Daydream fund challenge part 4

pink_poppy

Gorgeous photo of baby Sam & the very proud grandparents :j

alfie, I thought those sheep & lambs were real too :rotfl:

Fantastic photos of the ranch, CTC

Davesnave

Last year, once we started to get our teeth into the renovation, I felt much happier. Looking at your photos, CTC, I bet you're the same.

Yes it's mucky and often very tiring work, but seeing some of it behind us, makes the bit in front look not so bad!

Last night, I was thumbing through some posh gardening magazines given by a friend. The old desire to propagate soon came flooding back....

Can't do much more than struggle to fill a table once a month at the village hall this year, but once the main building stuff is out of the way.......:D

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Reviews are mixed. There seem to be some quality issues, suggesting it's built-down to its price of around £4k new.

http://www.whatstove.co.uk/esse-ironheart-cooking-range-reviews~1

Thanks, have forwarded to the boss

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

Last year, once we started to get our teeth into the renovation, I felt much happier. Looking at your photos, CTC, I bet you're the same.

Yes it's mucky and often very tiring work, but seeing some of it behind us, makes the bit in front look not so bad!

funny you should say that, as yesterday, even though we have mountains of work still infront of us, After all the rumpus of the last few weeks, I seem to have a new forcused energy..


AND.. after umpteen months of waiting for the fencing guy, he phoned this morning to say he is taking his machinery up the ranch this afternoon, ready to start work tomorrow morning, PLUS the woodburner guy is going up there in the next hour or so, to tell us where is the easiest/best place to position the FREE rayburn we had a few years ago...


remember this one lol..





all I am waiting for now is the neighbours on one side of the lane to complain about the fencing/pigs going in on our land opp them ( looks as though this will be my Karma bitting me in the bum for the grieve I have given the landowners of the factory and the supermarket)


Cant wait for the new piggy paddocks to be done, so we can now rest, and put the house rubble in the muddy bits to help with the drainage..


Choille... right I see what you mean now, as obviously the front wall of the fireplace is only single stone.....shame they didn't carve their name and date in it...


it looks as though once upon a time that room was lime washed.

choille

Some of them had funny marks on - almost like Roman Numerals - OH's brother wrote a booklet on beam marks.......

Great you have a freebie Rayburn & good it's a good colour that will fit well with what you are doing.

Some snow flurries here but rained in the night & took some snow away. Think I'll put the lamb back out before she gets soft.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Think I'll put the lamb back out before she gets soft.

You'll have to call her lir. I feel so nambypamby ATM I'm ashamed of it.

choille

She's out with them & seems fine. At least it gave her coat time to dry out & get a real good feed. I just feel that any longer it may have been a shock to be away from her wee pals & also out in the weather.

It's actually a bit milder today, although it keeps doing little hail flurries.

You're probably not as namby pamby as I can be LIR - you do loads. I'm just lazy at this time of year= takes so long to do stuff. The caravan is a complete mess - could make one of those shaming progs about the way I live. I just don't let anyone in......

I_have_spoken

Just back from helping some senior citizens buy the NS&I pensioner bonds. Dear, oh dear, what a painful experience that was!

AFter determining they had no online or telephone banking services whatsoever it was back to downloading the application forms and writing cheques - once I'd installed the Adobe s/w on their PC to let them print the NS&I forms. Then they didn't know if their cheque account would get topped-up from their savings account, so that was a call to the bank.

All in all, it was 90 minutes to complete a transaction I expected would be done in 5.

And relax...:beer:

lostinrates

lucielle wrote: »

LIR hope this works
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4994294 post 1389. Not sure if its the same model. Lovely person who used to live in the Orkneys. Will help with any questions.
L

Thank you, I put questions to her! Hope she sees them.

lostinrates

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Just back from helping some senior citizens buy the NS&I pensioner bonds. Dear, oh dear, what a painful experience that was!

AFter determining they had no online or telephone banking services whatsoever it was back to downloading the application forms and writing cheques - once I'd installed the Adobe s/w on their PC to let them print the NS&I forms. Then they didn't know if their cheque account would get topped-up from their savings account, so that was a call to the bank.

All in all, it was 90 minutes to complete a transaction I expected would be done in 5.

And relax...:beer:

You sweetheart.

We're just swearing and paying tax. :mad::mad: