Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

That's the thing with young animals - everything's a game.

Good for you getting wall papering done. I bought paper for our bedroom but it hasn't been done as yet. I also bought co-ordinating fabric, but I haven't made the curtains yet either! I got some in a Dunelm sale so they are up, but there's no flooring down yet either so we are dossing.

RAS

Chucking it down again here.

Yesterday was bizarre; positively barmy weather in both senses; bees flying in large numbers (all the colonies are alive), first crocuses a month early, daffs about to flower in park and snowdrops just flowering in the garden. Can only recall one January when things were this early and some when they have been 6-8 weeks later.

Had to get on in the back garden as the hellebores are flowering and I had not cleared the adjacent perennials.

Got most of the apple pruning done as well; just need the ladder for the highest bits.

Davesnave

Plumber's back and we have a bath.:D Basin and bog to follow today.....

We also had a visit from conservatory man, whom we'd met before and been impressed with, because he knows about building, not just glazing, and he doesn't talk BS. He was able to come up with good answers to all our tricky questions about making a rear porch/conservatory extension on our block work, so it's just price now....;)

Like you, RAS, I've got to get out there and deal with the dead stuff in the garden, although not for a couple of days by the look of the forecast. Winter seems to be flying by....

alfie_1

hi all....


well the wind bloweth and the rain cometh !!:eek:


oh boy it is blowing a hooley here BUT what scares me is all the weathermans little arrows go into a whirligig over CHOILLE !!!!! I do hope you are safe gal ! xxx


I squelched down the field with a barrow/bale of hay and got stuck so carried it , to put in sheds for hoss's..


got a video yesterday of RUBY walking the obstacle course... has to walk over corrugated iron, plastic, mattresses, car tyres etc.. with road signs, cones etc either side.. go gal :T

I_have_spoken

I'm going to give-up on gardening and move to hydroponics :mad:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all
Yes I seen the video Alfie... She is doing really well!!

All the rivers are up around here, and has broke its bank in one place, but its into some fields, no livestock in there ..I think they have given it to tomorrow afternoon.. So no let up..I expect its going to hit places really hard that have been flooded over the last few months, and places which have narrowly escaped flooding until now..

We finally moved our other sow in with the boar.. We blocked the path/ lane and walked her down.. We would have trailered her the few feet in the past.. But she is older now, and has a very laid back attitude lol..


As the weather was soooo bad we went back to the archive place, and found the ranch is on an 1818 landowners estate map.. The previous information going back to 1780 sadly doesn't have any maps.. Only descriptions, and our place was described as cottage with garden.. We didn't look at that info, as the guy didn't bring the documents up from the archive as there was no map attached, and said we couldn't know which property was listed was ours, but I might go back tomorrow and ask to see it anyway..so we now know it wasn't built for the weighbridge master like people thought.hubby took for pics of the map etc

Davesnave, didn't have much luck with the ruggas, don't know if the ground was too wet?? As I just plonked them in, maybe I should have potted them up first??

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave, didn't have much luck with the ruggas, don't know if the ground was too wet?? As I just plonked them in, maybe I should have potted them up first??

Ah, I've found those ruggas can be quite tricky buggas. Only about half of mine took, whether in pots or in the hedge, but the voles and general dryness are big problems in the latter, whatever is planted.

Rough old day here, so I did the weekly shop while DW talked pie in the sky wardrobes with the man from H*m*b*se. Now, after 3 sessions, they have a plan, but still no price......:mad: Whatever it is, it'll be too much!

On the way home, we saw sheep being moved out of the river meadows, but the river wasn't especially high. It looked a bit dodgy for alfie on the weather forecast for tomorrow.....:eek:

Great that you can trace your cottage back so far, CTC. We know of everyone who's lived in our bungalow, except the very first tenant....but that only goes back to 1974. :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

We knew it was def before 1841, poss 1830, but now it's def pre 1818.. It was also nice finding out what the history of the landowners too..

No site or sound from builder since Thursday so will text him tomorrow morning to find out what's happening..

RAS

Have your checked the census records for the property CTC? 1841 onwards?

IME it is worth looking at anything the archives can extract and being nosey. I asked to see a township map from the same year as the rating valuation listing; no-one had realised that the two were related. So I was able to identify exactly which properties or short rows of properties were lived in by which relatives.

One rellie was fostered after her dad died. Now I realised that she actually lived opposite her mother and brothers and would have been able to wave at them out the back window and the children would have all been in the alley between the two sets of houses. So a rather different experience to the one I had expected.

Davesnave

Hmm, most of the rain seems to be missing us now. Down at the end of the field there's a sign on the road saying "Flood." Water from a large arable field has poured out through the hedge and has formed a pool outside Mr Dog's, before travelling through his yard and dropping into our stream.
It's the thick brown stuff from the ploughing. :rotfl:

The drainage down there is a mess, and the farm contractors don't help by ploughing up and down the slope, instead of across it.

Meanwhile, down at the river, the guy with the illicit commercial polytunnel may have got away with his eyesore, but old Mother Nature is giving him a hard time. So far as I know, the river hasn't gone through the tunnel this year, but his veg patch was partly under water when I last looked and the rest looked like the Somme. I haven't seen him there for some months.......