Daydream fund challenge part 4

DaftyDuck

If you have the patience, an old carving-type knife, slice at an angle about a centimetre or three below ground in an arc, then pull the rosette. With luck, the root will come as well. Better with dandelions, but will help with ragwort. If you do it in hot, hot sun, with no rain forecast for a few days, the root is more likely to die off and not regrow.

Oh, and I looked at my umbrella tree, and it does look awfully tatty... maybe following my advice isn't such a good idea, even if it did survive the prune!

Davesnave

Fay wrote: »

I do hope we get to see some pics of the finished project Dave. You've worked so hard!

Don't worry I'll be shouting from the rooftop when I finish this bit!

But it's DW's paint job you'll get to see first, Still waiting on doing the bits behind the down pipes, as we noticed naughty builder hadn't used stainless steel screws to fix those and it's not worth dismantling them twice.

Not much gets past us!

Bloomin' hairy cat went awol last night and we didn't know whether she'd been beaten-up by the Bengal or taken ill because she'd walked in my concrete. Found at 02.30 under the hedge, subdued but uninjured....ate plenty. We, however don't feel so great!

I_have_spoken

:mad::mad::mad::mad:Scottish weather:mad::mad::mad::mad:

That is all:D

alfie_1

I_have_spoken wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad::mad:Scottish weather:mad::mad::mad::mad:

That is all:D

if it helps... we are due a bit of rain tomorrow... maybe...possibly... :o

Davesnave

I_have_spoken wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad::mad:Scottish weather

It hasn't been that great here either, although what real rain we had only lasted a short while and didn't do much good. Just mizzle with occasional glimpses of blue sky at one point, but mostly dull.

I'm not bovvered.:p Throughout this 2 week physical foundations challenge, the absence of a heatwave suits me fine, although somebody mentioned something about one the other day. :cool: If I can get finished by the weekend, the holidaymakers can have scorchio next week.:D

We were back at brick mountain yesterday collecting a few more, just in case we'd underestimated. It was perplexing. Despite searching high and low, we couldn't get a complete match with the ones we already have. Mr Brick Man was like a mountaineer, shinning up the piles, angry that he was being 'beaten by a few bricks,' but we were content with the ones we came away with. They will mix in OK.
"Ah but they are red base with yellow, not yellow base with red!" Mr Brick wasn't really happy. I bet he found the others after we'd gone!:rotfl:

I never realised that there are so many kinds and such subtle differences.

alfie_1

im a bit annoyed !!


field next door to me has never been used for anything, just an overgrown mess that's chopped down each year... friend wanted to rent it off farmer as it abuts 2 of our fields...but farmer said " he was going to put cattle in there or he wouldn't get his grant again ??" but he never has..
last evening I heard them chopping down the "mess" so I popped my head over the hedge and said hello... farmer told me they were going to strip graze his sons GF's horses [2] in there...
I then said " you do realise we have a very large stallion in the adjoining field ? GF said "oh yes he's lovely"... durrrr..
she does dressage / eventing etc so posh horses.. I looked amazed and said .. are yours mares ? yes, she says.....double durrrr ??
I then said , so what do I do with my stallion ? it will kill itself on the fence to get to your mares ?
oh I don't want my mare having a foal, she says..


by now im virtually hitting my head on the side of his tractor !!!


theres also no water supply to the field ? there is in ours


we had arranged for stallion to go into the farm yard when im on holiday.. enough grazing with a bit of hay, mainly cos no one else will go in with him and hes secure there BUT if I move him now there will be no grazing and means someone has to feed him daily in my absence..


she then said its only for max 2 weeks as her mares react badly to the fly/mossies down here ?? they are too posh for bumps


im pithed off anyway.. hes got acres and acres of fields all round here and they chose this one !!
I cant chance stallion getting injured so will move him tomorrow but I have told them that if her mares get to HIM, im not responsible and if they call all night she will have to move them as he was there first !


sorry to have a moan but some people are just illogically thoughtless....

lostinrates

Hi all.

Alfie.....Bimble is going to have another playmate when he comes. And she is as busy as him I think. She's what you saw in Lym, and what we talked about and I was laughing you knew them. She's also not got the good manners of Bimble. But she's cute.

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

I cant chance stallion getting injured so will move him tomorrow but I have told them that if her mares get to HIM, im not responsible and if they call all night she will have to move them as he was there first !

Well, there's one problem I don't have with the sheep. I knew there was a positive....

Bloody sheep were barking the apple trees again yesterday, despite my protective jackets and barbed-wire. Added even more barbed wire, which may hold them off....:(

Someone said last weekend that their swallows had all gone. Looked today and we have a few, but the bulk of them do seem to have cleared-off. Odd? They don't normally desert us tilll September. What do they know that we don't???? :eek:
Pete was up tonight, turning Horse Woman's hay, which he cut when he did his own last Friday. I guess he'll bale it all for her too. One of her sons is living with her at present, as I think her family are now finally aware that she isn't bouncing back to be her usual self. Decisions will have to be made.....she is, after all, rather closer to 90 than 80, so with her solar panels and her internet shopping she hasn't done badly, keeping up with the times. :A

Speaking of which, the othe day a polystyrene parcel of meat arrived, all the way from bonnie Scotland, which was Horse Woman's way of thanking us for helping out. Some of you may be aware of this on-line butcher, who makes much of his Scottish quality produce, although I couldn't help noticing that most of ours came from Denmark or France! Mind you, what we've had has been very good.

Sounds like Bimble will have fun at the 'kennels!' He might not want to return home if there's good female company......

lostinrates

Grass good Dave? So many cuts up here in this valley my neighbours are running out of places to stash it. Two cuts of one of our fields, rest looks like it might just get topped as there is going to be no call for it, too much going on and it's going over again now.

Put in a new area of garden back in spring, it still looks terrible. I'm trying to get a whole lot of chamomile flore pleno, but it's not cheap, . Also almost ready for my first tiny herb lawn.


Have to plant a ( not wet ) area by a pond this weekend and want to do it with plant too, and I am thinking of Irish moss. Never had the stuff, but it looks pretty and shouldn't obscure any view and looks maintenance low.

No news...just the dog.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Grass good Dave?.

No, terrible. We had sheep early and late. They are slowly chomping through it, but Pete shouldda topped it. The only positive thing I can say is that the coarse, tufty grass which used to dominate, now doesn't, and we seem to have much variety in the species.

I saw a chamomile lawn at Cannington College and wasn't inspired to rush out and make one, but it was still spring. Here, anything I tried to make like that would be full of annual meadow grass before it had had time to take off.

So it's a new dog?