Daydream fund challenge part 4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Yep there is a withdrawal period depending on what drug it is will depend on the time.. Tbh I don't think I could eat her.. It would have to be the hunt to put her down.. And take her away..

This afternoon.. She is walking a bit better, and it does look as though the swelling is going down a bit.. Either that I have been looking at her leg all the time willing for it to go down...

We said we would never name our pigs, but we refer to her as big girl... So it's just like naming her lol....

Davesnave

Yes, IMO, 'Big Girl' is a name.

About half of our hens have names. Wasn't my fault. :A You see, the customers like to see the name of the hen on their eggs!

The hybrids don't have names or easily identifiable eggs, except one called Shadow, who stays beside us and chats all the time we're in the hen orchard. Her eggs aren't bluey green or olive like they should be, just a rather nondescript brownish shade.

This is the problem; many of the animals have identifiable personalities.

Hard day today.....in the Soft Play Centre full of screaming kids, 'cos it's still the holidays.:( It is a very good centre, with many levels and challenges, especially if you're a pensioner and a bit 'well-built.' Somehow, I didn't find the top of the big slide and found myself unable to exit, except through about 6 holes in the floors, some of them a bit of a squash. Hadn't seen those before. Must try to miss them next time...

I must say all the kids there were very good....excellent in fact. :A No one knocked Sam (or me!) over, and I can honestly say that in 2 hours there, I saw no child cry or have a wobbly. Very different from the supermarket!

DaftyDuck

Sorry to hear of ill pig. The warmer/drier weather may well help quite a few animals currently off their feet.

As far as worrying about the animals' health, and paying vet bills, there's a really easy answer - marry a vet! Worked for me and, of course, it was the only reason I fell for her. MSE, after all, thinking ahead of the cost-benefit thirty odd years ago... She's not in practice any longer, so surgery on the animals is out. I hope! :eek:
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Although I'd better be extra sweet and nice to her, for a change. I had leg surgery yesterday - vein problems, and threatening blood clots, so had a vein ablated, and another removed surgically. It was excruciatingly painful during the surgery, not least that one surgeon insisted on telling the World's Worst Jokes! (Wish wife had done it... her jokes aren't half as bad...)

Anyway, leg bandaged up toe-tip to hip, and can only hobble. So, it's all up to my dearest, sweetest, lovliest, darling sugar-popsicle ... Can I have another cup of tea and a biscuit? Then you'd better get on with digging that drain, and the muck heap needs moving, there's a poppit!


... ouch (leg) OUCH (OH swipes me across the ear as she sets off having made just herself a cup of coffee)

I'm meant to keep moving, which is difficult, with a leg wrapped up like this. But, under the bandages, it doesn't seem too painful. It'll be a few days before I'm back in action.

Awww. And it's gloriously sunny outside today. Poor Dafty!

I_have_spoken

Finished planting the extended front border. As it's shaded, it's very heavy on different types of foliage, with Sarcococca confusa, box ball, hosta 'Sum and Substance', Pachysandra terminalis, ferns and several types of evergreen grass and sedges.

Also are plants that to the casual gardener look like grass, but aren't such as Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' (black mondo grass), luzula sylvatica (greater wood-rush), Liriope muscari 'Monroe White' (lily-turf), and Juncus effusus f. spiralis 'corkscrew rush'

Davesnave

Hope the surgery does the trick for you, Dafty.

When I had the snip, the nurse very cleverly established I was in education and then proceeded to debate some hot (school ) topic with me.

Result = no thought to what the hell the surgeon was getting up to down there. Very clever.....until I pulled the stitches out running for a bus.

C0ck-ups continue here, with the electrician and plumber now locked in a different kind of debate over the heating system. Electrician came yesterday and did another 'fix,' which we later discovered prevents us shutting the system down at all, unless we go down to the boiler room and cut the power.

The only solution now, I feel, is to get both parties here together and let them slug it out, metaphorically or with blunt instruments; I don't really care any more! :mad:

Huge bonfire yesterday cleared our massive pile of tree waste the size of a van. This morning we have just a small patch of charcoal.

alfie_1

a huge massif oak came down along our field line, in "our" storm sadly. such a shame as we seem to losing our oldies and the forestry bods don't seem to have replaced any in the last century....we will be a forest of alien trees !!
anyway as it was on our side but fell in "their" side [the beaulieu estate who are notorious pick pocketers] we are getting it chainsawed pronto !


lovely day so far today.. im off to dorset to help an old boy with a "land" problem... bit of a dispute who actually owns it ,so im taking him to the planning office to try and get some correct boundary markers then can contact the land registry... fingers crossed.


hope everyone is dry and mildly warm today..

I_have_spoken

Grrr...it's freezing and the rain is torrential! Sowed some seeds under glass, hopeful they'll crop well.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

IHS.. Are they the variety tpthat have icing and sprinkles???:D

Went to market today. A bought 10 piglets lol... 6 gilts and 4 boars all in the same lot.. We want to get a couple more sows, so will bring these on. And see what they turn out like.. But we bought them with the intention of rearing them on... And then sell them..

Big Girl is getting better by the day... So the anti B's will last until Sunday.. So fingers crossed.. It has cured it...

At the market I got cornered by someone we know. Who is a ukip member. And he had Neil Hamilton in tow.. So we ended up being filmed talking to them... So flip knows where that is going to be aired lol....I did jokingly say afterwards will I get any royalties if it broadcasted!!!.

Weather cold and windy here.. So hope its nice over the weekend.

Davesnave

Getting into bed with Neil Hamilton will prove a big turn off for potential UKIP voters, I'd imagine, CTC. :eek: I think you were lucky to ecape with your integrity intact! :cool:

Glad Big Girl is making a big improvement and well done for kicking off the piggly season with a large new intake. :A

Wish I was making a big improvement! We said goodbye to Sam and his parents today and collapsed in a heap, DW with general fatigue and me with the same problems as I had 6 weeks ago, when the 'not-quite-flu' first struck. I need some of IHS's magic doughnuts....or something.

Horse Woman spoke to me tonight, saying she'd hit a big bump in her car and the front wheel had gone 'all wonky.' Hmmm, that's what happens when you collide with someone on a roundabout, which was the accident I traced to her route!

Still, she's OK which is the main thing. No whiplash and already setting the local garage the task of replacing her 4x4.
I'm secretly hoping all this leads to her taking an eye test. I know no one in their 80s who doesn't need specs, but then she doesn't need a hearing aid either! :rotfl:

choille

Hope leg is healed soon dafy.

I could do with some Donut seeds IHS.

Sorry about your continued plumber woes Dave - the trades blame each other.

New Boiler/stove seems to be going good, but haven't got the cooker sussed yet, so that'll be awhile as letting it go out as it's nice & warm weather here.

Got a chance at some beech wood that had come down, so went & got a couple of trailer loads & will be back next week for some more - they are burning it to get rid of it on a bonfire - believe it or not!
Joiner hasn't appeared back & looking at my diary it was a year ago he started to frame out the utility when Oh couldn't manage, so it aint setting the heather alight. Seems he's gone off with a load of OH's tools so he's muttering about not being able to find saws & the like.

Met the Hamiltons at the Oxford Union & we all took tenners out of our pockets & waved them at them - they'd just been exposed for taking cash for questions. The woman had a hideous dress on that sort of matched Neil's tie - dreadful people I always thought, but they did crave publicity even after their disgrace they seemed to thrive on it.

Have to have some tests at the hospital on Tuesday so not looking forward to that, but want it over & done with.