Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

There's some cracking Summer bulbs about in the cheap shops - lovely white ones. Woodruff is nice and spreads well. The green striped grass is also a nice contrast thing.

I have a giant Forget me not - I got it from a local garden open day. It's being engulfed with the Rogosa Roses - I must hack them to death - or mutilate them some what at the least.

Sorry about your window. I wouldn't like to have had that done - it must be annoying.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

choille wrote: »

There's some cracking Summer bulbs about in the cheap shops - lovely white ones. Woodruff is nice and spreads well. The green striped grass is also a nice contrast thing.

I have a giant Forget me not - I got it from a local garden open day. It's being engulfed with the Rogosa Roses - I must hack them to death - or mutilate them some what at the least.

Sorry about your window. I wouldn't like to have had that done - it must be annoying.

Definitely annoying. But better the window than taking potshots at the cats or foxes - especially from my point of view, as I will not be held responsible for my actions on that. It's not just bluster, either - I have launched at people, verbally as an adult and physically as a kid when animals have been hurt for entertainment purposes.

The nearest newsagent to me at my last place stopped selling BB guns altogether (he was told very clearly that every pet owner that had an animal injured, every RSPCA report, the Press and Police were all going to be directed towards him for selling the things to children. Oh, and if any kids got arrested or potentially shot by Police on the grounds of carrying a firearm, I'd also be telling their parents who sold them the item that led to those events. BB guns/Air Rifles are for safe use in controlled situations and for legal pest control - not carrying around housing estates for shooting at cats and each other. :mad:)


Until I got absolutely frozen and had to shut the door, there was a lovely, sweet scent coming in from the back garden from the Primroses. I should probably look for scented summer bulbs online, as I don't think there's much point trying the local garden centres again.

choille

Kids with BB Guns- That's bad. Good they stopped that.

I am the same regarding animal cruelty - I once had a cat shot in the throat - didn't know how it had got it's injuries. It was the vet who told me. It survived but it chilled me to the core. She had a huge hole in her neck that had to be dressed for ages and was very nervous for all her life afterwards. I saw lads with air rifles shortly after that happened heading towards my cottage and chased them over fields - I would have gladly throttled them. They didn't come back.

The primroses are coming out down the croft and the aconites - really bursting forth - as is the bracken grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Puppy face seems much better today and he slept throughout the night. I don't think I could have stood another all nighter with him so ill and barking to get outside all the time - poor thing - at least he's clean .

Gorgeous day here and have just pottered trying to riddle some composted soil that appears to filled with rack grass as well as worms. My back is nagging so I didn't do it for long.

Davesnave

I've been staying very quiet. Broke a neighbour's window with my air rifle when I was10....

Brass monkey weather here too, but we've dried out a fair bit, so the grass is all mown and I'm half way through spraying. Had an accident with that today; managed to throw blue marker dye all over myself! :mad:

2017 was an Asulox year, so I've not seen any bracken in the field, but it's in the hedges. I go about 3 years between treatments. That's about how long it takes to creep out into the edges of the fields.

Went to the Panto video showing, After all the doubts and worry, it it wasn't too bad after all.

However....

we were just breathing a sigh of relief when our two long-time producers announced they were standing down, as the stress this year had been too much for them.

Oh!....:eek:

Hopefully, this won't be the end. After 20 years, it would be a shame to lose what's become a tradition, to say nothing of the money we've raised. People are talking, so maybe we can sort something out. :undecided

alfie_1

hiya peeps


LAST TIME I TAKE ANY NOTICE OF A WEATHER FORECAST !!


battoned down the hatches yesterday afternoon, brought tilly and foal in to corrall with shelter and pile of hay. put sheep and hosses into field with biggest shelter ,plenty of hay ,all ready for the horrendous storm and weather due today .... YEH !


so why is it mild, almost sunny and not a drop of the wet stuff all day :mad: im chuffed its dry/warmish but took me ages to re-arrange all the critters yesterday and don't you just know if I put tilly and foal back out in the farm paddock the bl**dy storm WILL come ! its the one field without a shelter but has the best grass for her


ive been decorating my downstairs loo/shower room this weekend. it had awful 80s wave style tile border and every time I "sat" in there I hated them more !


finished at the holiday let on the 19th but still haven't received pay due... txt him and he said it will be beginning of the month [may] better be !! soooo glad I gave it up, got my weekends free now and so nice to get my list of jobs done ...


hope your panto survives dave, our pilley panto "moved" to another village but seems to have been a bit of a damp squid there...


right im off to check how all the animogs have survived the weather...;) :rotfl:

greenbee

It's been freezing cold and windy here Alfie. Not a huge amount of rain, but bitterly cold and unpleasant.

Davesnave

I think it has just missed you alfie. It rained heavily in Brighton and the temperature there didn't get much above 6c.:(

Here, we eventually struggled up to 10c, but there's been a keen NW wind. Last night we dipped down to 3c, so the toms in the polytunnel probably felt it. :eek:

Finished spraying. Spent the afternoon mucking about in the stream garden planting things that like damp and shade. No wind down there!

Really, I was skiving from raking soil. We have this huge area of barren soil full of stones and some building waste which we are starting to sieve and make decent enough to sow grass. Once that is done, we'll be able to dig it up in stages and join it up to the other garden. Here's a picture:



Anyway, raking and sieving didn't happen today!

choille

It's been not too bad but cooler and it did start raining late afternoon.

Spent ages attempting to tidy up some nylon netting that had been down a while and got embedded into the ground. A nasty job but completed and binned.

I also acquired/liberated some reeds to try and encourage into a reed bed system as the outlet needs someone to help........bit mangy at the moment.

Elderly neighbour recently widowed was needing a run down to hospital for eye thing which OH did today which took 6 hours with journey and waiting. I was there yesterday for three hours as she wasn't feeling well and it's not great to see her get upset. She was supposed to get a doctor visit but they didn't come - but I think she might have been muddled. It's difficult.

Cuckoo appeared just the one so far - Thank goodness..............

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Cuckoo appeared just the one so far - Thank goodness..............

I'd be glad to hear one! Think we heard a cuckoo the first full year we were here, but that was the last.

At least the swallows are here now and they can start mopping up the flies. Maybe they knew something we didn't and stayed away from daytime temperatures down at 7c.Surely that's an end to it now?

Sold about £50 worth of plants in our first week of gate sales, but our first customer nicked £6.30 worth, so we'll be looking out for her! We were 10p down on the second day and 10p up the next, which just shows how decent most folks are here.

The new neighbour is settling-in and tidying the place up. Think she'll be OK. Yours sounds very needy choille; she's lucky to have you. :A

choille

I do think the cuckoo numbers were really devastated a few years back - stormy weather and killed many off whilst migrating - I heard.

The neighbour, poor thing is very lonely and I've been every day apart from two since her hubby passed away a couple of months ago. It is difficult and I wish there was more who would pop in. It would make it a bit easier for us - sounds selfish I know.

Boring catch up with paperwork morning and then down the croft with puppy face who was agitated. I have a hind in - pain as they do bark the trees.

I really could do with an atvc type of tractor/quad thing - on another note.