Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Evening all,

Choille this is what I am frightened of , but hayho I will give it a go..if I can stick it great, if not it will prob put a bit umph back into me and make me more determined to make auction life pay ( eBay and farm auctions etc)

Been a lovely day here, but started to get quite cold around tea time .

Alfie.. Your mam sound like a little stick of dynamite lol....all the cleaning etc I'd probably taking her mind off the emotions of selling her family home , and movi g somewhere on her own

Funny thing is CTC , mum hasn't given a backward glance for old house ! she couldn't wait to move, she reckons being here is like being on holiday !! she's looking forward to her new flat that is imminent ...


ive just managed to list 2 items... took foreverrrrr.. but got a bid on one item within minutes . paid £10 at bootsale and got a £25 bid


off to solicitors in the morning with mum with paperwork all signed for flat...


been a gorgeous "hot" day today.. lets hope it lasts

Davesnave

Badrick wrote: »

Davesnave, I had a couple of lessons from an old friend of mine, he'd always use bonding coat plaster (sticks like the proverbial ), then skimmed with board finish, unless it was something unusual.
Just trowel it on and don't work it too much, that's when it starts to sag/fall off .:(
HTH.

Ah, Ive seen this too late , and I have a spare bag of bonding as well.... Bum!

What happened was that I got nearly finished, then I had to give it just a bit more smoothing and.."fwlumph!" The middle section collapsed. :mad:

For once, I didn't start hitting it, Basil Fawlty style. :A I saved 2/3 of it and then calmly walked away to do some painting.:whistle:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all,

Well I done it..I survived the first day ( just lol) its in the pressing room in a engineering company.. Using manual pressing machines pressing small bits of metal into shape.. My hands, neck, arms are aching.. I am now having a cuppa, and then going to have a nice soak in the bath...

Catch you all later once I have more energy lol

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Afternoon all,

Well I done it..I survived the first day ( just lol) its in the pressing room in a engineering company.. Using manual pressing machines pressing small bits of metal into shape.. My hands, neck, arms are aching.. I am now having a cuppa, and then going to have a nice soak in the bath...

Catch you all later once I have more energy lol

well done you ! at least it will take your mind off finishing the last enterprise if that makes sense .....


well we took papers to solicitors this morning, and I cracked on then with flight extension for BLUE [owl] ... of course the logistics of getting wire netting on the roof :eek: need a resident giraffe !!


ive just come in and look like ive been through a lawn mower...
dinner beckons...


p.s. another glorious day here again

COOLTRIKERCHICK

We moved the little UN's out to a run yesterday

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie when I was in work today it was like stepping back 15 odd years when I used to work in factories..

Our family business for the last umpteen years done us proud.. And knowing in its height we employed 9 people....

Instead of looking back, we are looking forward...

choille

CTC - good for you. I would do manual - it's all I've ever done really. I worked as a P/T farm labourer for 13 years - loved it. No jobs here - I would have to travel a good distance & I don't drive a car, so a bit hopeless.

Alfie I'm pleased that things are working right for your Mum & she really loves her new flat when things are sorted out.

Very low cloud here. Hope it improves tomorrow as I'm off to climb a mountain!

Did another coat on the external doors of Danish oil - they aren't hung yet, but trying to get them done before they are.

Primer on loo ceiling & does seem to have covered the water marks.

Man came to connect the calor gas cooker I got off Gumtree. It looks all right for £50. He had to upgrade the pipes & connectors.

I'm finding Ebay dead as a dodo at the mo - loads of cheeky low offers on my buy it nows but not a lot really happening sale wise.

Hairy cat has just come in with a mouse so better get that cleaned up before it gets splattered everywhere.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Instead of looking back, we are looking forward...

Rear-view mirror thinking does no one any good. We have to keep re-inventing ourselves.

My first outside-the-family job was on a press, but it was the one that squashed cardboard for recycling at the back of Tesco's warehouse. Even in the 1960s, there was recycling, but I think that was mainly to avoid being buried in packaging.

Good for you, anyway. You'll feel OK now the first day is out of the way. :T

Fay

Well done CTC, starting a new job is always nerve wracking. I'm moving jobs soon to a new team and I'm really apprehensive about it.
It was dark this morning when I got up, quite sad inducing. But I do enjoy autumn and I'm planning on digging out and replanting one of my borders so that's to look forward to. I've been demolishing a lot of the garden. It's taken me 5 years to feel confident enough to really make the garden mine. I've taken out some of the old shrubs that had got completely out of hand and that I didn't like. Then painted the fence dark grey. If I can make photoshop work fur me I'll put some photos up later.

Happy Tuesday everyone. I went back to work yesterday after a week off so I'm fighting the blues lol.

Fay

I can't post photos as when I click the image button it just switches my internet link off...what's that about