Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Rummer said:

The weather here is foul so just spending the day browsing seed catalogues and planning what is going where.

DD2 flew back from India last Sunday. As she's such a nervous flier, we tried to make light of the weather and planes having difficulty landing, but of course, she knew all about it from her news app. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss!

Glad Rumlet is a gardener. Sam isn't. He's a good observer, but gardening's too slow for him; anything involving staying still is too slow. Secretly, we're hoping for a girl this time around!

Foul weather here, and more to come in a few days time, which might push the rivers over the edge. Not too bothered at present, as I had my NHS root canal stuff done yesterday. She lost one canal and perforated something else instead, so I have antibiotics stuffed in there and a further session in March, unless it goes Pete Tong in the meantime. She was very apologetic, but I chose her over the posh folk in town because the price difference was worth a new cement mixer and a refurbished computer to me! 

greenbee

I’m not sure girls are any better Dave - my niece is football-mad, never sits still and thinks reading (which her big brother loves!) is boring (possibly a reaction to being over-princessed when younger), Neither of them sit still long enough for gardening although Sam is quite keen on growing food, and they both loved growing sunflowers.

Symoathies on the tooth - i’ve had a failed implant removed on Tuesday, so am bruised and swollen, and have been on a liquid (lukewarm only) diet for the last few days. Feeling better today at last so hoping to progress to soft food and get something done (logs and kindling in, laundry etc - all exciting stuff!).

I planted some bare root hedging in gaps in my hedge a couple of weeks ago, so I guess I should really go and cut their tops off before I forget and they start growing. Kid like to do a bit of selective pruning of the hedge, and fish some weed out of the stream before the water voles get active again, but I suspect Dennis will keep me indoors!

choille

My condolences on the tooth problems everyone - sounds very painful both of you. 
Raining hard here & blowing a hoolie.........again
It's been like this for so long I forget how long......Last August?
Just got another coat of teak oil to do on the 'nose' of the steps which are oak - just the noses, not the rest of the step.
We need a rail at the top of the stairs & looked at a glass panel but the price is outrageous, so we are going to price up a glazier to cut us strengthened glass & we'll get an oak frame made up - well that's Plan B, but that will probably be too expensive to thole as well.
Cheap listing offer on the bay so have loads of stuff I should be photoing. I feel like  a half shut knife. Must be the weather.

Davesnave

Tooth feels normal-ish for the first time in a while, so thanks for the commiserations but I'm daring to think it might be OK.

Weather's horrible. Rivers are being perverse and falling at present, but that may change. DW decided to be equally perverse and shot off to buy paint. She's decided to finish some jobs started about 4 years ago, but I swear I said nothing! Mind you, if I'd left anything that long.....

I don't mean to imply that girls need be in any way less active than boys, but the stats show it's predominantly boys with ADHD and related issues. I've had a few thousand of both sorts pass through my tender care over the years and one tends to notice these things. However, get a girl who's a wrong-un and you've got real problems!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Evening all. Made it through the site move at last, even if it feels like we've fastforwarded from Windows 95 all the way to Vista.

I have to risk setting foot outside this week, or the rambler will swallow both houses by April. Don't want to, especially as there's a big dip in the middle of the weedpatch and the downstairs toilet won't flush anymore. But if I don't, nobody's going to be able to come in and check if something expensive has collapsed.

Everything is sodden. Even the Idiot Cat won't set a single paw out there. Nothing will grow out there without rotting. But we still ahve our wheelie bins, which is an improvement on other storms.

Davesnave

We're officially soggy, Jojo, but this area escaped the worst of Dennis. The river came out briefly on Sunday, but we're back at safe levels now. Drains are all blocked, so  we have a lake in the road here, but that's not uncommon in winter.

Had a meeting with our neighbour yesterday re boundary and , as expected, ended up almost as confused as originally, but I can see now why he has a different way of interpreting the deeds. We'd even go with his interpretation, but as Ordnance Survey don't, we can't. There's no magic clause or extra plan in his deeds that settles it.  We can agree that for practical purposes, we'll use the hedge as the boundary, but whether that's in the middle of it or on one side, depending on where the stream is, must remain a mystery. Nothing much will change, as we have similar ideas about husbandry, wildlife etc. Indeed, we get on well, which is a bonus.

pink_poppy

Oof, that was a bit of a faff getting back into the forum as my user name has been altered slightly.
Dave, I'm not surprised Sam was happy with the 'creature' photo, it's brilliant. Congratulations on the new baby news, something to look forward to.

Davesnave

pink_poppy said:

Oof, that was a bit of a faff getting back into the forum as my user name has been altered slightly.
Dave, I'm not surprised Sam was happy with the 'creature' photo, it's brilliant. Congratulations on the new baby news, something to look forward to.

At least you made it here; many seem to have fallen by the wayside. The Forum's not what it was. I don't seem to have a mates list any more and when I press 'quote' I could almost make a cup of tea in the time it takes to appear! Where's undo? And can one only type in colour by using HTML?

Thanks for liking the photo, which was an afterthought. If I'd planned it, Sam would be looking fierce.

choille

I don't like the new set up at all. It's quite glarey on the eye - it makes me squint my sore eye up. I hope they change it back as I am not getting on with it at all.
Snowed here today & really heavy slushy showers & hail showers - quite a disgusting day. Seem to be just treading water at the moment getting no where fast.

in_my_wellies

Evening all. I hope you have all survived the weather. All is mostly OK here apart from an old greenhouse which will need some TLC. 
I was seriously planning to cut back on the veg this year but then I had a parcel from a friend containing seed potatoes and 20ish packets of seeds so it looks like I must do some. All depends on how I can work round mum. 
I was able to get up to Leicestershire  a couple of weeks ago to do  some basic maintenance and tidying, mainly allotment but really I need to do a complete makeover on the little 2 meter x 25 meter strip I own which tends to get neglected especially now the fellow across the field entrance from me has cleared out the old quarry big time, removed a hedge of about 20 very old and tall laylandii (leaving me some logs!), cleared out brambles and generally returned it into about a two acre woodland. No more free 'camping' in the car in there!! He's replaced the trees with mixed native varieties. All good. I hope the badgers appreciate his hard work - the quarry was abandoned in 1914 and we know the badgers were established by 1942. They cause my side of the road no trouble but constantly cross the road to dig up the 'posh' lawns of the big houses. 
Pleased your wife is finding the will to finish the decorating Dave. Mum's house finally sold so all her remaining furniture is here + more and more stuff. My daughter said my house looks like a hoarders house from the TV - I couldn't disagree. So I decided to decorate two bedrooms, new carpets, everything all done in a week whilst neglecting mum somewhat. She's settled into her new room and I have two bedrooms with new curtains and nothing on the floor except furniture. Just have to sort the rest out. 
Roll on spring and outside jobs