Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

rhiwfield

Davesnave wrote: »

It's OK. Trouble is I'm not a big rhubarb fan. Rhiwfield would know.

My rhubarb was a mix of crowns from a neighbour. I suspect that the key to good quality rhubarb is the quality of the soil.

All this wet weather, hail, rain and gloom, makes me think about the use of time when you cant work the land. No point in compacting the soil atm. Cant weave, can sell though

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rhiwie... where have you been??? missed you loads...


My Rhuburb wasn't very good last year, as the year before it flowered( well it looked like a flower thing)


this year I am going to get a patch ready to plant a crown...

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Rhiwie... where have you been??? missed you loads...


My Rhuburb wasn't very good last year, as the year before it flowered( well it looked like a flower thing)


this year I am going to get a patch ready to plant a crown...

Just been a bit busy and not a lot to contribute

And not being able to work the garden properly any more the dream's direction has veered a bit :rotfl::rotfl:.

Rummer

Good to see you back posting Rhiwfield

Anyone heard from itsme?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

nope.... nothing from ITSME...


Rhiwie, its always nice reading your posts,




got to buy another pig arc this week, we made a shelter for the boar our of reclaimed stuff at its been great, no floor, just loads of straw etc, but with all this rain.. and it is not soaking away etc... its just not good enough now....


we are on the count down now... will be picking our bacon up at the end of the week.... so it will be a bacon fest over the weekend in our house...lol...

rhiwfield

Rummer, I've still got that thingy to send to you, it had slipped my mind entirely:eek: I'll try to do it this week.

One thing the weather has rammed home is how difficult it can be to get things done outside if the elemnts are against you. Everything is sodden. The only visits to the garden are a quick nip out between hail showers to cut greens for dinner

But we're lucky in that we're working from home and the fact that we are not reliant on the land for income is a blessed relief. I feel so sorry for the farmers whose land is underwater.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

rhiwfield wrote: »

Rummer, I've still got that thingy to send to you, it had slipped my mind entirely:eek: I'll try to do it this week.

One thing the weather has rammed home is how difficult it can be to get things done outside if the elemnts are against you. Everything is sodden. The only visits to the garden are a quick nip out between hail showers to cut greens for dinner

But we're lucky in that we're working from home and the fact that we are not reliant on the land for income is a blessed relief. I feel so sorry for the farmers whose land is underwater.

Me too, my heart sinks every time I see the pictures on the news... a few days ago there was a picture of a graveyard under water with just a few of the head stones showing... this really did break my heart....


Now that, that pickles guy has openly apologised for not dredging... wonder if they should pay out instead of the insurance companies???? I bet there are some people who couldn't afford insurance....

ukmaggie45

Only just woke up, so missed BBC Breakfast. But OH was telling me about the reporter who was down in the Levels, who quoted some environmentalists as saying Pickles taking over the flood issues was a joke and he'd be more use as a sandbag.

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Me too, my heart sinks every time I see the pictures on the news... a few days ago there was a picture of a graveyard under water with just a few of the head stones showing... this really did break my heart....


Now that, that pickles guy has openly apologised for not dredging... wonder if they should pay out instead of the insurance companies???? I bet there are some people who couldn't afford insurance....

Yet others are saying dredging could me making things worse by increasing speed of water transit from higher areas to these low areas......it cannot go lower than low.



I am really , really sad that in the face of such suffering political point scoring is tube ing made.

OF COURSE we need to look at what systems need to be improved to reduce impact, but we CANNOT stop rain. Thse of us who have been bleating on about building on flood plains and poo poo'd for years might finally get listened to, but I doubt it. (I dare say the drianage to those must be going some where.......probably to the flood impacted places too!)


Of course it makes more sense that property and people dense places in se get more attention/funding. The impact on individual lives is equal, but their are more individual lives in population dense areas.


While those of us of the daydream beans tend to share the ethos we should be more reliant on food production close to home the fact of the matter remains, people are people and fields are fields and in a push I too, much as I hate people, put saving a person over saving my field.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Just realised my mot was up on my car on the 19th Jan... why cant they send reminders, like the flipping tax..... so it is in for an mot now... I know it def needs a tyre...


so today is going to be a VERY expensive day... Just bought a pig arc for the boar... and whatever the mot costs...


arc should be with us hopefully either at the end of the seek, or beginning of next....he will not know himself in his new des res..lol....


Having on of those days, so I have Said s@d work, and going to have another go at de-cluttering the house ready gearing up to move to the ranch....




HAHAHA I think I can def give Alfie a run for her money... BUT my stuff IS total rubbish and crap..lol




EDIT.. how much crap can one draw hold?????didn't realise how many broken birthday candles I had lurking in there, along with crayons, pencils and pens that don't work... and my kiddies are now 18( on Friday) and 19.. holds head in shame... and totally confesses to being a total hoarder of crap....