Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

Well done, Better Days! :T

Look on the bright side, you won't have inherited any greenfly, or similar, if there's been that much nicotine floating about!
.....And a few gallons of emulsion will make a permanent difference.


First read-through of the Panto tonight, and I've only just printed it.....:o. I've had a couple of other projects on the go.....


Went off to Okehampton today in the van, missed a turning somewhere and ended up much closer to Crediton, so I went there instead. I don't think I'm quite right ATM! :rotfl:


Pete will be back to finish the fencing tomorrow, so that will be the last big job for this year off the list.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

BD.... the main thing is, YOU ARE IN!!! You might have to use gallons of cleaner, and as Davesnave said emulsion, but there is no more being on tender hooks waiting for surveys, completion etc...


OMG has the temp dropped this afternoon... hubby is going to buy a sack of coal, to keep the fire in tonight...

lostinrates

Oh dave,

Reading what gets done at your place just makes me exhausted.

We're still waiting for fencing repairs from the big wind a few weeks back!

Depending on weather this weekend we'll be painting again. We started the bit of the barn where the heating stuff will go in front of last week, and horrid to leave a wall quarter done, so of its as dry as last week will press on I guess. We look out in that from the cheese room, and painting it will have a subtle mood enhancing impact.

Like one of our flats in Italy, where we looked out into the street but when I would check the weather it always looked duller than it was, I finally realised that it was the colour great of the render on the building diagonally opposite. Like waist, here, the faded white and asbestos grey being painted over by the colour that is starting to haunt my closed eyes, the great/ blue /grey is just a subtley less industrial, less.......grim, colour. Already it looks calmer.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh dave,

Reading what gets done at your place just makes me exhausted.

We're still waiting for fencing repairs from the big wind a few weeks back! .

Yes, but Pete will be doing it, and at the rate he and his mate go, there's only a few hours work. The posts are already in. However, it has taken a whole year to get them here!

We still have quite a few fence posts left, so it looks as if re-fencing the orchard and willow area won't be terribly expensive if we decide to go for that in the New Year. The question is simply whether we can fit into Pete's schedule. Speaking of that, the barren lambs will be with us next week.

I've decided to allow the sheep into the new copse area for a few weeks so that they can eat the grass down and tread the newly-spread soil. I'm slowly de-stoning that. Then I'll shut the gate on them, and this time they won't be jumping in where they're not wanted! :rotfl:

alfie_1

evening peeps

well done BD for getting yr new abode sorted... get some febreeeeeze and spray the walls... temp fix

busy but stress free day today...:j:j

sold some clothes on the bay :j:j

so today is :j not :mad: ..............:D

phoebe1989seb

BD - great to hear you're finally in your new home.....as others have said the nicotine, whilst a PITA, will go given time and loads of fresh paint. We once bought a house from an elderly lady who must have smoked like a chimney as there were white patches on the wall where her pictures had hung - we had thought the walls were painted yellow, lol :rotfl: We moved in when DS was two and we've never cleaned/redecorated so frantically in our lives as I was convinced the fumes were still in evidence and were bad for him

It's lovely for you to be in for Christmas though, especially after being in your rental for a while. Friends of ours complete on their purchase a few days before Christmas - they completed on their sale last month, but had already moved back to a rented flat in the area they moved from only two years ago - they bought in the Cotswolds, but couldn't settle Think they're planning to stay in the rental till the New Year rather than trying to unpack that close to Christmas.....

Talking of smoke, no more fires here, thankfully except in the woodburner, which like CTC's is full of warm, glowing coals this evening as it really has turned extremely chilly......brrrrr!

Dave - good luck with the first reading of the panto.....I think all the Daydreamers - well, the more local ones at least - should make a pilgrimage to see you perform......we could be your groupies :rotfl:

Alfie - well done on getting some eBay sales in DH's are still going ok, although will start to ease off soon he predicts. There's always a bit of a flurry of people buying as gifts for Christmas, but vinyl, CDs etc don't seem to do as well at this time of year IMHO.

LIR - know just what you mean about our Mr Snave putting us all to shame, but you do have far more than us to do I'm most envious of all the projects Dave has on the go though......DH take note

We're a *little* bit closer to having our two new shower rooms up and running - our plumber was s'posed to be finished this week, but unforeseen complications with our old beams have put paid to that, so now he's having to come back next week to finish things off and fit accessories etc. The second room is really coming together now though as both the vanity and the shower valve and head went in today........the head is mahoosive - had been sitting in a box for 18 months and I'd not even looked at it so got a surprise when he fitted it :eek:

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,


blooody heck didn't think it was going to be this windy down here.. VERY cold too. If its like this on the weekend, think We might have to postpone our plans for cutting down trees etc up the ranch, and stay in by the fire, and watching films again..lol


still don't feel it's christmasy,


Rummer are you ok???


Just to give us bayer's the heads up for looking out for stuff to sell next Christmas... baby doll clothes.. especially zapf newborn... I got some on there now, someone did tell me they sell well, but didn't do anything about it, soI am going to put a little box to one side, and collect them throughout the year...same as pj's..


Alfie bet you cant wait for the nipper to be home..

lostinrates

Yesterday I bought another electric heater. I left a message with the electricity people that if they didn't come today I was gonna plug it in, turn my cooker on, (and all the other appliances) and take this postcode DOWN.


They phoned at seven to say they will come today. .


I could get into the extortion racket I think.

I_have_spoken

Very strong winds and rain lashing down in Glasgow. A downpipe has come adrift from gutter, the rain has found a way into conservatory, garden chairs blown about, large amounts of standing water in garden.