Daydream fund challenge part 4

DaftyDuck

Depends on the breed: many have twins. Mine look like sextuplets are due. Just downed two strong coffees in expectation, but the two fattest have got back up and are having a tango! Not tonight, Josephine. I'll go out in a couple of hours to check. Then again at 3. Then 5. Then get up for work!!!

Zzzzzzzzzzz


Edit: still look like barrage balloons this morning!

choille

Nice morning here so far.

Off over to Inverness - nice to go from one side of the country to the other = you can tell when you are in the middle as the fields change to ploughable rather than the rough terrain on here on the West.

Davesnave

pink_poppy wrote: »

I wasn't thinking orangery, just another room but with a fancy window in the ceiling. I've googled lantern roof and that's what I was thinking of ~ I didn't realise they tended to be on a flat roof though. I certainly wouldn't expect you to go with the conservatory people :eek: I was thinking your trusty builder could rustle something up

My Nephew has an extension with a pitched roof and 2 or 3 big (velux??) windows in the ceiling. He also has glass doors (the concertina type) so it's a lovely bright room.

I really have no idea where this conservatory thing will go now. If I hadn't found out that they'd breached their own T&Cs I'd be much less confident, but now I'm sure we have the right to reject the gutter, the game has changed.

As I said before, that means the whole roof and at least one window has to go, which means no profit for them.....and that's before they do the replacement, which will be more expensive than what's there now. They'd be into a loss, big time.:j

I expect them to come up with reasons why they will not do what we ask, as it's always possible to argue against something, but I suspect that a good solution might mean taking part of the house roof off and altering timbers. That's something else they won't want to do, because they'd need to sub-contract. Eventually, we could get someone else to do that and sue them for the price difference, but I'd need legal advice before taking that option.

To sum-up quickly, this could run and run, but I might be amenable to a less than perfect solution if the price was right.

We can't do the battery of Veluxes, because with a conventional roof we'd need an even steeper pitch, impossible without messing with the house roof in a big way. However there is glass fibre.....

choille

Hope the conservatory gets a solution soon Dave. It must be frustrating.

Freezing here - all water solid outside, but beautifully bright & dry.

pink_poppy

Did you enjoy your trip to Inverness yesterday, choille??

Any patter of tiny hooves yet, Dafty??

Dave, we're all rooting for you.

I'm hibernating today ~ it's cold, wet and windy. Brr.

choille

Yes, I did Pink Poppy = It's good to get the wellies off at times and go gadding about.

Lovely day here but bitterly cold.But the mountains have gone all orange with the sunset. Seems to be camper vans about but I think it's because of the weather forecast being so good for here just now.

Davesnave

I think we're having winter here. It's been 2 degrees all day with occasional sleet flurries, but nothing to get excited about. It was much the same yesterday and it won't be much different tomorrow, but by Monday it'll be double figures again.

I'm into Panto mode anyway now. We've done 3 x 3hr rehearsals this week and it will be the same for the next 3 afternoons/evenings, followed by 4 evening performances, so I'm not expecting to do a lot in the daytime. I have some energetic scenes, and in full costume that can be take it out of an old codger.

But you never know! I've managed to take the saw out a few more times and laid more hedge. I've also been slightly naughty with it and tidied-up the gentleman farmer next door's trees along the stream, although he won't notice. :cool::p:o

Down there now has a bit of extra value, as there's a pretty substantial Wych Elm. I didn't ID it for 6 years, or even think about it, because we already have a whole hedge of ordinary elm, but this tree is around 35' and very healthy. Normal elms don't make it past 20' before the beetles get 'em.

Apparently, wych elms aren't immune to Dutch elm disease, just somewhat resistant in varying degrees, so perhaps this tree would be worth breeding from. They are also not supposed to like waterlogged soil, but this one, and another up near Mr Dog, both sit right alongside the stream. Weird.

choille

I lifted ice out of the hens water bowl 1st thing- a good thick disk of it & propped it up in a relatively sunny place against the gate. It's still there when I shut the hens in this evening.

That sounds very interesting with the elm tree Dave. Maybe the stream didn't used to be as deep? I don't know anything about elms other than I used to have a very old chair made of it - a Captains chair.

Chesapeake

Brr it's getting chilly, even snow on Bodmin Moor today!

I'm looking forward to clearing the allotment tomorrow although I popped by today to grab some pots and realised that many more of the fence posts are completely rotten

DaftyDuck

pink_poppy wrote: »

Any patter of tiny hooves yet, Dafty??


I'm hibernating today ~ it's cold, wet and windy. Brr.

We are a grandfather!