Daydream fund challenge part 4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I.H.S if you can put window boxes there it would look fab, what about planting them with some salad stuff??

I_have_spoken

Yep, I could just push the kitchen window open to 'harvest'

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Yep, I could just push the kitchen window open to 'harvest'

you could buy those punnets of 'live salad leaves' from places like Lidl for under a £1, and plant them up, and just cut of the amount of leaves you want...lol

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

you could buy those punnets of 'live salad leaves' from places like Lidl for under a £1, and plant them up, and just cut of the amount of leaves you want...lol

I do that when I forget to sow lettuce.

But at this time of year we run mainly on mizuna, which is tough as old boots and doesn't get mildew. In fact I just germinated some last week.

Miner's lettuce sows itself everywhere as well, though like lamb's lettuce, it's pretty tasteless. We counteract that by adding a bit of land cress or Italian parsley, both still going OK in the poly.

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

lir..... ooooooooo please take care dogwise...

alfie_1 wrote: »

right im offt to zumerzet .... have a good day y'all..

Well, cannot help it if someone supposedly in zumerzet ends up in wiltshire and a kiwi hops in with his mate bimble and the new bit of fluff he likes sniffing:rotfl:

Pfft, at least dog dog hovered by me, albeit a bit reluctantly.

Btw, key my postcode in as a known address if you can

Davesnave

Oh it's all right for those who can gad-about!

I think we might be back into full building mode tomorrow, so I've been trying to catch up to where I thought I'd be by the end of Crimbo Limbo.

Yesterday it was grovelling on the floor, ripping up tiles, all of them stuck down with vast amounts of grouty stuff.

Today it was demolish a wall in the conservatory, not that it's in the way right now, but because getting rid of it later would be dangerous for the new windows and doors we're installing in the living room soon.

I'm not sure why this extra internal wall was put up, but we used it a place to put coat racks. One thing's for sure, it wouldn't have fallen down this century; it was better built than the house!

alfie_1

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: MY FIRST "ADVENTURE" for 2015 :D i got delayed going and coming back from zumerzet making me potenially 2hrs late for my other errand.... so as i trundled back i noticed i was in the vicinity of a certain couple . i asked myself "laughter and cake" or another boring drive.?? no competition... cake won

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

:rotfl:.. cake won

Cake? :huh: Huh!

Like Churchill, all I can offer visitors here is blood sweat and toil! :rotfl:

I have someone calling in at 9am tomorrow. If he's lucky, he might get a biscuit and the heating job.

twiglet98

Thank you so much Dave, maggie, CTC, alfie, for sharing your thoughts, there are some interesting points to consider.

Presently a little local shoot uses this wood, by informal agreement with the owners, I'm not sure that constitutes sporting rights. The farmer who owns adjoining land on two sides of it lets a different (posher) shoot onto his land, there is much tactical placement of feeders and varying degrees of tension between them each season! That neighbouring farmer's old uncle, rest his soul, used to tell me his own father's greatest regret was not buying this land - what is now the wood, and our cottages - when the present family beat him to it in the 1950s. Now, if that farmer would buy it I'd jump for joy, he's lovely and I've rented grazing from him in the past, but I doubt he's the wealthiest around here. The other adjacent landowner would certainly not want it.

One farmer has turned his yard buildings over to self-storage units. Anyone wanting the barn for that purpose would have to apply for change of use, and I don't think that would constitute agricultural use in terms of access across my plot.

My neighbours are retired, mortgage-free, have been there 30-plus years, and have no inclination to move, nor to sell the driveway, and as it's a semi no-one can knock my place down to rebuild! I wonder if eventually, when one of them is widowed, they'd think of moving then, but I doubt it unless ill-health dictated. Their plot is bigger than mine, they've invested more in improving their house. Sadly they're not in a position to buy the paddock and barn, they have enough land for their sheep and neither want nor need it. For now, we are just united in our determination to limit vehicular activity up here as much as we possibly can.

We're well away from other houses, surrounded by fields, without mains drainage (we share the septic tank), and outside the village envelope. I doubt any developer would get permission for building in the foreseeable future, and a protest campaign is actively resisting a big development planned for the other end of the village. Even turning the paddock into a solar farm is unlikely now the subsidies have changed. So I'm left wondering who would want to buy it?

Funny recalling a conversation with the seller's father years ago - he said the family were unanimous that they'd never sell it, or at least, not to me, as it would make more for me than it ever could for them!

Ok changing subject, DD1 has a cocker spaniel, gentle and affectionate, very very VERY energetic. High maintenance ears, they dangle in her food and ball up with sticky weeds, how do working spaniels ears remain unscathed when they're flushing through deep cover? Schnauzers are lovely but need regular professional trimming, unless you're inclined to do it yourself? And dachsunds are smashing dogs, ex's gran bred standard wire-haired daxies and there was a really good 'dog' inside that little frame. My old lad, now 15, is a broken-coat Patterdale/JRT/Yorkie mix and the soppiest terrier on the planet, the first small dog I've had and he's always been a complete delight. I'm sure the right one will find you!

CTC, I hope your stepfather gets a scan booked swiftly and it pinpoints what is going on to cause so much pain. In the 21st century nobody should have to be in pain, it needs to be taken very seriously and waiting for professional advice is exhausting and frightening. Cross fingers he hears soon.

Dave, best wishes for the impending new addition... how exciting!

choille

Davesnave wrote: »

Spent my New Year's Eve in various retail establishments looking at toilets and washbasins.... in some detail.

I can't really see much difference between a loo costing £400 and one that's about £100. Am I missing something? I would want radar guidance for some of the prices they charge for a bit of porcelain.

It's frustrating. There's no such magazine as "What Bog?" and you can't exactly try them out in the shop, can you?

One thing I noticed is that there's a trend for square seats. When was it that the human race developed square posteriors? Was I out on that day and missed the switch-over?

Total mystery! :think:

Back on line - thankfully.

I've ordered stuff from Victoria Plumb as their prices seem very competitive & their designs are way cheaper than comparable designs elsewhere. I have read the reviews and don't see why some charge such ridiculously high prices either.