Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

phoebe1989seb

Better_Days wrote: »

Just a flying visit dreamers

Solicitor just rang

Completed :D:D

EA already given me the keys so just waiting for Mr BD to get home so we can visit our new house.

Windy and raining here - hope you are all warm and dry.

Fantastic news BD :j I'm really pleased for you both :T xxx

Alexelisey

Yay!! :j:j:j:j:jHappy moving, BD!:beer:

Better_Days

Thank you for the good wishes everyone :A

I have been feeling quite low today, this house move hasn't worked out as I hoped, but I think it is mainly because I am so exhausted.

Going to try and stay awake until 9pm then take some zopiclone so I get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow will be a better day I'm sure.

Thanks for keeping me company on my 'house move' journey over the past few months, things are always easier when you don't go it alone :):)

Rummer

Better Days great news about the house I always think moving is an overwhelming experience and I remember on our first night here, after many dramas on the lead up, thinking what have I done? The next day however I felt better and now I dearly love our home.

I have had a mini makeover during the last couple of days and as a result I feel a lot better inside and out Usually I am not overly bothered by my appearance but I was looking tired and unhealthy so a stern talking too and a good haircut have worked wonders.

Tomorrow I am determined to get out for a walk somewhere with lots of trees. I was in town today and it was manic so I want a day surrounded by nature to balance it out.

I hope you are all busy with fabulous things!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all


Been a bit manic the last few days with work.. ready for an event tomorrow, which I am scared, nervous and excited about all in one go... long story but we are now running an event somewhere away from work... and the advertising and flyering that we have done...( should have the scary blue face icon here, but for some reason they are not working) Just hope we get a good turn out.


A very long story, but to cut it VERY short, the person who was organising it with me the last time, has now organised exactly the same, across the road, on the same day.. a few hours before ours... 'childish'


BD so glad you have the keys.... I think even though you have loads of work to do,, the pressure and the stress of the solicitors, mortgage people etc are now over..




re the skip fire... wow I would have been crappppping myself..


right I need a cuppa, be back soon..

Davesnave

Whoopee! :j:beer::dance:Better Days, you're in your new home well in time for Christmas. :xmastree:All the hassles you've had will melt into insignificance now. You can look forward to a period of calm while you plan your spring attack on the garden and the creation of your chicken area.

Of course you have to do the actual move, but hopefully that won't be too frantic. How long do you have left in your rental?

Davesnave

I was too exhausted after keeping up with Pete yesterday to post pictures in the evening , but here's a picture of what I now call the 'Dog End.'

This area, which used to have an empty pond and more humps than a herd of camels, is now tamed. Of course, I will have to plant things when the soil has settled, because all we've saved is a maple, a buddleia, a cherry and a very unhappy rowan. At present there is nowhere to hide a telegraph pole! :rotfl:

I ought to add that there's a B Class road between this land and the thatched house, so there will be a need to plant a screen there, where there were formerly lots of brambles. The dog kennels etc are on the right. They will get something sound-deadening behind them!

Rummer

I have been up for hours loads of work to do this morning so that I can relax and enjoy the family when they all return at lunch time!

Currently my house resembles the cleaning scene in the Sword and the Stone

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Has mr Dog said, anything about 'dog's end'? when are they coming to move the pole?


Talking about dogs, it looks as though we really do need to work our dog's danglies off next year...


also I told hubby we should have taken 2 or 3 of the boglins on their no return holiday, but he said they wernt big enough, and to take them after Christmas, guess what??? yep we are getting people asking about meat for Christmas... and the abbotior only oes their own meat in December for their shop/market stall.. lesson learned... that hubby should know I am ALLWAYS right...lol


We could take some to market next Friday, BUT I don't know if there is going to be a glut? or demand will be high. It is now getting expensive... for feed, as we are going through umpteen sacks per week....


Hopefully the next lot of piglets will be our own... that's if our big girlies are not to fat to conceive, and 'Mr Paul' isn't firing blanks, or gay...hahaha

Davesnave

I should also have added that I know the post to the left of the telegraph pole isn't upright! It moved because the ground next to the drainage gully is soft and the strut pushed it over a bit when it went in. I said nothing, but Pete went straight there with his 'puller' yesterday afternoon, undid the staples and made it much closer to vertical.

While the Dog End is good, it's the Hump End I'm excited about. That now has all the posts in, defining our mini-woodland area. I can now get the fence along the stream out of the way and landscape that a little more.

It was late afternoon when the last big gatepost-sized strainer was bumped into the ground with the tractor mounted 'thumper.' DW had spent a lot of time and energy working out how to make that post and the line beyond it exactly at right angles to the fence it joins, but all her efforts came to nought. Before Pete does the bumping, his partner makes the initial hole with a big, pointy crowbar, and that hit something hollow-sounding. Lots of ?????
Then I remembered, it was where I'd dowsed the line of the water main to the village.........:eek::eek::eek::eek:

So our gatepost and the last short line of posts had to go at not quite a right angle. You'd think they'd have buried the pipe a bit deeper though....60cm?