Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Love your plant stand IHS
Where did you get it from?

Amazon - link

The same supplier does the galvanised pots, although the Ikea SOCKER is cheaper.

alfie_1

i now have the grand total [so far] of £21.86 for the caravan...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all, what a crap day, piddling it down here. So best thing is for me to
Sit in front of TV. And list things on the bay .
I am really impressed at how easy this hudle thing is for listing things.
Even though I had my youngest table, this one feels easy to use lol.

Alfie maybe someone wants it for the chassis? To make a trailer? Or they are just bonkers lol.

ferretkeeper

Morning all!

Wet and windy here today, rain arrived later than forecast so I got a bit more done than expected but it's cold rain and I'm planning to stay indoors for the day!

It's been busy here, the plumber has almost finished in the bathroom, just the bath panel to go in and a bit of tidying up and we're done! I've got a little area to do a mosaic on the shelf at the end of the bath, but that can wait til I've got time!

I had a couple of new arrivals last Saturday...



The one with the black head is a girl, the other is a boy, He looks a bit like his dad, neither look much like mum except the snowstorm ears! They're already much bigger, got long legs, I was a bit worried with the cold weather but they're fine, and the other goats sometimes jump in wth them and they all sleep together!

Also last Saturday hubby arrived home, so we've been crazy busy, although a lot more productive than usual, were actually sort of on schedule to finish everything on the to do list this time!

Yesterday we got 200 and odd bare root hedge plants in, and I took some willow cuttings and stuck them in the steep bank up to our neighbour, the 'soil' is falling away so much there's not many planting pockets for anything bigger than a stick of willow...not sure how well they'll take but it didn't cost anything to try.

The buds seem to be breaking even in this cold snap so I've just ordered the evergreen hedging I need to do the garden boundary, I don't think they'll be available bare root for much longer and pot grown wil be pricier.

Dave the hedging I just planted was mixed native, hornbeam, alder, hawthorn, blackthorn etc...they were youngish plants, some already a couple of feet tall, but not many side branches. Should I bite the bullet and prune the tops a bit Or let them grow taller first? What's the best way to get a thick hedge?!

CTC been up and down the road by your house a lot lately, they seem to be moving on at a fair rate so it's likely going to be finished long before you come to sell and it should be an improvement on the overgrown waste ground that was all along there before. Do they own the rest of the land going up to the club where the coaches park? It looks like some earth moving has been done there too.

An indoor market...maybe, there's no others nearby so it might do well...I did think there looked like another access point straight onto the main road so would make sense for traffic leaving the site that way, I guess it would come in via the supermarket roundabout, ideally not past the back of your house though!

I must admit I've not paid much attention to the factory site, didn't even know it was there til the supermarket was built next door, but there seems to be plenty of space for parking if they wanted.

Whatever they decide I hope it's announced/resolved before you do come to sell, so potential buyers know what's going to be there. I don't suppose the factory owners would want to buy just yours, they'd need all four houses to be able to use the land themselves, what do your neighbours think about it all?

In any case since you can't change being next to a commercial unit, a supermarket and the main road, it might be worth not just replacing the broken fence panels but also put more up to screen whatever you don't want to see from your windows.

Then maybe nearer the time give your house a fresh lick of paint, put a few pots of flowers in the garden, so it's the best looking one in the row for anyone driving by for a look, and some clever estate agents photos will show an attractive property with nothing to put people off.

Which reminds me, a property up the road is back in an auction this month, it didn't sell in December unsurprisingly, I keep forgetting to check if the sale has happened yet!

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Gosh, please be careful then Dave, especially if you've been at the *sauce*....

Survived! Don't worry, humour, even slapstick, relies so heavily on timing, so I'd not indulge to the extent of harming that.

I used to speak occasionally with a person in showbiz, who was also quite well known for hitting the bottle, before he dried-out fairly late in his career. In the earlier days, the one time you'd have caught him stone cold sober was just before a show. He said it was just part of being professional.

