Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Our birds are being kept in due to advice of defra due to a potential bird flu threat. It's been so mild one of our geese have started laying!!!!! Lol..

Yes ours are in most of the time, but they're not too lively anyway at this time of year. We've put the water inside, and the food there too, but it's normally under cover anyway, because we try to keep wild bird contact to a minimum. We can put up a netting run if this is prolonged. Sounds like a bad outbreak.

Meanwhile loads of pheasants are strutting around the area outside the hen orchard......:mad:

Sorry to hear your pigglies didn't make the prices you'd like. Our village market closed for good yesterday, so we'll only have gate sales when we return to plant selling, if we do.:(

We should just about complete our build, but then money will be tight and there won't be anything spare for extras, like furniture or landscaping. It'll be a case of saving up I suppose, so maybe I'll be propagating like mad then! :rotfl:

alfie_1

hi all


ive not had any word via defra re our chickens ??? what is the advise etc ?


had a day of it yesterday/today, still got bad cold . took hay to horses yesterday and RUBY has got her rope halter all in a twizzle and its half on half off ! as this is what resulted in taking me 18months to catch her as a youngster [due to her getting snagged in her halter and scaring herself] she now wont let me near her ! ive spent this morning trying again ... tried bribing her but she knows and backs off when I get within inches of just hooking it off her head... it cant harm her but needs to come off !! im hoping with a good headshake it will fall off.
yesterday when I was trying to separate her out of the herd [resulted in stampedes !!] jim jam could obviously hear the thunder of 40 hooves [cant see them ] and decided to do same in his field and couldn't stop and ended up clearing the fence [3ft6] and ending up in the farmers field ! he looked a bit stunned and just stood waiting for me to rescue him [for a stallion he is a big goopy baby]
so ive spent 2 days chasing MY butt .... try again tomorrow if she hasn't got it off by then.


weather here is a bit drizzly / foggy in the mornings, clear during the day , then back to drizzy fog. aprox 11-12dg.


ive jus realised I have 2 weeks to pull my finger out to get xmas presents !!


oh and I have water dripping down the wall in the shower room from the now very wet ceiling ! im assuming its where the plumber mended the pipe before .... ggggrrrrrrrr. so plumber due tomorrow.
had the air vents put in and new ceiling plaster last time too .. at least its so far falling into the shower tray !


p.s. ive seen pic of CTC's kitten..... oh my word it is so CUTE.

Davesnave

Alfie...this probably went out when you were horsing-about!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38231416

Fay

I hope you've got that leak sorted Alfie. We have a pool of water appearing in our pantry just to the side of the boiler, can't find a drip though so no idea where it's from.
not much going on here. I've had a bug which hasn't stopped me working but has made a pre existing condition flare up which is more painful! Busy at work and at home although I don't feel like I'm actually getting much done on either fronts.

Davesnave

Drips and leaks can be deceptive, as water travels horizontally if it has a tiny downward slope to run on. We had a leak in the only complex piece of roof we have, where a valley, the chimney and the roof ridge all meet. Our builder eventually put another sheet of lead over the suspected bit, somewhat spoiling the nice even roof line we'd just created, but it seems to have done the trick.

Now, we just have the leak in the conservatory's box gutter. :mad: I emailed the company (no sign of anyone yesterday) listing the faults so far, so we have a paper trail of some sort. I also listed unacceptable solutions too Ghod to have a record of who knew what, and when.

This ain't gonna be pretty!.....Err, sorry, had the first Panto rehearsal last night and it's a western....well west of the M5 anyway.

I also had an email from the roof window manufacturer's technical dept, such as it is, who were very helpful. They said those opening lights need around 20 degrees of slope to clear water properly; rather more than the 5 degrees we have. Fitness for purpose anyone? :whistle:

EDIT: I've called a halt on further work until they come up with a solution to the 3 problems, put them in writing and get our agreement. It may be a long wait.

DaftyDuck

White Doves have finally begun to see the light (or lack of it in winter), and have started to use some of the slum multi-storey tenancies I put up. There seem to be three large, extended families; the Dutch Barn has the largest flock of 25, the Large Barn has a (now-evicted family of 15+3), and the Old Barn has a flock of twelve.

They don't mingle! Oh no! {angry [STRIKE]fist[/STRIKE]wingshake}

Indeed, I think they are Koo-Kluck-Klan doves, not peace doves. The evictees, who are now moving into their social housing, won't accept the three who have worked out how to get back into the barn. Those three (this is like an episode of Eastenders Street, or summat) include the likkle baby girl that was last to fledge, and delayed their eviction as a result .... I may be a slum Landlord, but I'm not a heartless slum Landlord. She (the slaaag) has already got eyes for only one chap, and he only has eyes for her. They (honestly) sit on the roof of the Barn watching the sunset alone together. Sweeeet!

But, there is A Problem.

He's .... well.... um.... not one of them. He's not... um white! He's a common interloper, a bleedin' grey one! Her mum & dad are fine with this. I'm fine with it. But, the rest of her extended family are NOT FINE WITH ANY OF IT! The two get shunned and pecked at, if he's about, looking all... dusky grey.. and foreign! So, they sit on the other roof, alone, snuggle, and watch the sunset together. They really do!

A near-neighbour suggested I should shoot the grey one to keep the dove flock white. Hmmm. Sounds like 1930's Germany to me; I'll just let lurve take its course, I think. Less trouble that way. Thing is, he's the brains of the group, knows his way in and out of the now-sealed barn, and also knows where the grain is stored. Wise geezer. But, he ain't telling them ovvers nuffink, just telling 'is moll and 'er folk.

Even though it's winter, there are breeding pairs. More guano! Luckily, I don't have to enclose them like chickens.

The big birds are flying low, as there aren't the thermals. There were five buzzards (there were 3 last spring, so they might have fledged two young this time?) and three marsh harriers (assume family unit) over the water meadow and wood, all at the same time. The herons are coming down for a fishing trip most days, and there are some egrets about as well.

I need to set up a flight control tower.

Reading about all your problems gives me a little joy. Sorry:o I know it's not nice, but when my heating regularly pumps over/leaks/pfuts/stinks/stops, or my roof dribbles like an incontinent baby, and the roofer fails to turn up yet again :mad:, the sheep arrive, escaped, at the back door and demand feeeed, FEEEEED, I know I'm not alone. It's not schadenfreude, it's really not. It's just a bit of hope that things are slowly on the up. Or, if they aren't, that's OK too.

Given Dave's issues, I'm feeling a bit daunted by the soon-to-be fitting of two wood boiler stoves, an oil boiler and thermal store, thirty new radiators, a new porch and a conservatory, all in the same three weeks. I mean, what could possibly go wrong there?

Pass the gin Maud, and hold the tonic. Keep pouring.... keep going.... more....

choille

Not much to report other than coming home the other night was a massive herd of wild goats careering along the road as if something had really spooked them. They were tearing down the hill onto the road & then off the road further up - about 60 or so. Never seen the like before - usually they saunter all cool & sedate.

Also saw a very dark red squirrel - mink coloured - never seen such a dark one. Anyone else seen one?

Beautiful Super moon last night - like day it was.

Thinking of a small shower/wet room upstairs - just at the planning stage. Prices seem to be climbing so wonder if I should buy the things for it now even though no where near ready to start it?

Davesnave

No grumbles from me tonight, just a question:

If you were in Panto playing Annie Oakley, the over-the-hill landlady of the saloon bar in a one-horse western town, would it be more appropriate for you to sing (badly):

• Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin'

or

• I'm just a Girl Who Cain't Say No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a_1UhwgFU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18kYnP4Pec


I have been asked to do one, but I prefer the other!

choille

Do not forsake me oh my darling - but that's just me.

Goodness - you dressing up as a gal again Dave?

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Not much to report other than coming home the other night was a massive herd of wild goats careering along the road as if something had really spooked them. They were tearing down the hill onto the road & then off the road further up - about 60 or so. Never seen the like before - usually they saunter all cool & sedate.

Also saw a very dark red squirrel - mink coloured - never seen such a dark one. Anyone else seen one?

Beautiful Super moon last night - like day it was.

Thinking of a small shower/wet room upstairs - just at the planning stage. Prices seem to be climbing so wonder if I should buy the things for it now even though no where near ready to start it?

hi choille. I have a brand new ,never used wall shower set up that is the wrong one for my shower.
it is a hot/cold mixer one NOT ELECTRIC so needs water pressure ? smart chrome. you are welcome if any good ? I can post it to you