Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

well the bl**dy drizzle is back :mad:


I too get disapointed with a lot of garden centres that seem to have the illogical set up where a cafe takes precident !
I tend to buy all my basket plants from a lovely older couple that have a stall at our local boot sale. I buy a car load and always big healthy plants at half the price [so I buy twice as much ]


glad the panto was succesfull dave, glad the audience survived :rotfl:too !!
ours USED to be but was as you described, a locally "staffed" event. here in the forest the house prices are now ridiculous and seems that only those that evacuate from the "city" can afford them hence a different style of input as to how the village should be run !
glad the audience survived :rotfl:too


glad I got the lawn done yesterday ! horrible mizzley rain AGAIN today... when is it going to stop !? never known such a wet first 1/3 of the year !


don't know if any of you saw re the little French bull terrier stolen in the motor museum here ? she was tied up in a dog area whilst owners went into one particular part of museum. they caught the woman on cctv and it spread like wildfire. [this was easter Saturday] well yesterday the owners got her back, apparently she was handed into a vets.. there was an advert for a frenchie on an advert site but was spotted and whoever quickly removed it.. may be connected. police are on to it and I hope they name and shame the culprit [polite description ]


I have just added up the costs of all my animog feed :eek:
wild bird feeds
dog/cat feeds
horse feeds
owl feeds
:eek: :eek:


equals MY living expenses [utilities and food / fuel etc ]


keep safe peeps

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, show's over for another year. :j

To be clear, our Panto isn't am-dram; in fact people can't join as actors if they're in am-dram. That's the only rule, apart from residency. It's a proper village thing, so there's just as many folks working behind the scenes as bods on stage. It works because the village owns it.

Anyway, we had a fairly 'dramatic' last night, with one of the actors suffering a fall and broken wrist backstage and a member of the audience having a 'turn' during one of the more risque scenes, which involved male striptease.....:eek:

This one seemed somewhat fated from the start, but we made it through, just about!:A

We'll be back for number 21 next February.

It's supposed to be a leg - and they aren't actually meant to do it


Wet, wet , wet. Not the band whose album on cassette tortured me as a fifteen year old trapped in a caravan in the Cotswolds in biblical levels of downpour for all but the last hour before we left. With my Mum :eek:, brother, his girlfriend and their 2 year old [strike]spoiled demon[/strike], as it was the only tape his girlfriend owned. The weather.

Again.



Hmmm.

Just looked out the back door at my efforts. Not looking too bad - but the garden appears to be sinking in the middle. Over the years since I moved in, the general level has dropped over a foot, going by the rubbish pebbledashing they slapped over a perfectly adequate Victorian brick wall, and I know I built raised beds and topped up one side with a couple of bags of compost, but the difference in height is quite noticeable between the edges and the centre, which means roughly a two foot drop in the middle, extending by about a ten foot diameter.

Normal settling on a build that could potentially be sorted by trucking barrowloads of soil through the house - or something slightly more alarming?

DawnW

alfie_1 wrote: »

don't know if any of you saw re the little French bull terrier stolen in the motor museum here ? she was tied up in a dog area whilst owners went into one particular part of museum. they caught the woman on cctv and it spread like wildfire. [this was easter Saturday] well yesterday the owners got her back, apparently she was handed into a vets.. there was an advert for a frenchie on an advert site but was spotted and whoever quickly removed it.. may be connected. police are on to it and I hope they name and shame the culprit [polite description

I did see that, and am so glad to hear that the owners got her back. I have a very small, friendly 'cute' dog (though not a Frenchie, which are terribly trendy and popular) and there is no way on earth I would leave him tied up unattended anywhere. And if that meant I couldn't access areas of an attraction etc, then so be it. Not sure what is going on with all the dog thefts you hear of nowaways. Round here it seems to be mostly gun dogs that are taken, the trained type, often kennels targeted, broken into etc

choille

Hi CTC - Good to hear from you again. The DS will be fine I'm sure and it's good they are getting independent but it will be a worry.

Ebay is pretty quiet just now and I have far too much stuff cluttering the place up. I think if you list some new stuff before re-listing it sort of boosts visibility a bit.

Glad the panto went well dave - you all put so much into it. There is nothing here, not even a shop now. No community nuffink. It's dire. Even the docs who did come once a week for 1 1/2 hours seem to call off quite a lot. Cut backs but it's not handy for folks who can't drive.

That's terrible about the dog stealing, really pleased they got the dog and do hope that the person is charged. What a dreadful thing to do.

The cloud dropped like a stone today as it came quite mild and wet. Hope no one is caught out up the hills. I've done little outdoors as it's so disgusting.

Davesnave

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

It's supposed to be a leg - and they aren't actually meant to do it

Well, as the lady actually did it, she's probably glad it wasn't a leg! She's up and about today, apparently with a lot of facial bruising too, but not incapacitated.

And to continue on the leg theme....the annoying part: it wouldn't have happened had she not been standing-in for a teenager who'd wimped-out. However, her partner teenager covered both parts brilliantly, adapting the script 'on the hoof.' :T

Spent today installing our new TV....or rather helping future son-in-law to install it. The last time we bought a brand new telly was some time in the mid 1980s.:o We needed something like a piece of heavy duty playground equipment to fix it to the wall, but having finally got it up there, miraculously without hitting any buried cables, I now read that the HDMI leads I carefully inserted before the plasterer worked his magic aren't good enough for the latest TVs.......:(

Guess who can't get the existing leads out to put the new ones in.....Arrrrgggghhh! :mad:

Hope it picks up for you CTC. Good to see you here.

choille

Sorry Dave - didn't fully read your post about the wrist and the person having a turn. It's all happening at the Panto. Hope they are okay - both of them.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Hope they are okay - both of them.

Yes, the lady who had the funny turn was reported as 'pretty perky' yesterday....well, perky for a 93 year old! :rotfl:

Buds are breaking here, big time, and I'm officially looking for swallows from today. With a bit of luck, we might manage to jump-start spring this week.

DaftyDuck

Blossom is out here, blackthorn, some early cherries, I think an apricot. Spring has sprung, until it is very firmly put back in the box by Jack Frost and his cronies.

I still have a wheelbarrow bulging with hedging to plant, much of it in leaf, some beginning to flower. I planted a couple of hundred wild roses all over the farm over the weekend, and my fingers are covered with tiny thorns.

Sheep are keeping their legs crossed, hoping for some sun. We are sleep-depri

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Blossom is out here, blackthorn, some early cherries, I think an apricot. Spring has sprung, until it is very firmly put back in the box by Jack Frost and his cronies.

I still have a wheelbarrow bulging with hedging to plant, much of it in leaf, some beginning to flower. I planted a couple of hundred wild roses all over the farm over the weekend, and my fingers are covered with tiny thorns.

Sheep are keeping their legs crossed, hoping for some sun. We are sleep-depri

I'm assuming that somebody decided to uncross her legs at that precise point

If we've just witnessed the start of Lambing, good luck, Dafty.

greenbee

Either that or the sleep deprivation finally caught up with him