Daydream fund challenge part 4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,

Fab pics IHS

Grey and overcast, but quite close

Been leaving the wild grass grow, so they got loads of grass seed pods on, so I can collect the seeds and scatter them around the empty Piggie paddocks to re- seed and grow.. Do you think now is the time to collect them??

Quiet on here with a few posters going awol....wonder what's happened to pheobe??

choille

Lovely dramatic pic IHS - do the parafin lamps work? Mean for real mean midgies?

Wasted day here, but spent most of it in Ullapool. Lovely place to browse & play at being a tourist which I did. Anyone else go round galleries & think ....I could do that? Not that I'm any good, but I will enjoy doodling once I have a table in a room to doodle at.

Very stormy looking now. WE lost our internet connection yesterday, but okay now.

Don't know about the seeds CTC - they need to be mature, ready to drop before they're fully fertile I think.

CTC - Someone we know is getting a Welsh range - sounds interesting. Do you know what that is?

alfie_1

hi all
well the rain that was forecast didn't 'appen ....
first they said 6am-10am then it was 4pm-6pm... nope
it was 18d this morning and hit 25d this afternoon. bright clear blue sky now ..
got an airport pick up this evening so will have to eat before I go or I end up not eating at all
taken big dog home.. owners have a house in Mallorca and it was 39d there !! I went there one year and its half way up a small mountain with a view to die for over the bay... and restaraunt prices to match !

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

hi all
well the rain that was forecast didn't 'appen ....

'Cos we nicked it before it got to you!!!

Peed down here, so the radio was totally drowned in the polytunnel and I thought, "Typical, the one day we arrange to go out!" :mad:

But the garden needed it, and we set off anyway with our packed lunch, heading for an NGS open garden and plant nursery near Dawlish.

As we sat in the car in the Haldon Hills, munching our lunch, out came the sun.

Garden was very interesting, being a bit sub-tropical, and the nursery prices and stock were such that we will go back before long.

alfie_1

hiya


well did my airport run and as I was nearly home, after dropping guy off, I saw youngish girl hitch hiking [20s] I stopped and asked where she was going... totally well past my house... so I gave her a lift to where she needed to be ! what a lovely girl, chatted all the way. I asked I she worried hitching and she said shed hitched the length and breadth of England/Scotland. and encountered such lovely people she wasn't afraid. it wasn't going to stop her... fair play and how sensible not to let a minute percentage of baddies taint her adventures ...
will jump off my soap box now

Davesnave

Back in the day, we used to hitch everywhere. In fact I can remember my GF of the time saying things like "There's an exhibition of .......at the Tate/Science Museum/ICA / Wherever... let's hitch up to London tomorrow."

And so we would. Bath to London and back in a day.

OK I'll admit to sometimes being slightly behind a bush while she did the hitching , but we went all over the place like that.

I'd also hitch home to Devon on a Friday night and come back the same way Sunday evening. There was never any thought that I'd not make it.

But I hitched long before that. If we missed the bus to school, it was either hitch or cycle the 12 miles. Some regulars on that road would always stop and make sure we escaped detention. :A

choille

I, too used to hitch & even hitched all around Greece, Holland, Belgium.

I once hitched down to London & got there quicker than if I'd have taken a coach.

I did recently hitch locally - I know - at my age!

Most of the murders, violence etc happens to people by a relative or relation - so strangers are less dangerous!

We always stop if we have room if someone needs a lift & do go out of our way to deliver folk near to where they need to get - I see it as repaying all those times I was helped with lifts. There's only a couple of buses a week here so not handy at all. All those cars going about with only one person in them is a shame.

I_have_spoken

A rare event, I'm on holiday and the weather is nice :beer:

Only downside is I need to trek to a car dealer the other side of Glasgow for 8am to get the immobiliser reprogrammed...but then I plan to drop into the Glasgow Ikea and Dobbies. I need an ammonia tester to check how often the fishes need their water changing.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,

Weather looks nice at the moment, but a yellow weather warning has been given for potential thunderstorms!!!

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Morning all,

Weather looks nice at the moment, but a yellow weather warning has been given for potential thunderstorms!!!

Same here. It may be a bit random, with some people escaping and others deluged.

Yesterday, there were signs of really intense rain in the garden we visited and on the roads around, but we missed all that. Here, the stream didn't run, despite an hour of heavy rain.

Sorry I can't put up any photos at present, as my security software won't allow me to feed Tinypic, but this is one of the plants I bought yesterday.....Harmonious and restful, it aint!

http://www.emerisa.com/photo.aspx/10955-1-full.jpg