Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

I'm still coughing and spluttering after two weeks

Heavy rain with us. Annoyingly, one downpour snapped a branch off the Lantana half-standard.

alfie_1

hi all......
weather holding off so far today but not a good forecast tomorrow !!


ive set up my stand at the auto jumble and come home. not much point as its traders day today and they aint gonna be buying.. its civvy's tomorrow...


glad you got most of your roof sorted dave and that plant sales are starting.


sorry to hear you are still poorly choille ! I think maybe what with OH's op etc that you've had a tiring time to boot !


ditto for IHS...hope you feel better soon
im lucky so far , cold starts but doesn't get bad. my back is giving me gip but hey ho goes with the territory ! lugging/catching sheep for the shearer man and general shifting stuff .....
got results for my mri scan 7th june......


picking my sister up at 5 today from iow ferry, shes helping me sell this weekend.
new dog, dolly daydream is doing well . shes so placid ! but also still FAT ! i took her with me today as the other two are fine left for longer and im popping home lunchtimes to let them out.......I got the ambulance crew at the show today to put their stethoscope on her tummy to see if we could hear anything !! one paramedic was convinced she is preggies !! ....................... gulp


hope everyone has decent weather this weekend and if anyone wants to do swops and take our sh*t weather forecast id be ever so gratefull........

DaftyDuck

I fear I made a mistake - a "grave" error on my part! My profuse apologies to all those who were looking forward to further instalments from the Dracula saga...

Not many vampires are buried beneath a cross, let alone one engraved with their initials...

G.P.O. in this case. Followed by the Ordnance 'crow's foot' marker!

I suspect it might still be re-purposed, and a pet's grave, as the "cross" is made of the base (wot would be underground), and the G.P.O. mark is buried. But it does look good, amongst all the nettles and weeds. I shall make it a feature. There's certainly no cable there. Not for hundreds of yards.

Spent the entire day digging up ground elder from the front garden. I did find another shrub... so that's seven in total, for a 1.6 acre garden. I think the previous folks here were probably not that keen at gardening!

I shall now write out 100 times "I must not let my imagination run away with me"...

Davesnave

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Spent the entire day digging up ground elder from the front garden. I did find another shrub... so that's seven in total, for a 1.6 acre garden. I think the previous folks here were probably not that keen at gardening!

It could be worse. I came across many labels for choice things, of which there was no evidence whatever. :mad:

Fortunately, most I find now are blank, the ink having long since faded. The twit who lived here thought ink was longer lasting than pencil, so he used pen for all his decorative stuff. I can still read all the pencilled veggie labels I find.

Davesnave

Rained all day here; nice, steady rain that we really needed, or rather the plants and rivers did.

Hope alfie had a good selling day and didn't get too wet! :A

I spent the afternoon in the polytunnel potting-up to replace some of the plants we've sold in the past week. They go well at this time of year. Then I came in and spent half the profits on more seeds.:o

I've planted-out the first of the courgettes and squash, and we have plenty of mangy toot peas now. Cheated a week ago and planted out some of Mr Sainsbury's living lettuce, which now look pretty good! :o:o

choille

Lost my post! Grrrrrrrr

Hope you get mega sales Alfie - fingers crossed.

Hope the Dolly isn't going to have some little Dolly.....Mixtures?

Dafty - we were all intriqued about the grave - a GPO tombstone - That must be the guy's initials?

Rained & cold, but a lovely sunset this evening, turned the mountain red.
My cough has gone, but I still feel a bit whacked out - OH is still hacking away. Seems to be a bit of a lingerer.

Hope you are on the mend IHS.

Dave glad the septic tank is going to be regularly done - hope she sticks to it- literally!

I have used razor shells & write on them with pencil & they do stay clear. However, they do break quite easily if you tread on them.

alfie_1

quick pop in to let the 2 dogs out for a pee ! dolly has been at the show with us ! good as gold.


oh choille I did laugh....dolly mixtures !!:T if she does have pups that's what im gonna call them...:rotfl::rotfl:


got sh*te weather yesterday... sold a bit tho as by the time ide wrapped gazebo in a tarp we looked like a yurt ! and we were cosy inside.. so people came in today is fairing better...
gotta go


xxx

choille

Go for it Alfie.

Incredibly heavy rain here this morning. Cloud bursts.

Trying to do some odds & ends - not concentrating at all.

I_have_spoken

Nice day with us, plenty of sun and breeze so everyone's out on Loch Lomond or yachting on the Clyde.

Visited my local NTS garden just as the azaleas etc. are at their best. Impressive to see, couldn't be doing with these colours for a moment in my garden!

Davesnave

It was a mixed day here. We set off this morning in rain which graduated to hail and torrential downpours by the time we'd crossed the edge of Dartmoor. We were on our way to an outdoor adventure centre, which isn't the sort of place we normally go! :eek:

It was all courtesy of a friend, who, having passed the big 60, decided she should start challenging herself....so she challenged all her friends as well.

All we had to do was climb up a tree about as high as a house, jump off a platform (after connecting ourselves to a zip wire) and whizz over a pond to land somewhere about 200m away, where we would sort of abseil down......:undecided

It was OK. Our friend absolutely hated it, and so did I, but no one bottled-out. Indeed, a few hardy younger/fitter members of the party did the aerial walk, which takes participants over a really hard balancing course at high level.....tightrope stuff and worse! They all made it, but it took them ages and they were pretty wobbly at the end. :T

So, we all paid for various forms of torture, including thrashing about inside big floating transparent balls and similar daft activities. However, the best bit was that the sun came out, lighting-up the site filled with hundreds of old parkland trees, and with the river running through, it was a superb setting.

Creeping away for a while, I sat by the river and saw a dipper; a bird that used to be common, but now quite a rare sight. That made my day!