Anyway, last night's was the best show of the week, perhaps because we were all well run-in and relaxed. Some were certainly well worn-out at clear-up this morning, as they'd started at 6pm last night and didn't leave the pub till after 1am! (private party) :rotfl:

Unlike Cinders, I made it home before midnight. :A

Davesnave

ferretkeeper wrote: »

Morning all!


Dave the hedging I just planted was mixed native, hornbeam, alder, hawthorn, blackthorn etc...they were youngish plants, some already a couple of feet tall, but not many side branches. Should I bite the bullet and prune the tops a bit Or let them grow taller first? What's the best way to get a thick hedge?!

Hate doing it, but I prune from the start if they are too leggy and branch-less. Otherwise, I prune at the end of the first proper season in the ground.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

FK, the over growth and trees where a buffer/screen for the houses, especially the side of ours. No they don't own the land between them and the club, as far as I am aware. That land is earmarked for housing.
Its all well and good saying it will be good to have a marked, but you don't own
A house so flipping close to it.

We are going to have another serious talk about this place...
As it might be worth waiting a bit longer and actually finding out what is actually going to happen, as if people don't know what is going here, people might go on the edge of caution when bidding.

What estate agents is the local property going to auction with?

Fk.. I think even though you are putting loads of trees for screening etc the way your house is on a built up main road, and with your neighbour so high over looking you on the bank I think they will still be able to see onto your plot. I think the only way you are going to get any privicy is if the fence their land

Right back to listing ...I have now re-classed my hoarded crap as stored equity lol

phoebe1989seb

Horrid sleety, windy day here We were going to the Winter Wander at Wollerton Old Hall Gardens, but got half way there and decided it was too wet and cold to bother......shame as we'd both been really looking forward to getting more garden ideas

Instead drove home via another antique fair (small and full of awful *knobbly knick knacks* ), then lit a fire and had party food for lunch. DH about to do some listing - we're having a really good selling weekend so want to capitalise on that

Hope everyone is keeping warm and safe x

Edited to add: Lovely pic FK!

choille

Lovely goats Ferret Keeper. How sweet.
All the feral ones are hatching, or hatched out here. Got a poorly lamb in the shed - last years lamb. I think he was butted as I found him down, so got him in yesterday & dried off & even put the heat lamp over him for a good while & got him back on his feet. But as it's blizzards & quite disgusting am going to keep him in until tomorrow I think.

Got some listing to do so that will get rid of the disgusting day - in a way.

ferretkeeper

Thanks Dave, I will take a bit off the tops of them all when I go out later, I know it's the right thing to do. I guess the panto was a welcome distraction from all the work going on but otoh with so much happening so fast it needs your attention. I can just about handle one or two rooms/projects at a time indoors and out.

Thanks for the goaty compliments, they are adorable time wasters, I can watch them or cuddle them many times a day! I think the next kidding isn't too far away, and most of the ewes look like they're in lamb again. Choille, my boys are all very frisky ATM, leaping like lambs and head butting each other, one knocked a horn off,the other day, blood everywhere!

CTC IKWYM with the trees, they're to screen the view from the street below really. The willow I stuck in the bank should help with the overlooking neighbours, I'm going to plonk some more in tomorrow, see if I can get a bit higher up the bank with a ladder! They won't fence up there where it needs it, in reality a fence would probably blow away, but a hedge would work. But they won't do that either, partly cos they're skint and partly cos they don't see it as a problem...they like lording it over us and being nosey. I think it should have been a planning condition or something to protect our privacy but they ignored the other conditions they had so what's the point?!

The agent is Dawsons, the property is on the corner right next to the little industrial estate. It's been for sale with other agents the whole time we've lived here, started a lot higher, £160-170k mark I think but now on for £125k guide. It was two houses knocked into one big one but I think it needs to be put back, big houses don't do well in this village. For one thing its council tax is band E, which must be £2k a year!

I think this weather will be good for ebay sales, we've bought loads of bits and bobs online today, everything from wheelbarrow wheels and tools to plants and crafty supplies!