Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

:j Today was an amazing day for us :j

There has been a lot going on that I was not comfortable to share publicly but today we finally got a whole host of good news

Now I can finally look forward to Christmas :xmastree::xmastree::xmastree:

Oh and for good measure I also order the real seeds catalogue

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

First, you have to find an amp that goes to 11.....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I think the orange tinge to the water is probably from the mine workings. Could be iron in the rock itself, or iron equipment slowly rusting away. Other minerals might have come up with the coal too.

Those big drains are expensive, and although I'm not 100% on this, I think you might need permission to put the stream through a culvert. Have a word with the chappie who calls.

Personally, I can't see that mud coming off your land is a unique problem. It's happening everywhere just now, onto important roads around here too.

Strictly speaking a landowner is responsible for any run off, Dave, although it's quite complex. If natural rainfall channels downhill from your land to a neighbour's that's OK. If you channel it & it causes the neighbour problems then you might be subject to a law suit.
I agree, the orange sounds like it may be iron.

This may guide you, CTC. (OK, I know your stream isn't exactly the Tawe :rotfl: so we're not talking about interfering with fish ) but it is a Welsh document &, as the laws may be different from here, I thought it best to have something from the right country.
Incidentally, when the stream leaves your land where does it go?

:j Chuffed that you're pleased, Rummer ......... whatever it was about

lostinrates

Run off is a night mare.

We had an issue with ITsmes favourite landowning neighbours complaining about our run off at a previous home, which we managed to prove was actually their run off from several land owners away up hill ( they owned up hill and the bottom of the hill but not the land in between) but was a long shove.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rummer..... SOOOOOOOOO GLAD!!!!! that you ordered the seed catalogue....lol.....


and FAB NEWS .... really pleased.....


now you need to relax... and all cwtch up on the sofa.... and munch loads of sweets and watch naff tv.....lol


Will have a read of the link now...


Davesnave the letter is up in work now, put I will pm you the exact wording..when I go back into work

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Run off is a night mare.

We had an issue with ITsmes favourite landowning neighbours complaining about our run off at a previous home, which we managed to prove was actually their run off from several land owners away up hill ( they owned up hill and the bottom of the hill but not the land in between) but was a long shove.

Why am I not surprised?
They have a field here which has had a broken culvert pipe (runs from a spring overflow) since about 1992. It causes chaos every year. It's not so much the water (which runs away down the lane) but when the temperatures drop & the run off freezes then nothing gets up the hill.
We gave up the annual phone call years ago. Now we're just waiting for the run-off to undermine the hedge (bank) & for half the hill to end up blocking the lane. That's on the list next to when the trees they won't maintain come down across the lane or onto any of our outbuilding rooves :wall:

By the way, the grim weather is back again hereabouts

COOLTRIKERCHICK

When I speak/see the person I will tell him our intentions and also do a quick phone call to the planning to see if we need planning... we will not be altering any water coarse, or blocking it... we will just be be putting in an appropriate size pipe to take the flow at its highest... the stream/water is pipped coming onto our land, then it goes and runs the other side of the boundary of our land... its snakes through our land if that makes sense...


We have also decided to have some guniea fowl they are sooooo vocal...lol.... maybe we should have aguniea fowl farm instead...lol...

alfie_1

it is seriously scary here !... it sounds like a truck outside. gusts are hitting the house and tiles are rattling. scary booms outside.

choille

Better_Days wrote: »

Has Mr BUHA been watching the Harry Potter films for inspiration?

Dave, good luck with your toilet seat repairs. The experience in this house is that it is a very lenghty and time consuming process, advise that you put aside a day at least to bring the matter to a satisfactory conclusion. Amazon are delivering our new seat tomorrow, so will update you all with the next thriilling installment. Bet you can't wait, ha !

Mr BD has put a water saving thingy in the 'old' toilet cistern. Trouble is that the thingy floats around and gets stuck under the big orange thingy so that the loo won't flush. I then have to take the top off the cistern and fluggle my hand around to move the water saving thingy to a more suitable location in the cistern. Save water it might, but not my patience.

Some folks put in a brick or half a brick, or only flush when it's not a wee.

Our track was frozen so it took a while to get the car up to the road & a pretty hairy run into Ullapool. But it's now hissing it down....again.

choille

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

no the mud is not going on the footpath, and I was thinking the same thing ITSME...


We have just come back from the closest ( not the cheapest) agri supplies, and it cost us £341 for the electric fence and all the gubbings, including a leisure battery...


In the spring, when the pigs in that run are gone, we are going to do something we talked about in the beginning, and pipe the stream through our land, and the put gravel and soil over it... this will solve ANY issue regarding the stream...AND actually give us more land... AND the pigs will then be right up against our boundary fence...( now there is our boundary fence, then the stream, and then our pig run) so the said neighbour will have the pigs closer to them.... so... in effect it would have back fired on him/them... lol.....


From our point of view its the money aspect BUT.... If it means us using the land for what WE wanted... then so be it...


They cant live on the edge of a green belt and then complain about farm animals




We also bought a fence tester... as non of us are brave enough to put our hands on it to see if it will be working...lol

You do have to watch run off into a stream & poaching - that could come under SEPA - well the Welsh equivalent. You have to feed quite a bit back from a water course for pollution. You should move feed troughs when the ground becomes mud if you use troughs. It's impossible to avoid when the weather is such as it's been here, but you should try & do it & use best practice.

choille

Just caught up as it's this thunder snow stuff & we lost our leccy box in the caravan & have had to renew wiring & box so keep unplugging phone & 'puter.

The other night everyone was up at 4am as the thunder was incredible - a crofter with 7 kids down the road said they all thought that was the end of the world - must admit it was like a bomb. They are all complaining of their houses shaking. The winds picking up again & all the exposed building paper is either off or cracking away.

A few tree limbs down & a gable of an old roofless byre is coming down, but hopefully nothing else apart from water getting into the house - which is depressing. We've held back on putting in any more insulation as we don't want it wet through. We have over insulation planned - Bleeding expensive German stuff & it's over what you need to do by the regs, but like we have over engineered coz of the increasing wind speeds - It's a do once job & ought that keeps heating bills down is a gooer in our book.

Just saw a Hebredian skins for £75 in Ullapool & all the pittance i got for my lambs makes me feel sick. There were some reindeer skins - £125 - mega soft - beautiful.

Goodness the charity shop there is mega dear - £20 for a 2nd hand jumper & £30 for a 2nd hand wool coat that you'd give the dog to sleep on....................sometimes you wonder if they sell owt.

I don't often go in new shops - apart from food ones but there are some gorgeous shops in town - feast for the eyes, but I do get a slight startle at the prices, but gorgeous had made stuff that's unique & unusual.
I bought friends a lovely pottery thistle clock. I want to keep it, but that would be naughty.