Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Well, I think I picked my last courgette of this year tonight. They're forecasting a frost, so I spent all day getting the polytunnel ready for winter, which just means sweeping it and closing the low ventilation by fixing poly over the frames I have down one side. In the warm months they just have insect netting over them.

Then it's down to locating and bringing in all the sensitive plants, sorting them for weevils and then keeping them on the dry side. Tonight, most are under fleece, but this is the first time I've been without the conservatory and it's a bit ...:eek:

In other news our galvanised fire box is ready and hidden behind someone's garage, so we have to pick that up + a lintel tomorrow.

Pete is also due in the next few days with the digger to do some more ground works. I expected it to be like trench warfare out there by now, but everything's parched, as it was the driest October here since 1990.

greenbee

It's dry here too Dave, although we've had a lot of mist and fog, so the grass is sodden and I haven't managed to mow it properly recently. I really do need to try to get it done tomorrow. Possibly with a head torch...

choille

Wet here, so no sawing or much done outdoors.

That's good to hear your electrickery saw is going strong after a few years Dave.
I will bear in mind what you say about the chain oil. The LIDL chain lasted no time really.
Thousands of field fares about today - came in clouds of them. It's quite cold & has been really wet.
We did have a dry spell in October, but everywhere is back to mud again.
Just had some of my crab apple jelly with the pork roast & it's nice for that or on toast. So pleased. Simple things.

alfie_1

hi all...


still dry here too ! we put the hose in the top pond and took 2 days to fill it and that's the smallest pond !! amazingly we spotted some fish in the last foot of water left in there ! we thought theyde all been got by mr heron... it overflows [via pipe] to a shallow wildlife pond 100metres away then from there to the BIG pond/mini lake...






the forest ponds are gone... bone dry.
with the darker evenings now being on commuting times the poor forest ponies/donkeys are getting hit... people just will not slow down !!! I had a big deer run out on me but I slammed on the brakes and stopped . so many just don't observe to the left/right of the roads....
I was picking the last of the dahlias etc in friends flower garden plot yesterday as frosts are forecast..
my lawn is extreme at the moment ! need a combine harvester I reckon !! the bottom lawn stays shorter , I think due to me feeding all the pheasants there ! they pick at the scattered corn and "de moss" in the process and also nip off the grass..
my horses are all pretty hardy and we never rug them in the winter but im not sure if jim jam will need a coat ? if they are working they get too hot with a full winter coat of hair so they are rugged to prevent too thick a coat if that makes sense !.. but hes a youngster , on his own, and we need t keep his weight on,, I will have to ask his owner I think [im probably fussing too much !!]


ive had 2 people withdraw from the sale on the bay ... makes me so cross ! it says a warning before bidding.. time wasters !


im off to visit my dad today then im having an easy day !


ITS RAINING !!!!!

greenbee

It's just started raining here too Alfie! I'm glad I mowed yesterday and went for my run earlier...

Davesnave

Hardly any rain here, still....

We picked up the fire box yesterday. It was actually sitting in the street and we drove past it, thinking it was a BT fibre cable box....:rotfl:...but someone was keeping half an eye on it.

So, today I've been knocking the plaster off the chimney breast and revealing some of the worst brick & block work I've ever seen! Next, we'll have to get some lintels, I think, 'cos the whole fire opening seems to be held up with no more than some expanded metal and a something thin and rusty.:eek:

Horse Woman started to lose touch with reality it two days ago.She was in quite a bad mental state when her son arrived today, recognising him, but thinking DW was someone from the council. The doctor was called and she left in an ambulance for the district hospital in the late afternoon. Who knows what will happen next, but surely no one will be daft enough to think the strategies they've already tried will have any chance of success.

ukmaggie45

Davesnave wrote: »

Horse Woman started to lose touch with reality it two days ago.She was in quite a bad mental state when her son arrived today, recognising him, but thinking DW was someone from the council. The doctor was called and she left in an ambulance for the district hospital in the late afternoon. Who knows what will happen next, but surely no one will be daft enough to think the strategies they've already tried will have any chance of success.

Oh dear.

Mind you when GP visited my Mum in the flat after Dad in Nursing Home he told her she could stay in her home as long as she liked.

And refused to talk to OH and me at all even when it became obvious her memory was shot, she was hallucinating, at one point we told her to call the police to "the kids" who had broken in and were in her bedroom.

What really got me was she left him money in her will and we had to pay it out - so far as I was concerned he made our life hell, and didn't really help Mum at all either.

Sorry - just p*ssed off about a lot of stuff at present, Horse Woman stuff just took me back to past bad times.

Did I tell you about my Motability car being tooken off me? I'm getting muddled as to who knows and who doesn't. DLA to PIP fail. But my Mandatory Reconsideration is in with them, and now (too late) Atos have sent for reports from my GP and my Counsellor.

Sorry if told you all already!

choille

Very cold here & wet.

Sheep go off tomorrow, so feeling sad.

Poor horse woman, but glad she's in hospital. They won't release here back home without someone there all the time - surely?

Maggie - I'm sorry about your motobility bother. Have you talked it over with CA? I think a lot of people are having trouble because of cut backs.
I hope that successfully appeal it. It can't be at all easy.

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Very cold here & wet.

Sheep go off tomorrow, so feeling sad.

Poor horse woman, but glad she's in hospital. They won't release here back home without someone there all the time - surely?

Maggie - I'm sorry about your motobility bother. Have you talked it over with CA? I think a lot of people are having trouble because of cut backs.
I hope that successfully appeal it. It can't be at all easy.

oh dear choille, I feel for you parting with some sheep. but you loved em and looked after them and you still have some ...so chin up gal... XXX

alfie_1

dave.... hard as it will be for you, maybe you have to be a bit stern with HW family and tell them its too much responsibility for you and OH..
you have been terrific neighbours , and it sounds like that may be stated by family to the hospital/authorities and if they THINK theres someone there they will send her home ... maybe.