Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

:wave::wave::wave::D

hi all
happy burpday....very late...choille

well im in... still digging plants up from old garden but IM IN...:j

im soooo war wounded..:rotfl:
i have a crunched finger and vampire stlle bite on my leg [foxes ]
my elbow is a tad "locked"
i had a small black eye.
my back is a plank...:rotfl:

do i care ?? nah

im sat in the pub and ive just read all and getting odd looks as i have fits of giggles...
but... so sorry to hear of animogs poorly/died

ive just ploughed through 75 emails ..99% of which were carp.

i sooooo miss my daydreaming fix...

the sun has shone here for the last week and im sleeveless today

CTC and LIR ... i did try texting you but have so many numbers for both of you im probably texting to defunct phones...:p

i will try and get online again soon but not online in house till april
sorry if ive missed commenting on anything... im off to boots to get more bandages/medical stuff

luv to you all.. xxx

lucielle

Hi Alfie, good to hear from you. Try and grab a rest and heal, there'll be nothing left of you.
L

phoebe1989seb

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

That's very true LIR......at our last-but-one house (what was meant to be our forever home ) the wiring was all surface-mounted, but unfortunately in a terrible state so all had to be ripped out. Our then sparky did the work piecemeal in accordance with our budget and progress through the rest of the work, but it was still eye-wateringly expensive. The issues here are more that in some rooms the ceilings are beamed with no plaster and will remain this way, so there is little scope for concealment of wiring, leading us back to surface-mounted

Built as a single residence in the 1880s, that house was divided firstly into two flats in the 1920s, then into four in the 1950/60s at which point a rogue landlord (who happened to be the FIL of a slight acquaintance of mine) got hold of it and proceeded to destroy the integrity of the building where at all possible.....and fortunately where he was able to save some cash he left well alone, meaning the huge marble FPs in the main receptions were left in tact just boarded over.

We bought it privately through my contact with his DIL and set about restoring it to a single dwelling. That was a real money pit, but also a labour of love and somehow far more enjoyable a project than this has turned out

Still, everything looks (and feels) so much better when the sun shines and today has been fab.....took the dogs for a long walk in the woods, there's a wonderful homemade lamb curry bubbling away on the hob our clematis Montana and Markham's Pink are in bud and the plastering is coming on apace - so not all bad here!

Edited to add - Hi Alfie, lovely to hear from you but do take care and get yourself fit & well!

Davesnave

So there I was, feeling relatively pleased with my efforts today, then I spied alfie's post! :eek::(

Alfie, you were ill after me, and I'm not properly better yet, so do slow down! You're moved now, so it's time to relax and take stock....:beer:

Last autumn I spotted a seedling (can't remember where) which I knew was an abutilon. As I hadn't planted any, I wondered if it came from one of the two I have in pots, 'Canary Bird' (yellow!) and 'Nabob' (deep red.) I even dared to hope that it might be a hybrid between the two.

Well, guess what.......



:D:D:D

Davesnave

The big Vorwerk egg alongside a normal one......



It was a double yolker of course.

lostinrates

Dave, its BEAUTIFUL!

phoebe1989seb

Gorgeous Abutilon Dave

COOLTRIKERCHICK

wow that is so pretty Davesnave...


I sooo needed this weekend, with the lovely weather... off work today, as I have a appointment with the nurse to have my blood pressure done, its not until 4pm, BUT I know if I go into work today my blood pressure will be through the roof, so going to try and have a calm day... lol..


had a set too with another walker yesterday, is dog was in the pig run.... just imagine if there was a mother pig and her piglets in there, the dog would be dead... stern notices are going to be made about dogs.. on the footpath, also one let their dog run into our garden... and didn't even say sorry.....


and the best one was I was painting a wooden wendy house that we bought nearly 2 years ago..(put it up this weekend) and some old woman with her grand child, just stopped and started laughing out loud... and saying that would be nice for you to play in, and then starting shouting at us about the pigs... how big they were, and the smell...and then she started walking into our garden.... thinking it was part of the footpath!!!!! some people hay??

moneyistooshorttomention

CTC

Re a woman walking into your garden thinking its part of the footpath = perhaps there's a footpath nearby that isn't properly signed-up?

I know I've had to search several times for a public footpath near me. Much searching ended up in me walking through an area that I thought was 50/50 it was someone's garden edges looking for it and no joy. Finally found the darn footpath and I DO have to walk through someone's garden to get to it, but I have established that it quite definitely IS the footpath (as I finally managed, several attempts later, to "grab hold" of one of the few people living nearby, as he was somewhere he couldn't possibly pretend I hadn't seen him, and extract the footpath route from them).

If that particular footpath is anything to go by, then it may be that there are only a tiny handful of houses nearby and their owners are all studiously doing their best to not let on just where a nearby footpath is and aided in that by not having adequate signs to indicate. I got the distinct impression they were all hoping that lack of a clear sign would mean that eventually people would forget there was a footpath there and it could be surreptitiously closed at some point and they were deliberately avoiding getting "caught" by walkers and having to tell us the location:cool:.

Now I know it definitely IS there, I shall feel awkward about having to walk through someone's garden to get there, but I guess it's not the fault of walkers if the route through that garden hasn't been fenced-off to indicate which bit is their garden and which is that footpath iyswim...:(

I'm guessing that maybe that woman walked through your garden because she was also searching for a nearby footpath that the locals were trying to surreptitiously shut? The answer to that would be for you to put up a nice clear sign indicating exactly where it is I guess...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

there is no mistaking where the footpath is..lol.... it runs in front of our house, and through our land, BUT people think they are leave their dogs run off the footpath and go where ever they want... and leave their dog wee and poo, too..
You can not close a footpath because it is not used... the only thing you can do is contact your local council and ask them to meet up with you, to claify where the actual footpath is.... but to be honest... if that footpath hasn't been used for years... then why don't you just leave it, and go for a nice walk where one has been maintained etc??


our footpath is well walked...with people using it as short cut to go to the next village, or just walking their dogs etc... apart from our little stretch of the path, it takes you through a lovely wooded area... so I can see why people use it, I would....