Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all.


what a wonderful, wet, grey, miserable morning..., its well and truly raining, heavy rain..


Alex.. how are the quail doing? did you ever put eggs in that incubator you won??? I like pekins.. don't really like sablepoots as a friend of ours had them ( they used to show pekins) and she was saying they always had trouble with their feet due to the feathers on their feet, as they wernt 'soft' feathers, proper big quill feathers.. in the end she got rid of them.


Choille hope you are getting better.. and things are getting better locally with the landslides etc..

choille

Dave - OH just had to go canny as we knew roughly where the cable was under the track, but had to hand dig where we thought to lay the big culvert.

When we originally got the track put in the driver hit a massive armoured cable, but didn't breach it. Turns out it is something hush hush to do with the naval base that's miles away! How dangerous is that?

We have a plumber coming Wednesday to plumb the Rayburn in - don't have a flue for it yet. Plumber seems a bit grumpy that he 'can't drive right to the job'. He'll have to barrow his gear down the river bed like track.

Gorgeous Autumnal day here - bright blue sky & a breeze to keep the midgies at bay - perfect. Two days on the trot apart from a little rain yesterday. What a difference that makes.

Alex - If they are all male chicks you do need to have a cull as they do end up tearing lumps out of one another eventually. Grow them on a little & then eat them, it's kinder.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

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When we originally got the track put in the driver hit a massive armoured cable, but didn't breach it. Turns out it is something hush hush to do with the naval base that's miles away! How dangerous is that?

Shhhh! You don't know who monitors this thread....:shhh:

I can just see the headline now: "Naval base rendered useless as tartan-kilted separatists cut power supply." :eek:

Big Breakfast was incredible: egg, bacon, sausage, hog's pudding, scrambled egg, black pudding, beans, mushrooms, & fried bread. That was just 'firsts.'

I am not doing much for an hour or so.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lol Davesnave... maybe a little snooze is in order after that scrummy sounding brekkie..


Alfie... thinking about you and yours today.. if there is anything hubby or I can do please phone/text us..


We fore warned one of the neighbours that back onto the lane, what our intentions are with our land that is the other side of the lane... he wasn't impressed... he then mentioned the up surge in rats... and totally blamed it all on the pigs... which is so easy to do, Did try and explain that its not only because of the pigs, the riding stables have cleared old buildings, the stream has been so high for the last 18 months its 'flushed' out any rats from the etc, and they have re-done the drain/sewer system in a house a few hundred yards away, so Tin hat is dusted off again ready for the backlash of that.. Might even start looking at WiFi style security cameras for that part of the land...


I will phone the NFU in the next few days to find out legally where I stand with the pigs, but I am sure they cant make me remove them from my land, as we are registered as a smallholding, and the land is classed as rural/agricultural , basically no planning permission would be passed for any private dwelling, only agri buildings etc


FK... I was thinking.. you are lucky in one way, you know who your 'enemy' is, we only know the one, BUT I am sure there are loads with us, even people who walk their dogs on the path..

lostinrates

Weather here shows we definitely picked the right day to make jam! Its good to have time to process this stuff. Its the half we seem not to get too very often. The apples need to start and I am quite low on freezer room. I'm going to run dog food as low as I can and try and use the second freezer for fruit/veg I think. I usually do a lot of juicing from the apples and lots of segments. I'm not going to bother with any juice at all this year, lots of segments, they are very useful for cooking, but also I'd like to have some pur!e stashed in advance. My resident parent likes it, and so do I. If I could pur!e it unsweetened RP would be more mindful about how much sweetness is going in, whether that's honey, sugar or sweetener ( fir and I don't use sweetener )

Grim autumnal day, cold, wet, grey. Dogs don't want to walk today. Rest of the week looks better though. .

I_have_spoken

Lovely bright morning here in Glasgow! Been filling the skip, expensive at £140 but buys me an extra half-day not having to fill the car and make round-trips to the recycling centre.

Just clouded over in the last 30 mins.

lostinrates

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Lovely bright morning here in Glasgow! Been filling the skip, expensive but buys me an extra half-day not having to fill the car and make round-trips to the recycling centre.

Just clouded over in the last 30 mins.

We are thinking of doing EXACTLY the same for the same reason. Sometimes the convenience is just worth it.

Better_Days

Cold and wet here today in the East. Chickens looking miserable and bedraggled.

Put the woodburner on and was promptly shoved out of the way by the daft as a brush lurcher. Perhaps not so daft after all Old dog very stiff. Have ordered her some Yumove supplements hope they help. Black cat bought in a mouse and played with it under the bed until dead rodent was retrieved and disposed of.

Lovely to have an update from you Alexelisey hope not too many boy chicks in your latest brood. What colour are your Pekin's? Sound like a good choice for friendliness.

Feeling any better Choille? Hope the pain isn't too bad.

How's Mum today alfie?

Finally got Mr BD's new lappy set up and he thanked me by breaking one of my favourite mugs, although he didn't tell me until the following morning as he didn't want to seem ungrateful. Ah well.

Very 'Sunday afternooonish' here today. Don't think I am going to get anything done.......

Davesnave

It's not cold here. (18.5c) I think it's slowly clearing up.

We have visitors expected in the form of some eco-heating people, whom I told not to bother, so they rang DW's mobile and she was kinder to them....Just what we need on a Bank Holiday! :mad: They won't be able to do a deal here unless they work through a local contractor, because this isn't a wam-bam, fit it and forget it job. Whoever does the heating/plumbing has to tie in with the builder.

CTC security cameras might be the way to go, but I'd caution against making them obvious unless and until you really need to. Nothing creates more hostility than overt surveillance in what people see as public areas, even ones that are really private.

Covert camera is different. It would be for the wildlife, of course!

Sun's out! Yay! :T

choille

I am feeling a lot better thank you, but still a bit fragile & delicate. It is still hard to lift & still pretty painful - amazingly so, but I am doing stuff.....slowly. The sheep seem to know & aren't jostling me so much when I go in...well not overly jumping up.

Glorious still. I got some really cheap, huge velvet curtains coz they were pretty mucky & I've washed one & got it on the line despite it saying dry clean only. Pretty chuffed with this new washing machine.

Talking of skips - we got offered a skip load of wood for £100, but we declined as it's a mixed lot & it would be dumped up at the road - talk about lowering the tone!....again......
I think the builder has a cheek as he has to dump it somewhere. If the track would of been fixed & it was free - now that would be a different tale altogether.