Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Serious rain is back Good day to put in my order for spring bulbs.

PS Have bought a bigger aquarium! It's still small as these things go mind...Very bright LED lighting for the plants.



EDIT, went for the reliable basics after the foxtail lily incident -

Anemone 'White Splendour'
Prepared hyacinth 'Carnegie' and garden hyacinth City of Haarlem
Iris 'Red Ember'
Tulips 'Purple Prince', 'Francoise' and 'White Dream'
Daffs 'February Gold' and 'Tete a Tete'
Allium 'atropurpureum'
and the supplier offer of free crocus 'Barr's Purple'

I'll need to plant them very carefully as I didn't make any record of where I've put in bulbs before.

lostinrates

I'm back online .

Choille, indoor waterfalls.....you got the same plumber we had?

CTC.....EVERYTHING looks amazing. I love it.

Everyone else.....hi!

I wanted to call Kiwi 'glee' ( before the tv show) or Happy. I think those are both great names. I little person like that might also suit 'Cog' ( a small but essential part of the machine that is your family) or Sugarlump. The chihuahua part might want something sort of Hispanic, but I think the jack out weighs that? But if not a Spanish girls name might suit. Bearing in mind her very tiny stature I might suggest something like Guadalupe ( pronounced gwadaloopay ) and with an amusing grandure her in mind.

( it means Valley of the wolves and is a place, but also a girls name....bearing in mind she is a very un wolf like dog living in Wales, the place of the Valleys, not the original Guadalupe, I finds this rather hilarious)

choille

CTC - you've done so much work it all looks like it's coming together & quite magnificent. Wee fella will be like a hound in a baronial hall - well to scale - if you see what I mean...

Lost my internet connection - they (BT) are tinkering with it up the road & we keep losing connection - usually just after typing a long response.

Raining now & quite midgied but the breeze is picking up so that may get rid of them.

Good to hear form you LIR - hope things go well and sorry to hear you've had plumber probs too. I think we - well I do need post plumber councelling! [sp?]

Free listing again but not much is selling so not a great incentive to spend all day doing that & plenty of unsold stuff to relist.
I really must look to alternatives - any suggestions welcome.

Bulbs on offer in Morrissons but I restrained myself. If I don't plant tulip bulbs in pots the mice eat them - took me a while to figure that one out - where they'd gone.

Davesnave

Had a surreal evening with Horse woman + two guests at her place last night.

Obviously, they'd been to one of her soirees before, as they arrived late, well after the news and weather, which we had to endure at ear-splitting volume, sans drink, sans nibbles, sans conversation, because it would have been rude to start and we couldn't hear each other anyway! :undecided

All the nibbles turned-out to be cheesy, or cheese based, which was rather disappointing, as I don't mind some cheese, but I don't go a bomb on cheese flavouring. Luckily, I thought, we'd brought some vegetable crisps, treble chocolate biscuit thingies and a whole box of rocky roads....but these had vanished!

At least there was wine.:)

Horse Woman brought us up to date with the gossip, though how she ever hears any is hard to know....:rotfl:Apparently she's had complaints about the noise from her TV, which must be a mistake, because 'it's on the opposite side of the house' from the complainant. It's probably the young man with the motorbike.(He's about 60.:D)

I bit my lip on that. Sometimes, especially when the racing is on, I've heard her telly from inside our temporary kitchen, and that's 80 metres away! :eek:

choille

Torrential rain here.

Horse Woman rides again....? Sounds like the name of a super hero but not a super supper supplier.

Catching up on work stuff....yawn...yawn...OH been on the phone all day. I'm just the goffer..guv....

I_have_spoken

Don't know how the fish feel, but I'm having a glass of red after sorting out their new home -

Torrential rain here.

Yep, morning was horrendous with me, although it's brightened up now. May as well forget about any ideas of an 'Indian summer'

choille

Very nice IHS - a top glass apartment.

Do you know about folks using pieces of decorative wood that has been buried in peat for years? Does that help with the water conditions?

I_have_spoken

Does that help with the water conditions?

I have a piece of bogwood in the tank (on the back with anubias tied to it) and mopani (sitting on the gravel). AFAIK the tannin leaching into the water is more of a nuisance for discolouring but makes no impact on the fish.

choille

What does AKAIK mean?

Davesnave

AFAIK = as far as I know (or maybe ken, up your way.;))

Horse Woman is a good neighbour - her yard & field is just across the lane - but she's becoming a bit of a concern. :(She hears little and sees not a lot, but she's still driving about in her 4x4. There was that time last year when she tried to visit the tall ships down on the south coast, got lost and ended up in Penzance ....then drove home again! :eek:

But mostly it's just slow deterioration. When we came here she had a really organised fruit garden and tidy fences, but now the fruit is just about visible and the fences are clothed with weeds. Today I strimmed all her roadside, as it was 2' high. It's a job she knows she not safe doing now.

Her thoroughbred is 34 and still in apparently good health, thanks to superlative care. I fear it's going to be a question of who goes first, with the other going shortly after. :undecided