Daydream fund challenge part 4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie I would be freaked out if I had a million pound house to live in, that came with the job..I would panic they wouldn't like my taste in decor lol...

I must admit I was a wee jealous when I came down its a fab place...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I was going to say have you spoken to Rhiwie lately???

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all, grey and over cast here,don't know if its going to brighten up or not, but don't think it matters lol, as we got to 2 vans full of plant pots to empty..( rolls eyes, as I know hubby will make some sarky. Comments lol)

I think a cuppa and some toast first, get some more sorting and cleaning done, before the tribe decide to roll out of their pits lol

Davesnave

Nice here. No more rain forecast till this evening.

A polytunnel frame is always worth having, even if you don't put it up for a while, but check the bits that go underground for rot and don't expect all the bolts to undo!

Those pots should keep you going for a time anyway! :T

Woke up with a dodgy right knee. Couldn't walk at all to start with, but it's easing-up now. Don't know what that was about. I was fine when I went to bed!

I've been doing lots of boring research & calculations to see exactly what insulation we must fit into the walls and the floor of the garage when we convert it. I thought I had it cracked, as I found a useful document with cross-sections, designs and specs from a Welsh local authority. Then, I discovered the regs are different in England, Wales and Scotland!!!:mad:

We were going to just convert one half of the garage, and that's still true, but the unconverted part will get a new, insulated floor. This is because, at some later date, we might create a self-contained unit from Bedroom 1, its en-suite and the bit we aren't doing now. By careful design, there would be room for a corridor to a kitchen area, so we shall put a lintel recovered from elsewhere into the dividing wall, ready for this.

We aren't convinced that making a small self-catering unit would be worthwhile, but it's something we can look at later.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hope it was just a general ache with the knee Davesnave,

I think we will go and have a look, and prob get one, and as you say even if we store it, to put up later.

I am trying to slowly build up the ' tools' to start a potential cash flow of some sorts from the ranch... And if I see things at a bargain price then I am getting g them lol...

I will NEVER need to buy a plant pot again lol,,, unless I need the 9/12 hole modular ones .. Hubby did call mad, but see my logic that buying all of them was cheaper than buying 204 of the 3 lyre pots on that link you put up... I think this why the seller didn't get many bids, as the hobby back garden grower, wouldn't have any room to store them.. She would have been better sellingbthem in smaller lots of a 100 or so.. But I am not grumbling ( hubby is though lol) just need to get some cuttings etc on the go ready for selling in a few months time/ next year..

alfie_1

morning all ......... including long dave silver


warmer misty morning here, looks like summers on its way back.


finally managed to print off all the gumpf for holiday.. long gone the days where you walk in, book it, get tickets and walk out ! now its 2 copies of this that and t'other.. pre book a seat ! thankfully a friend sorted it all on her all guns blazing computer/printer ....:D


yes CTC I have spoken to rhiwi. he is fine, aches and pains as we all have, hes busy with his selling and family.


well good news is goosegoggins and stan have FINALLY sorted themselves out :T I think to be honest they were like running the London marathon, running round after each other.. and they got kernackered and called a truce :rotfl:


mum spoke/told other members of the family re house sale and all apart from one was exstatic for the good result. the ONE immediately said well she'd lost 10,000 ? and mum bless her said "and"....:rotfl:
mum said it was like the deel or no deel situation. be greedy and fall flat on her face or be safe..:p
the young couple are over the moon and came for a second viewing. mum sat and watched yemerdale and they made her a cup of tea while they looked ... they said they don't have a stick of furniture but didn't care... dad immediately suggested that if they want it they can have 2 bedrooms of furniture, the sofa, curtains and kitchen table. bless him


the dogs are all outside laying in the sun ...
old lab is a bit wibbly wobbly but doing ok. [aren't we all :rotfl:]


ive got some big bags of soil mix ready to plant up my wall baskets and big pots........ another day tho


well, hope you all have a good "smallholding " day

choille

Phoebe you are busy, your house is very beautiful= chocolate box garden too.

FK - lovely lamb. What breed? I just have the Hebredians in lamb this year, so that will be better/easier.

Dave - Scotland has very high insulation rates, which is a good thing. Could you lay pipes under the floor; that would be easier if you decide to turn it into accommodation? Just think of the hassle it will save.

Cold wind here again. No lambs as yet - I'll be a while yet.

With all the shuffling of my clutter it's gonna take hours to find some stuff I've sold on the bay!

Plumber phoned this morning- he's coming back on Wednesday - hopefully. He's had to take his beloved elderly cat over to the vets. Poor man. He sounds upset. Know how he feels. Still miss mine.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Well the rain stayed off until about half hour ago, when we just finished emptying on of the vans.. Took the 2 of us 3 hours to empty the pots into builders sacks. Not thrown in, BT lie flat in rows lol...

Davesnave looks as though a lot of these pots and trays came from LBS lol

Going to go on a their site again later and check out the prices of of the sizes etc that I got..

Right need a cuppa lol

lostinrates

That oak tree from a couple of years ago is finally chopped and in the barn. Depressing, that big messy pile.....such a small stack, lol!

Veg garden being tamed. . I think it is gradually turning itself into a plot for mainly perennial veg. Hurrah IMO.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave - Scotland has very high insulation rates, which is a good thing. Could you lay pipes under the floor; that would be easier if you decide to turn it into accommodation? Just think of the hassle it will save..

Yes we can pop in services too, but they will almost be where we'd need them by the time the en-suite part is done.

The other bit will remain a store room, but we happen to have a rather nice hand-made stable door for it, so we must do the whole floor to ensure it goes in at the right height for any future change of use. The walls of the store can stay as single skin for now.

Hmmm....Yesterday being Sunday, and therefore quiet, I was out before sparrow fart, cutting back some errant wild roses hanging over the road on the bend. I didn't want to be leaping out of the way of tractors, buses and the odd young loony in a hot hatch.

At that time, I inspected the bit of hedge I've been trying to fill-in, where at this time last year, Mr Dog whipped out a dozen small beech trees I'd just put in. All was well.

Today, on my daily walk around the perimeter, I saw several small trees snapped-off at about half height. Mr Dog has been back.....:(

On the one hand, this obsession Mr D has with 15' of hedgerow is blimmin' annoying, but on the other, it may be satisfying a mad desire to punish us and distracting him from worse things. So, I shall look at it like sacrificial planting.

He hasn't yet noticed the other planting we've done with the rosa rugosa. He won't be snapping that off anyway!