Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

lucielle wrote: »

I'd love to learn horsey things from somebody like that.


Still having problems with my alloys I've had 3 flats in the space of 2 weeks because the alloys keep cracking. I've written to Volvo but they are denying they have a problem and its because of the roads. Yes they are bad but there are 3 other people in the house who drive and don't have the problems I have. I've started saving to get it swopped. It is a lovely car and so comfortable but I can't keep going on with it.






L

being a sad individual ... I just oogled it and theres been complaints from 2011 [that I saw] ... have you had the rims checked for any welding repairs previously on the rims/tyres that came WITH the vehicle when you bought it ?
one guy sued the garage that sold them the car... won £1200



oh and they were all told ....POTHOLES did it ...

lucielle

All the welding is mine!
L

Davesnave

Poor roads are giving my somewhat soppy car a hard time too. The alloys are OK, but I broke both front springs two years ago, and now it sounds like the shockers have gone soggy. Being a diesel doesn't help, as it's a heavy lump in the front, compared with the more common petrol versions.

Anyway, it's in on Monday for new brakes, so they can tell me the worst then.:eek:

It was the first Market of the year today, so we popped our heads in just to see. Much the same as usual....dead after the first hour.

It seems just about everyone who was in the Panto ended up with with the bug, which is still lurking with quite a few of us. I was washed-out again today, but fortunately, there's plenty to do in the polytunnel.....

I_have_spoken

Planted up a large pot with two cannas, the ginger lily, dahlia, ixias and asiatic lilies which will stay in the conservatory to get under way in some warmth.

I planted up 4 other pots of lilies, after finding loads of them growing in the sphagnum moss I packed them away in last year.

EDIT - my neighbours seems to have cut his lawn! So early.

alfie_1

evening all...


well I went to a cage bird sale today in a rural village hall in the forest... I have NEVER seen such random bad parking in all my days ! one car somehow took up 3 spaces, slewd in at an angle that defied reason... I just squeezed in ...:o
then I joined the que to get in :eek: it went right across the car park.. and of course stood waiting ones body suddenly decides it needs a pee !! luckily nice old gent saved my space..
3/4 hr later we , well I wouldn't say rushed in, made our way past the extremely elderly poor sighted lady that took your money slower than a snail...
I have experienced jumble sale scrums but this was OTT ! it was packed ! I spotted some diamond doves, bought them, dived through a gap and bought some finches..
on one side was 2 young sulphur cockatoo's with a sign saying the obvious... NO FINGERS... suddenly a piercing scream rang out... yep woman had just had her finger pulped !! the whole place erupted in laughter , much to the womans annoyance.. :rotfl:
anyway, I got what I wanted and exited .. got them back and now ensconced in their big cage...
I was seriously exhausted !
went shopping quickly then back and mowed my top lawn. ive done it without the box ... id like to say its to mulch the lawn but it was pure laziness..;)


ive just sat down with a cuppa and deciding if I can paint a bit more in the kitchen :cool: the next half hour will decide !...


got 6am awakening tomorrow. have to be in lym at 7am to pick up old lady for 8am hospital app..


oh and I bought two fruit trees yesterday.... a cherry and a braemour? apple. get those in tomorrow down the end near the summer house [that's half painted ]...


iv also got back golden girls ashes... bit macabre but they are still in the car and have trecked around with me last 3-4 days [like she did in life] will scatter them in friends garden which was like a second home to her later this week.


seems quiet without nipper here ! even tho he does shift work ,its seeing his car on the drive but not him... fetching him and his 2 mates next Thursday evening from heathrow, hopefully in one piece this time !!


been a lovely sunny day here but chilly..

I_have_spoken

Would have been dad's 95 birthday today, 1st significant date since his death.

Still dry with me, so moved more plants about to restore the correct colours in the 'hot' and 'cool' flowers borders which got a bit muddled-up last year. Not being ODC, but I planned for that design.

Lifted two huge Carex bronze which will go to the front garden, one replaced by a mahonia the other by a giant hosta and ferns. If there's one plant which grows well with me from seed it's carex, they spring up all over!

Am also going to lift three white phlox which have never done well, will replace with a golden-yellow thuja which I hope will be a good colour match to the Acuba japonica and Acorus gramineus 'Ogon' but with a different leaf.

Davesnave

Bloomin' hot here today up on the top field hedge, but it was probably what I was doing which made it feel so warm!

We'd decided that the very healthy ash trees there, which were supposed to die from chalara fraxinia, just had to be laid, or taken down. This is now too much of a double-decker bus route to let them do their thing.

We chose Sunday because the forecast showed little wind and there are no buses, but we didn't allow for the Sunday drivers, brought out by the sun, and we couldn't have known that 2 slurry wagons would be up and down all day....in fact they've only just finished!

So.....it was a little tricky. With the larger trees I'd go up a ladder and attach a rope, so DW could pull from the field, but a couple wouldn't go that way and ended in the road , or they fell on top of ones I'd laid....and broke the joint. We had to listen hard for cars/tractors and then just go for it.

Anyway, by lunchtime we'd done about ten and I'd had enough of struggling about in a hedge full of rose & blackthorn, so the rest will have to wait.

Eating dried parsnip as a snack. It's surprisingly good! :cool:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Funny enough we have been cutting down trees today too
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1399910710035351&id=100000493057566

A neighbours trees blew over the stream onto our land smashing our fence ( can easily be repaired) so we made it save , and will chop up the tree for logs, so while we were at it we cut a few trees down , before they fall down, plus we were losing alot of the garden to shade due to the over hang of the trees..

COOLTRIKERCHICK

This one is a right mammy's boy

lucielle

Cute, loved the pigs on Countryfile the other week
L