Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Cleaning does get you fit = all that bending & stretching.

Like a work out.

Wise about the jeans. I seem to be now having to hoike mine up = they were too tight 3 weeks ago, now they are sliding down.
I seem to have gone off sugary things - which is handy. I did put on a fair bid of weight when I stopped smoking a few years back, also middle age spread I suppose. I had never been on a diet in my life - always been skinny until then, but the weight does seem to be coming off now.

alfie_1

im becoming an obsessive "twitcher"... :eek:


I have now got the red tail kite coming to a whistle ... it circles me overhead after seemingly appearing from nowhere ! iv been picking up road kill...:o and flinging it for it.
I am in love...:D


I cant believe my camera is kaput ! I will have to buy a new one tomorrow.. cant figure out tho why my laptop rejected the defunked camera ?? I think iv been hijacked by some other form of pic storage whatsit .........


glorious weather here at the mo.
typically, we had 3 out of 4 of the big fields fertilised this week and not a drop of rain to be seen ! will wait 3-4 weeks, move horses to top field and then fertilise 4th field. should get a better hay yield then... poor last year !

Davesnave

The front roof's back on the bungalow tonight.....well, most of it is still just the breather membrane, but we should be OK. Looks like it won't rain till Saturday, at the earliest.

I'm all aches and pains too CTC. Balancing on thin bits of timber for 3 days isn't natural and I'm not used to it.

Lovely evening, so we went out for fish & chips at a new (to us) place....only 20 miles. Drove randomly along an unknown hill road till we found a viewpoint to eat them. There was a huge vista which stretched many miles to the south, and in the distance we could see a hot air balloon, so far off it seemed stationary.

We finished the F&C, packed up, drove to Tiverton picked up fuel etc, then headed home.

About 5 miles from home we rounded a corner and there was the balloon, just touching-down in a field full of heifers......I bet the farmer was delighted....not!:rotfl:

We used to live next door to a multi take-off point before we moved here, so we don't find balloons terribly exciting, but it's rare to see one near here, especially so close to home. Fighters, helicopters and all sorts of weird aerial stuff, but balloons, never.

Hope the lurgy soon goes now, choille.

choille

Saw two swallows today - seems early for here. They won't be able to get in upstairs this year - what a mess they made, but they did do ever so well last year with their multiple broods.

The wind has been fierce today - I do hope that it bucks up - although I did manage to get the washing nearly dry before I raced to get it in as it started to chuck it down....again.

The bracken is starting to come up again - it all seems so trying to spin plates on poles that are crashing down.

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

I cant believe my camera is kaput ! I will have to buy a new one tomorrow.. cant figure out tho why my laptop rejected the defunked camera ?? I think iv been hijacked by some other form of pic storage whatsit .........

Are the pictures still showing on the camera? If so, it's fine and the problem will be on a setting somewhere in the software.

I always have to change the setting on the download page when I swap cameras, or my software won't 'see' the pictures.

I_have_spoken

Think I've got the bug going around the office, throat feels like sandpaper

Added to my stock, three shrimps, a snail and a betta fish; plus got new LED lights to brighten up the tank and encourage plant growth.

Fay

It's nice to see everyone posting again. This nice weather is very welcome, it's a shame it wasn't here last weekend! We are currently waiting on a quote for a new fence and bench arbour. We had the fence repaired after it blew down just before Xmas. That cost us £400, prior to this we had to have another repair which cost us £500. The first one the guy did lovely but the second time he's made a right mess. We couldn't be here and he let the old couple next door dictate what he did...so we have a big lump in our fence where it goes up so they get a little more privacy when on their doorstep. Our garden is on a slope too and ism stead of the fence stepping down in chunks (like a set of steps) it's just higgeldy piggeldy. So having a quote to change part of it which is too low and a quote to replace it all. I fear I will need a stiff drink, a lie down and to sell a kidney on the black market!
My plants are coming along well. I've found a local wholesaler that opens to the public on Saturdays and have bought some small shrubs that I am growing on. Pointless planting when I may be having a fence done. So I have 2 viburnum opulus, 2 weigela, a sambucus nigra, 2 choiysia, 2 euphorbia, 2 dwarf miscanthus (will they be dwarf this!), 2 Daphne's and various perennials as well. Fingers crossed they will all take and be ok!

DaftyDuck

I am knackered... brought a friend in (with sertificits) to do the spraying. He brought a friend (didn't ask). Friend-of-friend knew what he was doing, careful, tidy, asked when in doubt. Friend seems to believe Vietnam was just a test, an exercise in how to boost Big Pharma profits (well, they do pay my wages, so who's to complain? ) and a "Harry Potter" attitude to waving a wand of weed waster... It's difficult to tell a friend to stop, but he ran out of juice soon enough (PBUH). Anyway, I've been doing the difficult bits, dressed in my rubber top-to-toe "scare the hell out of the neighbours" hazmat suit, in the sun, dripping sweat for England. I told one neighbour I found the whole outfit just so sexually alluring... and I think I was believed! Oh well, there goes my reputation with the Rector...

My leg is much recovered after the surgery. But, numb from calf to heel. Which is fun! I suspect it will recover with time... Makes doing stuff like this ... interesting...

I sat on one of the fallen trees to recover, sweaty and exhausted, and watched the buzzards rising in a thermal until they vanished. A herring gull worried a marsh harrier across the fields, the gull looking tiny as it harried the harrier. The cuckoos are out, and being onomatopoeic, a heron is making a nest on the river's edge, there are baby mallard ducklings out already, and the barn owl sits and silently watches it all from his hole. I forgot the rubber suit and sweat, and felt pretty OK about it all. Alfie, I agree, a bird of prey wheeling by is, simply, magnificent.

When I stripped for a shower (TMI, apologies), I peeled off my clothes and they were simply wet through with sweat. I could ring them out. They actually dripped.

I am so ashamed for sharing that revolting image!

alfie_1

whilst I admire farmers for their diligence.... a 7am start with a tractor in next field on a SATURDAY is not my kind of heaven .... at the mo ! my one day I get to catch up on the intermittant sleep pattern I seem to have with 7 dogs in the house this last week has just gone up in a puff of tractor diesel smoke .........


morning all

Davesnave

7 am is pretty reasonable around here, when it's daylight an hour earlier. But who needs daylight? They were still working in the field near us yesterday at 10pm! :eek:

Anyway, the hens start to get restive....currently around 6 a.m.:(

Very little to report here, except that we cleaned and replaced over 200 tiles yesterday and I walked up the roof with most of them. Our builder saw my face and thought I was about to have a heart attack, so invented another way to do it, but I was just terribly sunburned.