Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

There is a ghostly looking budlehia - all silver grey & white - looked very striking in the glooming. I will post photos on my blog, but the budlieha [sp?] won't come out right. Loads of midnight blue agapanthius planted next to dark red stuff =- stunning. I must go in the daytime - instead of sneaking in at night...................

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Can't see your blog choille, 'cos Mr Googly wants my email before he'll show me....:mad:

However, the buddleia sounds like Buddleia crispa, which I have, though it's not terribly hardy. However that one's flowers are lilac-ish in colour, so maybe not.



We both went out yesterday: DW with a friend to visit a garden and me to the valley, where I decided to tackle the fishing assault course.

After 4 hours of scrambling, getting stung and falling down, I'd had enough, but then I discovered I'd dropped my fishing rod tube somewhere, so it was a case of re-tracing my steps, which wasn't easy in a place with no paths and some random swamps where the river had changed course. It wasn't anywhere between where I'd started and where I finished, but then I remembered a dead-end I'd gone down, blocked by a thicket of blackthorn.....and of course, that's where it was. Obvious really! :rotfl:

The climb out of there isn't as long as it feels, but by the time I got home, I was aching pretty badly. I can see now why very few people fish that stretch in the course of a season, but there's something exciting about it for that reason.

I'm afraid there weren't any monsters landed; just two wee trout which went back to grow some more. :undecided

choille

It was paler but very similar in colour Dave.

Your fishing trip & hassle is very vivid. I had a similar day yesterday with walking the dog & supposedly meeting up with Mr Choille & checking three times where the meet up was he wasn't there. I retraced my steps & checked in loads of places he might be which added about three miles on top of a long beach walk & cliff top walk & then having to walk at the side of the main road with a dog who doesn't know the meaning of the word or actuality of restraint. I only started speaking to him in the evening.

Pouring down today. Feel aching after hike & moving a very large boulder last night that is a river bed fossil - as you do.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Back from another sunny day learning to lop off big branches that look a bit dubious - my job was to look around the site and find a branch that looked like it might try and murder a dog walker on a windy day.

Picked one, got to work with the pole saw - and it promptly snapped within a few draws. All fifteen foot of oak came crashing down into the area I'd blocked off for the cutting. I guess I was right about that branch...


Also went on a bit of an expedition on site and got some great shots of Wasp Spiders, Roman Snails, various fungi and a blurry one of two Common Lizards that seemed to be squabbling for dominance over the particular kissing gate. Didn't bother trying to get the Buzzards or the Red Kites that were upsetting the Magpies and Wood Pigeons, though, as my camera phone is good - but not that good.


Might go again on Tuesday, but that's contingent upon getting packed by Sunday night and Himself sorting out the ticket handover and somebody to feel the cats (nope, he hasn't 'got around to asking' yet. :mad:). If he doesn't manage that, I will not be held responsible for my actions.


Got my posh boots delivered today. Slightly miffed to find that he'd opened them and tried them on - and is currently wandering around in the very expensive socks I bought specifically for use with them - but I shall save my ire for the organisational aspects of next week. And if he hasn't managed it, I'm damn well buying a tent and going somewhere without him for the week.


I have been asked if I'm interested in camping out in September with the Wildlife Trust for three nights for working on one of their more remote sites. This already sounds very appealing.

choille

Sounds good fun JoJo.

Is it Lundi Isle? St Kilda? ....the remote site for 3 nights? I jest.

Poured down here but been in Inverness most of the day - the burn is in spate......again. It's a very wet Summer.

Bought some shrubs for £1.50 each in Morrison's. I like their plants, they seem to do well.

Anyone watching Eden - Paradise Lost? What a bunch of.......very conflicting people.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

choille wrote: »

Sounds good fun JoJo.

Is it Lundi Isle? St Kilda? ....the remote site for 3 nights? I jest.

Poured down here but been in Inverness most of the day - the burn is in spate......again. It's a very wet Summer.

Bought some shrubs for £1.50 each in Morrison's. I like their plants, they seem to do well.

Anyone watching Eden - Paradise Lost? What a bunch of.......very conflicting people.

Nah, the sites are 'secret locations where there are/planned to be particular species of importance'. But not those (although I'd do it like a shot if they were).


The festival we're off to is in [STRIKE]God's [/STRIKE] Old Nick's own county - Devon. The 'posh side', where we only stop en route to the proper side and the people largely speak with London accents.

Mine morphs into what is apparently a very convincing Vaguely Edumacated Dartmoor one as soon as we hit the high moors. That's what appears to happen, anyway, going by the numbers who have assumed I was one of those wot disappeared off to University at 18 and is coming back in anticipation of my dotage. Maybe it's something to do with being to identify a few breeds of farm animal, plants/say Massey Ferguson with the Maa and [strike]my spot on impression of somebody roaring 'Gerroff my laaaand'/my unintentional mimicking of the OH's pronunciation of 'Proper' ('Praaapa')[/strike] that I don't actually speak like a fake Cockney off the telly.


Hoping the Walkham and Devonport Leat are behaving themselves. They've got to until the Bank Holiday. Although I do have the waterproof gear now, I don't fancy having to use it in the cottage itself (which is not unheard of). Not too fussed about this coming week, it can rain all it likes on this side, particularly as the Staff camping is well away from the stream that runs through the bit where the rank and file punters camp, just so long as we can get over there first.

But OH doesn't exactly look Festival Chic or even slightly Rock n Roll or Hippyish in his gear. He looks more like a scarecrow in a cagoule. At a fancy dress party with a theme of the Drowned Merchant Sailor.

I, of course, look marvellous in mine. And not even slightly like a slightly bedraggled conservation worker that's stumbled across a p*ss up in a field whilst her hair is fit to house a few Robins and the factor 3000 I slathered on this morning did next to nothing to protect me, as it obviously melted off my face before it could take effect, so I have a stripe of red where my hat stops until my sunglasses took over and then another stripe across the top of my cheeks and nose. :whistle:

alfie_1

HI ALL......


sorry been off radar for a bit..
you all seem to be very industrious !
I just seem to be working at allsorts of jobs, keep having to check my list to see where im supposed to be !
had a nice chap who has 10 PET cows come to look at the bottom 2 fields today, hes going to put the cows in for jan,feb,march . hopefully will fertilise in the old fashioned way ! we can then roller it and bring on for hay..
we have been delayed cutting our hay !! the rain made it too wet and just have to wait for a predicted 3 HOT day on the trot to get it done ..


went to watch a forest drive today. its a big gathering of gypsy horses and carts etc that does a day drive [with pub stops] .
that will give all the traffic complainers something to chew on ..:rotfl:


suns out and its in the mid 20's here. got the lawns mowed yesterday and aim to finish a bit of hedging this evening.


they have turned out all the young pheasants here and poor things haven't a clue what to do with themselves. takes forever to drive down the track ! they are slowly getting the message that there is corn in my garden !

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

you all seem to be very industrious !

Yup. I am still digging and riddling the ground outside the back door, returning the stones and adding broken-up concrete from the smashed -up path at t'other end of the bungalow, where the digger will pull-out another drain run.

I'd let it dig the bit where I'm working too, but there are drains; some not far down.

Meanwhile, DW is riddling another soil heap, on and off. She has another 2 tonnes or so to go! :rotfl:We will have some great stuff for the beds once we've finished the trench warfare, now well into its second year.

Market yesterday was pants, but over the week we have done OK, especially for August.

Not doing so well down at Pete's fishing, where I didn't have as much as a tweak in 3 hours.....but maybe I've discovered the reason why. Standing there quietly at around 8pm last night, I spotted an otter moving along the far bank. It practically came level with me, around 20' away, and then decided I looked too threatening, so retraced its steps......

"Hmm," I thought.:undecided

Anyway, I decided to undertake a scientific experiment, so popped a worm on (which I just happened to have a few of in the bag:whistle: ) and trotted that through some pools for 1/2 hour..... Still nothing! Unheard of!

I have a horrible feeling there's not a lot there. Oh dear! :eek:

On the conservatory front, the GGF are now telling us that our case doesn't merit arbitration. :wall:We're telling them that's unfortunate for their member, because without some kind of independent adjudication, we are not minded to hand over any more money.

So, I guess it's, "See you in the small claims court," but between you, me and the gatepost, I don't think the company will risk it somehow. Don't mind if they do, though. Would at least sort it out.:think:

lucielle

Mr L is ok though his eye is really puffy. He bashed his head next to his eyebrow and it does look sore today.


Been out with the badminton crew today for Sunday lunch, it was really good.


This year is really flying past. Also got a cottage booking for next year. Have a week free in September which I'd really like to get booked out so have put an offer on it to see if it will go.


L

Davesnave

Good that Mr L did no permanent damage.

I think this would be the Festival JoJo was referring to :beer:: http://www.blackdownbeerfestival.co.uk/

Looks like a good time, if you have the bladder for it! I vaguely remember the days when bouncing up and down, squashed in a crowd was normal. I can still take any amount of volume, but only in the ears!:rotfl:

Forgot to say, Horse Woman's place has dropped many thousands after no one showed any interest in it. When they come down another £25k, it'll be about right.

alfie_1

hi all


lucielle... many years ago I collided heads with a horses nose ! he walked off, I fell down ...
I was wacked on my eyebrow too. I looked like Quasimodo next day !
thing is I thought it was just swelling but turned out id fractured the bone and years later it is still a tad lower than the other
so keep an "eye" on it ...:p