Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

lucielle wrote: »

DS2 has managed to sell al his turkeys. They are getting dressed this Sunday ready for collection. He's also been picked to go to Madagascar in 2015. Which is on the same terms as DD1 when she went to Thailand. So lots of turkeys to sell and fundraising to do.


OH is well fed up its been on his bucket list to go to Madagascar and DS2 has beaten him to it!!!!
L

:eek::eek::eek: noooooooooooooo thats so not fair !!

i have an amazing book about madagascar....... covered in drool..;)

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

When we eventually get into the house... the extension is an apex roof, one and a half storeys high with one wall all glass and then half an adjoining wall glass. I cannot wait to have some plants in there. Even house plants. but I'm sort of thinking some sort of Citrus tree, or fig. What do you think would be good for an indoor room. It could be tall, but would probably need to be quite slim.

Fig possibly, though I haven't trained mine to be slim. Citrus are quite fussy, I believe.

Grape?

The trouble with indoor plants that are normally outdoors is their habit of getting bugs. So, whatever you have, make sure you can easily reach all of it.

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

Fig possibly, though I haven't trained mine to be slim. Citrus are quite fussy, I believe.

Grape?

The trouble with indoor plants that are normally outdoors is their habit of getting bugs. So, whatever you have, make sure you can easily reach all of it.

and make sure its not poisonous....:o surprising how many exotics have dodgy leaves/flowers/sap .
not trying to be a party poopdepooper..;)

phoebe1989seb

Just catching up after a couple of days away for some R&R in London staying with DS and his GF......

We had a lovely evening at the new Lizzie Siddal (Pre-raphaelite Rossetti's muse/wife) play on Tuesday night with a Q&A session after with writer (and great great great granddaughter of Dickens) Lucinda Hawksley......it was fab Yesterday we went shopping - Selfridges, Anthropologie and my favourite ever store - Liberty :D:D

The weather was gorgeous - sunny and not too cold - then we came back to storms in *wet Wiltshire*

Why is it that I felt totally alive and full of life in London, but always feel zapped of energy out here in the sticks? It's made me all the more aware that country life isn't for me and that I'd hate to grow old here......Dr Johnson's famous quote springs to mind ;)

We left our two dogs in kennels for the first time (they are 21 months & 5 months) and I don't think I'll be doing that again either.......their beds came back wringing wet with dog wee, although I'm assuming it was 'cos they were traumatised by the whole experience - despite beings assured they had no probs

LIR - really sorry to hear about your Big Dog and send hugs to you all. Hope she makes it through the OP.....

Rhiwie - we rely solely on eBay for income since DH decided to quit the ratrace - we do really need to set up a website too though as they already shut down one account with no recourse for getting the suspension lifted. They don't seem to be aware they are playing god with people's livelihoods We have over 9000 positive feedback on our other account, but compared to the *big players* we are small fry and I'm sure they'd have no hesitation to pull the plug for a minor transgression even though DH is as sincere and honest a seller as you're ever likely to find.........

Keep safe and dry if more storms hit, everyone

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Why is it that I felt totally alive and full of life in London, but always feel zapped of energy out here in the sticks? It's made me all the more aware that country life isn't for me and that I'd hate to grow old here......Dr Johnson's famous quote springs to mind ;)

Dr Johnson was talking about a very different London, but he also said: [FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial][SIZE=-1]"No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country.[/SIZE][/FONT]"

so that qualification is my let-out!

There's not much opportunity for doing what I do within 100m of Fleet Street. Even in Johnson's time, it would have been tricky!

Of course the Paul McCartneys have a bit of everything, and a helicopter to move from one place to another. The rest of us have to make some compromises.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,


didn't want to wake you all up again by posting at silly o'clock this morning...


