Daydream fund challenge part 4

lucielle

Hi Alfie I was at a machinery sale today and they had 3 carts/gigs/traps foe sale. I took some photos if you're interested I could watsapp them to you.


Anyway as per above 4.30am start today to try and get our machinery (crap) in early. We just go up to offload the stuff that isn't good enough to sell secondhand. It was phenonimal (sp) what the tractors were making.


Going to visit my mum on Saturday and meet my sister at the same time, also hoping to pop in a and see a good friend on the way down whose operation on her knee hasn't gone smoothly. So another early start.
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alfie_1

pm'd you lucielle

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

ooooo that's a bit naughty ! dave, I bet they will wait the xyz amount of years and apply for retrospective planning permission ? if no one notices before that of course

it is gaulling when it is such a BIG alteration and jo blogs gets the third degree over a small alteration !
everyone tries secret teeny additions but anything as big as that is taking the pith....

I don't think we have done anything even slightly norty here with the building work. :A

Mind you, we're living in a house which, from a legal POV, we shouldn't be living in at all, as we didn't meet the agricultural condition on it, but as no one checked-up.....:o

Let's face it, if you're going to be norty, may as well do it properly! :cool:

My friend who lived in that poshed-up house would turn in his grave if he could see it now, but he won't go there and he isn't even dead, luckily.:D He had rustic pergolas , covered in roses, though in truth they were a menace to drive under and duck around, and there was a lot of country style planting. It was like this:



Anyway, the first things to go were the pergolas. The diggers were there within a week of him leaving.


But to be fair, I don't think the new owners are doing terrible things, just not what they said they would do.....and I don't like all the 'Private' notices in the woodland that locals helped restore.

Glad Mum is picking-up.

alfie_1

what a lovely cottage garden ,dave..presume its all gone now ?
same happened to my last house...luckily I removed as much as possible and have at least 50% survival here .
they just ploughed up the whole of my last garden, destroying every plant, gravelled all the front and grassed the back. not a bit of colour now.
everyone used to compliment my garden for being crazy with colour and a jungle of fragrance ... so sad to see it all go, I cant drive past it now....


well ive done an airport run this morning
mums improving
suns out and mower awaits..
started to trim a loooong hedge yesterday evening and will finish that today
weeds are growing but hey ho they will have to wait


have a good weekend peeps

Davesnave

Not sure about the garden now, alfie. Looking at what they've done elsewhere, I think it might be seen as too high maintenance and old fashioned.

We went to our favourite nursery on Friday last and came home with rather more plants than intended.:o I've given it a plug before, but it really is a 'proper job' of a plant place. You meet the owner, talk plants, walk around the garden, eat cake in a self service tea room and then buy armfuls of what you've seen at extremely reasonable prices....Perfect! :A Anyway, it's the High Garden at Kenton:

https://highgardennurserykenton.wordpress.com/

One of our two remaining Vorwerk hens died peacefully this morning, leaving just one of the first batch we bought, now aged 8. A friend has a much older bird than that though.

So, down to just 3 and only one laying. With the hen run fencing not surviving much better than the birds, we'll rebuild it in a different location when they've all passed-on.

choille

Quite breezy here and some showers - much cooler.

I have got something as I eel floored and am off to bed for a nap as I am jiggered. Poor Collie Wobbles didn't get anyone to play with down Gairloch beach apart from an obese King Charles Spanial who kept sitting down.

Garden centre looks amazing Dave. Sorry about the hen.

We seem to have only one laying at the moment - blue orp still sitting on eggs plus a rubber one!

lucielle

It looks like DD1 is about to fly the coop. She's got a milking job in Cumbria, playing with 400 dairy cows. I don't think DD2 will be far behind her as she's trying to arrange a Skype interview for a dairy position in NZ.


It's going to be strange when they go. Still got DS2 here.
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choille

Lucielle - that's amazingly brave of your daughters especially the NZ one.

What an experience that would be. I hope she gets it.

Really heavy rain here & rather cool. Must try & do something useful.

lucielle

I'm still not sure if she's 100% up for it. It would be from July to January which fits in nicely for her to go skiing with Young Farmers and then start her lambing jobs.
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choille

She maybe should just feel the fear & do it any way - but good that she's applied.

Really very heavy downpours this evening & double rainbows. Hope it clears the air a bit.