Daydream fund challenge part 4

DaftyDuck

I walked a greenhouse - minus the glass - round by the road, from one drive to the other. It was lighter than we had imagined. We did use two ropes to the base, over our shoulder like yokes. Worked well. Luckily, no traffic. It even just fitted through the gate!

Serious tip for recycled greenhouses, learned from bitter experience in last year's storm Doris, don't mix different types/ages of glass wire clips. Did that, and the very slight difference in tension on various panes meant the whole frame flexed. One single pane then popped.... Then one more... Then one more.... Then...

Still finding shards of glass!

Loads of photos help reconstruct old greenhouses, lots of WD40 on the bolts helps take them apart and together again.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I seem to have acquired foxes in my tiny garden since the garages were finally completely flattened this week, ready for the flat pack houses to go up. The cats are most displeased.

I suppose I definitely won't have to worry about mice for the winter. Or what to do if one of the cats decides they don't like their preferred brand of cat food anymore.

Still not impressed. I was holding out for a random cat deciding to have little black kittens in the shed. Bloke would have been defenceless against that sort of situation, especially as I would have left it until the 6-7 week mark before unleashing the cuteness of a squad of tiny, big-eyed, pointy-cornered fluffballs upon him.


Speaking of Bloke, he's got himself a meeting with a chairman and secretary of some posh festival next week. Apparently, these sort of people don't have interviews, they have meetings. I suppose interviews are what you do when some classical music magazine gets in touch for a feature. Most of it is working from home and flexible/outside standard hours, so a contract doing that for six months would help for the future, as he could do it anywhere.


I'm in the process of trying to negotiate some time in Primary School Outreach at work, purely because I've worked out that there are lots of primaries in Devon, but the secondaries seem to be rather large and take from a wide area, so experience with the smaller ones could help get more choice of jobs.


Oh, and the wedding's been postponed. We have no money and he has been rubbish at arranging anything. I suspect the sudden flurry of jobseeking activity might have something to do with the reality check of 'We aren't getting married because I cannot afford it as well as keep a roof over our heads and pay all the bills.' Plus a bit more malcontent expressed after that point. A bit? Both barrels. Both barrels? More like an entire fleet of battleships.

Davesnave

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Loads of photos help reconstruct old greenhouses, lots of WD40 on the bolts helps take them apart and together again.

I need to get all the sticky plastic butterfly transfers off the glass before I try re-assembly! Lovely lady, but she had one of those 'plastic thingies from Poundland' gardens that Monty Don never seems to introduce on the telly.... :rotfl:

Multi-tasking here: mowing, draining, re-potting, weevilling etc in the absence of DW, who has gone off to Leicester to buy appropriate clothes for an Indian wedding. As I'm getting out of said ceremony, which might go on for over a week, I haven't complained.....;)

Today, Pete brought us a trailer, so it looks as if he's willing to make the massive pile of earth out front vanish. I think we can lose a couple of loads filling dips in the field. Then it might be down to river bank strengthening....

Village Market was very weakly attended today. I have a feeling we may be preparing plants for just the gate sales next year, but those have gone well this summer. We might hope to double them in the future, which would be enough.

choille

Weddings don't have to be expensive. Weddings don't even have to occur. But what would I know - OH and I have been together for nearly 30 years without any formal or otherwise ceremony. We aren't religious and I like to think I'm a bit of a libertine so why should I go through some sort of ritual organised by the state or church - no thank you. Would rather not get involved in that.

Hope everyone is okay and battening down the hatches - we seem to have had a year of gales and nasty weather - I wonder if it will be as bad as they say?

The electric company have been round taking out trees under power lines so that should help & I think nearly all the old wobbly trees came down in the last hurricane we had here - although with all the rain all year it would be easy for more to come down.

I seem to still be getting my chicks picked off one at a time - during the day. I've set an humane trap but it's too wiley what ever it is. Found a fresh Pine Marten spraint on top of a stump of a tree we had to take down so that might be the culprit.

The pair of Scot's Greys are roosting up a tree so I have to fish them down & put them in the house at night - can't take the chance. I could clip their wings but feel it would make them too vulnerable. At least if they can flap up a tree it may save their necks. I do hope so as they are so gorgeous. My Favourite breed and the oldest in Scotland. 400 years. The original crofter's hen.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

choille wrote: »

Weddings don't have to be expensive. Weddings don't even have to occur. But what would I know - OH and I have been together for nearly 30 years without any formal or otherwise ceremony. We aren't religious and I like to think I'm a bit of a libertine so why should I go through some sort of ritual organised by the state or church - no thank you. Would rather not get involved in that.

Hope everyone is okay and battening down the hatches - we seem to have had a year of gales and nasty weather - I wonder if it will be as bad as they say?

The electric company have been round taking out trees under power lines so that should help & I think nearly all the old wobbly trees came down in the last hurricane we had here - although with all the rain all year it would be easy for more to come down.

