Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Knotting is thick, brown gungy stuff that's painted very thinly on knots in bare wood to stop resins breaking through and ruining paint finishes. It dries quickly and it's not easy to get rid of.

No damage here, but not a day to work outside. I'm off to buy materials...

Yesterday afternoon I managed to deal with all the trees & shrubs I received by post, so that's one worry out of the way.

lostinrates

I heard some damage on the roof last night, but cannot see it. I'm guessing it will be low tiles. , it was on the side impossible to reach without scaffolding certainly.

azzabazza

On my last full day of granddaughter sitting here in Ireland. It was blowing an absolute hooley with torrential rain last night. A bit calmer this morning but not a day to take an active toddler to the play park! At this rate I will be blown home in record time to Scotland tomorrow morning.


Missing my garden but wouldn't have been able to work in it anyway!


I have spoken - I love Binnie Plants. Have had a few visits there.

ferretkeeper

BD I like that plant stand, nearly bought it there and then, but have a look at this one from ikea...

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20151837/?cid=gb%3Eot%3Eemail%3Eikea_share

It's taller and cheaper when the other one isn't in the sale, don't know how far ikea is from you, but it's given me time to think rather than rush in on Amazon

It's flipping windy and I've got to go down the M4 again for a trailer load of hay and straw, one of the bridges is closed it's that bad, so worse than Sunday :eek: Hopefully coming back fully loaded will keep the car settled better.

Didn't get the van to the garage yet, too lazy to walk home in the rain but I don't need it for a bit. We've had it about a year and it needs a service so I didn't see much point topping up the oil if they're probably going to change it anyway... That is what they do on a service isn't it?!? I have no clue! Maybe I'll check!

Because I could need it to do a long run to North Wales soon, it's a lot cheaper on diesel than the pick up so a preferred option. Last night I somehow managed to buy a second hand glass kiln, found the lady in Wrexham selling via FB, and by the time we'd chatted for 15 minutes I'd made up my mind to have it

I will sell some less useful things I own to pay for it, to lessen the guilt, but it will be very useful and if I want to sell it later I'd get my money back.

10 years ago, when we were young and mortgage free I spent the same amount of money on a designer handbag and pair of shoes without batting an eyelid...I've still got them, hardly worn, so that's probably what I should sell first, not much call for stilettos on the farm :rotfl:

lostinrates

I am going to be having a fire tonight in one of the new wood burners! Woohoo........


I need to acquire some more woodstove and oven friendly cooking stuff. I'm wondering if there is stuff in the barn.........

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Fk where do you get your straw from??

Lloyds have got some lovely soft straw in, think we pay about t £4 a bale,

And its nice a clean....

We don't go through loads, only when we got little ones etc


Had a lovely chat with Alfie earlier, they had a power cut, so hope it wasn't off for two long.. Had to go then as someone came into work I needed to talk too

Right off to have another cuppa, as that one didn't touch the sides

phoebe1989seb

Hope everyone survived the terrible windy conditions last night/this morning.....

Last night was pretty gusty here, but as we always seem to buy houses built into hillsides/escarpments we are actually quite sheltered and - in this instance at least - suffered no obvious damage, although we did find a large dead pigeon on one of the lawns this morning

Have been on a road trip to Derbyshire to collect some *real life auction* winnings - a few things for our collections and some to sell on Had to battle through hail, rain and wind to get there.

Beautiful sunshine now we're home, but still flipping freezing - don't blame you LIR lighting one of your new woodburners.....am tempted to have a fire myself!

Currently struggling to move in our kitchen-to-be as it's crammed full of our new units that arrived yesterday. Apart from one tiny error - for which they've fully refunded us this morning - we are very happy. Just need to find time to fit and paint them now

The Coroner has concluded their findings on my mum's cause of death and we can now go ahead with registering her death etc.....

I_have_spoken

Mad weather with me, flipping from biting wind and sleet to sun then back again.

I potted up the huge 24"x24" planter I bought cheaply from Amazon Warehouse last night. It's a 'hot' mix of the cannas, dahlias 'Bishop of Llandaff', dark red Asiatic lilies, poppies and crocosmia 'Lucifer'

As the cannas were sprouting from being the conservatory, I ended up storing the planter at the back of the garage until the really cold nights are over.

Pulmonaria seems unphased by the weather...

ferretkeeper

Classic combo IHS can't beat those hot colours! I haven't dared check my dahlias, got left out in their pots over winter, I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised!

CTC I get hay and straw from a farmer near Bridgend, convenient on abattoir days but also not too far to go otherwise, I can get 40 bales in one go with the big trailer and it's £3 a bale for hay or barley straw, which the pigs love! Locally hay is £5-6 a bale so it saves me a fortune.

Lloyds...I will try them If I'm desperate cos they're still cheaper than the village feed store and open a bit later, but the number of times they've had no straw, or no hay, or you can get 10 bales for whatever but they don't have enough! And "the last straw" LOL was when they didn't have a vehicle big enough to deliver all I had paid for, I eventually had to go and get the rest myself. They run out of other stuff a lot too, no bloomin use!

And here's something I made earlier...



The glass peeps took the pics and are sending the pieces on tomorrow, can't wait to see it all!

Davesnave

Very sunny, but still windy where I was. For a while after I'd come out of Poundland, I thought I'd had my pocket picked or lost my credit/debit cards, but they'd been blown off the seat into a dark corner when I stupidly opened both doors in the front of the van and created chaos!

After that, I bought a big bucket to keep the day's paperwork and small items in.:rotfl:

Poundland was a revelation. I didn't expect to see anything I recognised, but there were things in there I'd recently paid £3 for in other shops. It was all very interesting, but as I'd imagined it was Maplins (well it was last year!) and I needed cable ties, I didn't buy in there today.

Pete is bringing us half a lamb tonight. If I'd known that this morning it might have made quite a difference to my food shopping, but it will be mostly a freezer job anyway.