Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

hi all... got back yesterday... just catching up with "losing a day/nights sleep" ...


had an amazing time , the whales were STUNNING.. tho I wasn't expecting to be out quite so "deep waters" to see 'em in a RIB !! worth every inch of fear tho


all was well at home.. sister thought stallion had escaped, scaled the gate to look around only to be met with him charging round the corner at full throttle [she is NOT a horse person !] she threw carrots and legged it at 100mph...:rotfl:


fetched dolly and asbo last night.. dolly lost some weight [good thing] and more sprightly..
drove up to prise bimble from LIR today... hed had a wonderfull control free time, going on adventures and being fed like a king.. hence he didn't even try his dinner here tonight ! :cool:
wonderfull to have made such friends from this forum..


seems weird being back... and my house that was ..and I mean WAS spotless now looks like a bombs hit it with my "stuff" dumped every where my garden is weed free and spotless too so ive suggested to my sister and her OH that I go away once a month for a long weekend and they come over and "clean up"....:)


anyway I have a few days before back to the work grindstone..

Fay

Welcome back Alfie, I'm glad you had a great time. It sure looks an amazing country. When you feel up to it maybe you can give us a run down of everything you managed to squeeze in?

pink_poppy

Apparently you can sometimes see killer whales from a cliff top somewhere in Scotland ~ that is the ONLY way you would get me to voluntarily go & see them. As long as I didn't have to go TOO near the edge of the cliff, as being terrified of heights is another phobia I have

Good to see you got home safe, alfie

Davesnave

Welcome back to sunny Britain,alfie! :hello: Just saw this afternoon's weather for your place....:whistle:

Village Show today, so we were in the Hall, bright and early, arranging our exhibits.:D

Obviously, the ladies from the WI thought I was just a hopeless male, because two of them rounded on me and tried to find out which class my small tray of left over bits & bobs was in, though what 3 blackberries and a broken egg could possibly represent, I'm sure I don't know! :rotfl:I was just fetching and carrying for DW, who does all the arty-farty stuff.....with plants I've grown. :A

I've only entered the photography section as me. Never tried my luck in that before, so we'll see how it goes. I have a feeling that my picture of two kids down at the river last Sunday, totally absorbed with what's in their net, won't be allowed as 'Sport.'

I feel more confident of meeting the criteria for 'Devon Churches' although I could also trip up there, as the title says 'Brushford Church' and the most well-known Brushford is in Somerset. According to Wiki, our Brushford only has 59 residents!

I am definitely in with a shout on 'Picturesque Devon,' though. Well they're nice cows.....

Damn! I know I should gone with the corn stooks! :mad:

greenbee

Welcome back Alfie. Not sure I like the weather you've brought with you though...

Hope the show goes well Dave.

I'm preparing for the next phase of the building work. On the assumption that it will actually happen - which is an optimistic one given the complete failure of anyone to get back to me this week.

I bought two 'shabby chic' dressers when I moved in - both fairly rickety - to provide storage in the dining room as there is no kitchen storage (I ripped it out, it was disgusting and stank). These were moved into the kitchen when I had to empty the dining room during the upstairs work (when the downstairs electrics were being done as well). As the kitchen is next... they need to be moved out. Which means tidying the dining room...

Anyway, one dresser is now back in the dining room and has stuff in it again. Half of the other one is in the garage and the other half it on its way. I now need to move the hall table into the kitchen temporarily - it'll be easier for the builders to move back and forth when they are working.

Davesnave

greenbee wrote: »

Hope the show goes well Dave.

As well as could be expected, thanks, given that we only cobbled stuff together at the last moment...:o

Had firsts for quite a few plant-related things, but as usual, not sure why. Other people had better courgettes and peppers than I did, for example, but I still won. My peppers always seem to win, but these were still green.

I was nowhere with tomatoes. Somebody with big, fat tasteless Moneymaker-type ones got that, but at least the person who submitted the same variety as me was given short shrift as well.....I sold the plants to her! :rotfl:

I needn't have worried about the photos.:( I would have disqualified me for the fishing photo, and I agree that cows aren't picturesque, but at least my pictures were in focus and correctly exposed.... Say no more!

Anyway, here's the two kids. I think they're delightful:

Davesnave

greenbee wrote: »

I bought two 'shabby chic' dressers when I moved in - both fairly rickety - to provide storage in the dining room as there is no kitchen storage (I ripped it out, it was disgusting and stank). These were moved into the kitchen when I had to empty the dining room during the upstairs work (when the downstairs electrics were being done as well). As the kitchen is next... they need to be moved out. Which means tidying the dining room...

Anyway, one dresser is now back in the dining room and has stuff in it again. Half of the other one is in the garage and the other half it on its way. I now need to move the hall table into the kitchen temporarily - it'll be easier for the builders to move back and forth when they are working.

This so reminds me of 2014/15 and moving around the house to get out of the way of the next bit of demolition/building.....Never again!!!

greenbee

Village shows are always a bit of a mystery... the next village up from us has theirs today and it's a major local event. Lots of traffic. Not sure how the torrential rain is going down.

I'm exhausted after all the furniture moving but really do need to try to get the house back into some semblance of order now!

Davesnave

greenbee wrote: »

I'm exhausted after all the furniture moving but really do need to try to get the house back into some semblance of order now!

With the departure of the builder, we were looking forward to a quiet weekend at last, as our daughter's surprise visit at the Bank Holiday scuppered any chance of that.

Well, today was the Show, so in and out constantly..... Meanwhile, because BiL announced on Friday that he's coming to help do some tiling on Sunday, I've had a bonkers time, tanking the bathroom walls, ready for that. Think it will all be dry and ready to go tomorrow, but the humidity isn't helping.

Rain is supposed to stop, so off out for fish & chip supper if it does.

alfie_1

greenbee wrote: »

Village shows are always a bit of a mystery... the next village up from us has theirs today and it's a major local event. Lots of traffic. Not sure how the torrential rain is going down.

I'm exhausted after all the furniture moving but really do need to try to get the house back into some semblance of order now!

village/rural shows ... hill billy Canada style :rotfl:........


popped in to have a nose and was spell bound by the "poultry section.. picture kids that have the potential to remake the waltons OR become stepford wives...
the total sum of aprox 10 each of chickens/turkeys/ducks to be judged..
"best in show" consisted of a polish chook, an infant turkey and an indian runner duck..
a spotty juvenile [looked 14] officiated.. owners being told/beckoned forward individually and asked for their critters to "cat walk" up and down a table... I was by now wondering how this was going to be achieved "free style" :cool: but heyho out came a baton type stick which promptly was shoved under birds neck to "lift" it and guide it ?? mr spotty sat expressionless watching ... and oh boy the waltons took it seriously... glaring at the competition..
the babby turkey took a bit of a wrong turn but made it to the end of the table.. the duck "relieved itself [to which owner promptly from his satchel produced a duck poop size wipe and removed straight faced ! but the polish took the rosette..
I was propped on a post nearly "relieving" myself...


the horse show consisted of a mish mash of varying size hoss's with varying sized riders the class " the horse youde be happiest to ride" ? caught my attention which turned into a virtual circular race to overtake the smaller/slower hoss in front which resulted in basic bedlam... I was backing a tiny pony with a bit/lot too big rider that went like the clappers to keep up with a trotting hoss in front. even when a tanoy announcement came right beside it and it did a 6ft sideways leap , the rider gripped on to that hoss. [albeit out of the stirrups her feet would have been on terra firma...] it didn't win and I wandered off disappointed...


the sheep looked like poodles and I left convinced there was a colony of VERY SERIOUS young farmers living in them there hills....