Daydream fund challenge part 4

DaftyDuck

Well, yesterday's field fire was a bit too close. We are the other side of those trees, and just as dry. We also did think about buying Broome rectory over there rather than this place, and that was downwind! We were the closest hydrant for the fire engines to fill up, and there were a lot of tired firemen looking rather sooty. The rectory obviously doesn't warrant a hydrant of its own, and relies on prayer!



I took a photo from our side, might upload that tomorrow if I turn the computer on, but I think it just looks like a cloud! Took six engines and about three hours to control it.

It is getting a bit worrying. The fire brigade thought it wasn't the equipment cutting the field that set that off, but one of the workers walking over the flints in the fields. Glad we go down towards the river.

Went fly fishing today... it's actually quite good fun! Might make a fiusdherman of me yet... otters allowing!

Edit to add... I suspect the UFO is the fire brigade's own drone! Or, as the Express would have it:
ALIENS set FIRE to Norfolk fields in HORROR ATTACK!

choille

Dafty - there were bad fires here last year with the muir burn we think. Trouble is here if it gets into the peat it can smoulder for weeks & flare up again. It is so dangerous. The people who just set campfires & don't think - throw ciggie butts down or out of car windows has seen thousands of acres of woodland destroyed & housing too. It kills all the ground nesters & their chicks, the wildlife. No fire hydrants here just people trying to beat it out night & day. Or at least if near a burn/stream they can get water on it with pumps. It scares the poop out of me.
It's mizzling here so everything damped down again & midgied to blazes - but no actual blazes.
Made Summer Pudding for afters with rasps, blackcurrants, rhubarb & a few blaeberries - used wholemeal bread & dark brown sugar - now that was rather good if I say so myself.

DaftyDuck

Yeah, at least our ground doesn't burn.

Summer pudding.... mmmmm, there's a taste of heaven! With a little cream?

[/jealous]

choille

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Yeah, at least our ground doesn't burn.

Summer pudding.... mmmmm, there's a taste of heaven! With a little cream?

[/jealous]

Vanilla ice cream from LIDL's (trust me) & cream fraiche.

MMMMMMMmmmmmm.


Dafty - just on the subject of wild fires.

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tori.k

well im sitting with the BBC telling me its light rain and a moderate breeze, They lie its 18c with Blue skies and nary a cloud in the sky.
Dafty least your fires are somewhat natural, the warmer weather seems to bring out the arsonist down here that set the gorse alight most years, some people just not wired right I guess.

alfie_1

well we have had the "will it , wont it " day today ...and it didn't .... RAIN


it is so tinder dry here, had a forest fire about 2 miles away last night [50+ acres apparently] fire service still damping down..
also idiots are still having bonfires ?? son has spent last 2 weeks solid putting out fires caused by them and bbq's !!


had the hoss's teeth all done [well 6/10] today..
poor old Nellie has a fractured one but now its level it may hold on a bit longer... no idea how old she is ...except very old ! I looked after her and 2 big horses while owner abroad but she is so tiny the other 2 ignored her and she was stressed and had a skin condition ... so I moved her over to mine so she had company her own size and skin cleared, she perked up and owners have never come for her ?! [over 7 years now ] MINE NOW ..


dolly daydream Is doing marvellously ... wouldn't know she has had a major op ! she is such a dope on a rope , so chilled out....love her to bits


we had our carnival on lymington on sunday and I took lots of pics for our local FB page ... well receieved ... except one very irate father and mother who blasted me for showing a pic of their daughter [about 5] dressed as batman WITH an adult batman and robin ! apparently her godparents [B&R] had her for the day and they said I shouldn't have taken and posted pic cos she wasn't with her parents... last time I looked , im not psycic !! so I took it off but did comment there was 100s of people taking pics ! .... always one


well, its still majorly hot here and humid tonight .. praying for rain and im not religious

Davesnave

Glad Dolly is making good progress, alfie.


Here, we have had promises, promises too regarding rain, but nothing significant, nor anything in the offing. Reservoirs are still 74% though, thanks to the incredibly wet spring.

At least it's been cooler, allowing us to tackle a particularly bad patch of ground for a hedge, where everything seems to be against cultivation. Go down a foot and it's either shale and clay or something that looks like digger spoil from building....but it wasn't us.

Anyway, thanks to the tonnes of muck from Horse Woman 1's stables, we're sorting it, but there's a long trek for me to barrow away the naff stuff.....

We are fast running out of plants to sell; victims of our own success, or maybe just understocked and unprepared!

The now 10 week diversion of the main road has brought many new people along here who wouldn't have found us otherwise. We don't want to return to any sort of volume selling, but it's nice that we'll be able to fund the improvements to the nursery area without dipping into savings....it's just finding the time to do the improving!

As predicted, the first crash of the diversion happened yesterday; lorry and 3 cars with all the emergency services and the air ambulance in attendance. It wasn't at Mr Dog's though, it was around a mile away.:(

Heard an interesting theory about why drivers seem to be hogging the country roads more and more these days. Apparently, it's not that driving standards have gone down, so much as a reluctance to touch the hedge when that pristine Range Rover is on lease! Costs the 'owner' a bomb at return time.....

Oh well, one badly parked RR was left rather worse for wear this week when the double decker removed its bumper. The bus was very late, not just because of that, but the driver got the shakes as a delayed reaction and made an unscheduled stop at a garage for a different kind of R&R! :rotfl:

choille

Great to hear that dolly has recovered Alfie - Hope Hoss with no teeth does similar - well, they do have teeth & sound like they found a good patch with you to look after them well in their dotage.

Been raining here & very midgied out. Have a joiner/builder here doing some plaster boarding & framing upstairs so that is great to see movement going on again. I had to move loads of stuff as I've become a horder & ebay slowing up sales wise doesn't help.

Off down the Gairloch later on so Teenager collie-wobble will get a good run on the beach down there for a change of sand.

alfie_1

to anyone with a manure heap....


we have also had a massive fire not too far away ,where a manure heap combusted and set fire to 100 bales of hay and a row of stables... all gone now !
thank goodness there was no horses in the stables !

Davesnave

Our manure heap has diminished considerably, but there might yet be a couple of tonnes in there. I hope it doesn't catch fire, as we've 5 squash/courgettes growing in it....though barbecued courgette is very nice.