Daydream fund challenge part 4

lostinrates

Today is meant to be glorious here, but its grey, overcast and windy ATM. Fir and I are just nipping back to bed for a coffee, and then we'll see what its like for chores and stuff.

Davesnave

Intermittent sunshine and a warmish wind here...I think it's the wind which is different. Sun promised later. That'll do me.

Yesterday I cracked-on with felling the willows around our 'wild' walnut tree to give it a fair chance. Now there are just some others with trunks at 45 degrees, which need those removed, plus a couple of ash along the road to attend-to.

It's getting late to cut trees, but neither of those are used by birds for nesting.

Our builder has gone to another job, leaving us to get on with decorating for a week. We have 3rd bedroom and office complete with skirtings, coving etc, so finished except for paint.

Blooming electrician didn't show though, so Bed 3 still has no light or power. :mad:

Rats do give nasty bites to dogs' noses. When I used to hunt with my dog as a teenager, the same thing happened. After that, she never gave rats scope to recover!

Rummer

A belated Happy Birthday :bdaycake:Choille!

I have been reading but since my laptop died a few months ago it is too awkward to post on the tablet often

A few weeks ago we finally had a dry weekend and we managed to go out and tidy up the back garden by weeding, turning over the beds and clearing the paths. Unfortunately though we have fences down so that is going to be an expensive headache when the weather settles .

On the positive side I have been seed shopping and I have planned out roughly what we are planting and where it is going. I have also been collecting toilet roll tubes so I can start to get seeds sown in a few weeks time. Every year I am too early and things fail to thrive so I am leaving it a bit later this time

The weather here has been awful for weeks and weeks now and even I am growing weary of the rain interspersed with snow and ice. Even if it dried out a bit we could get cracking on the vegetable garden

Better_Days

Just got up again and its warmed up outside :j:j:j

12 degrees in the sunshine and the wind is a bit warmer.

Mr BD is in the doghouse. This morning before he went to work he asked if he could borrrow my front door key. Why, I politely enquired. Apparently he had bent his using it to open a tin of paint and now it doesn't work properly :doh:

azzabazza

Not too cold here today, breezy, sun and intermittent rain spots. All my Tete a tetes are opening up now they have a bit of heat. They will probably be at their best when I am not here next week! DH gave grass it's first cut yesterday and both lawns seem to have survived.

MIL returned from a week's holiday abroad on Thursday. A bit worrying, she had a stroke yesterday and DH away visiting her in hospital. She is only 95!

azzabazza

Better_Days wrote: »

Mr BD is in the doghouse. This morning before he went to work he asked if he could borrrow my front door key. Why, I politely enquired. Apparently he had bent his using it to open a tin of paint and now it doesn't work properly :doh:

Funnily enough, I found our spare door key was bent a few weeks ago. DH had 'borrowed' it he said, but had no idea why it was bent.

phoebe1989seb

Beautiful blue skies and sunshine here today - although still windy I actually went out without a coat!

DH was up at the crack of dawn to go to a carboot sale, then home by 10am when we went out for brunch in the village.....yummy!

I've been doing more cutting back in the garden and plan to attack the lawn tomorrow once we've been to collect a period fireplace we've purchased for one of the bedrooms. This evening we're heading to Stafford to the M R James Ghost Story readings at the theatre. These are a bit of a favourite of ours - this will be our third *performance* we've attended over the last year or so

I'm with BD on the wood around the sink viewpoint - we've had two houses where we opted for this choice and at the first of those it was in place for nine years (till we sold and still there in 2013 when the house sold again, so fifteen years in total) and although I can't confirm what condition it was in recently it stood up to everyday wear and tear fine for our nine years usage......BUT like BD we were extremely anal about oiling and mopping water spillages, which I appreciate is not for everyone :D Likewise the iroko we chose for the last house - no black issues round the sink/taps at all.....but that was after only three years.

Otoh, DS and his GF bought oak worktops (from Wickes iirc) for their last flat and after only eighteen months that looked awful around the sink area - but they are inclined to be somewhat messier than us, lol :rotfl:

From what I've heard, laminates are far better and much more attractive than they used to be (last time we had laminate was in our first house in 1989 so I'm hardly an expert!), so I'd hazard a guess you'll be fine with that choice choille

choille

Really rough here last night - could here stuff getting blown around & didn't get much sleep. Still torrential rain & there's a burn running through the veg garden.

It's digusting here - poor sheep. I can hardly walk across the fields so I don't know how they cope.

plasterer has really mucked usabout - supposed to be here for a while but it all seems to have gone pear shaped. I thin k he has a complicated life, but I would have gone elsewhere if he hadn't been so insistent on how he was going to be here & finsih &,,,,,and,,,,,,and,,,,,,he reckoned he'd have finished the kitchen by Christmas........didn't say which one mind you.

I'm really, really, really, really pished off.

azzabazza

Don't know what to say to you Choille to lift your spirits. I must admit my heart sinks when I watch the Scottish weather forecast and I see your neck of the woods covered in rain. Is it my imagination, or has it been far more windy than usual this winter? I certainly feel we have had more wind here in the SE than usual.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Choille, I the same as Azza, I don't know what to say to cheer you up, re- the weather AND the plasterer.. messing you around..


maybe a night away somewhere, just to re-charge your batteries???


fingers crossed the weather changes really soon up your way, and the plasterer gets his act together, or could you get another one in to finish off??