Daydream fund challenge part 4

lucielle

Collected DS1 from the airport today, returning from NZ. Only he could arrive in sleety conditions wearing shorts!body


I've handed my notice in at work, 2 weeks left to go. Everybody here is gearing up for lambing time. DD2 starts tomorrow. DD1 and her friend return from Skye along with the hounds and then we'll be back to a full house.
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choille

Hope everyone is over the bugs, breathing issues and general illness of Winter months.

Snowed today....again....quite heavy. I have a thing on in Inverness tomorrow. Doing a reading but I don't know if we'll get out or not.

Lucielle - will you do another job or are you moving up to Skye full time soon?

Not much to report here apart from Puppy face who is now a year old made a brilliant but rather anarchic job of rounding up some wild billy goats on the shore after he bolted down there the other day. It took a while to retrieve him as he seemed to want to keep them on the rocky outcrop all day.

It's freezing outside with a very clear starry night.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

In the process of swearing profusely over packing for our week in the SW.

Where are all my fancy thick socks? Where is my woolly hat? And why does Himself seem to think that he'll be able to sneak all his clothes into my pack?


I need a proper waterproof. He's suggested I wear a coat that was too big for me when I was six stone heavier. It's full length and wool. And not going to happen; we'd be better off spraying it with proofing spray and camping under it. I shall have to brave the outdoor sports shop tomorrow morning in the hope of finding something big enough and waterproof enough for rain, sleet and snow (and possibly a few oceanic splashes).


Cab is booked from Castle Cary to the first hotel. He booked it over the phone, hamming up the West Country accent (I knew he could still do it if he wanted to! Just lose the flaming London accent!) with the result that the cab is significantly cheaper than usual.

Two days there, then off home where my dodgy movable accent probably take hold by the time we're the right side of the moors. But apparently, we have a further hotel stay booked, so not all spent at his Mum's. Yay. I'll be able to make tea without somebody chucking half a pint of milk in it and wiping up before I've even finished putting the water in. (She's lovely, but such a fusser).

I am going, armed with an up to date CV and a handwritten letter to the Head of the village school (and it just so happens that we know which cottage the Head lives in), just in case a job comes up when the final date for resignations for Easter passes in ten days' time...they're not advertising, but news travels fast in them thar villuges................


Colleague has just announced that he's worked out after two years that he's still a country boy at heart, so he's off to rural Gloucs for a job in September. Everybody else seems surprised except me - but I recognise the mud over his car as not being obtained from the M25 particularly with the slight essence of horse in the boot with his Hunters as I fetched some equipment from inside it - and he's got a dark green coat slung on the back seat, along with far too many checked shirts for a man so young....

lucielle

No not moving to Skye just yet. Had applied to lease a tearoom but found out on Friday I hadn't got that but I'm not too bothered. There was a slight possibility that I might've had to been midwife to 300 sheeps but DD1 is going to do it instead. So looking like fulltime with OH in the shop/workshop
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Davesnave

The odd, moody weather continues here.On Monday, I had to get DW to hospital for further investigations by 08.00, so we set off on roads with a tiny covering of snow, but by the time we returned around 11.00 the sun was out and it had turned in to a glorious day.

Then, same again yesterday; gales and rain overnight followed by another lovely, but very cold, afternoon.

Mostly hedging and sawing up logs at present, but I have planted some seeds in the hope of better, less yo-yo type weather to come....:)

alfie_1

id like to ask dave, what you doin up at 04.38 !!!


its the same here weather wise... sunny then suddenly blacks over and freezing rain.
our track here is a right boneshaker at the moment ! plans to re grade it and then roller are having to be put on hold due to the wet. it has rough verges then ditch then hedge. hedges have been tractor cut, the verges will be flattened out then V cuts to allow drainage to refurbed ditches so 1 out of 4 done so far .... just need a dry week.
sons new car has taken a beating and he must be the slowest bmw driver in Hampshire !!
no sign of Kingston just one mega greedy tilly at the moment !
had 2 buckets of feed and 2 bales of hay on a wheel barrow, crossing a boggy field [aiming for the corral ] with tilly in hot pursuit and as you know , all well meaning plans usually go t*ts up ! as in this case it was the wheel barrow that went t*ts up helped by a gigantic head shove from tilly ! food went one way , hay went another and me stood asking myself why I didn't make 2 trips !! needless to say between the sheep,tilly and old nelly the food didn't last there long, so I continued my trek with the hay...
at my age I am a gluton for punishment !!


friend and I have a 2nd lot of storage furniture and stuff to sort in the barn again....maybe today is the day..


roll on the boot sales starting again !


keep warm peeps

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

id like to ask dave, what you doin up at 04.38 !!!

I get up at any time after 04.00 if I've gone to bed early. Normally, I find around 6 hours sleep is my max, though sometimes I'll have an extra little top-up sleep after I've been awake for a couple of hours.

This morning I had to go into Exeter earlier than I'd have preferred, but at least I missed the worst of the traffic. The back window of the car was reported as 'loose' by the main dealer who did the airbag recall. Hmmmmmm! Naturally, they recommended their mates across the road, who wanted double what these guys in a trading estate lock-up charge for the same reinstatement job!

Mind you, with it being only 5c and chucking it down when I dropped the jalopy off, I began to wonder why I hadn't booked at the place with the easy chairs, coffee machine and magazines! :rotfl: However, an hour wandering in Sainsburys saved me £60, and I think I saw a dipper in the little river that goes through there when I walked back.

Edit: Boot sales....Brr not yet, but we have been opening boxes we packed and sealed-up in 2008.... and there is an awful lot of carp!

alfie_1

hiya peeps ...


well fields dry out...rains...fields are a bog again
BUT the newly cleared ditches are working a treat


went to clear a big pile of shrubs today that id cut down a while back and there was a hedgy hog asleep under it so put it all back again !


ferral cats in the summer house are getting fussy ! didn't like the trisco's own nosh .... so guess who trecked to the shops to get the real stuff...:D


tilly still hanging in there...


ever get the feeling the animogs are taking over :rotfl::rotfl:


well we had 5 minutes of hailstones today after it being a lovely sunny day ?


hope you are all a bit dryer [don't answer that one choille ]


keep safe peeps xx

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

hope you are all a bit dryer [don't answer that one choille ]

Wasn't too bad here today:



As you can probably guess, that isn't 'here' here , but the Winter Garden at Rosemoor about 12 miles from here. Not too crowded, despite being half term.

Also visited the flooring shop, the fireplace place and the stone yard, so it was all good research and we didn't feel too guilty, bunking off from our own garden.

alfie_1

phew ! I saw the pic before reading below and was about to hide my head in shame at what my garden looks like at the moment !!
how did they get that grass like that in this climate !!??