Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

dank dark day here today..


been poorly all weekend, not sure but may be my shingles back...:(


should have had the dentist this morning, got there, felt terrible and must have looked it as dentist postponed ...


I really hate it when I feel unwell, I feel cheated of time to do things that need doing if that makes sense..


right off to carry buckets of water to the 2 mini's in the corall ... we are getting a pipe from the troughs in the fields so we have a perm water supply to it. that's where tilly will have her foal as it has a big shelter there too.


oh poop its started to drizzle now ...

Chesapeake

November is such a bloody miserable month, apart from my birthday at the start it just seems to drag on and on.

The owner of the brewery I'm working at has decided to liquidate it so I have work until the 30th then I am once again a free agent. Unfortunately there isn't much chance of getting more work in Cornwall as most of the other breweries are really struggling too so I'm applying for a few jobs in Scotland! We were going up to Glasgow for Xmas to see my in-laws-to-be anyway so will probably go up early and see if I can get some interviews.

DaftyDuck

Just had a heartstopping twenty seconds. My office window looks to my fields, and then over further fields for miles. Two Eurofighters were "playing" several thousand feet up. One of them then just tumbled, in a stall, I guess, coming right down and looking completely out of control. There was the most almighty racket, and it seemed to just pull itself out through belting out maximum power and bright afterburners, still not looking very controlled. There was vapour (smoke? probably not) pouring from the wing edges, and it pulled out, probably well below a thousand feet - low enough that all the birds took off in a cloud, and even my plumber emerged, shaken, from the floorboards.

Both planes then bu55ered off.

At an airshow - spectacular. Behind my house - hope never again!

Anyway, despite the fact my heating system was (was) belting out titanium-melting temperatures a few weeks back (when it was warm outside), now is the planned time to replace the radiators, so it's all off again. My excellent planning knows no limitations.

Alfie, I love your magnetic logs - I would have posted a picture of my tidy next-year heap but, with perfect timing, I chopped up and sawed up all the carpy difficult bits (why do we leave the knackering bits to the end? Good planning again) that don't stack well, so what looked quite smart like yours now looks.... a mess! Oh well, at least I can dream of heat!

Oh, and the wood burners are both on. They are warming up the two rooms where said plumber is working.... At least somebody is toasty!

Brrrr

Edit: just looking a Youtube videos of stalling Eurofighters... it stalled. No, in fact, IT STALLED, spectacularly! Blimey, that was scary!

choille

Hope that it isn't the shingles back Alfie - It's really bad. Hope you perk up soon.

Chesapeake - I was shocked to hear that the huge malt distilleries owned now by Diagio only employ a couple of people. I met a man who had a breakdown working for them when they took over as everything is now electronic and he was working on his own throughout the night and he said if anything went wrong there was no one to discuss it with and it was multi-millions of pounds worth of whisky. He'd worked there a long time prior to that.
So don't know if I would want to work for such a company as that. Hope the job hunt goes well.

Dafty , the Eurofighters go over here very occasionally and seem to just lift up before smacking into the mountain - it's heartstopping. I don't like jets going over so glad it's rare here. I've been above them as they've chased each other down a glen - that was weird.

Gosh it's suddenly dark - been a bracing cold crisp day but dry mostly - how odd is that, so went to a different beach with pup pup & he loved that too.

alfie_1

choille... can we see a pic of PUP PUP pleeeeease

Chesapeake

alfie_1 wrote: »

choille... can we see a pic of PUP PUP pleeeeease

Seconded! Always need pics!

Chesapeake

choille wrote: »

Chesapeake - I was shocked to hear that the huge malt distilleries owned now by Diagio only employ a couple of people. I met a man who had a breakdown working for them when they took over as everything is now electronic and he was working on his own throughout the night and he said if anything went wrong there was no one to discuss it with and it was multi-millions of pounds worth of whisky. He'd worked there a long time prior to that.
So don't know if I would want to work for such a company as that. Hope the job hunt goes well.


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I could never work for one of the huge soul-sucking multinationals, one of them owns Sharps in Cornwall and even though they are hiring I'd never apply.

Saying that I am going to apply to BrewDog up in Aberdeen, they have a beautiful shiny brewery and make enough money I should never have to worry about redundancy :beer:

choille

Pup pup in the bad books as he's started chasing the hens. he can get out of his harness like Houdini.

He can't be out and about when they are out.

Davesnave

Evening all. I hope you're feeling better, alfie and that the heating is finally with you, or with you soon, Dafty, as I think we're moving into some colder stuff.

Not a lot to report from down here, where DW is frantically painting again in a final dash before the seasonal titivations. We were supposed to have the conservatory floor done and carpet laid in the hallway and bedroom1 before Christmas, but the company we use, although good, are just like everyone else around here.... s - l - o - w ! No date and I can't see it happening before New Year.

However, the plumbers are imminent. They still have 2 radiators to install in the living room + one in the conservatory for occasional use. Also, we need a shower plumbed-into the bathroom. Experience shows the living room doesn't need a couple of large radiators, as planned, since we've had no heating in there at all this autumn and not really noticed. It's lucky we waited on that.

I'm just doing a bit of this and that, most of it involving digging more holes and filling them with rubble, or having very smelly bonfires. Last week, I built a 3.5m planting bed, walled in local stone, dry-style with no mortar. I thought it would take 3-4 hours, but it took me 3 days!

What else? Oh, the Panto script has arrived and grandson Sam, now advancing towards 3 in January, is to be Joseph in the nursery nativity play..... :A That takes me back to memories of those; particularly the famous rehearsal where an exasperated colleague, threw baby Jesus at the scenery! :eek:Oh, and there was the real performance where his parents forgot him, so he arrived bum-slide style from the wings....wheeee!:rotfl:

Sorry things are not so good in your brewery, Chesapeake, but you don't sound too down about it. There has been a huge growth in micro-breweries, which is probably now running ahead of the growth in consumption, so I guess something has to give. I would like to help them out, but I'm not a drinker now....it falls out almost as soon as I pour it in.

Pup-pup might be trainable choille. I trainedour retriever not to chase sheep when I was a lad, but she was very biddable. I even trained her not to play in the river upstream of me when we were out fishing.....and to tell me when there was anyone about, of course!

Chesapeake

@Dave I don't see the point in getting down about it, it totally sucks especially at this time of year but there's nothing I can do except try to find another job ASAP.

The best point for me is that land in Scotland is cheap cheap cheap! For the price of 15 acres of bare fields in Cornwall we could buy a 50 acre farm with buildings in Scotland... I'm already making plans haha.