Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

flipping kids luceille.... main thing is they are ok...


someone told me today, they said this weather is going to last at least 3 weeks.... not flipping good...


hubby is now sitting on the caravan step with his feet in a bucket of water, his feet was so warm in his work boots, they started to blister..... all he needs now is a string vest and a knotted hankie on his head lol....


also remembered that my car has aircon today lol....


booger any gardening in this weather, watering is only for the animals..... and making sure their mud wallow is kept wet... etc...


FK... I was thinking if you cant get a water pipe with automatic drinkers etc, might be worth investing in a portable water bowser which you can fill up with a hose pipe and then tow up to the animogs... you could attach automatic drinkers to that...

ferretkeeper

Thank goodness your son is ok Lucielle, I take it there was a lot of hanging round in the hospital <rolls eyes> ?!

Rummer, blueberries sound lush, just starting to get some salad here and been at the strawberries for a while too...doesn't stop me sneaking them when I go round the garden centre why don't the staff snaffle them?

Unfortunately mains water is no use to us CTC as we're on a meter. There is already pipe work in place over to the yard from the house, and taps etc but it's not connected, there's a leak somewhere under the concrete, but I could join it back together in an emergency, if there's much more of this dry weather, three more weeks :eek:

But at least the ditch is still trickling away, and because it's so slow there's no silt etc flowing, in fact it's all shale in the bottom so the water is always clear unless there's been a major downpour....I wish!

So I will just keep the little pump going and filling up all the containers dotted around. We are looking at automatic drinkers as part of a more sophisticated plumbing set up, but as I'm around all the time it's no bother to go round with the buckets a few times a day!

I've got the bath emptying into a water butt so the garden is sorted too, in hindsight not the best time for planting last month:o I might try and get the washing machine doing the same...I don't use harsh detergents etc but I have seen a filtering system using a bath tub and pebbles, could be the next project

Well it's just about cool enough to venture out for the last time :cool:

lucielle

A looonnnnggg wait and more annoying when people who came later were called before us. I suppose there needs were greater. Ready for bed on 3rd pimms and can feel eyes closing. Thank goodness for 3 day weeks.
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lostinrates

Our fields and yard are on mains. Tbh, mains water is little cost compared to animals with silt in their gastrointestinal tracts or not well hydrated, plus being reliant on run off from other land.

I'm afraid its a risk I wouldn't be comfortable taking for the compromise.

This is the first place of my own I haven't had to use hosepipes for house runs, emptying them and bringing them in every risk of hard frost/ ice. I consider this deep luxury!

choille

Glad the little one's ok Lucielle.

Neighbour had to leave the house at 5.45am & just home on the bus after a routine hospital appointment. They didn't get done what they should of as there was a fire at the hospital - minor one, so they have to go back next week................

Ridiculously hot here & feel a bit wishy washy - probably the anti-histimines. The caravan is a sweat box & the midgies are black clouds outside so windas shut tight.

I_have_spoken

I'm on leave tomorrow, so hoping it stays nice for another day!

Our manager brought around choc-ices for everyone in the office, no air-con (but windows wide open) so we were sweltering.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

IHS .... we had a busy and physically draining job to do this morning in work, so we let people go home a few hours early today, with pay of coarse...


I have no energy at all, its like this heat has sucked it all out of me lol... started taking anti- hises tonight, as I am sniffing like a goodun

ferretkeeper

lostinrates wrote: »

Our fields and yard are on mains. Tbh, mains water is little cost compared to animals with silt in their gastrointestinal tracts or not well hydrated, plus being reliant on run off from other land.

I'm afraid its a risk I wouldn't be comfortable taking for the compromise.

This is the first place of my own I haven't had to use hosepipes for house runs, emptying them and bringing them in every risk of hard frost/ ice. I consider this deep luxury!

The water running in the ditch is ground water rather than run off, there are springs all over the place on our land and that of neighbours and the water surfaces in various random places. Then because of the slope of the land it basically all ends up in this one main ditch, it's hard to explain without seeing it IYKWIM?

the ditch was where all the animals have been drinking from until about a week ago when we fenced it off so I didn't think it would do any harm to pipe it to containers. I always leave them to settle once they're full so any bits sink to the bottom and I bucket out from the top and stop if I stir up any bits.

I don't mind paying for the water but the issue is that I also automatically pay sewage charges on that same volume of water, minus a few percent, and there's no way round that. It's extortionate and I've argued with welsh water many times when we did have the mains connected up, that my pigs do not use the toilet in the house

That said I've always felt better with the animals having natural water rather than the treated mains, given the choice they would do the same. And what with all the hormones and the amount of energy involved in cleaning it to our drinking standard, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me....until it doesn't rain for months on end, and I have no choice but to go back to it.

The weather is certainly throwing some curve balls at us and particularly this last year I'm having to completely rethink a lot of what I thought would work here:think:

And I hadn't even considered the frozen pipes we might have to contend with :snow_grin

ferretkeeper

alfie_1 wrote: »

poor bimble has a red raw ring around his tail. aprox 4 ins from the base ??? ive been putting sudacrem ? cream on it but may need antibiotics. i was told that it could have been a reaction to a flea/s... apparently where we put flea stuff on, when it wears off they have ne resistance and react when they do get one.... sort of super sensative. i dont know but will dose him again and see if it helps...poor baby

Alfie I didn't know that about the flea thing but would explain my cats having reactions to very minor numbers of fleas recently.

Poor Bimble though, sounds really bad - have you come across Camrosa ointment? If not you'll find it online, I've not seen it to buy in shops, it was developed for horses but it can be used on all animals and it seems to work when other things aren't helping...worth a try maybe?

They do a shampoo as well now and if I remember rightly is ok for dogs, not tried it tho. On the animals I mean, not myself :rotfl:

choille

There's a lot of silt in our drinking water.....is it safe? Should I be concerned?

I feel wrung out CTC with this heat. Caravans in this heat are really oppressive.