Daydream fund challenge part 4

greenbee

For a moment I thought you were going to say you needed 5 years to recover

48 hours is about my limit for having my brother's kids on my own. If I'm with friends, or my mum, I can manage a bit longer. Mind you, my niece threw up in the car on the way home yesterday, so I've spent today scrubbing the seats and washing the car seat cover. At least I don't have to look after her as well...

I've been weeding and planting bulbs in the cold, and enjoying the peace

Fay

Davesnave wrote: »

"Thongs are turning to Christmas now...." :huh:

I never got on too well with thongs, much preferring my boxers in one size too big, not for any 'interesting' reason, but simply for freedom of movement. However, you probably meant 'thoughts,' and yes, they certainly are....
)

I was confused when I first read this so I went back and rto ad my post. Oops that was quite a mess. Sorry folks. iPad typing lol

alfie_1

poop poop and double poop


just wrote a monologue and the pressed wrong button and lost it !
cant re do now , will try later ... grrrrrr

choille

Nothing more annoying Alfie.

Drizzly here & wet & dreich. By the time I'd been at neighbours helping out & come home & wrapped a few things & been to outreach PO to post the tide was well in so pup pup didn't get his usual long walk.
Local woman in PO who is a question a second. Almost feel assaulted when you manage to get away but you just know they will be going over everything with the PO woman as she is as bad. How do others deal with these types?

greenbee

I'm just vague, distracted and smile Choille. It's where the my mobile phone comes in handy as I keep looking at it (very rudely) and am clearly thinking of something else so they give up.

Or I make up completely outrageous answers the clearly aren't true ...

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

poop poop and double poop


just wrote a monologue and the pressed wrong button and lost it !
cant re do now , will try later ... grrrrrr

Always do it in 'Advanced' alfie, 'cos often you can press the undo button and get it back again.

Some country folk do ask loads of questions, choille, but they can be very useful too. We only know what we know because we have a couple of these 'oracle people' in our group of friends. They know who's related to whom, who's not on speaking terms, and so on. It can be very handy!

It was so blustery and rainy outside that yesterday's Remembrance Service was held entirely indoors.

It was a dull affair anyway. Some bigwig with a pronouned list to the left, due to his huge array of medals, stumbled through a 'lesson,' which was the old sexist nonsense about virgins not having enough oil in their lamps. Then, the new (read 'old') vicar managed to read his special prayers without much regard to punctuation, which made it sound as if he'd never seen them before.... Perhaps he hadn't! :rotfl:

I left quite depressed and not surprised that I was one of the youngest adults there(!) It was much better about 3 years ago when there was no vicar and the parishoners organised their own service.

First really frosty frost this morning. Caught me out a bit.

choille

Greenbee - I don't have a mobile but could always pretend I do - use one of those pretend ones I've seen in the £ shop for kids - so they think I am completely off my rocker.

These women are unreal - I have never heard anyone talk non stop like them. It must be an illness. It is quite shattering - you feel completely drained afterwards - as if they have seeped all of your soul out, sucked you dry. She was even talking about a funeral she hadn't been to and what was said and what wasn't said. And she was saying she wished she'd have gone just to hear what wasn't said! By that time the drizzle running down the window was so much more interesting than her droning on and on and on.................

The Remembrance Service sounded pretty dire Dave - not that they should be party type affairs, but they do need someone with a bit of zing so that you listen and come away with something - an insight, a pause for thought. I was reading about a man who was shot in the WW1 who had PTSD, he refused to fight, he couldn't so he was shot leaving a widow and very young child. It had on his papers that he'd been shot for cowardice and it became a hidden' family secret, they felt ashamed and daren't even discuss it with the daughter even when she grew up. It really made me think - there was a lot of that went on too.

Davesnave

Pete took the lambs off Horse Woman's field today as they'd eaten it right down. I've been giving them feed every day, so they've done OK.:)

On Saturday there was viewing of the property, so I kept a low profile and just listened on my side of the hedge. The useless local agent didn't even know if HW's solar panels were owned, or if she'd leased her roof. I nearly shouted the answer, but thought better of it.

HW had class; she wouldn't have fallen for any 'rent a roof' scheme!

Our mules were given more medication today. With the original orange dye used to tart them up for sale, the raddle from the ram, the blue marker Pete used earlier and the other markers we used for the 8 : 1 and todays dosage, they now look a total mess! :eek:

I noted that Pete didn't bring his useless dog. With Mrs Pete and me giving gentle encouragement, we walked the sheep into the pen with no problems at all.

Mrs Dave really enjoyed the Indian wedding she attended over the weekend. It was mostly very different from the sort of weddings we're used to, but strangely similar in other respects. The official photographer took a shot of her sitting in a tuk-tuk, but when it was delivered, she found the whole thing had been Photoshopped in front of the Taj Mahal! It's probably the closest she'll get....:rotfl:

Davesnave

An offer's been accepted on HW's place, though it wasn't at asking price..... which is hardly a surprise. Still the survey and other stuff to go yet, so I won't :beer: just yet.

Meanwhile, I'm feeling somewhat grumpy having had several walks around since grass has been eaten back and leaves have fallen...

One thing I've spotted is that you-know-who hasn't stopped throwing beer bottles into our top field; I just haven't been spotting them.:(:( Another 4 picked up last night, all intact, fortunately. He really doesn't like us laying that hedge, but it's the same one he pulled all the saplings out of when we planted them in there 5 years or so ago. Illogical, but irrelevant too, because it doesn't affect him at all.

Then I noticed our neighbour is up to his old tricks again; he's set the toilet cistern to overflow permanently and sends the water down a hosepipe into his kitchen drain. This is because the drains on their side are prone to block, so his 'solution' to keep water flowing through them 24/7 into his septic tank, and then, you've guessed, through the outflow into our field......:mad:
There's therefore an extra strain being put on the leach field and a guaranteed squelchy bog around it.

Trouble is, if I complain and the neighbour's landlady sends in Mr Rod to sort the 'problem,' as she did 3 years ago, they might get another blockage, resulting in a jet clean and loads of inappropriate stuff going into the outlet pipe, as it did last spring.

So, there's two issues I don't think I can sort any time soon.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Chesapeake wrote: »

Ey up, thanks for the detailed update Dafty, I love that you are volunteering to have species reintroduced on your land. The site we are getting married at next year has just released the first wild beavers into Cornwall... hope they don't chew down the tree we are meant to be getting married under!

We've just got back from wandering around a local farm where they have pick your own fruit, a good size farm shop & butchery, on-site restaurant and a bunch of very friendly animals that love a good fuss from the visitors. It was great seeing all the piglets and goats and geese and cows and sheep and donkeys and...and...and...and... I just want to go out and buy the first bit of land I find now haha.

My other half was looking at online courses this week to see if there was anything she could do to help her get a job in animal handling/agriculuture and we found some very heavily discounted ones. She is now doing a diploma in Farm Management and a diploma in Goat, Poultry, Bee & Worm farming which should keep her busy during the dark winter months. Not bad for £74.

That sounds very interesting to me, as Himself is finally potentially getting some work that doesn't depend upon being tied to one location, thus making it easier for a move - if I could get a regular job in the area. What courses/providers are they?