Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

rhiwfield

My (just 9 yo) twin GDs have gained a certificate today, NICAS level 1.

I get scared stiff watching them belay each other (oops, never meant to let go Sis ) and no way would I go up the climbing walls they scamper up:eek:

Brave little mites, and a lot braver than me .

Growing up fast!

fc123

Thanks so much for all your useful replies and taking the time to write them down.
:wave: To DS too

I might go old school and take a trip to one of the showrooms in Devon and get a good old fashioned bit of shop service

I didn't know about the external wall issue either.


BTW this is a lovely thread you guys hang out on...really interesting too.........sadly I only have an urban handkerchief garden but plenty of rural dreams

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Thanks so much for all your useful replies and taking the time to write them down.
:wave: To DS too

I might go old school and take a trip to one of the showrooms in Devon and get a good old fashioned bit of shop service

I didn't know about the external wall issue either.


BTW this is a lovely thread you guys hang out on...really interesting too.........sadly I only have an urban handkerchief garden but plenty of rural dreams

You don't have to go all the way to Devon.


Their are some near me. . :rotfl:

Actually, might also be worth seeing what agricultural places you have out by the sea side. Or check the mole valley farmers website? See what they are selling.

ukmaggie45

fc123 wrote: »

BTW this is a lovely thread you guys hang out on...really interesting too.........sadly I only have an urban handkerchief garden but plenty of rural dreams

But look at the title - Daydream thread...

If you have the dreams you're more than welcome! OH and I don't have a smallholding, or chooks or geese or pigs or goats or whatever (guess alpacas might fit in the whatever category! :rotfl: ), we live in a suburban house in Liverpool with a reasonable size garden and half a lottie that we only just got so it's a total mess at the mo. Garden is a mess too as we've been too busy digging the lottie to deal with the garden. <rolls eyes>

So please hang around and enjoy the fun and banter!

Maggie

Rummer

fc123 wrote: »

BTW this is a lovely thread you guys hang out on...really interesting too.........sadly I only have an urban handkerchief garden but plenty of rural dreams

I am the same I just have my garden in the suburbs and have been with this thread from the beginning, feel free to pop in and join the banter

lucielle

DS1 decided to take the job and started this week. He seems to be enjoying it. He has sheared in the region of 5000+ sheep so not bad for a first season.

OH and I are off to Londidium at the weekend, big sis is having a party and the theme is Druids and Hippys. We are both going as druids but I must admit mine looks more like medieval maiden (though I have got a fab circlet with oak leaves on) and OH looks more like Gandalf the Grey!!!!!

DD1 is still in Thailand but its gone a bit Pete Tong as a girl has lost her passport I was upset for the girl but have since found out she isn't remorseful at spoiling the trip. It means they can't go to Laos and have had to stay in Thailand.

DD2 has got 2 days next week playing with horses, one of these have a pony for the day. She was so excited when I told her she shot off to find her joddys and hat. Found her joddys were too small so went and 'borrowed' her sisters.
L

alfie_1

lucielle wrote: »

DS1 decided to take the job and started this week. He seems to be enjoying it. He has sheared in the region of 5000+ sheep so not bad for a first season.

OH and I are off to Londidium at the weekend, big sis is having a party and the theme is Druids and Hippys. We are both going as druids but I must admit mine looks more like medieval maiden (though I have got a fab circlet with oak leaves on) and OH looks more like Gandalf the Grey!!!!!

DD1 is still in Thailand but its gone a bit Pete Tong as a girl has lost her passport I was upset for the girl but have since found out she isn't remorseful at spoiling the trip. It means they can't go to Laos and have had to stay in Thailand.

DD2 has got 2 days next week playing with horses, one of these have a pony for the day. She was so excited when I told her she shot off to find her joddys and hat. Found her joddys were too small so went and 'borrowed' her sisters.
L

well done to your son, sounds like hes working hard.:D

poop re your daughters trip...:mad:

and hope your DD" has fun with the ponies..:D

alfie_1

evening peeps

sorry if im not keeping up with things, trying to juggle brain space at the moment !!

