Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

CTC - seems that they are dump dumping. I would find that annoying. Is there any bins provided?
If you think it's him, well his dog! Could you pick it up in a sack & throw it over his wall or car?

Still day with little flurries of snow, but it feels milder than last night.
I may just......freaking well varnish some doors this afternoon.....for a treat.

I_have_spoken

Dropped into a big garden centre on the way back from visiting mum; as we've had two OKish days in a row it was rammed!

As always, many peeps buying but unaware a frost will have them buying again. I dd see some asiatic lilies in bud - madness!

I just wanted a bigger pot for my schefflera 'umbrella tree' although if it has a growth spurt it'll hit the ceiling.

Davesnave

I agree with alfie that dog bins are the way forward. :T

It's an education/expectation job, rather like we have here with our little community down the lane. Most of them are better about their rubbish/recycling now, but there's always another new one to "assist," as there was last month. Thanks to him, there was twice as much roadside clearing-up, which I do because any litter just breeds more.

Dog poo has not happened on our roadside grass since we removed all the cover and started regular grass-cutting. It means we have no daffs or bluebells there now, but there are plenty in the hedges.

Speaking of wild-ish plants, we are about to have geranium canariense or maderense (I'm never sure which!) escape from our place. It loves this soil and it's now into the hedges. I don't think there will be any serious consequences if it does, but anyway, another winter like 2009/10 would probably see it off.

Did another reconnaisance trip re the grey stuff in the stream and decided Mr Dog wasn't to blame. I can't blame him for everything! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

There used to be a dog poo bin at the top of the lane, but people were complaining so it was taken away.. I have complained and asked to have it back!!..
So will be on a mission again this week with the council lol..

4 years ago today we bought the ranch.. I honestly don't know where the time has gone????

choille

I can't believe that you bought it 4 years ago - that is shocking - are you sure?

They removed waste bins from view points & parking areas here & people are just fly tipping. It does cause littering & isn't really a good way for councils to save money - It's very short sighted.
They've also been closing public loos &.....folk just go round the back of them & it's a disgrace. Not the sign of a civilised country at times.
It's gone quite cold this evening.

alfie_1

hi all.....


can some one kick me when I go into a Buy & Que shop for duck tape and come out with tape, wallpaper,roller blind,lampshade and bath mat set !!:o


for my downstairs loo.... but the blind isn't wide enough :mad: so I cant do anything as it all matches and unless I get a correct blind im stuffed


I took son and 2 friends to airport this morning .... 7am start traffic :eek:


im looking at 2 lawns that need mowing and a kitchen that needs finishing painting... eeny meeny miny mo...:o


suns out but its bluddy cold ere !!


ok I think a ctc cuppa and biskwit is needed to aid my choice of the rest of the day before back to work tomorrow ...


keep safe y'all

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

4 years ago today we bought the ranch.. I honestly don't know where the time has gone????

Still, good job you did, if you think what else happened in those 4 years.:)

It always takes so much longer than we imagine. In a few months we'll have been working on this house for 2 years and living here for almost 7....:eek:

Now, if the Foresight Fairy had said to us "It'll be about 8 years before you get this place straight...."

....we'd have gone somewhere else! :rotfl:

Went shopping for the first time in ages today. We're still not 100% but we have to eat. I've been just pootling-about in the polytunnel and doing easy things. Anyway, the car said it was 4.5c around lunchtime, so things aren't very spring-like here either alfie.

DaftyDuck

As Dave says, it all takes so long. I've "done up" plenty of old houses before, some of them fairly large, and some with big, overgrown gardens. But, add real land in, and the list of jobs, and their timescale, does become rather daunting, to say the least. This is the first house for yonks where I've opted not to make a list of jobs and costings! It's more twelve steps forward and eleven back, rather than the more usual two and one.

Fields flooded again this weekend! When I started planning this purchase, only six months ago, I joked about Old Ted and Ralph and the drainage in the Lower Field... Luckily, no bees yet, but it really is a bit marshy down there, and about one foot six deep of water above that! No geese either ('believe you me, I do not want to relive a single moment of that...' ), but a lovely pair of swans are settling on the other side, where there is a permanent lake, so I might be in luck! Unlike Ralph, I have kept my clothes on, as it's freeeezing. I did fall in on Saturday, but only to a ditch, not the river. It.Was.Cold.

The drainage is part-sortable... if I hire a digger, or grow Stallone-muscles for my spade. Because the previous owners filled in the ditches (so much easier for motorbikes, quad bikes, trikes, etc.), it fills, but doesn't empty, so I'm farming for crocodiles and hippos. What I want is the occasional flood (they are water-meadows), not tidal waves following a downpour. I have possibly maybe p'raps sorted about a third out by digging enough rubble and carp (and eels ) from two ditches to sort quite a few acres out. That's with a spade! The biggest ditch was sorted by a REAL digger, huge thing, awesome (until I found out it was their middle-sized machine, and brother drove something twice the size of that). But, that doesn't find the perfect level, just enough to encourage gentle flow on and off. Bit difficult, when the river just floods into the tangle of motorbike remnants!

But, steps forward as well. Bloke came just before lunch(:eek:) to empty the septic tank. I've been calling it the sceptical tank, as I was pretty convinced it was shot, clogged and near collapse. But, on emptying the delights, said bloke poked, prodded and produced his prognosis that there was good life in the old girl yet, bin there fifty year, last another fifty. New hatch covers and we are good to go. Literally. He guessed it hadn't been emptied for about ten years! Mind you, it does need a bit of re-engineering "upstream" as, currently, all roof water also heads for the tank. Luckily, it is huge. I don't mind doing that end myself, either. Less keen on the other!

Time to trundle out and put the beasties to bed. I can confirm that a cuddle with a trio of donkeys is about as good as it gets.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,

Yep can't believe it's 4 years, and yep alot of crap has happened in that time...

Lola. Has been very burby and belchy/ hacking the last couple of days, so booked in to see the vet later.. Going to get her chipped the same time...

Waiting for an order of live mealworms to arrive, so I can start my own colony ..used to breed them years and years ago.., been feeding the dried ones lately, so thought I would give it a go again.. So once the colony is up and running properly it will save me money on buying mealworms all the time lol..

It's very cold here today and very windy ( nothing to do with Lola lol)

lucielle

What are the mealworms for?
L