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Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Thanks maggie, I have just heard, she's got through the op......she's on fluids and I have to get her at chicken time,....:).
  • Rummer
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    LIR I will be thinking of you and big dog today.

    CTC Never feel guilty about being upset over a difficult situation. Yes after an emotional moment perspective is needed but you are right to be upset.

    Maggie Sorry to hear you have been under the weather, I hope you are back on the mend now.

    Jenie The community spirit sounds very comforting where you are, here is hoping that nothing else goes wrong.

    Dave not a nice thing to wake up to!

    I may have slunk back off to bed for a while but I am now up and ready to face the day :D
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
  • rozeepozee
    rozeepozee Posts: 1,971 Forumite
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    Uggh! It's grim here. Wet, wild, hail, heavy rain, water everywhere and every time I go into the garden to feed the chooks, I slip and end up on my !!!!!!

    Lost one of our young Maran pullets this morning. Dead in the coop. This is the second time we've had a loss and both times were when I've been away and they died within 24 hours of my return :( OH looked after them the first time, our ex-farm manager nighbour this time. Not quite so gutted about this one as she wasn't one of the pets, but sad all the same and she'd never laid an egg!
  • alfie_1
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    Thanks maggie, I have just heard, she's got through the op......she's on fluids and I have to get her at chicken time,....:).


    LIR... all my animogs send best wishes to big dog as do i.

    :kisses3: to you too. xxx
  • rozeepozee
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    Living the dream, is pretty stressful, eh, CTC? We are having a tricky time as well. We are having drainage issues too.

    The plans for our drains that have been passed by planning don't really seem up to the job. We have three soakaways to install. There is a council owned and maintained culvert to the front of the house, adjoining the road. Ideally we could pipe some of the run off from the roof to the culvert via the soakaways, since the soakaways don't work adequately because the land is heavy clay and the water doesn't percolate. Has anone had any experience of doing this and how the highways agency might respond to such a request?

    We have ruefully discovered that the large unsightly brick wall that the previous owner built to demarcate his domestic bounday from the field above it (also our land) probably did a great deal to divert the water coming from the field to our house, but we were advised it wouldn't matter if we knocked it down... so we did as it was awkward for access to the back of the house when we were doing the extension.

    At the rear of the house, there is a stream that runs through our land into a storm drain at the bottom of the land (and where the culvert to the front also meets with it). We could pipe some of the water into this, although it would mean a lot more pipes/materials/expense than piping to the front of the house - and the water all ends up in the same place at the bottom of the hill, anyway?

    Any gems of wisdom, please?
  • All I can say is Rozee is ask the council/highways, or the natural resource wales... do not assume ANYTHING... and don't take what some people say as correct and up to date..


    I am surprised that you were told that by taking the wall down would not impact on any the flow of the water


    There is a huge wall behind my MIL house, and I dread to think what would happen if that was taken down, it would be like a swomp by her back door...
    Work to live= not live to work
  • jenie_2
    jenie_2 Posts: 491 Forumite
    CTC, we are fine thank you and were very fortunate, the next village to us suffered the worst and it was very upsetting to see the devastation, although some houses here were flooded too. I feel for them especially at this time of year. Anyway, as I said before don't let those b&ggers grind you down and please don't feel guilty.

    LIR I hope Big Doggy is on the mend soon, our pets do pull the heartstrings don't they.

    Maggie, hope you feel better soon.
  • After a relatively calm morning, wind speed has jumped right up, with sleet and hail south of Glasgow. Just in time to make last minute shopping for veg. even more grim :(

    Really feel for peeps trying to travel, I spend 20 years doing London-Glasgow for Xmas and am very glad not to be worrying about what (if any) trains are leaving Kings X!
  • rozeepozee
    rozeepozee Posts: 1,971 Forumite
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    All I can say is Rozee is ask the council/highways, or the natural resource wales... do not assume ANYTHING... and don't take what some people say as correct and up to date..


    I am surprised that you were told that by taking the wall down would not impact on any the flow of the water


    There is a huge wall behind my MIL house, and I dread to think what would happen if that was taken down, it would be like a swomp by her back door...
    yeah, I think we've been badly advised. We've learnt not to trust so called professional advice....

    Building control say from their perspective we have significantly improved the environment by replacing our old ineffective septic tank that used to leach effluent into the stream with a sewage treatment plants that purifies the water. We will consult. We want to do the right thing.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    edited 24 December 2013 at 7:22PM
    Rozee, sometimes young hens just up and die without warning. We've had a couple do it here. :( I'd guess at some congenital weakness.

    I can't really advise on the drainage. When we did our extension in Bath, we put a soakaway on the plan, but when we came to build it, the council officer agreed it was a waste of time and allowed us to go into the main drains. That was long ago though. Now, I'd imagine councils will be protective of their culverts. You might well need to go into the storm drain on your own land, just to be politically correct. ;)

    Hope Big Dog is recovering quickly from her op, lir. Pets do indeed pull at the heartstrings, Jenie. Down here in Devon, someone died today trying to rescue their dog from a small river in the middle of a town. The dog survived.

    The railway chaos continues, but at least DD2 has a train to catch. She's just left Bournemouth, heading for Exeter......via Reading! :rotfl:

    Hugs to maggie, and anyone else not feeling 100% this Christmas. :grouphug:
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