Daydream fund challenge part 4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,


weather is pants, but at least it has stopped raining for now..


back to home1 now to do a little bit more delcuttering..


I am soooo ashamed ... the hoarders programme has nothing on me lol..


but little by little it will soon be sorted..


Choille it really does sound like your place is making good progress...thought the new builder would have been here last week, but we have been informed he is waiting for stuff he ordered from the builders merchants to come in, which he has been promised early to mid week, so fingers crossed..


so I think I better start looking for a toilet ready to go in lol..

azzabazza

choille wrote: »

Haven't caught up with all your progresses & news yet.

Managed to not get run over in Edinburghby trams. What a change in a city - blocks of flats up one way streets that weren't there before. It seems so crambed in & overly built on.

Enjoyed it though.

Managed to get a fair bit of plaster boarding done in the kitchen today with stew back organising us. We have a list of to dos to do before he comes back in a fortnight. We need the discipline.

Yes, there are huge changes in Edinburgh. I still love the city but rarely go into town these days despite being only 13 miles away. The Scott Monument is lit up in red until Sunday - it looked lovely on the tv last night.

lostinrates

Understood dave.

We have untouched ashes here in this immediate area still. An ash on the border of our garden and the farm has died, but of something else I'm told. This is a self seed from that.

If it were almost ANYWHERE else I'd leave it alone, things being as they are, because its essentially firewood for the future. But this is RIGHT in the base of a building, It either moves if we can, or is killed. ( or a building will suffer badly)

choille

The buddlieh is so easy to propogate LIR. Just shove some heeled prunings in a pot & you'll have a 'new plant come spring. I don't think it'llmove too well. I don't have a white one. sounds lovely.

It's a while since I was in Edinburgh so I saw loads of changes. I live so remote that it was all a tad culture shock. A friend who now lives out in East Lothian says whe hardly goes into the city now as she finds it too much.

The plaster boarding isn't finished in the kitchen yet - it's about 3.6 metres high so quite a job really. We are looking for a plaster board lifter!

CTC - I know what you mean about hoarding, but being of the nature of never throwing anything out it does 'breed' clutter. Ebay is so slow it isn't get rid of the stuff quick at all at all.

Some rain here. It's so wet & slimy everywhere.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Choille, yep it def 'bred' in the 20 odd years we have been here, and it hasn't helped we have left the boys more or less to their own devices for the last 6 plus months... with them 'hiding' empty coke cans, bottles takeaway cartons around the place... not nice...


talk about boys and a batcherlor pad....

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

talk about boys and a batcherlor pad....

Hey! Some of us 'boys' were quite civilized.

Some weren't though.:(

In my first shared house, I had to share a room with another guy, so those who'd never had their own room could have one for the first time.

He was a slob. After a while, I could see I'd get no help, so I told him I was having one side of the room and he could have the other. He agreed.

Every weekend I hoovered and dusted my side, and every weekend he did nothing. By the time I left, his side of the room was all dust and cobwebby and there was a definite line down the centre along the carpet.

Trouble was, I still had to go through his bit to get to my bit! :doh:

Alexelisey

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

it hasn't helped we have left the boys more or less to their own devices for the last 6 plus months... with them 'hiding' empty coke cans, bottles takeaway cartons around the place... not nice...

I know how you feel about that one - eldest son moved out recently and there was rubbish I saw coming out of his room going back to Christmas last year. A car full :eek:of black sacks of empties, fag packets, sweet wrappers, takeaway boxes etc went to the tip. We're still contending with fruit flies from all the beer cans..

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alexelisey wrote: »

I know how you feel about that one - eldest son moved out recently and there was rubbish I saw coming out of his room going back to Christmas last year. A car full :eek:of black sacks of empties, fag packets, sweet wrappers, takeaway boxes etc went to the tip. We're still contending with fruit flies from all the beer cans..

WOW... and I thought I had it bad with the odd couple of cans and takeaway boxes around the place.....

alfie_1

Alexelisey wrote: »

Alfie - quick dolls house question please - is there such a thing as a standard size window with plain panes in it rather than the Georgian style ones?

yes ? there is allsorts in the parts dept of dollshouse imporium...

alfie_1

evening all ..... when my lad was a teenager i used to see him have a weekly tidy up before any girlies arrived am i the only lucky one to have a son who hates clutter !! since he could, he irons all his own clothes.... i must admit when i hear some of the horror stories re kids i thank my mum and dad for being his guiding force re standards and manners . they minded him when i worked in his younger days . good memories i think most teens reach a point when they dont like to be messy and "want to impress" when a female is on the scene...:rotfl::rotfl: