Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

hi all.....


what a dull dank day !


my friend has bought a really old farm house and she took me to see it yesterday [son may live there] it was all old beams EVERYWHERE.. absolutely gorgeous BUT the previous owner was such a skinflint he botched every addition... and considering he was [in his prime] an eminent surgeon, I was gobsmacked :eek:
shelves everywhere, nothing matching [wood/materials wise] lovely kitchen units /appalling work tops ??
paint work :eek: carpets :eek:....... yuck.
anyway theres a HUGE barn, 2ft thick walls and 3 story height, outbuildings [= 2 cottages] stables and paddock.
all run down !
BUT ID GIVE MY EYE TEETH TO LIVE THERE :rotfl:

RAS

alfie

Huge huge amount of work....................

I want somewhere small and simple next time, with sufficient land.

Gotta de-clutter.

alfie_1

ok folks....what is this plant ? growing in farmhouse garden
it was about 4ft high

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

alfie

Huge huge amount of work....................

I want somewhere small and simple next time, with sufficient land.

Gotta de-clutter.

I agree with simple, though I might not be able to cope with small so well after this place.

Just bringing this 1970s structure up to date and rectifying all the ill-thought out bodges will cost us all we have. I dread to think what it would be like coping with listing, or having to install appropriately posh fittings.

If I knew then what I know now, I'd have walked away in 2009. Honest!

No, that's not true.....I'd 've run! :rotfl:

alfie_1

https://youtu.be/ujPymfdZA8c


:D

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

ok folks....what is this plant ? growing in farmhouse garden
it was about 4ft high

They look like a type of Asian gourd.

Google 'kankrol':D

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

They look like a type of Asian gourd.

Google 'kankrol':D

NOPE not them
they are dangerously spikey :eek: full of likkle black seeds that I "borrowed"

alfie_1

Davesnave

OK, what about Sour Sop?

Again, it seems a bit exotic for the New Forest!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

OK, what about Sour Sop?

Again, it seems a bit exotic for the New Forest!

looks like it .... but its def not a tree stem, almost like the texture/strength of a hollyhock stem that branches out into 3/4 "fruits"
when I took off one it was difficult to break the softish stem ???
theres more than one of them growing there .. I saw at least 3.


a mystery.. shall I send you some seeds dave ?