I seem to still be getting my chicks picked off one at a time - during the day. I've set an humane trap but it's too wiley what ever it is. Found a fresh Pine Marten spraint on top of a stump of a tree we had to take down so that might be the culprit.

The pair of Scot's Greys are roosting up a tree so I have to fish them down & put them in the house at night - can't take the chance. I could clip their wings but feel it would make them too vulnerable. At least if they can flap up a tree it may save their necks. I do hope so as they are so gorgeous. My Favourite breed and the oldest in Scotland. 400 years. The original crofter's hen.

I don't object to the idea in principle, ie, a bit of a party to celebrate wanting to be together, and I think his Dad, who is a lawyer, has made subtle overtures about potential inheritance and medical matters with an ex wife who still uses her married name and describes herself as his wife, despite having divorced him eight years ago - before we met.

He's one of the crappest Catholics in the world, but still Catholic (and yes, that was quite a surprise to find out) so it's important to him - any legalese input from his Dad has been after the fact, but kind of encourages it.

If we're going to do it, I'm not catching the bus to the crappy Registry Office round the corner from work, sidestepping the beggars and street drunks and then going back to work afterwards and having to pay out a few hundred quid for the privilege; we are going to go to somewhere (cheap) near where he grew up, where his family can attend and we can then have a mini reception afterwards - preferably as part of having moved down there. Especially if I'm paying for it.

DaftyDuck

We eloped! Twenty five years ago, this Friday just gone, so silver anniversary .... which meant a trip to Town, Wetherspoons for lunch, and tea in Wilkinsons, opposite the bus station. I do know how to spoil a gal, see?

Mind you, supper was rather more exotic and expensive.

Wedding was in a garden by a Tropical beach, with exotic flowers and birds around us, just us and a vicar, with a locally-sourced runner-up Miss World as bridesmaid (pleased me ) and a huge hunk beach lifeguard as best man (less so me, more her ). Sat on same beach for evening meal, walked fifty yards to our room. Just us, no faff.

We are one couple who both agree we are the least attractive couple in our wedding photos! :rotfl:

We just spent the money on us, not on Great Aunt Dora and the nephews attending for a family row. No need to follow tradition, no stress, just a lovely quiet wedding.

Off to do some more fencing with 'er now. Bought a petrol auger, which does make it easier, until it rips your arm off! Then to move the muck heap. Ain't love sweet?

choille

Sounds lovely Daftey.
In Scotland you can get married anywhere - up a mountain, down a ditch where ever.

Gale raging here leaves showering down. Will try and pick the apples when it settles a bit.
Made bramble & apple jelly but have blackcurrants in the freezer still to do & I also like apple jelly for meat or sweet. The apples I use are pink crab apples and the jelly goes a lovely ruby colour. Very tasty too even though I say so myself. With this wind I doubt there will be any still on the tree.

DaftyDuck

Warm and sunny here, hot gentle breeze, tee shirt and shorts. Leaves turning so many wonderful colours, until a goat climbs into said tree and devours it. God knows how I expect a fence to hold them!

A ditch sounds a more appropriate venue these days. You could just roll me over and fill it in afterwards, and save on cremation costs.

Hope all of you Westward Ho folk survive the storm. Over here it looks like barbecue weather for tomorrow, followed by a sunny snooze in the courtyard.....





Looks can be deceptive, so I expect floods!

Chesapeake

Evening all, glad you are all perservering despite set backs. I'm waiting for the ex-hurricane to hit us in the early hours!
Down here in the 'Wall a lot of people I know have had really simple, really cheap weddings with a lot of class. Registry office for the legal stuff then retire to a field with a beautiful field for music, food and dancing. The best weddings I've been to have been like that and only cost a few thousand to put on.

choille

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I don't object to the idea in principle, ie, a bit of a party to celebrate wanting to be together, and I think his Dad, who is a lawyer, has made subtle overtures about potential inheritance and medical matters with an ex wife who still uses her married name and describes herself as his wife, despite having divorced him eight years ago - before we met.

He's one of the crappest Catholics in the world, but still Catholic (and yes, that was quite a surprise to find out) so it's important to him - any legalese input from his Dad has been after the fact, but kind of encourages it.

If we're going to do it, I'm not catching the bus to the crappy Registry Office round the corner from work, sidestepping the beggars and street drunks and then going back to work afterwards and having to pay out a few hundred quid for the privilege; we are going to go to somewhere (cheap) near where he grew up, where his family can attend and we can then have a mini reception afterwards - preferably as part of having moved down there. Especially if I'm paying for it.

So do you have a date in mind Jo Jo? Halloween?


Glorious rainbows and torrential showers here, just in from checking sheep who are all looking good. Their skinhead shearings are now growing in and they look quite black & glossy apart from the Shetlands who look white.