Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Alfie - OH wants a drone - boys & their toys. Lovely how they've zoomed out - amazing looking place.

You've been busy. I sorted out a bag of rubbish out of the caravan last week & a massive bag of stuff for Oxfam as I'm overwhelmed with clutter & it isn't selling on the bay. Things are very slow on there. More INR & non payments than owt.

Maybe Dolly has cystitis? Hope she's not preggers, you don't need that? Do you?

Dull here with low cloud. Must get going. I'm still sluggish.

Davesnave

I'd have a drone, but Mr Dog would probably shoot it! :rotfl:

Plants are selling well, or they were , but now it's drizzling. We were supposed to be doing the cementing-in to finish the front roof today, but we've called a halt due to the weather.

Half a sheep came our way last night, but not butchered in the usual manner, so I was faced with some hefty lumps of meat this morning. Luckily I've just bought a new saw, but didn't expect to be using it first on sheep's legs!

DW is in hospital this morning, having another cortisone injection, which will keep her mobile for the summer, but I doubt it's a long term fix. Maybe they'll tell her more. Hope so. :undecided

choille

Glad your plants are selling well Dave - we too have a wet day & supposed to tomorrow. I didn't like the way the rain was coming down the track in mini riverulets, so I half heartedly dug little channels into the side/drain if there was one at the side.
Just another thing that needs doing right. Feel overwhelmed with all the things that need finishing/doing/correcting.
Good you got a half sheep - butchery is not our forty, but sometimes you just have to kinda chop away to get decent/manageable sized lumps into the freezer. We had to do 1/2 a red deer in the caravan once - not an easy task with lay down space but try doing it when you have a sink the size of a baking bowl & a two foot work top & it becomes silly. Apologies for the feint hearted out there.

Hope Mrs Dave has got some respite with injections. I have bought some green lipped muscle extract for knees. I know your DW will be much more sore, but I do think it does help. OH has to try & get a referral for more physio as he is hardly able to walk much, more a shuffle that seems to have impacted on his spine. Everything is delayed & delayed & delayed.
The NHS is already half privatised & it's getting worse to scary point - just like BT. It will be run from an Indian call centre next, just like they are planning with the education system.
Don't get me started......................

DaftyDuck

If I never post again... under a twisted old oak, at the bottom of the middle wood, I have, from years of weeds and overgrowth, uncovered an old gravestone....

I wonder what the equivalent of the "US house built over american-indian burial ground curse" is for Norfolk? :eek:

choille

Is it human or animal?

DaftyDuck

Haven't exhumed it yet.... so can't be sure.

Might be lucky...


... or not!

There's a fairly large (broken... is that significant? ) stone cross, looks like it's been covered for the last fifty years. It can stay there undisturbed, I don't mind. Wouldn't mind being popped in a hole in the middle of nowhere myself.

Actually, being as close to the oak as it is, it'd have had to be there for a long time to even be able to dig through roots. I shall investigate further during sunlight hours only (but not dig anything up)

choille

Goodness, how exciting. I wonder if there's any writing on the stone?

Here a guy's wife died & she is buried on the croft. It was a very beautiful service with a piper piping the coffin down from the big byre to the grave. It was carried down as is traditional & there were beautiful Gaelic singers. It was a Humanist service & the nicest I've been to really.

raining here & a cold wind, but the wee lambies are springing about.

Davesnave

I wouldn't mind being buried down at the bottom of our new woodland area.....but it is a bit of a frost pocket......:think:

OK then, up at the top of the top field.....but that's rather windy....:undecided

Maybe Mr Dog's End then....I could haunt him!:rotfl: Ah, but that floods.....:(

Hmmm....Middle of the field? Horses already buried somewhere there....

Oh, I don't know! I was never much good at making big decisions, so I guess I'll just keep going.

No progress here; it just threatens to rain, does so for a while, and then it clears up just after we've cancelled roofing for the day. :mad:

DW went back to the Somerset Levels today, Bittern hunting with her friends. She had some inside info on where they'd be and how to get help spotting them. They saw two, plus other relatively rare birds, including a Hobby and a couple of Marsh Harriers. Apparently, a good time was had by all and they'd no rain, which wasn't the case for me here. :wall:

DW's diagnosis wasn't terribly good news. She will have the injections every 6 months or so to stay pain free and get about. She's OK at present, but we'll just have to see how long each treatment lasts.....not 6 months I suspect.

choille

Poor Mrs Dave - I do hope that she does get some respite for as long as possible. It's a terrible thing is pain.

It's rained here quite heavily at times. I was out whacking at bracken, but got rained off a couple of times & gave up. It's been one of those grey half light days where you go half asleep, or is that just me? I still feel tired out, but have achieved very little......again.

Davesnave

Choille, if you've the same bug as many of us had earlier in the year, it will be a while before you're recovered properly. I remember walking about here with nothing specifically 'wrong' with me and feeling that it was all too much.

Forgot to mention we had our septic tanks emptied the other day, with the owner of next door in attendance. Miracles will never cease, she is now in full agreement with emptying every 2-3 years.:D

The bloomin things are huge, so that's the only reason they got away with doing it at such long intervals before....until the time when they didn't get away with it any more.