Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Lovely here, but cool with it.

My garden is a disaster this year, but it hasn't been a gardening year!

Looked at cheap carpets for the bedroom the other day & they do look....cheap, but not really cheap when you add in all up - underlay, fitting etc. I saw the same on the internet for half the price, but I still feel that it looks naff. I won't bother just now as too much else to pay out for.

Fay

Well I'm on leave for two weeks and as is the case when you work full time, the two weeks will be filled with jobs I never get chance to do when at work. I'm decorating the hall, stairs and landing. The walls are done, went with little green paint company (love their paint) in rolling fog mid, it's a lovely colour. Like a misty grey with a touch orf heather almost. Husband says its s mushroom but it's really not lol. I have done half the woodwork and half left to do tomorrow. It's not a massive space but had 10 doors off it, boo. But will look good. Luckily we don't need a carpet, although I would like a new one. We have a good woollen one down and we had it cleaned esrlier in the year, then in the hall is the original 1939 floor, a black and red tile which is lovely. It's a shame some idiot had carpet out over it at some point. Although it's been restored and looks great there are holes round the edges from the carpet grippers.
In the garden we had some hedges trimmed today and the guy is coming back tomorrow. He's topped a really large holly and is doing the other two tomorrow and taking out two pear trees for us. Both are in the wrong places, planted too close to fences when originally out in and now 20 odd years later they're s problem. They also have terrible rust, so out they come and make way for something else.
We have also accepted a quote for th removal of s rather large leylandi hedge so I will get pics when it's done at the end if the month, I may need some consoling words and encouragement when it goes lol. It will leave us exposed for s while and will look bare.
Alfie that pup is lovely. I had a go,den lab and he was amazing. The best friend I could have ever had in my childhood, and adult hood.

alfie_1

hi all...
im still sorting a stack of furniture in storage at friends.... lots of good stuff some nice antique stuff...
I get pick of and sell the rest for her :j
farrier cancelled last minute yesterday..after id rounde all 10 up and had half of them tied up ready.... couldn't be helped [farriers recovering from an op and had done too much] hes coming Friday afternoon now.
B&T are supposed to be coming FINALLY to my mum Friday morning... we will see


CHOILLE..... if your computer is NEW they should have replaced it not sent it off for repair... your deal was with the seller not the company.. fact...;)


bailey has settled in...in fact hes now a little monkey ! running rings round them :rotfl:


weather is ok here but very cold at night... its dark by 7 :eek: im lighting my fire...

choille

What a lovely puppy Alfie.

They are such nice natures - labs. I've volunteered to look after a woman's one a few days a month while she has to travel down country to an office. Don't know how hairy cat will take to that!

Lucky you getting to pick your pals bits & bobs, but not lucky with the farrier - poor chap, but a lot of wasted work rounding them up for you.

Computer guy has gone on holiday so I don't know where I stand with it. I'm a bit poshed off really, but lucky old lap top still grinds on. You get that you rely on being on-line - well I do now.

Been grouting tiles in the kitchen - loads & loads & still more to do. It really rips the moisture out of your hands. Sawed up wood earlier with the hand saw & feel a bit achey.

I'm toying with the idea of dying some chairs - you get upholstery dye & it would save me recovering them. They are old art nouveau type dining chairs which someone in their wisdom recovered in a yukey reddish/pink chenille.

Davesnave

Grouting for you, choille, and a similarly hand-cracking job for me today, blasting the old render off the front of the bungalow with my vibrating drill thing. Luckily, the old stuff was not bonded correctly, as the part I was doing is thermal block, with the physical appearance and all the strength of an Aero bar! :eek:

Hopefully, Mr Rod will begin covering it all up again tomorrow, but who knows? I managed to send a semaphore message via Mrs Rod yesterday.....:(

DW's mobility problems have diminished greatly since last week's visit to the hospital, so she's been doing proper outdoor work for the first time in months. She's trimmed several hedges and reduced the huge bay tree to a more appropriate size. There's no way we could eat that much spaghetti bolognese! :rotfl:

Gosh, those pictures of mine are huge! I'd better do clickable thumbnails in future.:o No wonder choille thought Lila had grown some. She isn't very chubby in real life; in fact she's 100g lighter than her slim sister, who's dense in more ways than one.

alfie_1

so....... could I "do" a 7 day husky sled driving sponsored trip in the arctic ...... :cool:





250km Norway to sweden

Rummer

What a fantastic idea Alfie, grasp each opportunity that makes your heart sing

choille

Dave - really good news that Mrs Dave is doing better - hope it is a lasting improvement. Must feel good to see her being outdoors & getting on with stuff after a time of not being able to & also great that you are getting a load of render knocked off - so to speak.

Managed to stick my fingers together gluing on turquoise bobble fringing onto glass shelves this evening. Quite sore after prising them apart.
My hands could now be used sanding down doors- they are ruff ruff.

I_have_spoken

First ground frost with me overnight, ice of the car windscreen this morning.

Most of the tender plants in the conservatory, not the dahlias as I want them to get frosted to reuse the pots for tulips.

Bought another aquarium...more news when it's set-up.

Rummer

IHS, is this the third aquarium? Do you have fish in them all or are you upgrading each time? We used to have a tank in the living room and I loved having fish, however they never seemed to last even with all the care we could lavish on them. It is something we have considered for the future however we have enough pets at the moment :rotfl: