Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Email???? Funny enough someone messaged me on messenger if I had messaged their partner. I didn't open it as I thought it was a dodgy one. What did it say?? Can you message me the email it came from. Think I better change passwords

I've forwarded it to you. I didn't open the link inside, 'cos I know better than that, but my computer knows even better than me. :cool:

DaftyDuck

Ah, daydreams, daydreams.... 'dreams.... sigh...

My dream is to be able to sit down and relax outside the house, enjoying the view over the fields, watch the animals frolic across green fields in the warm sun, and hear the tinkle-chink of a G&T being brought by my ever-loving wife... Knowing I won't have to leap up a ladder to fix the roof, down a ditch to dig out a blockage, nor wander around carting endless barrows of soil or much from one side to the other - and back again, when I realise my first scheme won't work! I often find I've done something that needs undunning before I can move on to the next.

In order to get to my dreamland, there's an awful lot of mud to dig out of ditches, fields to clear of weeds, fences to mend, walls to replaster, heating, wiring and painting to sort, and the list just goes on... nightmare!

Best not thought of. Too much. Madness lies that way. This is the first property (of many) I have "done up" where I have not made a list of jobs, as it's too daunting at the moment. It would help if the builders would do what we want, when we want!

Or, if I pulled my finger out, and did stuff (right first time). Like my lovely [STRIKE]watermeadow[/STRIKE].... lake... Given I have the only water in the World that flows uphill (:o), that might explain why, despite my putting in a lovely oak watergate to control the flow, why, oh why, there are ducks and seagulls swimming around on the um.. green ..grass.. field.... Why my wellies are upside-down draining, and why I had to re-rescue the rescue horses, who'd decided it was the perfect day to lie down on a hummock... that was rapidly turning into an island The shallow ditch I had set to drain said field just seemed intent on proving Physics, Rationality and Logic wrong, and did its own insane thing, filling what it should have been draining. I shall name it Trumpdyke!

Anyways, beasties now on a drier field (I even collected a bucketful of swimming spiders clambering up the grasses, and gathered a rather-flustered, exhausted mole, in a flowerpot, who had rather run out of other viable options, so I must have looked mighty weird, leading three happily sploshing horses, whilst wincing at the wriggles in the tummy-contained flowerpot, and puffing spidies back into their bucket... ). The hawks were having a party, hoovering up the remaining swimming mammals, and I got a HELL of a shock from an electric fence that was busy washing electrons away, and nearly dropped the lot. Moley now resides in a dry woodland, spiders spread along a fence. Ducks and gulls think things are looking up, so I'm off to borrow a punt and BIG gun (as if!).

Luckily, we have a set of waders for tomorrow's play. Even better, they fit my wife, not me. I shall sit at the top, supply my own G&T, and give her the shovel, spade, bucket, snorkel, wheelbarrow, hammer, and saw, along with the rescue-flowerpot (just in case), and let her chortle for the day.

But I will re-lay Trumdyke in the right direction, the meadow shall flourish under gentle drownings, moley shall return safely, and the ducks and gulls can bu66er off.

So shall I, as I need a warming shower to remove the smell of dampness from my top to my toes. Then I need to dry my wellies for tomorrow for, sure as eggs are ova, I will join wifey in the puddles and we shall chortle together.

Daydreams will have to wait. Just, don't make me wait for my (dry!) G&T, or Martin will need a new box of !!! marks for his censor.

Tatty-bye for now.

choille

Well Daftey sounds like you are busy. Maybe we are meant to spend our days shovelling muck from A to B and back again.

It's freezing here - ice everywhere & hairy frost on the grass.

Must get out tomorrow as running out of haylage.

Davesnave

As you may have realised, the Met Office got things wrong again, so it was our area that unexpectedly received a large helping of wet from Angus. If it hadn't been for a brief period of fine weather early yesterday, we'd be in a much worse pickle now.

