Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

If you could put some wet newspaper over the pane of glass or sticky plastic to hold it together possibly Dave.

Good luck with the supper date!

Sounds like you were wise to cull the hen, sometimes they aint gonna recover.

It's very cold here & grey with sheets of rain going over in curtains.
|Wasted the morning on the phone - BT is more off than on, but phoned a local ish person & he reckons that most of the places are the same as they are laying fibre optics & just ramming em in same hole! So just breaking whats already in existence - ot that's my laymen interpretation or laywoman's interpretation.

alfie_1

hi all


had my MRI scan today and as it was a long one [time wise] I was getting a bit spooked about it.. so I took a cd and asked them if they could play it to distract any bouts of clostraphobia !! they willingly did so I layed there listening to the full cd of adelle...:D the scan actually only went 5 mins past the end so bearable !


will get results in a week or so I guess....:o


been dry, sunny but a cold chilling wind in places.


brought mum over here yesterday [shes getting about with just a walking stick now] afternoon and she was supposed to sit in the sun and watch me filling all my tubs with compost etc and planting all my dahlias and other bits but out of the corner of my eye I spotted her gathering up all the chopped off dead heading id done :cool:... she just cant hang about doing nothing bless her...
anyway ive filled 9 long tubs and now, having got 3 more big bags of soil mix ,just have about 6 square tubs to refresh and plant up.
I got £63 of dahlias HALF PRICE the other day from scats [now mole valley] ... I do love them !
I also got 5 clematis and 2 honeysuckles from morrisons last eek , all healthy and sprouting well for £2 a pop...


I love this time of year planting up but get impatient waiting for flowers...:rotfl:


I got some artichoke tubers last week at the boot sale , but cant remember what sort !! I think they are the ones that look like sun flowers but its the tubers you use when they've died off.. we will see... they are sprouting in the bag in the utility room so best get em in somewhere !


I had to whizz over to mums this T time having got a new set of her keys cut as she lost hers somewhere ... IN HER FLAT !! durrr


ok , food beckons . hope alls well in your likkle worlds

Fay

Well we have had a real mix of weather. Heavy rain Friday night to Saturday morning, followed by snow, followed by bright sunshine but bitterly cold. Sunday woke to a hard frost which turned into a glorious sunny 12 degrees. Managed to get my new bare root plants in or in pots-hosta Canadian blue, geranium johnsons blue, astrantia major and astrantia maxima, all from Dutch bulbs. See how they go. More hostas to come, touch of class.
Also managed to get the veg bed dug and the potatoes in yesterday. The veg bed will have to be a make do this year as the other areas are taking precedent.

choille

Hope you get the results soon Alfie.

Been doing some painting of windows in kitchen. It seems never ending. I do feel fed up with it all.

Joiner didn't come Friday & it is all seeming quite draggy again. Thing is he gets paid well, fed & it's all cash in hand. I have never been able to earn what these guys get paid & they are having to be continually chased. It's wearing.

Davesnave

Used sticky tape for the cracked window, choille, but as you'll know, the cracking continues for half an hour or more after the break, with the bits getting smaller and smaller....so in the end I just went for it! About 70% fell into a sack. The rest didn't!

Got the roof supports off yesterday: 16 bits of 6" x 2" in old money. They will come in handy for something, I'm sure.
Only the side framing to go now.

Saw Pete, who said he's going to remove the sheep today, as we're out of grass for them now. He wanted to give us half a pig, but we no longer eat much pork, so I said we'd just wait for a lamb. Hope this didn't offend him. His lamb is always really good, but I find his pork too fatty now.....the pigs don't get to run about much.

Speaking of offending people, the landlady of next door has done a complete U turn over the septic tank clean out and is now organising it herself! Mind you she wants to be there, have Mr Rod in attendance and goodness knows what else, but at least it's happening. One less thing to worry about!

Hope you get the results you want from the scan, alfie. Just getting to know what's up takes so long. DW is back for another injection in her hip next month, but we think that might only give temporary relief, like last time. If it lasts the summer that will be something, but she needs a longer term strategy, Can't afford for her to be immobile in a place like this.....:(

I thought carefully before coming to the conclusion that we won't be 'finished' here till 2018, choille. That'll be 9 years. Not bad for what was originally a stop-gap property! :rotfl:

Off to the posh bit of Devon today, transporting windows for our builder....

