Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

afternoon all,


thank you for all your hugs, an suggestions to eat more biscwits, which I have listened too, and have a stock pile of 'posh biscwits and welsh cakes'


Ras.. on Wednesday I went to the graveyard where my step mum was buried, I took a little posy of alan titchmarch sweetpeas that I bought at the spring show (the competition entries were selling off their displays) I bought them to make a posy for our friends funeral on Thursday,so I took some to put on step mums grave, but couldn't find it, but I found my great grand parents grave... cried my heart out there.... as tbh when he was with her, this was the most I ever saw of him, and have found memories of them both... she died in 1976...


Spoke to brother yesterday, and again I am being treated like anyone else, and not invited to the house, only the crem.. so in a way I am glad I had made my mind up not to go...




Anyway.. back at the ranch.. weather is a bit naff, but going to try and plant out stuff in between showers etc.. went to see fencing guy this morning, and he has grid mess panels that he remove from a council job.. that will be used as the outer fence on the lane....and he has some black/green plastic mesh covering that they put down before some other plastic modular stuff before they put down earth and seed it.. this stuff will put up to try and stop the dogs going in the garden... had another person leave their dogs run in our garden again this morning...


right cuppa time.....

I_have_spoken

Yay, finished the pergola or the 'triumphal arch' as I now call it...;)

Just need the climbers to accelerate up and over, however the clematis on the far side is poorly. I think that'll get swapped for a winter-flowering jasmine while I wait Mme Alfred Carrière to get going. The bare-root is shooting from half-a-dozen points, so that's encouraging. Honeysuckle and perpetual sweat-pea on near post are doing fine.

The height of the cross-beam has worked out as planned to block the sightline from neighbours into my kitchen

Note the two LED solar lamps which should illuminate the bay trees in pots

New(ish) lawn getting a watering after a few dry days.

Hosta 'Big Daddy' on back border is growing to promised size!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

your garden is looking lovely... Well rain stops play here, so we are in the caravan watching the weeds grow by the second lol...

Davesnave

Washout here this afternoon. In fact it was so bad I hoovered the house! :rotfl:

I got a few courgettes planted outdoors this morning and potted-up the remaining peppers that were still in 9cm pots, but it wasn't long before the weather drove me indoors. The polytunnel might be dry, but it sure isn't quiet when the rain's heavy. :eek:

You're right, CTC, the weeds and the grass are growing like mad. While that's a pain, at least we can console ourselves here by saying, "Those young trees we planted are being well watered-in."

I hope choille checks-in soon to say they're all right up there. I agree with whoever said they've had it harder than any of us. :A

Better Days, you went away and left tradespeople to get on unsupervised? Glad you had a good week anyway, apart from the intrusions, that is.

alfie_1

hi all..

well its just started to rain here.. been cool but dry all day.
i helped in a friends shop today. its a small antiqes/collectables shop. about 8 cabinets rented out plus 3 set areas. friend has various of her own stuff she sells. been open a month and doing well.

im a tad cross....
apparently ,on enquiring re delay of car insurance claim, turns out the young lass driver i felt sorry for forgot to tell em there was a WITNESS !! hence her insurers are stalling.. i read em the riot act today and that any sympathy i had has GONE ....

i am fed up with feeling like im always argueing with someone just to fight my corner....:o

you all sound so busy in your gardens, i have to finish planting all the ones i brought from old house..:o

im baying the stannah chair lift thingy that wAS IN THIS HOUSE CLEARLY STATING I HAD NO IDEA IF IT WORKS [PROBABLY DOES AS OLD LADY HERE LOOKED AFTER EVERYTHING SO WELL] whats first question i get "does it work"....:cool:

sorry pressed caps and all writings went big..:rotfl:

aquired a lovely pair of long,as new, leather riding boots...;)

i am shattered being on my feet all day so im off to sink my butttt in a hot deep bubbly barf

choille

Sorry for being AWOL - Had a right ole time of it, but still plodding on as don't fancy the alternative.

Lambs are bouncing about being.....lambs & are well & rudely healthy, which is such joy to watch.

