Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

I_have_spoken

Right, here is the evidence of the work in progress

Is that a Renault Twizy?

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

i bet those butch workmen dont que up to be seen driving what looks like a little leccy car !!:rotfl::rotfl:

I'd have one.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

alfie_1 wrote: »

i bet those butch workmen dont que up to be seen driving what looks like a little leccy car !!:rotfl::rotfl:

that's why most of them are queing up to have a go of the digger...lol....

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

that's why most of them are queing up to have a go of the digger...lol....

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

The wee car thing is a very posh version of the quad bikes they often use here when road works with traffic lights are long. It could be a Renault Twonky for all I know, which is nothing!

Devon drivers are so eager, they have to be led along by a man on a souped-up lawnmower when the lights go green, just like on the American race tracks.

Anyway, they didn't use it, as our traffic light bit is only about 100m.

By the way, the 'butch men' included a blonde woman, but she isn't in the photo.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I finally bought myself a PH tester...there were two types there, the powder/test tube one, and one of those 2 prong ph/moisture ones, so I got that... sounds silly buy can you do the test any time of the year?

lostinrates

CTC , I just go around sticking it in all over.

My soil is boringly neutral though!

Fencers in today to repair the damage incurred in the big wind. This would make my back garden secure again, had not the gate post we put in (new, t
Pressure treated and chunky , cemented in) at the same time snapped at the bottom, leaving a gaping hole into the yard through which even big dog can fit. This means the big two can get to the chooks, but most worryingly the terrier can get out to the road.

Mind you, the terrier can get out anywhere I think.


But , the dogs have politely and kindly ignored the four six foot wide fence panels down for weeks now. Aren't they funny?

Its a dank grey day here. I was to go out with a friend this morning for some christmas shopping and to see a Christmas market but her heart has
Been broken and so she is staying at home with chocolate which is fine by me, I'm snug in my slobby clothes with my dawgs.

Davesnave

10c here and grey, but very OK for doing work outdoors.

The 'men' are back, doing something, but mostly standing about, smoking, phoning people etc. The way they're dressed today you'd think they were in the Arctic.....:rotfl:


I'm glad Pete doesn't put up fences like they put in drains.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm glad Pete doesn't put up fences like they put in drains.

Its always depressing to watch. Then they tell you how hard they are working and that they got up at x time and don't get home till x time and one smiles politely and thinks of one's own working past, and how hard DH works, and parents worked and shrug a bit.

Still, we are all different.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Its always depressing to watch. Then they tell you how hard they are working and that they got up at x time and don't get home till x time and one smiles politely and thinks of one's own working past, and how hard DH works, and parents worked and shrug a bit.

Still, we are all different.

Well, I don't know what time this lot got up, but they didn't arrive here until around 10am and they'll leave at 3.30pm. I'd imagine they don't receive wonderful amounts of remuneration, but then neither does my DD2, who's on the go from 8.30 till 6pm most days, with plenty of stair running involved. They haven't so much as broken into a trot......

.....Hang on, they've gone!!! :rotfl:but it's not finished....

I've been out clearing more overgrown hedge. My neighbour farmer hasn't yet reinstated all his electric fencing, so it was a chance to drop a few of the remaining blackthorns. After a couple of hours doing that, pulling the pieces over the stream, over the hedge and over my own fence I'm sure I don't need any Arctic gear! Anyway it's a stupid 11c out there. Shorts weather.