Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Quiet day, yesterday, as Mrs Dave went Exeter shopping.....;)

So I looked around, and as it was raining, I decided to clean the polytunnel. I'll soon be bringing more sensitive plants inside for winter and trusting we have a mild one, until the conservatory arrives......

Two hours later, I realised where some of my growing problems have come from this year.....what a difference to light levels, but then, there was 6 years of dirt up there!

On the national news last night, some fat git was ranting in Torrington about the migrant children from the Jungle being temporarily housed near there: "Us don' wannum; send 'em all back where they come from!" was his message to the world. God knows where the Beeb dug up that dinosaur, but they did North Devon no favours. :mad:

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Badgers ate our hens - they burrowed into the house, so make sure they don't get in as they will keep returning. They love leather jackets - not bikers ones, but the grubs & ferret about scratching at the moss. They live down the gorge, down near the water fall. I found their den - well one of the dens when I was climbing about down there trying to haul up some dead wood.

Having a respite from listing on the bay - I've so much stuff - the house looks like one on the telly about horders. If 'ealth & safety get wind of it - they'll shut me down.

We've had the badgers passing through on a nightly basis for years, and there's foxes down in the wild area that was the barn conversions' recreational space...... until they argued about paying to maintain it. We never see them and they leave us alone, but then we don't give them many chances....;)

I have the old wood burner on the Bay at present, with 13 watchers at the last count. I also have 9 pine doors up at a good price, 'cos I just want shot of them.

Generally, my stuff goes, no probs, but I'm way better at buying than selling! :rotfl:

alfie_1

jimmy jam is charging round HIS field like a spring chicken !! :rotfl:
so good to see him kicking his heels up again :j


very mild here still.... was 16d testerday at 4pm !!
average 13 today..


still the ponds are very low tho as no rain

Davesnave

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm way better at buying than selling! :rotfl:

Told you!

Sold the wood burner to a very nice local chap who urgently needs a 'stop gap,' but I'd have probably got more if I'd let the auction run. :undecided

No one had bid, so no one can complain......Do eBay really believe I keep breaking or losing the items I have for sale???

One good turn deserves another etc. I've just been offered facilities to buy my new chain saw at trade and minus VAT. Won't say more, but that means a discount worth £150 at least, so I'm

Horse Woman's paid for [STRIKE]carer[/STRIKE]'enabler' finished today, and passed DW on the way out.... HW was still in bed, hadn't eaten or drunk anything and her pills were a staircase away, so what the woman had 'done' wasn't apparent. Looked suspiciously like nothing. :mad:

DW gave HW a drink & the pills, after which HW promised to get up and have toast. However, she was still in bed at 1pm when DW next called, but then got up "because the horse racing's on!" :rotfl:DW gave her an old duvet, as she was cold, sorted some toast and left.

However..... it's crunch time. DW's now gone to see her Mum until Sunday so it's down to HW's sons to sort things over the next few days. I like to think I'm quite adaptable, but getting old ladies up and dressed isn't really my thing....... I do hope son appears in the morning!!! :eek:

Davesnave

Remember the house with the 'living wall' that was plastic?

Well, here's the rest of it:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45077562.html

Equally naff! :rotfl:

Fay

Very cheap looking even thoug I bet they've spent a bit of money on it Dave. I like grey and black but that just looks like it would feel depressing.

choille

Have sold ram & he's been collected - all went well, but he did panic a bit when he saw the trailer, so glad the chap had experience in handling sheep as he's a strong ram & I couldn't have managed on my own.

I feel quite sad in a way as he was lovely & lovely natured - bucket fed, so quite biddable. The old girls & young lads away next week.....

Dave the house looks very cheap buy for what you get. It seems stuck in a street like a sore thumb wonder the Planners allowed it as it looks squeezed into a too small space & doesn't fit in a street-scape.

The situation with neighbour sounds critical. It will end up an emergency before anything is done. I would phone social services and ask that a record is made of the fact that you are raising your serious concerns about a neighbour, get the senior social workers email/contact details - send them an email about her lack of care & CC in your local MP. That way they will have to do something as the sons sound like they are not willing to take a proper decision on their Mother's care.
Pouring down here.

alfie_1

hi all


sorry your sheep are going choille... hard not to get attatched..


thick thick fog here yesterday morning...couldn't see out of the door !! then suddenly it lifted by 9am .. wouldn't say a sunny day but very mild..
we seem to be inundated with wasp nests everywhere round here.
keep getting some in my sons end of the house but cant figure out how they are getting in ? looks from the outside like they are in the attic so am assuming they are on "jane plan" and squishing through a minute gap in the ceiling hatch door !
im going to look up there tomorrow ....from the other hatch the other end of the house with a big torch....im daft but not stupid !!
friends gardener has a chap work with him that's also a pest controller so much as I don't like killing anything ,if they are there they will have to go !!


taking mum to see LIR on Monday... she loves it there and all the hurly burly with it .... me.. I like the food ..

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

The situation with neighbour sounds critical. It will end up an emergency before anything is done.

Well, it might. I now hear she was supposed to be re-assessed this week, but sent whoever it was packing, so it's as much her fault as anyone's. So long as she's regarded as having mental capacity, there's not much anyone 'official' can do.

She finds the current situation preferable to any other, even if it means imposing on neighbours,rather than taking responsibility for her lack of physical capacity. She lies to everyone, but DW catches her out!

Anyway two of the sons are there today. Hopefully, they'll finally get a strategy together, but I'm not holding my breath! I'll just make sure DW reduces her input to the minimum compatible with a clear conscience.

It seems wonderfully ironic that DW has been following a tough but effective exercise regime to stay properly mobile this past few months, while HW has done naff all to help herself.....

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Have sold ram & he's been collected - all went well, ....
I feel quite sad in a way as he was lovely & lovely natured - bucket fed, so quite biddable. The old girls & young lads away next week...

All our sheep left this week for greater care as they move towards lambing. At the same time, some youngsters arrived next door in HW's field, which they'll eat down quite quickly. Then we'll drive them down to our place, which will keep them going till spring.

I've been looking at the fields and our current layout, as inherited, and if any money's left, I think I'll bite the bullet and rearrange it. This will mean grubbing out the old, weird varieties of apple trees and relocating the orchard to the end of the garden and behind neighbour's property, freeing-up the middle of the field. We could still plant some old, weird varieties, but useful ones for cider-making perhaps. :think:

I'm not sure if we could also get the willows out economically. Pete will know. If we could, I'd do that too and enlarge the woodland down at the dog-end to compensate.

Long term plans.... We haven't finished the house yet! Finally received quote for new wood burner, flue and fireplace....£3k. More or less what I thought. _pale_