Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Hope the gosling is OK now, alfie. It was lucky you spotted the problem, hopefully in time. :A

Had a bit of a fraught 24 hrs. Yesterday I fell into the hole I was digging around the drain , and although i just laughed because I wasn't hurt at all, shortly afterwards, I started getting 'flashes' in my left eye and floaters, which I don't normally have.

I thought I'd sleep on it, but on waking this morning, it was still there. So I called Specsavers who said they could look, but they'd prefer me to get a referral and would I ring 111?

Well, that was a mistake!!! After holding for an eternity, I got this coughing woman who sounded like she was on 60 a day, who immediately informed me their 'system was down' but she'd do her best..... Well, it wasn't good enough! After having no real clue where I was, it got to me suggesting places, especially ones where I could drop off the van first because it was the dreaded MoT test at 10.15.......:eek:

Anyway, we ended up at Okehampton, in car with van dropped-off on the way, to discover the A&E had been closed 3 months ago.... Arrrgghh!.....:wall:

But!.... there was a sort of drop-in centre up the road......so went there and was dealt with fast.....then being referred to Barnstaple or Exeter...I choose.. :undecided

So.... we went back and got the van, It passed! :j....almost. I wanted them to 'find' the borderline rear tyre, and they did, but a new one would take a day or two. Then they pushed the rear fog lamp button, which I know not to do .....and it fell through the fascia into the bowels of the dashboard. It does that. I forgot to superglue it.:mad:

So van must go back, but it will be OK and no new steering rack at over £1k + fitting, which I've been worried about for 3 years now.

Anyway, early lunch and off to Barnstaple....sit in A&E all afternoon watching awful daytime TV, like Charlie Dimmock turning someone's appalling garden into something equally horrible......:rotfl:

Finally, see very nice Dr, who tells me she has these symptoms too...and there's a clinic in Exeter specially for people like us, called 'Flashers & Floaters.' :eek::rotfl::whistle::dance: It sounds almost like fun, but then I remember Exeter traffic and opt for an appt on Friday with their in-house specialist instead.....:cool:

So, maybe if I'd just gone to Specsavers.....All I wanted was someone to have a look and say whether it's the usual age-related thing.

Davesnave

Oh dear, just been catching-up, and I'm another one who has ripped out an oil-fired Aga! Got £200 for it, which is exactly what we received from the scrappie yesterday.

People are still pursuing me for my insulation too, but I only have slightly manky stuff left and I'm not expecting anyone to want the bits mice lived in.

One asked, "will it fit in a Renault Kangoo?"

Six full dumpy bags in one of those!:rotfl:

greenbee

Maybe you should wear a cycle helmet when digging in future Dave?

Phoneline has been restored and broadband appears to be working twice as fast as before. Not sure I want my boss to know or I might be expected to do video calls.

12 more bags of water parsnip out of the stream and still a lot more to do, but the monsoon season seems to have started here so it's a little difficult to do. I also have to do some work occasionally.

greenbee

Davesnave wrote: »

Oh dear, just been catching-up, and I'm another one who has ripped out an oil-fired Aga! Got £200 for it, which is exactly what we received from the scrappie yesterday.

It's probably the one I'll end up paying £3500 for

I need something that will work when the electricity is off. Although I'm also putting a propane cylinder in for a gas hob.

Builders were here today finishing off a few bits upstairs and we have a plan for the kitchen... they can come in on odd days while I'm travelling for work in September and brick up the doorway, install the oil and gas lines, screed the floor and put in a concrete plinth for the aga. So I need to call the aga people tomorrow.

DaftyDuck

I think it'd be a bit difficult to ship my Aga down to you, gb... unless we know of someone with a nice, solid van to drive it down, you know, good tyres, steering rack OK... someone with common sense and care.... Poor Dave; hospitals are terrible places, I wouldn't wish them on anybody ill, I really wouldn't!

Actually, Dave, I think you was robbed on your stove. The plumber doing my system thinks he can remove & rehome it, and give me around a thousand for it too... hmmm, I'm dubious, but we shall see!

I have a "floater" in my right eye, had it since I was in my twenties. Makes using a binocular microscope quite exciting, as I'm often (well, was) dissecting nervous tissues, and I'd poke around for this mysterious bit of nerve for a few seconds, flailing and failing to find it, before closing my right eye and thinking "oh...", bit like this @52 seconds. I made a number of unique and very short-lasting discoveries about the nervous system this way...

