Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I saw that post and wondered if anyone can interpret this one way and another for us .

I can say what it isn't.

Whatever it is, it isn't temperature. There is no way the mid Atlantic is going to be much colder than continental Europe.

I have seen other posts by SB. Enough said! :rotfl:

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

. At the rate this house is going...it will be a couple of months yet before I can focus on losing weight...

Why the hurry?

Many of us would argue that unless you live in a property for at least one complete yearly cycle, you don't really know it, or the garden.

We simply couldn't get our heads around this place for a couple of years. That didn't mean we did nothing, but the really important decisions have taken much longer.

For example, we knew that a boundary fence was essential, so that went in quickly, but if we'd waited longer to site the chicken areas they wouldn't now be so muddy, because they'd be somewhere else.:o

Even with detailed planning, things go wrong. It's taken 6 months to realise that the best/most flexible kitchen layout here will mean altering the window arrangement we agreed with the architect. Architects can only do so much....and so it goes on.

And yes, we're still waiting on 3 deliveries of logs and for the elm hedge to be cut, but that's how things are in the country, and we won't change it, so we go with the flow.

moneyistooshorttomention

I get your point Dave and know you are an advocate of "It's about the journey, not the goal".

Each to their own and all that.

I do like a place to be clean and know exactly where everything is and have a slightly depressive/more "ordered" temperament than many. So, for my particular temperament, I need my home to be a place to relax in (quite the wrong temperament to buy a house in need of renovation then:rotfl::rotfl:). I hate housework, for instance, so living in a place that needs for me either to do a lot more housework than normal OR pretty much totally ignore it (as its impossible to do just a "normal amount" of housework and expect the house to look clean) is difficult of itself.

I wouldn't go as far as having all cup handles facing in the same direction, but I do like to know exactly where things are.

I don't see it as a challenge and a journey. I see it as a blimmin' nuisance and obstacle to getting on with other things...which I expect you disagree with...but that's me:)

We all differ. I spent the first few years in my starter house having to take lodgers in and mine is the wrong temperament for that as well...but it was that or maybe never buy a house...so I gritted my teeth through that period. Same thing again here...I have the wrong temperament for living in an ongoing wreck and work in progress...so I'm gritting my teeth and doing what I can to get it over with asap.

This is all a means to an end as far as I am concerned and that end is that I couldn't afford a house of the standard/location this one will be (when finished) and this was the only way I could see to get one like it.

I_have_spoken

Nice sunny day in Glasgow, the 2nd one of 2014!

If I wasn't still sneezing/coughing I would clear the dead perennial foliage but will play it safe and stay in conservatory, potting-up dahlia tuber and so I can take cuttings in a few weeks.

phoebe1989seb

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I get your point Dave and know you are an advocate of "It's about the journey, not the goal".

Each to their own and all that.

I do like a place to be clean and know exactly where everything is and have a slightly depressive/more "ordered" temperament than many. So, for my particular temperament, I need my home to be a place to relax in (quite the wrong temperament to buy a house in need of renovation then:rotfl::rotfl:). I hate housework, for instance, so living in a place that needs for me either to do a lot more housework than normal OR pretty much totally ignore it (as its impossible to do just a "normal amount" of housework and expect the house to look clean) is difficult of itself.

I wouldn't go as far as having all cup handles facing in the same direction, but I do like to know exactly where things are.

I don't see it as a challenge and a journey. I see it as a blimmin' nuisance and obstacle to getting on with other things...which I expect you disagree with...but that's me:)

We all differ. I spent the first few years in my starter house having to take lodgers in and mine is the wrong temperament for that as well...but it was that or maybe never buy a house...so I gritted my teeth through that period. Same thing again here...I have the wrong temperament for living in an ongoing wreck and work in progress...so I'm gritting my teeth and doing what I can to get it over with asap.

This is all a means to an end as far as I am concerned and that end is that I couldn't afford a house of the standard/location this one will be (when finished) and this was the only way I could see to get one like it.

Thank god you don't live in our *wreck* then Money :rotfl:

Although ours is by no means as bad/large a project as some people tackle and will hopefully be finished much sooner than planned (although going through our own issues with local unreliable plumber here too atm ), it's still one that most sane people would avoid......in fact we've always chosen to live on the building sites we've taken on, even when DS was little and most of our (less *hands-on*) friends would have opted to live elsewhere

However we like to do most of the work ourselves and don't really consider tackling a project to be sitting back and watching a team of builders do the work as you see on programs such a Grand Designs etc

I do completely appreciate that as a singlie, it must be very hard for you to cope with......copious amounts of wine and comfort food must help though - wish I could indulge......no wine for me since December

DH has been making the most of a lovely sunny day here and has changed some nasty obscure glass in what once formerly a d/s bathroom window - now part of new sitting room - just hope the weather is as good next month when the timber d/g windows are fitted at the front!

alfie_1

gorgeous weather here :j:j

suns beaming , no wind, no rain :j

ive moved more stuff to new house today [power came back on about 1pm today .
as for mess.... the more i pull out here to shift the more it looks like a bombs hit the place... i really didnt know i had half of it !!

im having visitors tomorow so a scavenge hunt will be the order of the day..;)

LIR... i am PMing you

got an airport run this evening , got to be at heathrow for 7.30.. then i will listen to thier stories of thier delux hols in dubai

well peeps , hope your weather follows mine

COOLTRIKERCHICK

nice but cold day here, but have been sitting on my backside watching the swans lose lol.. so glad they did, so now they can concentrate on the prem league..


think I better get off my but and do something... lol

lostinrates

I'll reply in a bit alf / need to speak to CTC I think!

Put my out door boots on at nine thirty just taken them off. Had a stone on side them.



Mainly been splitting logs today. Coming to the end of prepped ones or small ones.


If it snows, it snows. We rural dwellers should know to have a couple of weeks stuff in most of the year for any emergency, winter is most foreseeable. Apart from the flood affected areas its been better than usual for many or most. Milder. Even some flood prone areas in the country haven't had it so bad.

My fear and pain is reserved for those who have. Be prepped, . Always be prepped, but we must not live in fear, even those of us who choose this lifestyle because we dislike mainstream ones.



Mind you, bloody freezing here now we don't have any cloud cover this afternoon, today was glorious! DH was topless again.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

PM me and speak away!!!!

I_have_spoken

Enjoyable as the bright sunshine has been, it didn't half show the amount of dust that had gathered over pretty much everything...