Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

FK this is the place we use

http://hughphillipsabattoir.co.uk/

contact them, and ask them to email you a price list....

I am sure if any of your buyers wanted to view the place, you would have no problems taking them there;) obviously you would have to ask them it is ok:D

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I am going to lose my tender buddleja. If anyone thinks they can give it a better home and get it from me (we're exist too cold and exposed) they can have it. .

Not me, I'm exposed too! (in the nicest possible way....:o)

I'm thinking of having an Acca in the polytunnel. They aren't especially tender, but ripening the fruit before winter can be problematic. ATM we have a few blooms on an outdoor plant.

choille

Davesnave wrote: »

I suppose the best current answer then is to drench the sheep and let them give the ticks a fatal dose of acaricide.

Must admit, I've never seen a hen eat a slug.

Our electric's due for a planned outage soon, so I'm off to do some more roofing.

I had a chicken choke on a slug -m just a young bird. came home & it had it wedged in it's gullet. I tried getting it out with a screwdriver:eek: But it was too late.......

Ticks are really bad here. I spot on the sheep & that gets quite a lot as the sheep are tick mops. The deer carry them. High rate of Lyme's here. I got tested last year, but you get them all year - but surprisingly we have had very few on us this year.

It's believed that climate change is makning them move higher up the hill & they are killing a lot of ground nesting birds - anemia [sp}

rozeepozee

I'm designed for this weather, being half Afghani, but even I have taken my fleeces off. I normally am never without a few layers of them! I'm sitting here in my pj bottoms and a smile.

Today has been a stressful day mainly because we've got wind that the civil engineer thinks the first floor, as well as the roof, will need strengthening if we are to convert loft to beds. It'll be interesting to see what the costing will be and wondering if it's so serious as to require a complaint. My feeling is that this should have been flagged up by the architect during the design process and pre-tender and costed, or at least investigated, then. It's one of those make or breaks as far as the decision about what to do with the roof is concerned. We may have decided to put a completely new roof on. We're making do and mend with our currrent low pitched roof to keep costs down - ha ha. My psychosomatic asthma is playing up.

OH and I went to bed after having had words, which is so rare for us Then the children couldn't sleep with the heat. Now I'm awake at ten to one catching up on paperwork (my tardiness with the admin was what caused the "words" between us - I'm still cross about that, especially as OH is hopeless at that sort of thing and leaves it all to me). Yes, building work is stressful, they like to warn us.... The really only good thing about living in London and earning London money was never having to worry about paying for anything. Those days are long gone

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rozee.. hope everything works out ok, and that its not going to add to much onto the quote.. Have you paid the archiet sp? yet?

If it turns out it was his over sight could you not pay him?

Just had a phone call our scaffolding has just arrived early, so hubby is off to work to unload it.. driver was a bit miffed we couldn't get there straight away, hope its all there etc..

Its secondhand off ebay.. we bought a 10 mtre x 6 mtre so it will be moved around the house in stages.

I must admit I did want to have enough money to do one outside end of the house, more or less by now, But at least I do have the scaffolding to show for it:T

Ebay is just ticking over. But is slower than I thought it would be, even knowing this is a quiet time of the year

Itismehonest

Ohhh, please don't wish the good weather away, people. We see precious little enough of it as it is. :cool:

I think about another 3 months of this sunshine & warmth (we should be so lucky) & the thick old walls of this place may have had just about the right amount to go into the winter with

I've never been one for sitting around in the sunshine. It gives me a bad head. So I've always tended to do stints outside.
Even being limited to a quick walk around outside the house is so much nicer when the sun is out.

LIR - I'm surprised you're having problems with the buddleia - or is it a particularly tender variety? The stuff grows like a weed around here, self-seeding madly. We're always having to get rid of it. So exposure isn't a problem for it here.
We have the purple & also the white variety so the butterflies can form the equivalent of football team supporters clubs - White v. Purple

Davesnave

The architect will have been paid by now CTC, but he should have involved a structural engineer if there was room for doubt. This was why we ditched the upstairs idea, as there were to many 'what if?' questions. :eek:

In the end, we literally went for sticking a box on one end and possibly sticking another at the other end, if we can afford it. I call that flexibility, but hardly imaginative! The problem is that the more one finds out, the greater the possibilities of spending money become. Yes, there might just be one or two extra bits, but then there's moving internal walls, with the knock-on for plumbing and wiring, never mind heating...and half the drains need shifting too.

It was a blow that when we found a good, inexpensive father & son team, the brickie went into hospital to have an elbow seen to and was told never to lay bricks again! Otherwise, we'd have started this summer by putting up the basic structure and roofing it, ready to break through and carry on next year.

Hope it isn't a huge extra problem, rozee. Let's hope that after they've looked, it's not a problem at all.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

LIR - I'm surprised you're having problems with the buddleia

It'll be asiatica, or something like that.

I had a goodie when I came here. (past tense!)

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Ohhh, please don't wish the good weather away, people. We see precious little enough of it as it is. :cool:

I think about another 3 months of this sunshine & warmth (we should be so lucky) & the thick old walls of this place may have had just about the right amount to go into the winter with

I've never been one for sitting around in the sunshine. It gives me a bad head. So I've always tended to do stints outside.
Even being limited to a quick walk around outside the house is so much nicer when the sun is out.

LIR - I'm surprised you're having problems with the buddleia - or is it a particularly tender variety? The stuff grows like a weed around here, self-seeding madly. We're always having to get rid of it. So exposure isn't a problem for it here.
We have the purple & also the white variety so the butterflies can form the equivalent of football team supporters clubs - White v. Purple

Yes, a particularly tender one, dave will know what I mean....a hybrid thing...spicey scented silvery leaves. Normal stuff grows well

Itismehonest

choille wrote: »

I had a chicken choke on a slug -m just a young bird. came home & it had it wedged in it's gullet. I tried getting it out with a screwdriver:eek: But it was too late.......

Ticks are really bad here. I spot on the sheep & that gets quite a lot as the sheep are tick mops. The deer carry them. High rate of Lyme's here. I got tested last year, but you get them all year - but surprisingly we have had very few on us this year.

It's believed that climate change is makning them move higher up the hill & they are killing a lot of ground nesting birds - anemia [sp}

That's what I meant about needing teeth to eat larger slugs, choille

Yes, anywhere there are deer tends to be tick & Lyme disease prone. Horrid things. I still have lumps from the ones that bit me weeks ago. Unfortunately, that's down to the Lumpy & Bumpy Syndrome & is what happens with any, even minor, injury. Damned nuisance.

If the ticks are killing off the birds then perhaps something will get done about them. They can make people really ill (or kill them) & nothing gets done but birds are different, of course
Mind you, I bet the people working the land around there ultimately get the blame for the fall in bird numbers. It's always the way even if not true. I think much more is down to climate change & species moving than is taken into account.