Frosty here this morning.... going to work early this morning..


got someone of the bay who won something in auction on Wednesday night, emailed them yesterday to ask for payment, so I can post the item out this morning, otherwise they might not get it before Christmas... nothing.... I bet you they will flipping pay tonight and expect me to post it out tomorrow, and then moan they didn't get it for Christmas.... I dont post things out on Saturdays... as my business account works Monday to Friday( I think) and I don't want to be making a pecial journey to po on Saturdays... think I better message them again


Right another quick cuppa, and off to work

rhiwfield

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Why is it that I felt totally alive and full of life in London, but always feel zapped of energy out here in the sticks? It's made me all the more aware that country life isn't for me and that I'd hate to grow old here......Dr Johnson's famous quote springs to mind ;)

Having lived and worked in London for many years, I was so glad to leave. The attractions were employment, the facilities, world class shopping and entertainment. The downside was the seething mass of people mostly dissasociated from the countryside, whose conversations revolved around money (and what it has brought them in terms of assets), promotion, house prices and rail fares.

But someone commented recently that London is sucking the life out of the UK and I think that this citification will continue to the detriment of countryside life and the environment

CTC, closed my Bay shop last night for a week, any sales now will be pure hassle as buyers will expect pre crimbo delivery. We upgraded post on some sales to head off low dsrs. One photo to send out this morning and that should be it. Will spend some time reseaching stock getting ready to start listing again when guests leave.

Just got to the end of the Cox apples in store, now for the Red Pippin

moneyistooshorttomention

I couldn't be doing with London. My idea of a nightmare. Whenever I've visited I've felt like its all Too Much. Too many people, too much dirt, I felt like I needed endless supplies of money to be able to cope with being there. Not Enough greenery/peace and quiet/anyone being at all friendly towards me.

Each to their own. Personally, if anyone said I HAD to live in London I think I'd just do a Dying Flower act and turn into a hermit to cope with it.

Even in the smaller city I have recently moved from, I felt it had "gone impersonal"/gone "badly behaved"/etc.

I chose a place where I would feel the number of people at present is reasonably okay and would still be in "coping range" even if the place increases noticeably in size over the rest of my life. They all know everyone else's business here:rotfl:...but it does seem to stem more from concern and friendliness than a desire to interfere for the sake of it as far as I can see. I think its nice personally to be in somewhere small enough etc that a neighbour is organising a Christmas Event specially to introduce me to any neighbours I haven't already introduced myself to:rotfl:

Anyway...I'd rather watch birds wheeling and dealing than people doing so any day of the week. Loads of birds round here and I often notice crowds of them sitting there singing their little heads off:) There's several of them coming and going sitting on the fence peering in at me right now...nosy little tykes hoping for food I guess....

lostinrates

I think the question has to be why did you leave pheobe?


Personally I like both. If I had to choose it would be outside cities, and I like my cities capital or commensurate with that culturally. For us access to culture, airports for family and (before the no travel things for me) travel were essential. For DH the travel still will be a feature of work and family life. Hopefully they will be for me again.

I felt great last time in London (also went to liberty, lol, sadly I was too beat to leave the ground floor:( ) but recognised I was glad it wasn't part of my daily grind but wished it were a monthly ritual. A change in the 'norm' is always energising, as is seeing old pleasures and the changes on them. Not getting to London often its easier for me to see the changes in it in a short time Its not the London it was even five years ago, and certainly not fifteen years ago. I was quite impressed with somethings this time tbh.


Alfie......have you plans on the morning of 28th? I'm not a million miles away from you for brunch but thought if we left here earlier we could come down and have a coffee before that's sort of breakfast coffee before......its not often we're down there.

RAS

rhiwfield wrote: »

Having lived and worked in London for many years, I was so glad to leave. The attractions were employment, the facilities, world class shopping and entertainment. The downside was the seething mass of people mostly dissasociated from the countryside, whose conversations revolved around money (and what it has brought them in terms of assets), promotion, house prices and rail fares.

But someone commented recently that London is sucking the life out of the UK and I think that this citification will continue to the detriment of countryside life and the environment

I used to commute into London and in the "county set" to which some of my friends belonged that was so true. One announced to me that there were no poor people anymore! Plainly she never got the train in to Liverpool Street?

If you want to explore Vince Cable's comment I recommend Andre Gunder Frank (blimey just googled him and discovered how much he did after I studied his stuff on Latin America) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory