Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lucielle

Spent today trundling backwards and forwards along the M6 collecting 3 ride-ons we've bought. Completely sold out of ride ons and struggling to source some. Not a great day off for OH but needs must.

Need to get my planters sorted, think I've managed to kill the plants I bought the other week, sigh. £12 quid wasted.
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Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Dave, that's horrid. What a nasty man that guy is.

True, he isn't one of the best-loved locals, but it's all pretty low level stuff which I can live with. I'm sure he could do worse! :eek:

Rather than react, or escalate, I'll just use a bit of cunning and get my full hedge in eventually. I'll start by giving the brambles I've been cultivating there a 'Chelsea chop.' Then, they'll become extra bushy and it will be difficult to access the hedge from the road there.

It doesn't matter if it's not all beech either. We don't have any other beech in the hedgerows, although it's used all around us. Apart from that gap, the hedge is very mixed and fairly wild all along the roadside, not just for security, but because we have dormice and it's good for sheep sheltering too.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

We reckon its about half what we need! We've done the bed on one side ( end end out as 18 barrows. It means we can then order something more suitable for bed filling and have the bottom filled already with something we have for free. Its all very well rotted, beautiful stuff, and for mainly shallow rooting herbs, so hopefully won't cause a problem with a thick addition of topsoil.

If we did that here, every mole for a mile around would pick up the worm vibrations and home in! :eek::(:mad:

Haven't forgotten when we did the garden hedge and created a mole motorway.....:rotfl:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

If we did that here, every mole for a mile around would pick up the worm vibrations and home in! :eek::(:mad:

Haven't forgotten when we did the garden hedge and created a mole motorway.....:rotfl:

You don't have the pink whistley, mole catcher par excellance! . That cat is amazing. And this is on her route out of the house. It would be a brave, brave mole.


I like moles.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

You don't have the pink whistley, mole catcher par excellance! . That cat is amazing. And this is on her route out of the house. It would be a brave, brave mole.


I like moles.

No, I don't have a cat at all ATM, but Winkle wasn't much use, even when she was young!

I like moles too...or rather, I respect them.:)

It's hard to like them when all your newly-planted hedging falls over as tunnels collapse, or worse, begins to wilt because the roots are hanging in empty spaces under the surface.

lostinrates

Poor winkle and you. Sorry davesnave, the place must feel a bit ....cat less.

We're trying to decide how to plant the beds up, formal or informal. I am an informal tumbling planting all the way, but with different types of things that look similar telling them apart is going to be difficult. Markers would seem to be the way forward, but never seen any I like that stand the test of time AND are affordable in quantity.

I also need to source a big, big, terracotta pot, sort of a tub more than a pot.

lostinrates

Urge, and I hate bank holiday days that start with trips to b and q......

I_have_spoken

I also need to source a big, big, terracotta pot, sort of a tub more than a pot

I got mine from Ebay

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


bit dull and overcast here...and quite breezy


Davesave now which 'git' done this??


huge bonfire last night with all the old rotten roof timbers and crap from the brick building we cleaned out.... there is one one huge bonfire to lit in the garden, but that is directly in the line of fire for the houses behind us, so that has to wait for another day..
once that is done, then we can put the plastic into the secondhand greenhouse we bought yonks ago.. and get that up an running...




still kicking myself, as I still cant find the flower seeds I bought off the bay...

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesave now which 'git' done this??

The same git that snapped the plants before and threw someone else's bin men-type rubbish into the field a couple of years ago.

Remember, this is all because I've laid my hedges and dared to do other work on the land near to his house. No hedge laying has been done within 25-30 metres of his place and I've replaced trees removed at the Dog End with more and nicer trees, but none of that really matters. I just dared to change things after he asked me not to.

Controlling, much??? :eek:

......Oh, and I don't come from around here. I'm a 'foreigner' from a town 11 miles up the road! :rotfl: