Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

tomterm8

lucielle wrote: »

Spent a pleasant afternoon weeding the raspberry patch after planting the new arrivals. Any tips on getting rid of an old bluberry bush (aka trffiid) appreciated as I can't shift the brute. The hens were a 'great' help.
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As in, dead? Chop the top off with saw / chainsaw /loppers, dig out stump / roots with mattock and / or spade. Might have to cut roots with axe.

That's basically my approach for removing anything up to 'tree stump, medium' where angle grinders are more useful...

It's always more hassle if you want to move it alive...

Dave: I take it you laid it all? We've realy got to do that, now we've got on top of the bramble... it's our next big project. Next year

ukmaggie45

tomterm8 wrote: »

The hawthorne leaves are opening. That's a month earlier than last year and we haven't done anything to our hedges yet.

My Mum said that the unfurling hawthorn buds were called Bread and Cheese when she was a child (in Wales, born 1917) and the poor children used to pick them and eat on the way to school. I imagine that at least they gave some vitamins? We're back in that mind set now aren't we? But kids don't know what to eat from hedgerows, and besides most hedgerow stuff is covered in particulates from cars...

We were going to go to lottie today but the "promised" sun didn't arrive so OH went to visit his Mum in the nursing home instead. He and his bro are trying to clear her house and they had auctioneer around earlier this week. It's all a bit sad really.

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

My Mum said that the unfurling hawthorn buds were called Bread and Cheese when she was a child (in Wales, born 1917) and the poor children used to pick them and eat on the way to school. I imagine that at least they gave some vitamins? We're back in that mind set now aren't we? But kids don't know what to eat from hedgerows, and besides most hedgerow stuff is covered in particulates from cars...

We were going to go to lottie today but the "promised" sun didn't arrive so OH went to visit his Mum in the nursing home instead. He and his bro are trying to clear her house and they had auctioneer around earlier this week. It's all a bit sad really.

I've not eaten hawthorn buds, or heard the 'bread and cheese' before. I might go and have a look at the hawthorns to see how they are looking tomorrow.

tomterm8

Yes, you're right.Fresh young hawthorne leaves are quite tasty, actually, they have a slight nutty flavour and are nice shredded in salad.

Edit: I've heard the term bread and cheese but in kent it refers to the freshest leaves.

phoebe1989seb

Davesnave wrote: »

Houses still need to be priced keenly around here, but perhaps less so when it comes to properties with more than just a big garden, simply because there aren't many about.

Here's a wee do-er upper that caught my eye, though not even a hint of a price. It's in a lovely area of rolling scenery and the two nearest villages are very desirable. Easy commute too.....

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43333081.html

That's a very sweet little house - what a shame if someone does knock it down Like LIR said, it's also quite similar condition-wise to the way ours looked when we found it.......although ours was lacking any internal plaster downstairs (and half the second floor!) and had no electric lighting in the reception rooms as well as having a close-to-collapse kitchen space so tbh that one looks a bit less work than ours was Think our PO must have been an MSE-er though, as the house also contained several *Heath Robinson* type takes on things plus some rather fetching doors constructed out of old packing cases!

That place does seem very tempting if the price was right.......

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


grey, damp here, but I am sure it will go later, as by all accounts it is supposed to be a nice day..


well yesterday did go a did astray lol... ended up hubby and I just chilling out watching the 5th Dimension film on channel 5, and then decided to put up the wendy house type shed we bought nearly 2 years ago... for chickens etc up here, but as that is still a long way off yet, we have put it up in the garden part of the land, and we are going to use it for storing wood in.


One thing we have learned this year.. we have got nowhere near enough room to dry/store our wood....enough this little wooden wendy type house shed will store a bit, in all honestly it will only be a weeks, two at most worth of wood...


This year there will be a lot of tree cutting... on the land... some that shrubs etc that have got way out of hand... hazel/cobnut trees which have just gone made here, and are shading a lot of the garden. dilemma is .. they sort of give the garden some privacy, but with big gaps in between lol...BUT thy are blocking out some of the afternoon sun.... so the garden is not drying out, and has loads of creeping buttercups etc...


so might bit the bullet and cut everything down, and start again...Hubby and his mate will be happy they love cutting the trees down, and then having a huge bonfire with all the twigs and bits lol


Luceille... yes the pigs are like flipping teenagers... they hate mornings....

lostinrates

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

That's a very sweet little house - what a shame if someone does knock it down Like LIR said, it's also quite similar condition-wise to the way ours looked when we found it.......although ours was lacking any internal plaster downstairs (and half the second floor!) and had no electric lighting in the reception rooms as well as having a close-to-collapse kitchen space so tbh that one looks a bit less work than ours was Think our PO must have been an MSE-er though, as the house also contained several *Heath Robinson* type takes on things plus some rather fetching doors constructed out of old packing cases!

That place does seem very tempting if the price was right.......

What you don't have you don't have to strip out to replace....so wiring, plaster etc better missing IMO.

Strangly our wiring is all ok safety wise....but surface mounted, as we do each room we'll sort it out, but its a more expensive way I think.

moneyistooshorttomention

Is that how you tell pigs are getting older? They're up early to survey their patch and take a breath of air and quietness before everyone else starts in on their day?:rotfl::rotfl:

..or is that just some of us humans who like to be up and at it before the streets are aired?:)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

the last two mornings, staying up in the caravan at the ranch, there have been geese flying past honking away lol.... and the difference in the diff types of birds to where we live approx. 6 miles is amazing.... I am looking out the cravan window, looking at 2 types of birds I have never seen before... one is like a large tit but with a rusty red front and a black cap type head... amazing...


and of coarse the bloody squirrels are bouncing around the place..Def need a bird feeding table etc... by the caravan window....lol..

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

That's a very sweet little house - what a shame if someone does knock it down

It's actually the old gate house to the Big House, not where Rightmove place it on the map: a better situation than being next to large tin barns. So, someone may want to restore it, though it would need a bit of knocking about and an upstairs extension over the flat roofed addition.

Tom, my elm hedge is already laid and my younger daughter did some remedial work when we moved here. Now, I just cut the bits the tractor misses which are all inside the garden.

CTC, when I was down in the valley bottom last Sunday, in the woodland which is totally wild and listed as "remnants of temperate rain forest," I thought, 'If I was a wild animal, would I stay down here or go up to the ridge where there are people and vehicles?' It was no contest!

Did hear a woodpecker this morning, though.