Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Obviously some may say it's wrong, but you can get disabled toilet keys off t'bay easily enough.

RAS

Nearly 1000 signatures now Maggie

I_have_spoken

More gains & losses on the 'livestock' front...

Losses, last fancy guppy expired. I'm giving up on them, too fragile from in-breeding I suspect.
Gains, a couple more otocinclus fish to help eat algae.

Also, added an area of aquarium sand over the gravel substrate in the main tank. This was so the dwarf catfish (the size of a broad bean) could sift through the sand for nibbles. Surprisingly, several of the other fish species have also taken to "nosing" about in the sand.

All cannas now potted up, last of 100 'green' snowdrops planted, hydrangea pruned, 1st grass cut of the year, but still haven't planted any seeds!

choille

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Obviously some may say it's wrong, but you can get disabled toilet keys off t'bay easily enough.

Well, there's not many disabled toilets around here IHS.

A dull day here, but dry after the downpours yesterday.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

1.249 now Maggie.. Social media is good for things like this!!

choille

I signed - the gold cladding thing here has reached nearly 5,000 so will be raised in parliament.

That is on change.org which is also a good venue for e petitions.

DaftyDuck

Well, some success on the injured... Rook - recovered, and b0gged off. Gull, no longer angry, does like cat food, says he's no intention of leaving us, and he does like tuna too, please. He sits on the oil tank, and eyes me up as I pass. Hedgehog still three-quarters dead, and won't make up his mind, so he's returned to hibernating on his food plate. Helpful! At least he's de-ticked and de-flea'd. NO, we did not adopt the ticks and fleas. A mallard has arrived in the yard, and is so thick, adoption seems his only hope.

Leg much better, but still hurts like stink. Cold definitely, certainly, probably flu, ( ♂ variety probably) is far more debilitating really. Combining the two isn't much fun, partly as every cough makes it feel like stitches and {I won't be too graphic } have failed.

Brilliant thunder storms last night; brief but violent. No trees came down, which makes a change. Progress, I guess!

Davesnave

I've been a bit quiet for the last few days, mainly because there's been nothing of significance to report, although my ongoing battle over refuse and recycling here has kept me busy.

Someone dumped 20 bags of unsorted, potentially recyclable rubbish outside our entrance here on Monday, which p!ssed me off, because I'd already removed 3 bags of the same left by someone else at the weekend; probably the couple who use one of the nearby conversions as a holiday cottage.

Anyway, I stuck up a polite note saying "Who needs to deposit 20 bags of unsorted carp on my doorstep?"

It went down well. The note was soon gone. :rotfl:Someone is trying to flog their barn conversion....;)

Fortunately, the wind was kind, animals left the bags alone and they were picked-up today without incident, along with another 30 or 40 which came at the right time, so no harm done. However it's totally archaic, when there can be 40-60 bags sitting there just asking thecrows, badgers, foxes & rats to come and have a look.

I've challenged the leader of the council over it directly, face to face, but he's evasive, like all politicians. They will give wheelie bins to town dwellers, but we can go whistle.:mad:

choille

Dafty - You sound like you are turning into an animal sanctuary.

Hope the cold/flu goes soon. It's a pain being ill.

Dave - the way people don't 'own' their own rubbish is a pain really.
Up the road- where they can't get down a track that serves three properties the council put a big wheeled bin that has now had to be padlocked as folks were dumping their stuff in it - businesses etc.

With all the cut backs here, they are not only shutting toilets but also removing bins from lay-bys & some towns, so people are fly tipping. It's bad during the holidays - ei Easter. It's short sighted.
Felt a bit jiggered today after the fasting for hospital stuff, so didn't do the sheep, but hopefully tomorrow as I will get a hand.

alfie_1

hi all...


funny weather here! hot one minute, hail stones the next ?? overall tho we have had very nice weather really.


ruby is proving a handful although I think it is ME rather than her I am very nervous taking her out which transfers ! thing is when I drove my little old pony I was a lot younger and now I have a big horse in front and she is very good but I have to learn to handle her correctly ! man who trained her is training ME now ...:rotfl:
he has brought over a 2yr old colt to get down all the rough grass round next doors barn area. he has formed an attatchment to me...:o wont let anyone else in ! the workmen had to get a cement mixer out of a barn and legged it when he chased them... I had to go and hold him while they got it..:rotfl:


the first [be warned I cant spell it] flatileries ? are blooming amongst the daffs...... all sorts of flowers are starting to peek


next door at the farmhouse ,scaffolding was put up [2 weeks ago] to repoint chimneys etc and I forgot workmen where arriving this week .... so stumbling round the garden putting feed for birds and scattering corn for pheasants , in my illuminous red dressing gown,ugg boots and hair askew talking to the birds was not a good move at 8.30 am ..... all I could hear was guffs of laughter from up high..... [I do know the workers but usually dressed and civilised ]


mum has improved no end , 2 weeks tomorrow since fall, she had bruises like ink and used a frame and struggled but now is using a walking stick... she is SO frustrated at not getting about ! will take her out to see dad if she is up to it at the weekend.


son had memorial service yesterday for the 2 fireman from his watch that tragically died 6 years ago in a fire. always a sad day...


ive bought myself an "in car cam".... so many idiots on the road on the forest !


need to get another cut on the lawn soon...:eek: yet the grass just aint growing well in the hoss fields ?