I_have_spoken

After seeing mum to out-patients, I visited Geilston, my 2nd closest NTS garden, notable for spring displays. Daffs were good, bit early for azaleas etc.



Dropped into Dobbies on the way home and bought...a Gunnera manicata! Sheer madness, I know but as it's a 'thug' plant I'll try it on the wet, back border.

Also bought some Crinum × powellii (£5 each:eek:) so they had better be spectacular.

choille

You are organised Dave.

I am not keen on too fatty pork either, but neither is lamb my meat of choice. The indigenous breeds we have are very slow growing, so we wait a bit to fill the freezer - grow them on until they are hogget - really tasty after they've been on the heather.

Fay I am really not doing any veg gardening this year. Last year was such a waste of time it put me off. I'll probably stick some salad stuff in though & possibly some onion sets & maybe a scatter of carrot seeds...........must get some beds dug, but then again............

IHS my gunnera is all weedy after the hard frosts two Winters ago & also I put some sheep dung on it & it didn't seem to like that or the fact it was under water most of last year & the winter as I have it at the side of the burn & although it likes it wet, it didn't like being drown.

Here the big hoose garden is open on Thursday & I may go if it's sunny.
We should get some more wood tomorrow if we get a move on. I'm girding my loins, or whatever it is you do before a mammoth heave & humff of limbs. OH is good at picking them out, but I'm the donkey.

Hope Mrs Dave gets some respite.

Davesnave

Hard day today. Just a lot of stress really, from the moment we tried to put the 3.2 m door frame into the van to the time when we arrived home.... to find we'd left an electric drill behind.

The frame went in.... if you didn't count the bit sticking out the back...:o and as we were using the Devon Expressway, I knew plod would be about. However that was OK, as we passed three of them and....nothing. :A

So, on to the job, where the builder had made the opening the wrong size.:mad:

I really felt for my friend as he stood there power-planing bits off a highly expensive bespoke piece of joinery, because some idiot couldn't measure or follow a spec.

Eventually we got there with the doors, which spanned the entire back of the building. Being made to last over100 years, they were incredibly heavy. I was so glad when they were all in place and the last screw went home.

Give me gardening any day....:rotfl:

On to Horse Woman's tonight, which wasn't a bundle of fun. We think her dog has a tumour, but she seemed totally out of it and unconcerned. I think she's slowly but surely losing contact with reality.....Don't have any answers. :wall:

alfie_1

choille.... its these times when you could do with a big chunky dog to harness up to do the pulling for you !!


looks like im "fostering" that dog after all....
she was found a home but my friend has pulled her out as turns out all they wanted was a breeding machine !! they had her 1 week and mated her, poor thing hadn't even got her feet under the table.. he went mad at them, paid them the money back and as id said id take her if it didn't work out ......


im hoping she ISNT preggies !!


she has a cataract that needs sorting and until the cause is known , breeding is STUPID !


fingers crossed... I fetch her next Monday...


of course I know you lot are all saying "fostering....yeh !!"

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

of course I know you lot are all saying "fostering....yeh !!"

Of course we are! :rotfl:

We almost landed in the same sort of situation today. During our soiree last night, Horse Woman let slip that her last bantam had escaped and gone native in the rosa rugosa...:undecided

So today, DW set about trapping her. It wasn't very hard, as the poor hen had been given no food or water.

We didn't hang on to her. Our friend has bantams and a run for quarantine, so it made more sense for her to go there. :)Horse Woman doesn't want hens at present. To be honest, her hens had a fairly miserable life in a tiny run. The other two of the trio were taken by a fox in the winter when she became careless about pegging it down.

Just had to do some mowing today, although I must finish the demolition before our scaffolding arrives on Monday. The ride-on seems to go just about anywhere, which is great, but it's limited in its ability to pick up the grass, compared with the Honda push-along, which bags just about everything.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Victoria Wood. I know I'm a bloke, but I always considered her a kindred spirit. There aren't many others....:(:cry: