Daydream fund challenge part 4

greenbee

I think taking on Asbo and Dolly has been just as much of a good deed as giving half a dozen rescue dogs a few good last years...

... but when Bimble goes we'll expect you to take elderly JRs on rotation...

alfie_1

greenbee wrote: »

I think taking on Asbo and Dolly has been just as much of a good deed as giving half a dozen rescue dogs a few good last years...

... but when Bimble goes we'll expect you to take elderly JRs on rotation...

NEVER be another bimble !:rotfl: that dog has attitude and his face tells a 1000 guilty stories... I adore the little bu**ar !

choille

There's some cross sheep dog x Jack Russel puppies on Gumtree for sale.
Says they were a mistake & they want £50 - looks like a farm. Phoned up but no one in.

Davesnave

Not having a dog here. Cats are bad enough.

A couple of days ago I thought there was something dead in the back porch, but could I find it? Yesterday, with the warmer weather, I was convinced, so I turned everything out, and lo, a partially decomposed vole in my trainers. :mad:

Now I'm not saying my old trainers were sweetly smelling to start with, but although I've washed and disinfected, I doubt if I'll be wearing them again.

Anyway, yesterday we experienced June here and it was super weather to finish the tree work on the road hedge for this side of summer. All the trees Pete and I felled landed in the field, not the road, but even with the right wind, it wasn't easy to achieve that. I was right not to attempt those alone or with DW.

We left 4 oaks to grow on in the section I've completed, and there will be more in the other parts, so it won't be just a barren hedge. By doing it in sections, I'm hoping to keep the wildlife happy. :A

The other good thing about the warm weather is that it's allowed us to test the conservatory for potential overheating. OK it might be in a state of limbo right now, but it's functioning. The signs are that we'll have no problems, as we only had a tiny fraction of the potential ventilation in use. The fancy roof glass does make a difference.

alfie_1

hi all
amazing weather here too... [sorry choille]
got my side lawn mowed yesterday.. my new mower just whips over it [no more back breaking battle with old mowers:j]


I had a flymo [leccy] mower in my shed that was my dads, iv never used it so stuck it on freebeebay yesterday and that went within minutes and collected within the hour ....


I got up at crack of dawn yesterday to sell at a boot sale with all the boxes of stuff friend gave me from her garage [previous house move] so didn't know exactly what was there ! well... some good stuff and sold about £140 worth
im off to garden place today to buy a pond pump/filter for the koi in the pond with the proceeds


mum has now moved to a local hospital for rehab/physio so hopefully they will get her up on her feet. she is fine in herself but it really knocked her system / confidence ..


relative came from Suffolk to visit her [and dad]yesterday/today so that was a nice surprise for mum .


im dog sitting bailey [lab] for a week and its strange seeing a big gold lab running around again ..


ive planted /sorted lots of different things this last week. what a difference that extra hour makes ! lovely getting inform work and pottering in the garden .


well I hope you are all having a good "garden" time x

choille

Got little puppy - blue eyed boy.

He has been very good but he did get attacked by pyscho hen which was not good.

Hairy cat taken the huff & has gone to live in the shed - he'll come round - I hope.

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Got little puppy - blue eyed boy.

He has been very good but he did get attacked by pyscho hen which was not good.

Hairy cat taken the huff & has gone to live in the shed - he'll come round - I hope.

:j:j:j:smileyhea:smileyhea:smileyhea

Davesnave

Well done, choille.:T Hairy cat will soon come around, but psycho-hen, probably not. Our cats have learned not to make sudden moves close to the hens for similar reasons.

Had a dead sheep Monday pm. It was one that hadn't been looking well for a while and Pete warned me last week it might not last much longer. That's the first in 7 years and most of them leave here looking good.....well, better than that!

Fell asleep immediately after dinner, hence the late post.:o It's all a bit manic at the moment, but we found 5 hours to dismantle the free greenhouse I was offered on Freegle a few weeks ago. Hopefully it's all labelled to make re-erecting easy, but when that will be is anyone's guess! It will need an 8'x 8' concrete base, wherever it goes, but we have different ideas about where that might be.

Good your Mum is now closer, alfie.

DaftyDuck

Learned an interesting lesson after a visit from Doris, re old greenhouses. I had two, side-by-side, both Freecycled. The "cheaper" one stayed up unscathed, while the more solid, better one was.... well,.... destroyed. The wind wipped round one end, until a pane was blown out. Then another, then one more, then... well, more hole than glass. Three sides gone completely, front mostly gone. The roof, however, was completely unscathed. I could see why that might have been, given the sides face the wind, but there seemed more to it... and was.

Being Freecycled, I'd lost or broken many of the nice old spring clips when I collected it, so bought some horrible flimsy ones from the 'Bay. They were so flimsy...

I'd used the old ones, and some other good ones I had left over on the sides, where the glass was more liable to just slide. Cheapo ones for the roof. All of the roof..... Yet, it was the roof that survived.

Being a scientist at heart, I couldn't let that collapse go uninvestigated so, when I partly rebuilt it, I played. Sad, I know, very sad. What I had done was use all the old ones up first, on lower glass. Then, running out, I used some lovely ones I had left over to finish it, along with a few of the Ebay ones. For the roof, I'd only got Ebay ones.

I tried the same again when rebuilding it, and found that there was an inherent torsion on the whole side; the clips were of different power, and the side would begin to bend, unaided by me or the wind. All you needed to do was lift the top of the frame to take its own weight off, and the whole side slowly flexed inwards.. A gentle wobble by me, and some of the clips were forcing themselves round the glass. They were now just pressing on the side of the glass.

So, I replaced all those clips with the really flimsy Ebay ones, lifted, and the frame & glass were solid. Absolutely rigid.

It's the mixing of different types of clips in an ordered manner that seems to do it. It'd probably be fine if you did it randomly, but that'd be difficult to achieve. So, I now intend to use only one batch of clips per greenhouse.

That's more of an insight into my tragic mindset than how to rebuild a greenhouse, but hey

Sheeple are fine, lambs still squeeze on a lap (ooomph aargh) and are still adorable. Finished clearing all the hedging, got most of it planted by target (April 1st), but got one run still to do (180 Hawthorn) down a post and rail fence. The line is clear, so it shouldn't take too long. We had three days of bonfires, huge ones, to get rid of the debris, helped by a surveyor friend who'd much rather play with a chainsaw and bonfires. I am absolutely knackered, my fingertips are full of thorns and splinters, and my back hurts.

I think we are getting a dog some time this summer. At least, my wife tells me we are, so we are. No idea what, or from where but, as an ex-vet, she'll find plenty of deserving wrecks to adopt. The cats are my department. The last rescue we had was ancient, and we adopted him on the basis he'd only got a few months at most... Five years later, he finally caved in to old age, having terrorised the neighbourhood in the intervening years. She's a loss to the Vet'nry Perfession is my better half.

Well wishings to all, healthy or otherwise. Warmer weather may help somewhat.

alfie_1

dafty duck.. I really think you ought to write a book in the format of your posts on here..
"exploits of a vets OH "


id def read it, makes me smile / laugh every time...