Daydream fund challenge part 4

lucielle

Glad to hear mum is on the mend Alfie. Mine has just started another round of anti Bs for a chest infection.


Went lambing with DS1 on Monday night, hopefully going tomorrow night.


DS2 passed his driving test. Just got to get his mini through the MOT and then the dreaded insurance.


DD1 has been asked to stay on an extra week where she's lambing at, so she's considering that.


DD2 is also lambing but at a different farm.


We're off to the lakes a week tomorrow and I'm so not organised!
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choille

Great Alfie that Mum is recovering well.

Pleased that the Lady Ruby is doing well & you are playing catch up. Funny you getting caught in your casual gear!

Had to get help to do sheep stuff, but the people who came were a bit boisterous & spent 4 hours when 2 at most should have done it & I had to go back this evening to get a sheep who'd evaded the capture & treatments. Feel jiggered.

It's been a long day.

choille

Pleased that the kids are busy lambing Lucielle that is a good thing.

Hope things are going well.

Davesnave

At last, I think the Boomerang Bug, as I eventually called it, has finally left me. I feel almost normal again. :j Managed to do the standing-up from cross legged without using any extra body part, as shown on the Angela Rippon ageing prog....so I'm going to live to 100 after all!

Hope Dafty's man flu and choille's fast are also over and done with too. Spring is indeed peeping around the corner....:) Lots of lambs on the land t'other side of the stream, charging about, as usual.

Saw an old friend yesterday. I've not spoken to her in many a year and she looked ....well....even better than I remembered her. (I hasten to add she had a new man in tow. ) Isn't it amazing how some people have the willpower to reinvent themselves, complete with new hair and bum?

I guess we ought to be seeing our fritillaries soon, alfie....all 3 of them! Need to find a place where they can naturalise..... That's what the ramsons are doing down by the stream. They're doing it so well, I wonder if I should bring in an element of control??? :undecided

Began the task of emptying the conservatory today in anticipation of demolition in the next few weeks.....

The sheep have finally given in and decided to eat the mangel-wurzels Pete left for them. I fed some to the hens, who were much less reticent about trying them.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Had to get help to do sheep stuff, but the people who came were a bit boisterous & spent 4 hours when 2 at most should have done it & I had to go back this evening to get a sheep who'd evaded the capture & treatments. Feel jiggered.

It's been a long day.

Poor you! The last thing you want is go out again in the evening to round-up animals.

I've noticed this with Pete. Despite being a very experienced farmer, his dog is useless rounding up sheep, so both he and it get far too excited.

Last year, he had a hell of a job catching half the small flock and penning them, so while he was away with those, DW , DD2 and I quietly drove the rest into the holding area and penned them. He was gobsmacked when he came back, but I suppose those sheep knew us better than him by then.

This lot we have now will be easy too. So well-behaved.

choille

The arm waving & shouting that the blokes did just spooked the girls & didn't help other than cause them to flee in panic.

Lovely day here, but supposedly getting the joiner back & his daft mate - which is getting rather wearing. The stress of just wondering IF they will turn up is doing my head in. No one here at the moment so just slopping about enjoying the quiet.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

The stress of just wondering IF they will turn up is doing my head in.

Same with the electrician.

We have the name of another one, who often works with our plumber, so we've left a message saying we'll bring him in as a troubleshooter, if the errant central heating controls aren't sorted soon.

Our guy will probably respond to that! :rotfl:

DaftyDuck

Still got the man-flu, but it's going. Turning into a cough, and each cough makes my leg hurt. Leg is pretty bruised from heel to groin, and looks much worse than it is. Aside from the occasional leg agony, it actually feels much better than it did two weeks ago. So all round on the mend here.

I spent a remedial four hours over two days moving bricks and rubble from one side of the yard to the other, to get them out of the way and tidy. I have, in my infinite wisdom, piled them on top of the run of a leaking pipe, that is on next month's to-do list. Class A1 idiot!

Glad everyone else sounds on the up. Spring definitely feels here now. Must be, it's hailing here right now!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

The new addition to the ranch!! Borrowed it from a friend.. It saves a futune on pig food with cutting up Mangels/ sugar beet. Pity the season for them is coming to an end.

DaftyDuck

Technology at its best! Bet you can buy a new model, with plastic housing and aluminium non-rusting legs, and I'd also bet yours will be working long, long after that new one !