Daydream fund challenge part 4

in_my_wellies

ukmaggie45 said:

Hope all proves fine for you Dave.
I had a nasty vaccine experience on 14 Jan, and not feeling very well today. Hoping I just caught a cold there!

I hope you are well Maggie. I'm sure having the vaccine is the right thing to do in the long run for protection and peace of mind. I shall have it when offered, I'd feel terrible if I passed it on to someone. 

Not a lot happening outside. Three more logs have been stored away to dry and four dry ones cut - that kept me warm. I only intended to do one so didn't bother with the chain saw, still the hand saw was good exercise. 

A hen laid an egg, the first since about October. Fancy choosing a cold snowy day - she must have thought I looked hungry   

lucielle

How lovely getting a new to you pooch.  She sounds a clever thing!
L

Davesnave

Glad to see maggie is with us. Yesterday morning I posted saying I hoped she'd soon join us here again and gave reasons why I was concerned, so it's good to know she's reading.

Sadly, my post must have upset someone, as I received a final warning. I deliberately didn't go into much detail, or post links, but apparently what I said was enough to make me a scaremonger. It must be that, because I offered no medical advice, nor would I presume to. If I'd supplied the links, then people could have viewed the data and the verbal/written evidence and come to their own conclusions, but I suspected that would probably be controversial and unnecessary, so I tried to be discreet. It didn't work.

I can appreciate that MSE is not the place for these discussions; I said so a page or two back. It's a commercial entity focused on facts and figures about  money, which is a scary thing in itself. What worries me a lot more than whatever's on the front pages today is the image one gets when "UK National Debt Clock" is typed into Mr Google. That's your pension, your services and your NHS, right there!

I'm not posting here for a little while. There are things I need to do now to ensure I don't lose contact with friends here who support me. They're far more valuable than Martin's Money Tips!  

lucielle

I'll certainly miss your posts Dave.  Do what you've got to do.
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Ted_Head

Dave keep in touch please as we will all worry about you and miss your posts that holds this whole thread together usually - I've been booted off more times than I've had a cold dinner - well just about.

Wild fires here - madness but things are frozen but dry and some eejit lit a fire on the hill above a community woodland. Fire engines out all night and volunteers trying to get it under control as it's very windy and out of control.

Its Baltic temps here in the wind but bright and crisp as a Christmas card will post pics later.

Little collie wobble is as smart and sweet as ......well can't think but she is very good indeed.

lucielle

Stay safe Ted
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RAS

Glad to hear from you Ted and co.
It's a week now since daytime temperatures were above freezing and everything it wilting. No snow to protect plants just frequent sleet showers. Fourth time since Christmas we've had snow except this was only skin deep. Suspect I'll have lost some plants. 

lucielle

It was -12 here when DD1 left for work the other morning and -8 when we eventually stepped foot out the door!
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RAS

It was gloriously sunny on Monday afternoon, and impossible to get a fork in the ground. So hard-pruned some of the fruit bushes that were overlapping and  started to tackle the vines. Eventually managed to dig up a few of the "cuttings" where the vines have rooted to the floor and will try and off-load them this weekend. Loads of random redcurrants also to go, and maybe a few gooseberries, where new growth has come away from the base.

Yesterday I helped a fellow plotter take a few feet off fruit trees that were a lot taller than can be harvested safely. It'll take a few years to get them all down to size, but if he harvested half what he had last year, he'll be happy. Then sorted out errant raspberry canes. 

The brassicas that have been severely dehydrated in the frozen weeks have started to recover, and the pigeons have found them as the net blew off . I'll try and cut back and sort them out today.

Ted_Head

Lucielle - you get it very cold too. RAS it's been a harsh Winter. You are good helping people with the lopping. It has inspired me to do some later on - do you think a Wild Cherry who take  a harsh hair cut?