ashamed to say can't remember in detail as she's been in and out of hospital and NHs for a couple of years now. Had a fall 2 days ago, doc now thinks he hears "a crackle in her lungs" so on antibiotics. But OH had call from his brother late this afternoon to say when he and my SiL visited they were asked into the office and they were warned that MiL is very frail and could go any time. So obviously OH is keen to get back home ASAP. But we ain't going to do the coast road in the dark and late on (we still have to pack, including some stuff that only goes home over winter).

So if I disappear for a while you know why. Though hope it's all a false alarm obviously!

May have time to respond to stuff this evening, we'll see, but I didn't want to just disappear and leave you all wondering if I'd had another hissy fit!

Hugs to you all, dear DayDreamers!

Better_Days

ukmaggie45 do hope it is a false alarm for your MIL. Sorry to hear she is so poorly and safe journey back for you and OH. Take care and try not to get too tired - so much harder to cope physically and emotionally when you are exhausted.:grouphug:

phoebe1989seb good grief, you got my heart rate up just reading about the near miss with the skip. Doesn't bear thinking about what could have happened. :eek::eek::eek: How could some idiot throw a cigarette into a skip next to a thatched building?

Alfie - fingers crossed for you tomorrow - have you still got a pond in your back garden?

Mr BD picked up the steam cleaner today, and he tried it out on the kitchen floor. We have light coloured textured lino which is terrible for trapping the dirt from dog and kitty feet, but there is certainly an improvemnet. Unlike the cleaning pad on the mop which is filthy even after being soaked in bio washing powder :o:o. The mop can also be used as a handheld so will be good for the kitchen in the new house too.

ukmaggie45

Thanks BD! Hope your move goes well - Friday? Or am I mis-remembering?

This is a total experiment as Flickr has changed its self and I can't post pics the way I used to. (rolls eyes) Anyway, if this doesn't work I may or may not be able to sort it out later!



I cheated and did preview, and this works, but not sure if I can repeat it again LOL!

Actually colours much better than that, but light was very poor. Ah well, guess anything better than nothing!

alfie_1

hi all...:D

im having a "normal" moment so i thought id say something cheerfull..;)

i went to work today and ended up doodling around moving boxes for friend whos putting her house back together..
she then took me to lunch which was both a lovely surprise and tasty...
we then sat in her kitchen yacking :rotfl: then she paid me !!

i put out a bale of hay to test the waters if ponies were hungry. we've plenty of grazing but have had a few frosts.
they rolled in it, they pood on it.... the sheep were the only ones that ate some ...THEN they layed in it :rotfl::rotfl:
so obviously not needed !

im doing a pop up shop thing friday eve [xmas street night] and saturday day [market day]:D
my friends son has just bought a high st shop/flat to do up then let out. soooo his mum and i are making the most of a busy time for free :D
we will be selling junk, sorry collectables ,clothes etc.
if we dont sell ought we will have a laugh

LIR.... did you want that elec fence unit ??

lostinrates

Yes please, if I can

lostinrates

Oh maggie, that's beautiful. Not better in real life surely!

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes please, if I can

do you want the stick pole things , im guessing 14, got a reel of the green wire somewhere too.

Davesnave

:wave:Hello, I'm back in the land of Internet, using Firefox, because I had so many probs with IE11.

I had more problems tonight when the surveyor's report my DD1 ordered would not download. That was the last straw! Got it now. Basically, he's down-valued it by £10k on the agreed price, so there will have to be some Deal or No Deal horse trading. :cool:

There seems to be a bit of a firestarter theme here at present. I'm glad you got your blaze under control, Phoebe. I have to report that the well-intentioned arson incidents we had near here earlier in the year came to nought, as the site remains an eyesore and the threatened clean up by the council still hasn't happened.

Hopefully your MiL will make a good recovery maggie, and who knows, perhaps we'll have a sub-tropical Christmas & New Year, so you can return and finish off at the caravan.

Best of luck with Mr Pratt, alfie. How does he like his Humble Pie? Will he eat it normally, or will you need to force it in!?! :rotfl: