Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

I will NOT burn.

Thankfully going pink a couple of weeks ago seems to have jogged my skins memory that I am a Caribbean kid and I'm coping fine. I have factor fifty on my newly diagnosed as rosa era face but actually that's not breaking out again either , thank goodness. .

Finally chopped down our verge. Since the hedge went the long grass and wild flowers, first the cow parsley, more recently hemlock, has been our privacy screen. It feels very exposed now. Hey ho.

Rummer

Finally the front grass has been tackled and it is looking better if still a little rough round the edges

The weather here is glorious and I have been sitting relaxing in the garden which has been bliss, guess I should really start tidying.

Itismehonest

:mad: I got out for an hour & a half, was nowhere near grass & still got a ruddy tick :mad:

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

:mad: I got out for an hour & a half, was nowhere near grass & still got a ruddy tick :mad:

That's bad. You seem plagued with them up your way. Haven't seen any for a couple of years.

If we've any, they'd have had a job jumping a ride on me today, as I've spent most of it off the ground.

There is no way we can make the woodshed rectangular.Opposite sides aren't parallel, one side curves and the whole thing slopes in two planes! However, with a lot of bodging around, I think we can cover it.....just.

Was there a big sports event or something on today? This place has been totally silent all afternoon, apart from some daft twit banging around with 9' sheets of tin......:rotfl:

Itismehonest

We come top of the NHS list for parts of the UK that are known to have a high population of ticks, Dave:

•Exmoor
•the New Forest in Hampshire
•the South Downs
•parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire
•Thetford Forest in Norfolk
•the Lake District
•the Yorkshire Moors
•the Scottish Highlands

It isn't helped by a charity which owns a large amount of acres but lets the bracken run riot. The bracken just acts as a multi-storey car park for the ticks which park up, wait for the next warm-blooded creature to pass & then, apparently, when gorged drop off outside my place :mad:
It's all very well telling walkers & climbers to wear long shorts & tuck their trousers in their socks but once in a while I'd like to get some sun on my skin. It isn't like we get an overdose of it

It gets a bit daft when I have to go into town to get some sunshine. Still, it could be worse. I could have 3 kids, 2 dogs & 2 cats like the woman in the charity cottage :rotfl:

lostinrates

Actually, have to say, it's one p the main reasons we don't go for short breaks down your ways itsme. And something that put us off the new forest a fair bit.

We're ok here, thought the bridle paths up on the plain are dicey.

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Actually, have to say, it's one p the main reasons we don't go for short breaks down your ways itsme. And something that put us off the new forest a fair bit.

We're ok here, thought the bridle paths up on the plain are dicey.

It was never this bad, LIR. when the land around us was privately owned ........ & looked after instead of just left. It's got steadily worse over the last few years. We had a menagerie of animals & no problems. I'm just glad we don't have that many now.

Davesnave

Perhaps if they bred guinea fowl instead of pheasants......

If we had a tick problem, I'd keep them, noise, or no noise. (But probably noise!:rotfl:)

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Perhaps if they bred guinea fowl instead of pheasants......

If we had a tick problem, I'd keep them, noise, or no noise. (But probably noise!:rotfl:)

Sorry, if who bred pheasants? Nobody breeds pheasants for miles around near here, Dave. Where are you thinking of?
The charity used to say the bracken was left for the rare butterflies until someone pointed out that the butterflies needed wildflowers. They then started cutting paths through the bracken in a few places. The vast majority is just left (like most of their land around here) to go backwards. It's cheaper that way.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Sorry, if who bred pheasants? Nobody breeds pheasants for miles around near here, Dave. Where are you thinking of?

It was a general "they" not a specific one. There are intensive pheasant farms all around us here, and it always seems such a palaver producing what's essentially a useless bird. Even the people who shoot them don't want many.

Mind you, guinea fowl probably wouldn't be any more suited to life on Exmoor, though I've seen them on the edge of it, bobbing through the grass on one of those ancient farmsteads in the foothills.