Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

I do have a confession... I am watching the sound of music


HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS...

I have another......
I've NEVER watched The Sound of Music!

Around 1965, my then girlfriend and I were in receipt of free cinema tickets weekly, but we must've given that one a miss,, preferring to make our own music somewhere else!

Davesnave

I see you are about to lose an important 'landmark' alfie, though whether you'll miss it personally is a moot point:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34806490

DD2 and her man were among the 50 submitting entries for the original design, but they didn't get into the top group. Theirs was aesthetically closer to the rather pretty Exbury Egg than this thing, which looks more like one of our sheds (before we fixed them!:rotfl:)

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

I see you are about to lose an important 'landmark' alfie, though whether you'll miss it personally is a moot point:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34806490

DD2 and her man were among the 50 submitting entries for the original design, but they didn't get into the top group. Theirs was aesthetically closer to the rather pretty Exbury Egg than this thing, which looks more like one of our sheds (before we fixed them!:rotfl:)

it is an eyesore and nobody that I know of will miss it !
it got vandalised a while back.. well door got smashed..


I have my fire going this evening ,it is cold wet and windy outside.

ukmaggie45

Dear IHS so very sorry to hear of your Father's death. You will have a lot of stuff to run around doing in the immediate future, it probably won't really hit you till later. At least that was my experience(s). Will be thinking of you and your Mum and sending "The Vibes" for life to be as easy as possible for you both in difficult times. Cyber hugs too if you are able to accept such.

Happy New Year to all of you DayDreamers.

Dave, lovely to see your photos, thank you. We went to visit our DD2 today in new house, barely saw the GrandKids as they were mostly too busy playing with new toys. GD is much bigger than when we last saw her in November, and seems to be less colicky which is brill.

OH went to lottie yesterday to get kale, and tells me the ^%&% pigeons have hit it and pecked out the growing heads. Grrrrr! Next year we will have to net everything rather better. Oh well, we've had a good crop so far from the kale, if the weather dries up ever we'll net what's left and start making further plans!

choille

Alfie - Thank you for the message. I hope that 2016 is a really good one for us all.

Lucielle - Hope DS is not too badly affected. It's a nasty virus. I had it a year back & it's surprisingly painful.
Nice to hear from you Maggie - kale is so handy a plant - how annoying with the birds.

The gales outside are really terrible this evening - something bashed into the car - the ash bucket, but will wait until the morning before venturing out.

twiglet98

Happy New Year to all the lovely contributors to this thread - I lurk mainly, but learn a lot and store lots of ideas for implementation one day, should I ever shake off the inertia that is the norm.

IHS how sad to lose your father, and especially poignant at this supposedly festive season.

The resolution I will start with is to get the mounting plumbing crises sorted before the shack actually falls down around me. If it wasn't semi detached I'd be tempted to let that happen and disappear into the wide blue yonder, but not really fair on my lovely neighbours - who can afford to maintain their house rather better than I can mine.

Still it's mild and damp, not really wet. The news footage from the flooded north is terrible. Sheep grazing hills that should be tree-covered, failure to dredge rivers, building on flood plains... whatever the climate does, the human population is reaping the consequences of some truly dreadful policy making.

I've just had the oil heating on for the first time since last February, to test it, as DD is staying here with the animals in a couple of weeks when I go away with my sister's family. We're having a weekend on the Exmoor coast and I'm frankly terrified - sheltered life indeed, as the most frightening journey I've ever experienced was being a passenger in my ex's manual car going up Porlock hill, children in the back, and that was in high summer twenty years ago. This time will be winter, and driving in the dark - maybe it's actually less scary if you can't see so much!. I'm the only one with an automatic 4x4 but it's old and crumbling, and nobody else fancies such a long journey in it. I have suggested public transport....

There is a plan for my sister and I to have a road trip to the Highlands and Western Isles in summer, there'll be the same quandary about transport for that week I guess. Could any roads there be worse than the A39?

Oh... just noticed a female sparrowhawk is eating.. something... right next to the birdtable.. hope it's a rodent and not a bird, it seemed that all the birds in Cambridgeshire were clamouring for breakfast today, and it's not even wintry weather!

The wood behind here was sold in the summer, with the paddock I used to rent, and the buyer is a tree-hugger who has stopped the local shoot from going through - it's a small 'island' around which they will still shoot three sides. As their feeders now stand empty, a few pheasants congregate under my apple tree waiting for crumbs from the hanging feeders. I'm tempted to put wheat out but the rat population would love that. I suspect woodcock and fieldfares will no longer be attracted to the woods, it's such a shame.

choille

Hi Twiglet hope that you have a good journey to Exmoor coast - sounds a lovely place to go.

Hope you manage to the Highlands - the roads are much less fraught - although the A9 can be a bit of nightmare in the Summer.

Grey leaden sky here & stuff strewn everywhere after the storm. What a night it was.

I_have_spoken

Back at my own place, which is a relief, as feeling pretty much shattered. Monday is a holiday in Scotland, so nothing much can be done until then re. funeral arrangements anyway. Mum continues with her carers 4 times/day so she's not suddenly by herself as I guess is the case with many widows.

Fay

ihs as others have said, I'm so sorry for your loss. There is never a good time to lose someone but this time of year always feels harder. Look after yourself.
Happy new year to all dreamers. Sorry I'm late saying it. I adore Christmas but cannot stand new year. Always think it's very maudlin. But went to the cinema, had a chilli when we got back I left in the Aga whilst out and watched TV. So we had a lovely New Year's Eve and were in bed by 1130 lol. Let's hope 2016 sees us all progress our dreams a little bit further.

Davesnave

:hello:Hi twiglet!

Porlock Hill has a less scary toll road, but it really shouldn't be too much of a problem for modern vehicles.

I remember, back in the 1950s, we used to go up it in my Dad's estate car, derived from a Ford Popular Van like the one below. It had 3 gears, none of them quite rightfor the hill....

When we got to the top, there was a place to pull in. The experienced drivers made a cup of tea before unscrewing the radiator cap to let the steam out.