Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Better_Days

Morning all!

Alexelisey - ohh love the arches on your chicken coop - very architectural! Am envious as not able to have chickens atm.

CTC - that stone work will look beautiful when it is finished. Even at this stage you can see that the texture and randomness of the stones really adds to the character of the building.

Lovely again here today. Hope to get out in the garden and lounge on the sunlounger. Couldn't yesterday as neighbours had lots of family round and BBQ blowing over our washing so not very restful! Still can't complain, only the second time this summer and they are OK neighbours otherwise.

Kits are in a snit as I frontlined them yesterday. They have got their own back as I have woken up with flea bites on my legs this morning. Perhaps I should frontline myself!!! Now washing all my bedding.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

BD same here, the fleas have gone bonkers in this weather, the cats are on their 3rd month of front line treatment, and I am still getting bitten..:mad:

hardly slept last night, its been the worst night so far.. very humid.. youngest is sleeping in the caravan outside, and I suggested we sleep up the caravan at the ranch... as it is cooler...

really don't feel ready for work today:o

Davesnave

It was a bit too hot here yesterday for serious work, but if this carries on, our peppers will be ready much earlier than usual.

We went out to a biennial garden event in the village yesterday, which raises money for the air ambulance and a local church. It's just the village people nattering, having cream tea and a few leisurely games in someone's large garden, so a chance to catch up etc. Very nice and all in a good cause. A couple of the organisers have needed the air ambulance in the past few years too!

Looks like the sun will break through too early to do roofing this morning, but this afternoon looks cloudier. I just want to get the tin on now. Still, if it's blooming hot again, I can make a start on cladding the back of the big barn, which faces north.

Yes, the stone work on the ranch looks good, and at least you have some serviceable windows and gutters on there, even if you might want a change of style eventually, CTC.

rozeepozee

Better_Days wrote: »

Hi everyone, am enjoying the glorious weather especially as the warmth improves my energy levels. I have even been able to forgo socks on some afternoons - wonderful not to have cold feet.

Well our house buying saga continues, but good news we have had an offer accepted on an architecturally unexciting chalet bungalow. The garden isn't as big as I wanted, but it is in a lovely spot on the edge a pretty Suffolk village. Delightfully the village is built around the river Rat! And I will have space for some chickens and a pond which were my main garden requirements.


The vendors have to find somewhere now, lets hope it is soon

Also had some good news at the hospital. The surgeon agreed to remove some tissue that they didn't like the look of under a local anaesthetic. 'Ah don't worry my dear' he said 'I have done full mastectomy's under local anaesthetic' So relieved as a general would have taken me ages to recover from. And they don't tiddle around - going to be done in the next couple of weeks. Surgeon was great - wonderful 'bedside manner' with a lovely Irish accent.

Have enjoyed reading about your week too, and loved the photo's of the piglets in the troughs :T

Better Days, our's is an architecturally uninspiring bungalow, which is going to be considerably grander once it's finished, but it will have cost us an arm and a leg.

I'm feeling pretty bruised today. Building work is so stressful. WE have some major decisions to make this week: exterior colour/cladding (anyone care to put in their two penneth about colour? We're thinking grey/blue and cream with grey framed ally) FerretKeeper, we are still sturggling to find anyone to quote us for the Rockshield. We've ummed and ahhed about simply sacking it off and filling the cavity but I was never inclined to that idea and OH has done some research now and agrees it's th wrong insulation for our coastal, wind and rain swept property. Which plumber to go with and whether we get one plumber to do the doemstic plumbing and another to do the renewables, which electrician to go with, which roof trusses company to go with.....

Phew! Mind boggling.

I've skim read manically. We all have our trials at the moment, don't we? So glad for you like-minded souls :grouphug:

lostinrates

Rozee,

I think greyish blue sounds lovely. I'd not go too pale with it personally.


Modern but soft. Quite like the colour we chose for our fences and barn walls here. A colour called wild thyme. Wich is a sort of greyish green....it's in the middle row of this link. (5 th across I think, click on it it will say)

http://www.cuprinol.co.uk/products/garden_shades.jsp?gclid=CLy61aeOsbgCFRMctAod-B4AzA

It's what I would do a modern house in. It's strong but soft, an excellent foil to colour from all planting I put in front of it, everything just glows in front of it. It felt pretty bold and dark, but it just melts away. Light colours come forward more and end up more 'in your face'.

ukmaggie45

Rozee, you might enjoy this blog entry about choosing colour for sidings. It's American, but I think still has good ideas when it comes to colour and design. They also have a fun entry on choosing the colour for their front door.

