Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Out of the loop a bit for the last 2 days, as not paying the electricians seemed to work..... Two turned-up on Wednesday and all of them yesterday! :j

So the electrics are all done for the meantime, but we still have a plumbing problem. Before, we could have heating, but no hot water, and now, since the electrician has tried to rewire around the issue, we can have heating or hot water, but not both.:(

This is all down to the plumber fitting the wrong combination of valves.:mad:

Back in the distant past, when we were choosing a plumber and electrician, one electrician, on hearing who our plumber was, predicted we'd have exactly this problem! He'd hired him for his own house's new heating system.

Anyway, it didn't sound from the 'phone conversation with the electrician that the plumber was taking much responsibility, if any, for this c0ck-up, so the next step is probably to remind him gently about the other guy's problems and offer to bring him in to advise as well if it isn't sorted! :cool:

I haven't paid the plumber either.....yet! What is it with plumbers?

Bloomin Panto bug is still lurking. We need a sunshine injection here.

Good that Mum's test went OK alfie and that mad Welsh lady is checking out OK choille.

RAS

Snowing here but less so than at home; gather the higher areas have more settling and some cars in town have 4 inches on the roof.

Due to rain later; if that falls as snow it may be interesting.

lostinrates

Oh ALFIE!

I am so sorry. . We will miss her too. She was a great girl. I hope asbo dog is coping ok.

She was so loved by you.



We are having dog dramas. My girl and I have been shooting over to Langford because she has been unwell. We are waiting for some test results, but she has a pneumonia and Looks like a skeleton. However, she has perked up after a couple of weeks of antibiotics but last night she decided that FIR and I should have her inbetween us in bed, stop any nonsense and that if we asked her to get on her own bed she might regress rapidly. . Not funny. Stop laughing Alfie.

Davesnave

Good to hear from you, lir,:hello: although a shame that it's not for a happy reason.

Hopefully, your girl will pull through. I think the winter takes its toll on the animals, just as it does with us.

We're both feeling bad today again. I've been out and had a nice big bonfire, but now I'm pooped from just doing that, which is nothing really.:o DW felt so dizzy, she had to go back to bed.

We're a right pair!

lostinrates

We 're hopeful davesnave, it looks like it will be an ongoing management issue, but she's worth it. Its not yet clear if its winter, or a virus, or what that caused her problem. It might come down to being 'one of those things' and the emphasis being on going forward not trying to work out why. But its odd, and Langford have been great but agree its really odd.

I'm sorry to hear you guys are both do unwell. I sort of think if things grind to a halt at the davesnave home / garden then things must be pretty awful!



We had to move our wisteria just before 'winter'. It involved cutting most of it back because it was all grown around a down pipe/ into the attic etc. But I gave it a little scratch yesterday and things seem hopeful. That was more than I expected. We have one longer bit and I cannot decide whether to take that along the house or to make a divide accross the garden to make the instant impact of an arch over a natural divide in the garden. The second option certainly appeals more, it would be so.....defining and a stage towards 'hey, this is the shape of this garden....like it or not' and also a commitment to saying....nope, no more mini diggers around here...ever. That finality seems so terrifying and keeps making me stall.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm sorry to hear you guys are both do unwell. I sort of think if things grind to a halt at the davesnave home / garden then things must be pretty awful!

Well, they didn't quite grind to a halt.....

I'm pleased to say DW was feeling better by mid afternoon, so started making a sandwich, then called to me that Mr Dog was headed down the side lane in his truck....:eek:I got off the sofa and headed down to the barn to find out what he was up to.

He was chatting to someone and mentioned the work that's going on laying the new fibre broadband, which involves a lot of drain clearance, but that was it. He soon left, but stopped by a hole in our hedge and had a good peer through, so I wandered nonchalantly out of the barn and he cleared-off.

But I was a bit bothered, so I decided to take a look at the stream, because I've been wondering where all that gunk they've been sucking up may have gone.....Sure enough, the brook is a dirty dark grey, so some of it's in there! :mad::mad:

After that, I walked up to the point where the brook comes onto our land, but I couldn't really tell if the muck had been discharged there as the roadside gully is always grubby. The other pipe which comes from under the road looked fine. So, that just left a third gully that comes from behind Mr Dog's place, but I was feeling grotty by then, and it had started raining, so I gave up further investigation.

I suppose when we get some more rain the stream will self-clean. I know the stuff is only what would have come from the road anyway, had it not been trapped in drains, but I still don't like their disposal method. Of course, being Friday and around 4pm, there were no workmen in sight and nothing going on. They won't be back till Monday.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

..nope, no more mini diggers around here...ever. That finality seems so terrifying and keeps making me stall.

We shall have one back this year again. I'm toying with the idea of levelling-up the area behind the house and building a mini ha-ha where it drops away. We may have quite a lot of rubble to 'lose.' :cool:

Mini ha-ha.....wasn't she in Hiawatha? :rotfl:

choille

Nice to hear from you LIR - Hope the dog gets well fast.

Sorry to hear that you & Mrs Dave are still laid low with the Pantoitis - hope it clears soon. Mr Dog sounds as bad as ever - I don't think these rotters change.

Blowing through a few flutters of snow here too RAS - Hope it doesn't lie.

Was my birthday yesterday & we had a lovely meal out - which made a change from Morrissons - which is where we usually eat out when over in Inverness.

Free listing on the bay, as nowt much is selling - I think it's just a case of relisting things.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

. Mr Dog sounds as bad as ever - I don't think these rotters change.

Well, I don't know if he's 'done' anything. He could be totally innocent, although if you remember he got a mate in BT to move that telegraph pole onto our land, way back.

These guys will be different, I suspect, and they come equipped with a pumping lorry which isn't from round here. I'd imagine that's supposed to be emptied, at a cost, in the correct facility.

OTOH, if someone offered them the facility to drain it off into their ditch at a lower cost......

Will look a bit further later.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

The rivers authority, environment agency would be very interested in that

You are not allowed to have run off from a muddy field go into streams and rivers now, that came into force in April 2014 I think. I know as the neighbour reported us for so called ' pumping' pig poo into the stream...when naturel resource Wales came out, and seen the lay of our land etc .. There wasn't any problem. As he could see it was a malicious reporting. BUT he did tell us, that if the stream floods and goes onto our land we have physically got to try and stop it running back into the stream!!! Lol.. So we have put loads of rubble from the house in that part of the land, and some boards on the edge of the pen.. And that was good enough..

Nothing lives in the stream anyway, as I think alot of it is coming from the mountain opp which goes through 2 old mine workings lol..