Daydream fund challenge part 4

Better_Days

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you castrated? . That can do it in livestock.....and unfiltered water.

We had a male kitty that kept getting crystals in his urine resulting in blockages. In the end we asked the vet if anything could be done surgically. They obliged, but it was a rather radical op which I don't like to detail in male company

Did the job though and he lived until the grand age of 19 - not a bad age for a kitty, luckily we were able to avoid kidney damage by getting the op done.

Good to hear you and your family are on the mend Dave.

I_have_spoken

Just messin' with Photoshop

Better_Days

That's really clever IHS, thank you.

Really like the multi coloured option. Now where do I buy the multi coloured paint from?

Davesnave

Better_Days wrote: »

That's really clever IHS, thank you.

Really like the multi coloured option. Now where do I buy the multi coloured paint from?

The Tartan Shop.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you castrated? .

Not last time I looked.....:eek:

IHS, it can't be such a nice day up there as it is here. Wall to wall sunshine, light wind and the ground is dry. Clearing out the garden.....:D

I_have_spoken

IHS, it can't be such a nice day up there as it is here

True, still ice and snow on the ground here, but there has been a weak sun...:T but the it'll be a few weeks before I'd step on the ground.

Anyhow, some indoors plants. South facing, in my study, I thought the wide shelf over radiator could be useful for starting seeds



West facing, hall landing



Lounge, east facing, these chaps have been dormant over the winter



Vestibule, north window, been taking cuttings to root in water from the tradescantia. The Calathea was allowed to really dry out, and is in the process of bouncing back (I hope...)



No prizes for guessing the colour scheme for this year.

Better_Days

Lovely sunny day here too Dave.

Spring doesn't seem so far away......

Maggie - are you enjoying Wolf Hall on TV? I've heard that it is a very good adaptation. I tried listening to it on audiobook, but it was a bit heavy going for me

ukmaggie45

Dave, so relieved to hear little Sam is improving, and also his parents. And your good self too. Hope you are all back to full health really fast. And also your DW survives her errand of mercy without any comeback to her!

Woke to thick mist this morning. Well, woke at 4.30 and thought "that don't look right" when looked out window as no lights across the river. Took me a few minutes to twig! Could see house lights at bottom of road, but as it got light mist thickened so could only see down about 2 houses. Dank and miserable. Stayed that way most of the day, but at least we have our view across the river back now. We even switched the central heating back on this morning as both of us feeling dank and miserable to match the weather!

I'm loving Wolf Hall. I did read the books, it took me a bit to get into the first one first time round, but I hardly notice it now, just devour when get time. Have promised to lend to next door neighbour when I've finished my re-read. No idea if she'll like it. I think if you persevere you get used to the language and the way Hilary Mantel uses it. Once accustomed it's much easier. And it's a romping good yarn, so I was glad I had the time to make the effort.

Alfie, those colours are going to be really striking together - please let us have photos when you're done with your makeover!

Talking makeovers, anyone watch that interior design thing earlier this evening? I missed the joint rooms the designers did, will have to do Catch up to see. But one of the makeovers was for 2 young boys, and the guy did them a space ship for a bedroom, they loved it! Really fab! Rest of rooms the people were disappointed with to varying degrees - the 2 young teachers I felt really sorry for as they really hated their spare bedroom and it was for her Mum to come and stay in and not to her taste either. It was ghastly, too much bling in too tiny a room, and didn't follow the brief either as they wanted somewhere they could do their marking outside the living room.

Forgotten what else wanted to say! Guess can always come back later if I remember! :rotfl:

Hugs and Health to you all from Liverpool!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

so glad little one is getting better Davesnave, thanks for the pot size info, want to grow a few of the dwarf sunflowers, and see if I grow some in a couple of old tins and rustic them up with raffia etc..


beautiful day here... had to move 'selfish diva pregnant pig' as even though we put another pig arc in the run, she would not let the other girlie pig sleep in one of them, so we put 'diva pig' into the shed, on her own, her litter isn't due for a few weeks, so rather than move her twice... she is in there ready...


then one of our friends came over, and we cut another tree down on one of our hedges...


so home now...


hope next weekend is like this one, really feel we can start getting some outside work done..

DawnW

lostinrates wrote: »

You can pick up swan taps fairly inexpensively to wildly expensively. They pop up a lot on my tap searches :rotfl:


In areas the people are trying to sell those taps might well be popular...who knows? Not everyone sells houses sensibly of course, but because they have had to. If we buy what suits us why the dickens do we redecorate? . Replacing one shade of bland, often, for our own . Because we accept personal taste is personal. Might as well get rid of a garish as dull, its more fun even, to make a radical change.

As I say I like the giggles, but not the sneers. Every one is entitled to their own oddities, whether its pheobe e's taxidermy, the people who have fish ponds in their sitting room, or what ever. If a house isn't selling it offers negotiation in price potentially, so there is an opportunity for buyers to buy well. And get rid of what offends them. Lots here is awful IMO,the ghastly 1970s glass and orange wood doors in the Georgian sitting room for example. One day we'll be able to replace them, until then they are a giggle. Ad you know, when the sun sets through them ...I can kind of see what the people who put them in must have loved about them. I would never say I liked them, but you'd have to be a miserable beholder not to see something glorious in the sun in that ugly glass.

I had to google swan taps, and OMG, they really are in the shape of swans :eek: Oh well, each to their own I suppose

We had orange wood doors too, when we moved in, folding doors between the two reception rooms. I had them painted with white eggshell, and they are now live-able with, so haven't changed them yet. I rather like the idea of being able to have the two rooms either as one, or to shut them off. I would have to think of another solution to enable this if I changed them.....