Well done Alfie, reminds me of the cat I caught with a fish hook in its gob at a restaurant in Kos. Waiter drove the mad cat man all around town trying to find wire cutters, before we called in at our (poshish) hotel, a bit bloodied and scratched, and got the toolkit from reception. I (not wifey-vet; drunk unfortunately, as so often... tsk tsk) performed a quick hookectomy on Reception, before returning to restaurant with kittie... who had instantly forgiven me, amazingly, and shared my supper!

Anyway, things progress re it being my birthday soon and buying presents for my wife ... having bought her a wheelbarrow trolley so she can do more muck-picking, I have also now treated her to a vacuum cleaner, so she can now keep both house and fields spick and span. Who said romance was dead? Any ideas welcome... Marigold gloves, a shovel for the drains and ditches, ladder for the roofing... all have been considered and rejected for some reason but, surely, there are some other romantics on the Thread who can help... Ideas welcome!

Davesnave

greenbee wrote: »

I need something that will work when the electricity is off. Although I'm also putting a propane cylinder in for a gas hob.

Is the leccy that unreliable? Even here in the boondocks of Middle Deb'n, it isn't too bad, though it's become marginally worse since the lines were renewed.

I'm afraid the bottled gas hob went too! I didn't mind it myself, but she who must have an induction device......

We can always hunker down by the woodburner or abandon house and cook in the caravan if necessary.

greenbee

Electricity here is better now they've done a LOT of tree work, but the first year I was here it was appalling. The church in the next village burned down due to a power surge...

I'd prefer not to rely on it!

And there is no way I'm cooking on an electric hob. I'm going to have a ritual destruction of the electric cooker when I finally get something that I can actually cook on...

DaftyDuck

We did have a very odd power cut here a while back, where one of the phases had crossed with another, so certain circuits were dead, others half-power, lights flickering, and a takeaway seemed in order. Went next door to offer the elderly-them a free delivery, only to find them in their hippy camper-van, a-cooking and a-drinking and a-giggling... Seems like a smart backup idea, when life allows!

Water meadows flooded. Again! It's SUMMER, SUMMER.... where's the sun? I'll be growing webbed toes soon, like all the locals. I'm giving up on donkey farming, and growing crocoducks instead!

(It's rather sad when the local big river floods - all the rabbits are driven from the fields beside, onto the road, where they sit and wait for the water to go down. They don't wait long... )

Found this photo...


Fish hook kittie patiently waits for madman to remove it!

Davesnave

DaftyDuck wrote: »

. Poor Dave; hospitals are terrible places, I wouldn't wish them on anybody ill, I really wouldn't!

Actually, Dave, I think you was robbed on your stove. The plumber doing my system thinks he can remove & rehome it, and give me around a thousand for it too... hmmm, I'm dubious, but we shall see!

There was, and probably still is, a glut in the market for old Agas, due to so many of us pulling them out. There's also a lot of colour prejudice. We liked ours for cooking.....most of the time, but when the wind blew, there was no way to compensate.

I was happy with the money we received after having ours on the Bay for some time, and even happier that the purchaser removed it without damagng our new floor.

As for hospitals.... I'd say they've improved a lot, in the sense that I was spoken to like an intelligent human being everywhere I went. It was obvious that staff were working flat-out, but there was much good humour too.

The only disappointment was not meeting a certain Dr Vile, whose name was proclaimed in large letters on one of the doors at Okehampton. I looked to see if the corresponding door was the office of Dr P u ss y love...... but sadly, I'd not slipped through the portals of an alternative Carry-on universe.

alfie_1

absolutely stunning weather here !


had both my lawns mowed and strimmed yesterday by friends gardeners [3 doors down]........ oh joy !!


goslings leg/foot almost back to normal so gratefull it didn't tornique off !! hate putting animogs down when they are not sick but injured..


not a happy bunny as all the shoes put on tilly [new driving horse] have fallen off !!?? only been on about 4 weeks and driven twice !
my farrier due today [different one did tilly] and rumours are he is selling up, he has denied it but I don't know if that is tactics? I will find out the truth today as im not being "sold on"... I have a younger lad lined up.. its 10 horses after all and a good little earner for the right man... want to support the youngsters willing to keep up the trade..


right , have to go
have a good day y'all... xx