Not that we ever need to worry up here on the ridge between the large valley at the front, and the wee valley at the back.

Mr Dog had the digger in last week, ripping up his new asphalt, but what that was about I can't say, although it looked suspiciously like another drain. He's in in a natural depression, which is the best place for him , but it can't be fun at times like this.

Your water meadow sounds like my soak-aways Dafty. This morning, both of those I've just constructed were full of water, and an hour or so ago it was still rising. They're not even connected to the roof yet!

But there's nothing to be done. Much the same situation pertains down at the barn, which has an even larger roof, so there's a pond behind that. If we wanted to, we could extend our perforated pipes towards the lower edge of the property, but if we did, the thatchers would be inundated, as the gradient picks up between us and them.

So we won't. :A

alfie_1

hi all to the wet and dry of you'se ....:o


dave... WE knew you were gonna "get it";) local forecasts here were telling us it was heading southwest..
we "got it" on Saturday/sunday and didn't it come down !! overnight it came down like niagra falls and the wind howled like a constipated cat !


and I was catching / shifting fish all weekend... so I can join the stinky,wet,cold club
fish were a lot more abundant than first thought and by sunday I was "fished" out ! they seem to all be ok in new pond at the moment , no surface swimmers ...


had the vet out to storm [grey cob] yesterday . he has a problem with his nether regions .. vet thinks its just a mild waterworks infection and he has medicine so should be ok.


this morning so far has been showers/sun/showers/sun...


stay safe folks x

greenbee

send us some sun alfie - we just have the rain. Which we had all day yesterday too. Last night was windy... but thankfully the trampoline didn't move. Must weigh it down today.

choille

Thawed overnight thankfully - everywhere was buckled ice.

Quite sunny. Hope it lasts as everywhere is a bog.

At least the sheep aren't skating about now.

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

dave... WE knew you were gonna "get it";) local forecasts here were telling us it was heading southwest..

Originally the Met Office said it was The South and East that would suffer most, and only later did they say the South West would join-in...to steal the show.

I was watching the river cams and it was patently obvious that Exeter was going to suffer, but no one put out the flood defence booms at Cowley Bridge, (well, it was the weekend! ) so the railway was taken out.....again. No trains to/from Cornwall, or up this way on the Tarka line, for two days.


None of this has affected Mr Rod, who's been going great guns, but we're now at the rather awkward stage of plastering the living room....while living in it!:eek:

DaftyDuck

Went to bed last night at midnight, and wondered why my watch was ticking so loudly.. tick...... tick..... tick...... then Tick.... Tick... TICK.. TICK TICK TICK... So got out of bed, and promptly got a wet foot. Bedside radiator had sprung a leak, started as a drip, ended as a squirt.

Thermal valve and gate valve were ancient, wouldn't seal, then gate valve sheared off!

As the radiator fill-tank shares a feed with the cold tank, I had to tie up the ballcock (will that just !!! out? ) and drain some of the system. Finally got to bed at 1:30am.

Fitted new radiator today, and took advantage to replace a couple more failed valves and a leaky joint or two. Will refill in a few minutes, but expecting floods from something, somewhere, that I'll have forgotten ...

Life!

Davesnave

You said the heating was on its last legs.

I didn't trust any of the old radiators in this place, or their pipework, so it was all ripped-out, replaced, and the spoils taken to the scrappy.

But now you mention radiators, someone gave me a couple of nice ones and I'm not too sure now where they're lurking. They could go on the Bay, along with the dolls' house, which my DD2 has just re-discovered and'valued' for me at £80. I should be so lucky! :j

Still filling holes with rubble or filler, depending on whether I'm inside or out, but took a break to start pruning some of the trees/bushes in the woodland area, as the wet & windy spell snapped one cotoneaster and seriously wounded a buddleia. We've had phenomenal growth on some trees, but it's not good if they become top heavy and destroy themselves. The rubber tree ties I bought looked good, but many have now snapped after only 3 years.