Did too much digging yesterday at the lottie, so am still in bed - though intending to get up in a mo as am desperate for a ciggie! OH got up early and dug up the garlic. He reckons about 100 cloves will be good to store, about 40 will need eating soon, and about 20 are rotted from the bottom like last years were. Must take photos when I get up!

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Rozee, you might enjoy this blog entry about choosing colour for sidings. It's American, but I think still has good ideas when it comes to colour and design. They also have a fun entry on choosing the colour for their front door.

Did too much digging yesterday at the lottie, so am still in bed - though intending to get up in a mo as am desperate for a ciggie! OH got up early and dug up the garlic. He reckons about 100 cloves will be good to store, about 40 will need eating soon, and about 20 are rotted from the bottom like last years were. Must take photos when I get up!

I love the colour they chose for their exterior and agree with the writer...darker is often better, personally......the door doesn't do it for me against the brick ( though would love it against just the putty would work colour) But hey...it's. door....it's repairable and most importantly THEY love it .

I love colour, and its ok to get it wrong, Eventually it needs redoing anyway

rozeepozee

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Rozee, you might enjoy this blog entry about choosing colour for sidings. It's American, but I think still has good ideas when it comes to colour and design. They also have a fun entry on choosing the colour for their front door.

Did too much digging yesterday at the lottie, so am still in bed - though intending to get up in a mo as am desperate for a ciggie! OH got up early and dug up the garlic. He reckons about 100 cloves will be good to store, about 40 will need eating soon, and about 20 are rotted from the bottom like last years were. Must take photos when I get up!

I so badly want a cigarette today. I haven't smoked in nearly eight years :eek: I won't, don't worry. I wouldn't do that to the kids

alfie_1

hi all


well electrician [loose term...:o ] has been . he is such a plonker and obviously thinks im a bigger one...;)

i asked if the fuse box was new... he said "yes the box is new"..
i said what about the contents.... he said " the box is new"...
i repeated , was the contents ..he said "well it was made up to suit here"
it was all second hand stuff as the switches were worn !! one had chips out of it ...:cool:
i expect hes charging the estate full wack, i dont care as long as it keeps working.
he kept woffling that the earth wasnt good enough off the genny, i reminded him he had told me what to do [he offered to do it at a cost in february which i declined...] and he had been back then to check it was correct ! he also said earth to kitchen sink was loose ?? yep, hed checked that before too....
he was woffling all this was necesary for estates insurance so i asked if they were going to re wire house too then as one half of a job doesnt quite fulfill insurance criteria surely ?? nope...

so basically hes a plonker...:rotfl::rotfl:

then cess pit was emptied ...which was full , 1000gallons ?? only £123 so happy.:D

off to the bees and ques now to get a tough hose to transport water to mabel as a tractor drove over mine this morning and anialated it....:( :rotfl::rotfl:

fab weather here still... tho my tomato shoulders tan turned into "burns" and actually split the skin... :eek: lesson learnt me thinks....

have a good day y'all.:D

rozeepozee

Thanks, Maggie and LIR. I'm erring towards a similar coour to your fences at the moment. It's called Green Grey. Somewhere between your Thyme and the Willow in the Cuprinol.

The weatherboard colour choices are here http://www.marleyeternit.co.uk/Facades/Weatherboard/Cedral-Weatherboard-Colour-Selector.aspx

I think at the moment, we are leaning towards the Green Grey or Blue Grey cladding with Grey (probably a light to mid-grey) on the windows or the sand yellow with white windows. Most of the fronnt of the house (the bits that just out: front L bit of the bungalow, the porch and the dormer are clad in the weatherboard. The flat bit of the house will be rendered (probably just in cream?) and the soffits and other rainwater type paraphenalia are white uPVC. It's hard to marry all these choice together. We have definately ruled out red. there will be no Ty Coch around these parts.