Lost the remainder of hens on Thurs night - very vocal but couldn't save them. Nature red in tooth & claw. Pine Martens with young to feed no doubt, but still...........

Working on the kitchen area - slowly as other events take over, but doing what we can. Work wise things are suddenly over heating here after a drouth ( arid spell ).

The garden is behind, but not without highlights - I have never planted so many tatties - potatoes to our friends in the South!I have also been planting 'living lettuce from LIDL that is very successful & at 89p & pack very worthwhile economically. Far out done my planted seeds by 1000%.
I acquired a sander from Screw Fix so watch this space..................

moneyistooshorttomention

Better_Days wrote: »

Money - chickens will sell their little chicken souls for grape slices, and meal worms. Ours have a definite 'I've got a slice of grape' cluck which is quite high pitched and different from the normal run of the mill clucks.

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:rotfl::rotfl:and there was me thinking I'd just be learning Welsh coming here. Looks like I might learn a bit of beginner level "chicken talk" too then:rotfl:

I've learnt phrase 1 so far, ie gentle "chirruping" = "Here's a human...wonder if they have any food for us".

A nearby home-owner might just catch me leaning over their fence going "Here chucky chucky I've got me some nice grapes here" and see if they come and eat it out of my hand.

Am investigating the food bartering possibilities round here and, to date, have sourced the odd bit of fish. Am now hoping eggs will be a possibility and investigating the "credentials" of some honey (ie its being produced by someone who grows food organically, but those bees are fed sugar water in the winter, which I don't think can be "organic practice").

Garden starting to look a bit productive at last and will hopefully have a fair bit of food up and running by next year.

Now if I can try and edge surrounding things towards being a bit more organic, as I worry whether other peoples weedkillers might drift over onto my organic little plot (and have been doing much googling as to whether that is legally allowed to happen). Have, accordingly, been pleased to find that Awkward Neighbour clearly isn't the fount of all knowledge they make themselves out to be (wouldn't be surprised if they are a bit "chemically-minded"), having found that they are wrong to wash their roof at intervals (a practice I'd never heard of back in Home Area, but have seen happening to various houses round here).

Oh Dave...I'm so beginning to relate to your tales about Mr Dog...

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Working on the kitchen area - slowly as other events take over, but doing what we can. Work wise things are suddenly over heating here after a drouth ( arid spell ).

Good to hear from you, choille! :j At least you are getting a start with the interior now.

The work/life balance is a conundrum most of us never solve. I look at our former life in a semi-dee and realise I could never go back, but coping with all this ten years ahead?

I don't think the robots will arrive in time!:rotfl:

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

they are wrong to wash their roof at intervals (a practice I'd never heard of back in Home Area, but have seen happening to various houses round here).

Oh Dave...I'm so beginning to relate to your tales about Mr Dog...

Your neighbours are nothing like Mr Dog.

Why shouldn't people wash their roofs? I presume you mean getting the moss off so that it doesn't fall intermittently all the time, especially when the birds search under it for creepy-crawlies.

There's also periodic pressure washing on UPVC soffits and gutters, which in an area like yours, will get algal build-up quite quickly. Fast, effective and loathed by spiders...;)

Or you can get a ladder and a bucket & cloth....:(

Or pay someone......:(

Or just be grubby! :rotfl:

But surely all those things are just minutiae and there are more important things to bother about. :think:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all,


what a flipping night.. rain, rain and more flipping rain... even though it has stopped, there are still grey clouds around.. so bang goes another day trying to plant tuff outside..


Money.... your neighbours are doing nothing wrong, just because you don't like what they are doing, doesn't mean they should stop.. this is the problem we have got here a neighbour not liking what we are doing with our land, BUT we are doing nothing wrong, but yet..they report us to various organisations/council etc, and wasting their time and resources.. I also would ask the people who own the chickens if you are allowed to feed them before automatically feeding them.. I know what my answer to that question would be..


Davesnave actually got round to watching your panto dvd...lol.. you played her well...you lot worked really hard on the back drops etc...


Alfie... thanks for phoning hubby it meant a lot to me..