Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

poop.... ran out of milk so gotta "get dressed" to go to shop.. ive had a chilled out day , slobbing in my dressing gown, painting mini furniture

choille

Hi RAS - That;s not good, Hope that you manage to salvage your greenhouse, it's hopeless is all these gales.

No sleep last night & incredible gusts today, but another wall plastered in the kitchen. Slowly, slowly.....

Poor sheep.I've run out of hay so they've had extra feed rations & more cabbages.

Davesnave

I don't think it's RAS's greenhouse and shed. I think the "nearly" was really a "nearby."

Busyish day here. I was expecting the heating man at 12.00, but he rolled-up just before breakfast, which meant we didn't get that for ages.:( However, he's a nice guy, who seems to know a fair bit. (My test question about retro-fitting solar PV and linking it to an Immersun, didn't produce the glazed-over eyes and bemused smile! :rotfl:) He could well be The Man.

So I went out later to order the bog, pick up our tiles and do a couple of other jobs, before filling the rest of the van with chicken food and shavings......and when I got back I found our builder had created a 10' hole between our living room and the ramshackle, leaky conservatory.....:eek:

This is now covered with a sheet of polytunnel plastic, but once again we seem to be dangerously close to the elements, with snow and gales predicted.

OTOH, next Tuesday, or thereabouts, the Nice Men with new windows and patio doors will arrive and put them in, after which things should get better.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave, everyone locally keeps on saying about the snow, but when I go to the local weather forcast, its showing me arnt getting any, will see, if its going to snow, it will snow..


Well, I bit the bullet, and contacted the estate agents.. we have booked a date in march for them to come out an see house 1, with the view to put it into their May Auction... they did mention their March Auction, but that is way to soon for us..


I thought we could have got the ranch ready-ish before we sold house1, but I was very optimistic that I could find/earn the money to do the 2, so hopefully once this place is gone, we can start seeing the financial difference..


If the boys don't want to live between the caravans, and the livable rooms in the ranch, then their gran's is only up the road lol...

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

If the boys don't want to live between the caravans, and the livable rooms in the ranch, then their gran's is only up the road lol...

I think you will do better in a May auction. It's a good time of year to sell, with all the trees in new leaf and, hopefully, a bit of sunshine too. We saw this place first in early May.....and it didn't look as scary as it would have done in a wet or cold January!

Your lads will be fine. At 19 I was living in a hostel. It wasn't much fun, but it taught me things I couldn't learn in an easy life at home!

You'll see an instant financial benefit by not running two houses in parallel and the Ranch will be done that much quicker.

I'm not too worried about the odd snow flurry. The weather pattern of Atlantic fronts pushing in at intervals suggests nothing except rain and high winds in the next 10 days down here. 'Oop norf' it's a different story, maybe.

choille

Maybe...indeed.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Maybe...indeed.

One thing we're constantly learning on this thread is that, despite ours being a small country, the weather we experience differs considerably.

Last year, the folks in the next-door county to me were experiencing the worst floods experienced in many decades, yet here and in Cornwall, we just had 'a bit of a wet winter.'

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


Had to cancel Pig going on his last journey, hubby hasn't been too well lately, with a pain in his right side of this chest, yesterday he was really bad, so he went to the Dr's, who just sent him away with an Ibruphen prescription and told him if isn't better in 2 weeks, he will send him for an xray.. hubby said the main thing he kept on mentioning was that hubby should give up smoking, but yet when he listened to his chest etc, said it was clear..


FK how the hell can you manage on your own getting the pigs in and out of the trailer etc??? as apart from big girl, our ones need at least 2 to get them on the trailer lol..


That's what I was thinking too Davesnave...re- the time of the year to try and sell, We really have go our work cut out to clear/clean this place, as we are hoarders, and the people on those hoarding programmes have nothing on us lol.. prob this is one of the reasons why we have dragged our feet about selling this place, is the daunting task of sorting/clearing this place, and the unmpteen trips to the tip etc..


right off to have my first cuppa of the morning.. with a nice shortbread biscwit! !!

lucielle

I love sorting stuff CTC, shame you aren't nearer.


Second day off poorly, did go into work this morning but got sent home. Trouble is if I'm not in it'll have to be holiday or unpaid leave.


I did go to the docs but they couldn't hear anything, so making Corvonia and Night Nurse my drugs of choice.


DD1s driving test today and sods law its trying to snow! Leave it up to her whether she takes it or postpones it. She's just left and I'm on tenterhooks!
L

choille

Yes, weather changes all the time. Very white here & gusts still strong.

Local-ish village has two roofs off and a big shed blowing about in amongst houses we hear. I have an ornamental fir tree that's really canted over & I will have to try & do something with it.

Supposed to be going for hay but that would be daft.