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Daydream fund challenge part 4
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Afternoon all
Yep the rain hammered down today
Been most of the day listing , took lola with me,
Wasn't happy last week as my pro steamer went pop.. Have had it a few years, but to get another like it was out of the question, so bought a cheaper one ( but still bloody expensive)..
Going to list all day tomorrow and Thursday ready for people getting their monthly wages, I really do hope things pick up...
Figures out today said sales growth was a nats whisker above 0%Work to live= not live to work0 -
COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »I really do hope things pick up...
Figures out today said sales growth was a nats whisker above 0%
It took just a few days of negative news a few months ago for me to pull the riskier shares I'd had for years, rather than leave them where they were and take the money from somewhere less exciting instead. I'm still not sure if I was right or wrong.
Here, in rural-land, people will continue to muddle-along OK, as they always do, but then wages are nothing like they are in the more populous places.0 -
Forgot to mention yesterday that I persuaded the dentist to leave the more tricky filling.:D
....And when I got there, they were still closed for lunch, so I took a walk around their garden and found a few seeds!0 -
Morning all
Not much to report really, unless I repeat myself lol
Waiting for the tiles and range people to get back to us about delivery..
We are having a discussion on where to put the radiators, and someone said you got to put them on the outside wall, not an inner wall ??? As some of the bedrooms for furniture positioning etc some of them would be better on an inner wall. Hope that made sense
Got another pekin gone broady , she is only a youngster and had only just started laying... So we bought some silkie eggs a week or so ago for her...
I am hoping that my black rocks will carry on laying throughout the winter, as even though they can mooch outside all day, they are in the main brick shed at night, and we have plumbed in the old Rayburn in there lol, so we lite the fire if it is cold for our birds to keep warm....Work to live= not live to work0 -
morning all...
CTC.. in my last house I had all the radiators put on inside walls as I like thick long curtains and you just lose all the heat if the curtains cover radiators..
the idea was that the heat met the cold air off windows but I thought that was an expensive waste. I prefer good curtains and so many people have double glazing these days im puzzled why they still put em under windows ??
it worked anyways... albeit NOTHING I could have done in that house would have made it warm/hot re radiators . way too many draughts and lack of power ment I couldn't leave heating on. when I did , it was cosy.
you put em where you want gal..
my back is like an ironing board this morning, it will no doubt improve as i get mobile today..
bright sunny but cold morning here.
hoss's are in bottom field with NEW shelter..
im def going to the reading carriage sale to see whats what, got a gypsy lad to go with me so i don't get ripped off IF i bid....
have a good day y'all..0 -
Morning indeed!
Hi all, trying to keep up with everyone's goings on, slow but steady progress all round by the sounds of it.
We have several unfinished jobs from this year (kitchen, bathroom and downstairs loo) but now the days are shorter the focus will shift indoors again and hopefully we can get this house looking tidier and feeling more like home. We have been here over 6 years and haven't even redecorated a lot of rooms
However I am feeling very energised and motivated after a short break away...I've just had an amazing trip to Texas, I had a window of opportunity with hubby still at home to look after everyone, so I grabbed it. I took a 5 day course with a glass artist who uses sand blasting, painting and gilding techniques I've never done to create really beautiful things. I'll find some photos and post em later. I'm hoping to link this to the splash backs and I also learned to make sinks, which look stunning too.
Then as I was already near Austin I Just had to go to the F1 race, knowing Lewis could win the title again there, and he did! Hung around near an entrance to the pit lane toward the end hoping to get on for the track invasion and that worked, so I got to see Lewis on the podium. Then waited by the Mercedes garage and sure enough Lewis came out and shook all our hands! Happy bunny!
Can't remember if I said when hubby was made redundant, it was August I think...he really struggled to find a job locally, I was looking for something too, but there is nothing! He has been offered a job but it's in Cornwall, he's rejoining the RAF as a full time reservist, training other reservists. So he will be working away, home at weekends again.
The job situation has made me realise just how economically backward things are locally, I'm going to have to go to the major towns and cities to sell anything farm related, and probably into England as well for the glass. Got some ideas and a few meetings lined up...
Ultimately I think I would like to relocate to Cornwall, hubby is from there and he would too, although I know that's more affected by seasonal traffic...or there's always Texas, I did love it there! Either way it's something we will work towards, nothing's going to happen overnight!
Meanwhile back to reality, got a mountain of laundry waiting and I'm pet sitting over the next few days, got to go and get my final instructions at lunch time, another family with a menagerie of feathered and four legged friends!0 -
Order from Crocus arrived today, many tulips, bare root wallflower 'Primrose Dame' and Wisteria floribunda 'Alba'.
I'm wondering if it's too late to plant the Wisteria and if I should keep it in frost-free conservatory? I'm tempted to plant it then give a good mulch.
Betta fish is fine but I don't like anything about the layout of his tank, so will starting over from scratch. At least I can use the black quartz grit I got for the substrate in the potting mix for cactii!0 -
Gosh FK, that would be quite a move....Texas...but even Cornwall would be a little tricky, with about the worst house price to wages ratio in the entire country! :eek:
Of course, you might not want to live in the very expensive bits, which are mostly by the sailing estuaries, the famous beaches and in the cute little fishing villages. That's only a fraction of the county. It could be good for your artistic career if you had the ability to reach people in Devon's South Hams, as well as the Cornish hot spots around Falmouth, Truro and St Ives.
Anyway, I'm impressed with your dedication, going all the way to the USA to learn more skills like that. :A0 -
Radiators are put under windows as that's the coldest area & dampest bit as the warm air hits a window & condenses so that is why you put them there - if that makes sense.
Dave glad you has success at the dentists - I did too in a way.
FK - sounds like you have loads of food for thought. Wonderful to be able to get motivated along those lines. Cornwall is a massively busy place in the Summer - which would be great for a business, but personally would be an off put for me - that's why I'm skint! Not the only reason I may add.
Went to the Rush management day & that was very interesting indeed. Saw some major improvement programme on rough pasture - but still not as rough as mine. Quite intense & loads to ponder. Quite technical when it went onto grass management & really made me think - but whethe I will ever get owt done that will improve my boggy acres is in question.
Really thought povocking day & great weather again - yesterday was 19 degrees & we met someone with sun burn - which is more than anyone got in the so called Summer.
Computer guy is going to supply a new computer & I have to go in and pick one - so that is good as I had lost faith in this one that went kaput as soon as we got it home.0 -
Morning all
Alfie will tell you the upstairs windows are very low to floor, so unless the radiator is under the window it wouldn't be any benefit??? I have aa few weeks to change my mind lol..
FK..that would be one heck of a move!!!
I personally think it doesn't matter what part of the UK you live in, reposk, upmarket, deprived it all evens out, the higher waged areas or demand for an area, the cost of living is higher, so by the time you pay higher prices you still end up with naff all lol..
But on saying that the area you live is a known to be a high unemployment!oyed area..
If you are serious about your splasbacks and got a professional looking portfolio/ samples etc then there are a few independent tile places around the city that we went to to look at tiles..which might be interested.so if you could make up a nice professional looking display board to leave with them, and work out the delivery timescale, etc. Being realistic people don't want to wait ages, so maybe a week- 2 weeks turnaround...
How are the pigs doing ...Work to live= not live to work0
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