Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Rain is forecast here tomorrow CTC. I have non garden jobs to get on with but might try and get some seeds out tomorrow afternoon if its decent rain fall, Saves watering

pink_poppy

Dave, was it today you were back at the Drs?? Hope everything is ok.

We had mist here first thing this morning, followed by heavy rain, followed by lovely sunshine, followed by more rain & it's now a pea-souper out there. Same for tomorrow I think.

I am hating these dark mornings now the clocks have gone forward, it feels like Winter all over again.

lostinrates

pink_poppy wrote: »

I am hating these dark mornings now the clocks have gone forward, it feels like Winter all over again.

Ghastly isn't it? I find light really impacts for me and as morning is when I am most active and least impacted by health restrictions my body clock is set to the dupiurnal rhythym of creeping back Greenwich meantime. Going later, then creeping earlier again really messes me up for weeks. I don't care any more where they leave the clock if only they'd leave it alone:(

ukmaggie45

Sorry been MIA recently - as usual Life Keeps Happening! :eek:

Sunday we went to lottie and OH did some weeding and planted the 1st early potatoes in the weeded bit. Maris Bray (sp?) I did weeding round the rhubarb, but still need to do more...

Yesterday I could barely move with pain, today not much better this morning even after a HOT bath. But gradually eased today, and managed to get out in garden to cut off some of the dead blooms from camellia, OH did the ones I couldn't reach. Later blooming camellia is just beginning. And the magnolia is suddenly in bloom too.



I've finally managed to plant up the Al*i Cauliflower plantlets we bought several (?) days ago. They are now ensconced in a cold frame in the front garden. Here I am potting them up.



When the sun went off the patch I was sitting in we moved up to the bit by the shed that keeps the sun latest in the day. I did a bit more removal of grass and weeds - only the ones I could reach from my chair up there though! :rotfl: But anything is better than nothing when it comes to weeding!

Suspect will be bedbound again come morning, but OH will help me to at least get downstairs to use computer... My laptop died a few weeks ago, so can read posts on my Kindle Fire, but it's a faff to post from it.

Rummer, so sorry to hear about your fridge freezer. It's not the kind of thing you want to happen when you've got a gorgeous new baby, plus all the expense a gorgeous new baby brings... I remember how hard it was when things like washing machines died when my girls were tiny. Big hugs to you and Rumlet.

Better go as gotta try crawl up the stairs to bed before my muscles seize completely!

Hugs to all of you.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LOL Davesnave, yes it was for you, that post was a continuation of the previous one...

Oh, sorry, missed the closing/opening line....:o

Well what do you think? I imagine some of the Fenton eggs would be fertile, but they wouldn't come out as blue egg layers, though maybe brown. I couldn't guess at quality....might be improved, who knows?

I wouldn't rate the chances of the Marans laying anything fertile, and they're the best brownies. He just looks at them as his sisters.

The Sussex and our one Australorp cross/Welsummer would be most likely to give brown egg layers with decent quality, I reckon.

Willing to accept payment by results.

Davesnave

pink_poppy wrote: »

Dave, was it today you were back at the Drs?? Hope everything is ok.

Yes, have to go for an x-ray now as well.:( Might do it today, as I woke to a thunderstorm and it's looking wet till afternoon....;)

Basically, he said it was a mistake to go to Dr with kidney pain, as they then have to faff around, whereas if one goes straight to casualty, it's all dealt with quickly. If an op is needed, they usually bang on with it quickly.....

I said, "But I prefer it this way, because I have trees to plant!"

I don't think he 'got' it.

Had the van mini-serviced yesterday. Coming home, DW pointed out the funny noise from the car she'd heard returning here from her weekend at MiL's.

Looked underneath and prodded about to find one of the front springs had snapped and the snapped bit merrily bouncing in the cup that holds it on.

"Oh, you did that when you went over the speed hump too fast at the Eden Project." says DW.

Hmm, that was 350 miles ago! (350 miles all driven by DW!) Love female logic! :p:p

Davesnave

Dig the hat maggie, and so colour co-ordinated too! :T

I don't dare post any of me working on the trees, as my attire is far from clean ATM and full of holes from barbed wire fence climbing. Horse woman and I make a fine pair, as she sometimes has her trousers held up with baler twine! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

aghhhh yes bailing twine...lol... they laugh at me in work, as I have allways got some in my pocket... do get some funny looks when I go shopping, and I try and get the lose change out of that pocket...and I pull a load of twine out first..lol


Yep that would be great Davesnave... I can let you know how fertile you are lol... but I have bought 60 quail eggs off the bay.. so will have to wait approx. 3-4 weeks before the small incubater is empty..


Forgot to say.. I bought some lovely quails yesterday.. Italian and Japanese ones..


I am soooo stressed in work, I really do need something to distract me and take my mind off things...


so with the garden and the birds... I will have total distractions... the pigs are great, BUT now that they are older they sleep a lot..and don't take long to feed and clean etc...

RAS

Yet another overcast day; to all intents and purposes we look like the piccies of London and SE where there is pollution but it is just low cloud/ haze. Sometimes so wet I can feel the water drops.

We had sun yesterday afternoon but that has been it for about a week. That means it is also cool/cold as well. Grr.

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

aghhhh yes bailing twine...lol... they laugh at me in work, as I have allways got some in my pocket... do get some funny looks when I go shopping, and I try and get the lose change out of that pocket...and I pull a load of twine out first..lol


Yep that would be great Davesnave... I can let you know how fertile you are lol... but I have bought 60 quail eggs off the bay.. so will have to wait approx. 3-4 weeks before the small incubater is empty..


Forgot to say.. I bought some lovely quails yesterday.. Italian and Japanese ones..


I am soooo stressed in work, I really do need something to distract me and take my mind off things...


so with the garden and the birds... I will have total distractions... the pigs are great, BUT now that they are older they sleep a lot..and don't take long to feed and clean etc...

I love the idea of quails.....but they cannot free range can they? . One of the things I miss here since we moved in with the dogs is the grouse that were here our first year. .