Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Lucielle - my sympathies - it can be such a constant annoying pain. Pleased you've found some respite from the pain.

Off out to the house to see what I can do for a couple of hours.

lucielle

Turkeys got despatched today. They will be dressed on Wednesday and delivered.


Still got the pressies to wrap which I detest doing. Finish work on Wednesday.
L

fuddle

It's warm, windy with rain lashing on the window. Recipe for no sleep. :cool:

Christmas is done (had my fair share of delivery woes with Amazon and Argos) but aside from food, I'm there. Just wrapping to do now though.

Can I ask what fruiting bush could I train up a trellis? The space is about a meter high by 6 meters wide. Any ideas? I'm thinking a thorn less blackberry but wondered if there was anything else suitable I might fancy trying. Sun about 2/3 of the day so I have been told.

Beautiful orchid.

choille

You could do some espalier apple trees, but RAS or Dave would be the ones to know about those |I think.

Same here - windy with rain & warm.

Nowt seems to be selling on the bay, but at least I don't have to worry about posting stuff. I'm gonna have to get a bus on Wednesday into Inverness or the little one on Thursday into Ullapool. I'm gonna miss my chauffeur. We only have 3 buses a week go into Inverness - about 80 miles away & one on Thursdays that go into Ulla 32 miles off. It will be a rude awakening.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,

Choille so glad everything went OK.. Re eBay, have you tried selling your raw fleeces on etsy???

I could send you a referral link, which gives you 40 free listings..p!us its def worth networking on etsy fb pages, and doing the share thing to get your listings higher up on the viewing pages. Sold my first thing last week, it went to America.

Went to the dressed Turkey and produce type auction in Hereford yesterday ..ended up buying 2 HUGE boxes of Bramley's/ cookers and 5 HUGE boxes of diff types of eating apples.. Think I didn't pay more than £3 a box for the Bramley's, and £1 a box for the others.. Pigs are in for a nice treat ..lol..

The lowest price per kg for the turkeys were £2.50 not much considering g they have reared , killed, and cleaned them etc..

We took some stuff up to sell, done quite well, there is another day be on Wednesday afternoon, so going up again....prob have more apples lol..

choille

Goodness CTC that sounds cheap for home produce.
We took the raw fleeces to the Wool marketing board thing - Ii get buttons back!
I sent the skins from the hogs I had despatched to Skye Skins to have them done - they cost a fortune to have done. The slaughter house charged me £5 a skin to have them sent there - what a rip off. I would try & sell them on Etsy as they will be really well done & gorgeous if the last ones I had done there are owt to go by. They will cost me dear to have then tanned though.
I'm just in been out varnishing the bathroom door again & trying to get the Rayburn lit - it was a pain today. I've done a wash but it's pouring down.
The house is as muddle of dust & wood lying about & tools & dust & complete unfinished chaos.
Well a bacon roll first then feed the sheeps & then back to varnishing/sealing doors. It's only half light today & very windy - good to be busy.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave hope that the mower is the ticket & that the heating & stuff get sorted soon.
I don't think I would ever do the self build again without pots of cash.

Mower duly picked-up from a posh village in a posher part of Devon. The seller turned out to be a lady gardener, selling on behalf of an elderly client, who'd not used it for some time. It's been serviced, has a spare belt & tyre, new battery and I don't think it has seen much work..... It'll do anyway!

Boiler is heating the house, but not the water. We have the immersion, so no worries till after Christmas. :cool:

I agree that self-build is a whole heap easier if you can afford 10% for a project manager and not stress too much over costs. We know our tradesmen please themselves, but they are competent and busy, which is why they're like that....and above all, they're cheap! The electricians gave us a price and they've stuck to it. We could have had two other firms, but their quotes were almost double. It all adds up!

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

It's only half light today & very windy - good to be busy.

You're having our yesterday!

alfie_1

hi all..
I auctioned a dolls house in aid of cat and kitten rescue and got £85
I have duly been to the Morris's and bought lots of cat food with it and will take it to the rescue place tomorrow. I did sort of blag an extra 44pkt box from super Morris's
so they have 220 pkts and 40 sm tins of pate for the toofless ones.. should help em out over crimble..


dark dismal day here today, called to see dad and got a few freezer bits.. [prob wont eat half of it and find it in 6 months time:o ]

I_have_spoken

Can dried yeast lose it's efficacy?

Just done a loaf and it's come out the tin half the usual height!