Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

she may have lost confidence a bit dave ?

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

she may have lost confidence a bit dave ?

Yes, I think so, but her son's been there with her, so I don't think I should interfere....

alfie_1

road near here has been shut for hours ! apparently a head on crash ...
just hope no fatalities..

Fay

The weather is ver on/off here. Yesterday was good in the afternoon and got out in the garden for an hour after work.
Thanks for the tip Dave, I looked in my dahlia pots and they're alive! So is the chocolate cosmos I planted. However, 6 echinacea corms (or whatever they are, tiny root like things) have 0 sign of life to them. They weren't cheap either
My potatoes are ready to be planted and I'm very late with them, so that needs doing this weekend. I also haven't sown tomatoes yet, oops. Chill is are ok but still really small. Even though they're in the house in a south facing window it just hasn't been warm enough for them this year. Strange year.

Davesnave

Another day when the heavy showers went north and south of us and the wind stayed light, enabling us to take off the rest of the conservatory roof. That's 34 x 5' panes of glass... and we didn't break any!

Just the front and side windows to go, and then we can demolish in time for the scaffolding company to set up for the rest of the roof refurb. They can probably work around the walls.

Meanwhile, we had the builder back briefly to finish the detail in the bathroom, like the bath panel he made for us and some skirting that was still needed. It's all the twiddly bits that take time.

From my vantage point on the roof, I was delighted to see Horse Woman taking her dog out in the new car....so that's all right....err, maybe! I still don't believe that someone of 85 (we've worked it out after some cunning questioning! :rotfl:) wouldn't benefit from wearing specs. :undecided

We are due for a bit of bother from next door's landlady, whom I cheerfully rang about having the septic tanks de-sludged properly, as we agreed when the drainage field was renewed 18 months ago. She's changed her mind and gone back to her old mantra that tanks never need anything done to them. She practises what she preaches, because the tank inspections she agreed to haven't happened either. :mad:

Let's just say that my manner was less cheerful by the end of the call. Now she's coming to "see for herself " which should be entertaining. I said I'd have a very long stick available! :rotfl:

choille

Put the sheep up on the hill that are not going to be lambing. The heather is starting to grow again. It's nice to be able to see them from the kitchen window up there.

It was a relatively easy move - they just followed me as I rattled their feed bucket.

Lovely day here - been down the bottom in the wild raking up dead bracken & burning it & getting out some brambles - an unending chore & have yet to make an inroad, but a good job when you feel stressed, tense etc.

The neighbour landlady thing sounds like it has 'potential' Dave.

I'm off on an early bus tomorrow that goes the other way - down through Gairloch, so that will be nice if the weather days good, but it's supposed to go down the pan again - colder & miserable.

Just lost this post but retrieved it by using the back button - hopefully!:j

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

The neighbour landlady thing sounds like it has 'potential' Dave.

Definitely.

The thing is, under the usual arrangements for an assured shorthold tenancy, it should be her tenants paying/oganising for the de-sludge, as they're benefiting from not paying a sewerage charge, but she's such a control freak, I'm forbidden from speaking with them about it.

There are lots of nice, normal people around here, so why do I get lumbered with all these nutters?

And on a similar theme. Horse Woman has bashed her new car, soi it's back in the garage. Lost control and drove into the scenery at low speed. She says "It's no good for driving with wellies on; pedals too bloody close together!" :wall:

alfie_1

at last house , my "landlord" was supposed to maintain the cess pit system and I organised emptying... and we all know how that turned out !!...... by de-sludging do you mean a thorough "deep clean / emptying " ??

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

..... by de-sludging do you mean a thorough "deep clean / emptying " ??

Yes. Ask the Environment Agency and they say once a year, which is silly, but once every 3 years or so is within a safety margin for most septic tanks, and you don't empty completely, because some bacteria ought to remain.

Cess pits are different. Need doing much more often.

I_have_spoken

No signs of any green shoots on my perennial sweet pea or verbena bonariensis. Wonder if they are goners after the winter wet or I'm being impatient for mid April.