Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

morning all


well its been raining for hours now but like dave , we need it ! evry where is yellow looking so hopefully a bit of green will be here soon..


re houses, the one house I missed badly was my last one. it was old and quirky and I felt "at home" there..;)
the shape/appearance was unique [imo] , the flowers around the house were random and explosive in their prime. everything flourished.
yes it was hard work with no electricity but that was all part of it. the best 10 years of house living ive had. it certainly made me appreciate what things cost and how to utilise the simplest things.
this house is sheer luxury to me. it took me a long time to accept "power" on tap !!:rotfl:
I miss having my wood around me now, the wildlife is different here. it seemed very secretive at last house, I knew what animals were where and fed them accordingly ..... here its deer and more bird life. ive seen badgers/foxes etc but they don't come so close.
BUT... I am warmer, less tired and happy


all part of life experiences.. and ive had a few

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie...just read an article that they have given the green light for fracking to go ahead down by you!!!!!

lostinrates

Well, wallpapering is slow, but ok. Maybe should not have started where we did, and old walls make matching things up up and keeping things straight rather tricky ( matching up owner over straightness). No bubbles or anything, just not very fluid at doing it yet. About half way through ( we thought we'd get it all done today:( ).

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Alfie...just read an article that they have given the green light for fracking to go ahead down by you!!!!!

They've been quietly extracting oil from under Poole Harbour for a long time by drilling sideways, which is what they're proposing for the NF, but it's fair to say that the Poole operation isn't the same as fracking.

I've visited the Poole site at Wytch Farm, so I know the visual impact is almost nil. They had to build different kinds of refinery structures to keep the machinery/buildings below the tree line. A lot of oil is pumped across country by pipeline to Severnside, so there is no transportation involved in that.

I guess that the good record of the workings at Wytch & Furzey has calmed local fears somewhat, but it isn't the same kind of thing that's proposed now. Might be a good bit of protest once the difference is appreciated.

I_have_spoken

Perversely it's a sunny evening with us, despite the weather warnings for London etc.

Delivery from Crocus :j



Clematis 'Guernsey Cream'
Rodgersia pinnata 'Chocolate Wing'
Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum' (brook thistle)
Ligusticum scoticum (Scotch lovage)
Dryopteris wallichiana

Umbellifer (not sure which one TBH), so at the forefront of garden fashion...:cool: Tin peacock likes anyway

Davesnave

Maybe a poo weather day here, but already the plants are looking more lively, especially the courgettes, which were in a major sulk.

Blooming cold though! If I could, I'd light the wood burner, but the plasterers have just skimmed the chimney area in the kitchen and I don't want to dry it faster than is 'natural.'

The plastering's coming on well.:j We should see an end to it by Tuesday, barring the living room, which will need doing after we've made a new fireplace opening. Hopefully, we'll have somewhere else to crash during evening time by then. We won't be sorry when all the messy indoor jobs stop.

Your wallpapering was probably much more productive than my efforts today, lir. I attempted to locate two plastic pipes, fed down from the loft via the boxed-in space around the toilet stack pipe, so they couldconnect to a radiator in the guest en-suite......Alas, they were not there. :(

They certainly pass downwards, but it looks as if I shall have to destroy more decent plasterwork to find them. Any sensible person would surely have measured floor to ceiling and fed that amount down, leaving a bit extra, just in case

Arrgghh! It's plumbers again, isn't it! :mad:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Been busy taking the floor up .. As we guessed no damp coarse etc...

choille

I grouted the mosaic tiled splash back in the cloakroom, so had better get out there & sponge them off.

Funny blistering paint patch on bedroom ceiling - don't know what happened there but I scrapped it & repainted the patch. I also had to refill & re[paint dresser doors as we kinda mucked up with placing the new handles, but all done now, handles on & looking good.

OH & a joiner did quite a bit of plumbing today, so I am really chuffed at that. Funny thing is joiner picked up some plumbing stuff for us at a supplier & the.....guess who? ...was in there - our ex-plumber & apparently he was boiling mad when he sussed that the world still turns round withhout his input.

Davesnave

Just been Googling your plants, IHS......I'd love the Rodgersia as I only have a very plain one, which is still recovering from neglect a year or two ago.:o

I have the Shuttlecock fern, which is similar to yours, and pretty undemanding, but the Cirsium I've always found very tricky.

That Scottish lovage looks interesting. I just have the standard, cooking one, which has been very sad in the dry.

My favourite umbellifer is this one....
https://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/view/?id=49
I have a few of the above, which may become many by next year.

Also, when I visited that garden 'darn sarth' of here a few weeks ago, some seeds of a massive umbellifer fell into my pocket and they've already started growing....I wish I'd discovered its name. Shouldn't be too many to choose from that reach 10'

choille

Looks major CTC. Bigger job than tiling splashbacks.