Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Better_Days

Hi phoebe1989seb:wave::wave::wave::wave:

Lovely to see you over on this thread - I haven't been posting here very long but have been made very welcome. I'm sure you will be too.

I've really enjoyed reading the renovation and livestock tales on this thread (and piccies of the piggies and goats etc). I only have a small garden here and not much bigger in our new house - so you are way ahead with a third of an acre and a house to renovate! Don't forget to post photos if you can.

We will be replacing the oil boiler if our house purchase goes through - out of interest what make and model did you go for?

Many thanks for identifying the plant - googled some images and you are right it is a Japanese anemone.:D

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi Phoebe:j:j

ooo yes please stay, you will fit in beautifully here..

catch up with everyone later, last hour of work, and I REALLY do need to get some work done:cool::D

Itismehonest

:wave: Hi Phoebe & welcome :beer:
Size, as they say, doesn't matter here nor whether one is stuck out in the back of beyond with acres or much nearer the smoke with something more manageable. Looking forward to seeing the photos.

lostinrates

What I admire about CTC (and itsme and davesnave) is the courage with which they make or have made BIG changes.

What I have been waiting to share in photos is a big change outside we have made. An improvement no doubt, but it still leaves me feeling a bit ...dithery. Apart from th tree vandalism its the biggest exterior change we have made.

Today the second started, fencing going in in the yard reconfigurations. I can see its the right thing to do for us, and goodness knows I've been trying to get fencers in long enough, but I still hate it happening. Weird, huh?

lostinrates

The container was filled with scrap metal from around the place. The metal on its side was removed (several days labour) and put in the container. The concrete base is still there, and makes a good mounting block for now. We didn't really realise how big it was, two stables would fit there. Now our main yard looks huge and empty.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

wow!!!!

LIR... that is a lovely 'proper' farm yard!!!

hope you are weighing in all that metal:D:D

I feel flattered that you admire hubby and I , BUT HONESTLY...the only big change we have done, which isn't really a change, is that I am in debt, and juggling finances... to get my dream...AND to take on a lovely wreck of a place, which just needs loads of love and money... and time..


I have waited umpteen years to get the keys to a smallholding, so a few years doing it up, is going to be ( hopefully) worth it, maybe it might not increase in value, but when we are living there, will be worth millions to us:D:D

The council have put up a kissing gate at the top of our lane, and the gate is also in place too, so we can now fence up to it, and this means ( hopefully) no more cars and horse riders using our land:T:T

lostinrates

CTC, no, we coot the container for free, that was the best deal we could do:(. We filled it and have loads left. Old gates, corrugated iron, barbed wire etc.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

CTC, no, we coot the container for free, that was the best deal we could do:(. We filled it and have loads left. Old gates, corrugated iron, barbed wire etc.

that is such a pitty:o, But then on saying that a few years ago, you would have had to pay to get rid of it...fingers crossed you can get another container for free to get rid of the rest.

raining here, with thunder and lightening:eek::eek:

Rummer

Great news LIR and CTC it is so lovely to see things moving in the right direction!

alfie_1

welcome phoebe

well, ive had my top up hip puncturing seems to be working. weird cos it just feels a little bruised now [like when a bruise is on the decline]

my dentist cancelled :j

the sun has been out all day.:D

fella gone for weekend to luffbrough [??] to shift furniture for a friend [to liverpool]in his BIG lorry/van...:(

my garden has gone a bit unruly with flowers...:rotfl: i have hollyhocks like sentry's as you come through the gate..all self sown... then if they dont swipe you ,the ones by the verandah do as you try and get in the door....:rotfl:
my area under the lounge/upper bedroom windows is bee territory and is just a mass of flowers... cant get in there..:o
everyone says it looks great but it is a bit like looking at a fringe that needs cutting..:D

i should be getting some warrens next week.. need to make a holding pen pronto... LIR..did you want any ?? free

CTC...wall looks fab