CTC...chin up gal, as said we are all here for you to sound off to.:D

was given this little "verse" today...;)

BEFORE YOU DIAGNOSE YOURSELF WITH DEPRESSION OR LOW SELF ESTEEM, FIRST MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT,IN FACT, MERELY SURROUNDED BY A**HOLES!!......

im back to accupuncturist tomorow with follow up app. seems to have done good so far [fingers crossed]... and believe you me id have dressed as an orang utan and swung from a chandalier if it had helped a week ago....:rotfl:

then ive got a dentist app check up..:( im sure there will be something amiss for her to vent her menapausal frustrations out on......:rotfl:

i have "aquired" a wonderfull selection of pots of garden plants...;) all old fashioned sort of "fill a bed and have a riot of color/shapes/styles now i have to find room which at this moment in time is a "whack whack oops!".......:o

right im off to fetch son of mine from the pub.......:D

ferretkeeper

:grouphug:CTC Big Hugs

Can I drop round with some biskwits and a cuppa over the weekend, you can bend my ear and I can move some bits of rubble or summat?

Good thinking on the CCTV,I've considered it myself here before, a friend had recently put something in - when thieves stole a heat lamp off a tiny lamb !!!!!! - I could find out what they put in.

Sounds like the little ba$t4rds don't take the police seriously, maybe you need to think outside the box a bit...I'd be going mad if I thought I knew who it was but couldn't do anything via police etc.

I too am considering stoves ATM, for our place we have an old gas fire in a chimney and can't decide whether to knock it all out and put a proper stove in or try and reconnect the gas fire.

And for our holiday let the dilemma is to have one with or without a boiler? Good to know the pointers for the cheaper models - I know you get what you pay for and as installing cost is the same for a cheap one as a dearer one you might as well get something that will last and be problem free, esp in the holiday let.

OH doesn't think many people will bother lighting a fire on hols (like people with kids) or they'd give up if it didn't light first time! But since we're in walking country and I hope to be letting all year round, I reckon those sorts of people will use it, indeed be attracted by it.

And what would be more annoying than the fire roaring downstairs but upstairs be chilly and have to put the heating on - bearing in mind the thermostat is in the main room with the fire...No mad rush though, got contractors staying for a few weeks - that should pay for the stove at least!

This is a beautiful stove I saw at the Royal Welsh show last week:



completely hand made, a one off - the poor bloke was only selling it cos he's skint, he's been using it til now, a snip at £800!

Alexelisey

fc123 wrote: »

BTW this is a lovely thread you guys hang out on...really interesting too.........sadly I only have an urban handkerchief garden but plenty of rural dreams

Hi FC123,

I have a Victorian end of terrace in Bexley borough, so I'm still a dreamer too! You're very welcome (and encouraged) to stay and chat, you already know a few of us from the sounds of it so you have no excuses. Please make yourself comfortable with a cuppa and biskwit. If you get the time, you can start at the beginning of this thread and catch up from earlier this year but if not you'll soon pick it up. We're a very friendly and supportive bunch! :beer:

My news is nothing special really, I had a lovely weekend away last week with a friend near Wells and then went to see my mum for her 70th birthday. It's meant a 4 day working week, which is always nice, and I have another one next week as I have Tuesday off to go to the seaside :j In the garden we have had at least 5lbs of cherries off the tree (sick of them now - literally - and some have gone in the freezer) and a few strawberries, peas and beans.

The chickens have settled reasonably well into the Hilton (new chicken house) but two keep trying to sleep in the nest boxes so I turf them out every night. The ladder arrangement works quite well except the door swells a bit in the humidity so I need to trim a bit off it and also put in more of a lip to keep the wood shavings in. One hen has decided she loves going into the house and scratching it all around, which drops into the mechanism for closing the door... I've tried telling her to kick it the other way but so far she's not listening :rotfl:

Alex