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Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

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  • Better_Days
    Better_Days Posts: 2,742 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Sunny here this afternoon, but rather windy. Trying to stop my mini greenhouse ending up in the next village with a judicious application of bricks round the base.

    Parcel arrived little while ago (we have started getting Sunday deliveries of parcels) - three acers that I had ordered and forgotton about. Very dry but look healthy so potted them up. Such pretty leaves. Acer Orange Dream, Acer Butterfly and Acer Atropurpureum . They are quite leggy, any Acer experts here - should I prune them at all?
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    And although I can't top the two headed cat at Dave's here is a piccy of our black cat who really doesn't like getting up early in the morning :D
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    It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
    James Douglas
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    BD.. love your wood pile lol


    your car looks exactly like our 'streaky' which loves using your belly to sleep on ..or use it as a string board to jump somewhere..


    Davesnave, are you going to ask for a refund, or rebate for the Dumper playing up??
    Work to live= not live to work
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    friends olive tree and POT have landed....:rotfl: 2ijne9x.jpg
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    iv had a bit of a poop weekend.. tho not as bad as others :( ive felt sick and had a stonking headache above my right eye ??:cool: it might just be the drop in temperature/pressure. i dont get migraines, they are horrendous and this isnt. it'll go.:) yet another afternoon of kids shouting/yelling/laughing next door.... could be worse but gets annoying after 3 times this week :mad: i think they are def renting out the garden/barn. bit tight when theyve been paid a couple of £m for the house and friends been kind enough to let them move at leisure.... i shouldnt look a gift horse in the mouth and appreciate that its peacefull in between .. im a real grumpy mooooooo at the mo. ;) :rotfl: my kittens are gorgeous... cant say more than that..:o :rotfl: all dreamers cats are the best :D
  • Davesnave
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    I'll swear I've seen that olive tree before somewhere! :think:

    Lurvely logs, and acers, of course, though I have no use for such delicate things in this garden. Acers are tricky things, but some people have the knack. In my last garden, I could hardly say, "It's the soil!" as there were some stonking specimens in the Botanical Gardens a stone's throw away... :o

    Of course all our puddy cats are gorgeous, alfie. After all, animals reflect their owners. :D:A Mind you, ours aren't allowed on the draining board, or other kitchen surfaces! :rotfl:

    Yes we will not be paying too much for the digger/dumper, CTC. Haven't paid anything yet. This is Deb'n, and even with the regular hire guys, paperwork, deposits and instructions don't tend to happen much, if at all. It's just, "Yers a digger, see you Monday night!" :undecided
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    Sorry to hear you are under the weather Alfie.. headaches are not nice, do you think it is down to weather pressure/change in the weather???


    we are now starting to hack off the walls on the other side of the house, the 'bendy' wall, this is the pine end wall which we need to start seriously looking at, but in the mean time, we wanted to remove the fire to see if we could use it to heat the brick shed in the winter... flipping [EMAIL="s@d's"]s@d's[/EMAIL] law there is a huge fire place there, which our small rayburn would look fab in it..lol..


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  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    CTC..... i am so envious of your "rubble"...;) :D :rotfl:
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    Alfie...
    I am in such a tiswas now.. as I should imagine this is the type of fireplace that was where they put the window in the 'kitchen'


    I an now thinking about 'what if' we can fix that end wall, and I put the kitchen that side of the house lol...


    I know what will happen, stonemason will go in tomorrow, see what we have done, and think 'oooo noooo she is going to ask if we can keep this fireplace and wall' lol...
    Work to live= not live to work
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    alfie_1 wrote: »
    CTC..... i am so envious of your "rubble"...;) :D :rotfl:

    You can have some of ours! :D

    Managed to lose tonnes under the caravan pad and in the landscaping at the end of the barn, but we still had quite a bit of rubbishy soil and stones left. So that was a good few dumper loads down to the Dog End where we'd left an area for in-filling.

    That still leaves around 4 or 5 tonnes of stuff we've pulled out of the cultivated areas over 5 years....You're welcome! :)

    The stuff that came out of the caravan area was all good, so we used it to fill hollows all over the lawned areas of garden and in the willow grove, where it's always been uneven. It looked like some giant mole had been at work until we flattened the heaps out. :eek:

    Seriously, take it steady and I hope the headache passes. :)
  • alfie_1
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    Alfie...
    I am in such a tiswas now.. as I should imagine this is the type of fireplace that was where they put the window in the 'kitchen'


    I an now thinking about 'what if' we can fix that end wall, and I put the kitchen that side of the house lol...


    I know what will happen, stonemason will go in tomorrow, see what we have done, and think 'oooo noooo she is going to ask if we can keep this fireplace and wall' lol...
    well actually that could work BUT is that fireplace in the front room that side or the back room ? front being track side ;) if its at the back it means you will tromp through 1st room to get to kitchen BUT it would give you a fab BIG lounge area the other side with more windows ! [i think id shut that side front door off tho .] if fireplace at front then why not !!:D really you have always wanted a fireplace in your kitchen and no reason not to be guided by that. the only pitfall i can envisage is if its the back room, you wont be able to see whos out front via window... in other words you cant be nosey....:rotfl::rotfl:
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