Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Dave the flu jab can knock you for 6. I bet that's what it is.

I have been over doing the lifting so I am totally useless at the moment as is OH as he is still in plaster. Like a pair of useless bookends we are.

Will try & fill the holes in some wood lining today.

Chesapeake

When I say caravan I mean a 2 berth touring caravan with an awning! We have a kettle, a microwave and a chemical toilet... not exactly luxurious but we wouldn't have been able to get back on our feet if we'd had to pay proper rent.

I'm looking to see whether I could rent a small plot of land as there aren't any allotments around here, the house we are hopefully getting has a very small garden so we could have potted stuff but no digging allowed and definitely no chickens or goats or pigs :-(

I fully sympathise with the health issues, I really put my back out scrubbing several thousand square feet of concrete floor as where I work was disgusting when I was hired. My boss was so chuffed that the floor had turned grey rather than black he paid for my first physio appointment! Had to spend a few hundred quid over 6wks or so before I could walk properly again!

My OH was off work for several years with various health and mental issues, the company we work for now is so good she is back to full time work and really enjoying herself :-)

choille

I got some physio on Friday and was shocked at how much it costs but I do feel slightly easier. I was frozen up solid.
The work thing is good if you have a good boss - so many don't. I don't know how they stick it out.
Couldn't go back to 9 - 5pm, not that I did much of that really.

Good if you can rent land Chesapeake - hopefully cheaply.

tori.k

Kids are pretty much hard as nails for all our worry, I caught my youngest on a trampoline the day they changed his backslab plaster to a proper cast when he broke his ankle.
Sounds like everyone is currently falling to bits, we have the most pathetic cold doing the rounds in this house, a stupid tickly cough can't seem to shift keeps you up half the night and my sexy raspy voice really sounds like i've had a 40 a day lifelong fag habit.
I hope you find some cheap land chesapeake seems to be going for around 20k an acre in Cornwall at the moment and anything that has a sniff of planning for 100k+
Final cost for the hard landscaping is 2.9k excluding plants feels like we've built the world most expensive parking space but once the planting settles in it will look like its always been there.
Clearing the space found I've had a adult vine weevil/beetle issue with a euonymus so will have to keep an eye as planning hosta and heuchera for this area and will seed with nematodes next year.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

The work thing is good if you have a good boss - so many don't. I don't know how they stick it out.
Couldn't go back to 9 - 5pm, not that I did much of that really.

DD2 is very impressed with her bosses in the new job. They've taken her off probation early, so she gets the full rate for the work, which she loves. She'll never be 9-5, but going in at 4 or 5 am has its advantages, and not only with traffic.;)

The feeling is they have 4 or 5 years to turn the business around, so being a flagship store, it's interesting times.....:eek:


'Afghanistan' is officially traversed, drained and turning into grassland now, but far from finished. If I could've paid someone £2.9k.....but the front garden will need that, and the rest!

Tori, I've spent about £75 on vine weevil prevention so far this season.:mad:

Arm is sore and my left hand has gone numb, but I was told there were no flu jab side effects. I'm OK myself now, so I guess that was partially correct....Lovely morning again, so no skiving-off!

alfie_1

lovely sun here today too ...


another sh*t shock this weekend ! on sunday my BIL died ! saw doc 5 weeks ago and was having tests... so so sad . only early 60s.


im getting a bit fed up with hearing /having sad news at the moment . im normally a pretty positive person but cant get my head round stuff at the moment ..

lucielle

Hugs Alfie. I know it won't make you feel better friend of ours has just died from a brain tumour, leaves behind wife, disabled son, daughters and grandchildren. He was a lovely chap

L

Davesnave

Big shock and no time for family to adjust, alfie, but maybe your BiL was saved from much worse.

((Hugs)) from Devon too.:)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

alfie_1 wrote: »

well.....
in trying to catch / rescue an errant mouse running round my lounge today , I caught the mouse BUT in the process knocked my telly clean off the unit and ... well, even CPR is not going to help it !! the screen pic resembles a shattered windscreen through a 60's festival rainbow !!
poop !


I have borrowed a sparrow size tv for now ... wearing my driving glasses to see the screen !
will try and claim on my insurance ... will they believe the mouse story ??
I remember putting in a claim when my fox was a cub and he climbed up on the fireplace mantel and "removed" some expensive ornaments from it .... they paid up ...

Idiot Cat had his first confirmed kill of the season last night. I really hope that, as it looked like a Wood Mouse, it came from under the shed rather than under the stairs where I found him with it. He looked immensely proud with himself, did Ol' Mousebreath. Himself was less happy about my suggestion to put the poor thing out of its misery, though. Apparently, it's weird to praise Idiot Cat for paying rent and I sound more like I've been born and bred on the Moors than the wilds of Sarf Lundun.

Davesnave wrote: »

And I was fine then.....Started the day with my annual flu jab, but by 8pm I was all aches and pains.:( Probably coincidence snd I may have just overdone it, but still rough this morning. Still, the next bit of lawn will be seeded by tonight and the bulk of 'Afghanistan' will be green by Christmas.

Davesnave wrote: »

Arm is sore and my left hand has gone numb, but I was told there were no flu jab side effects. I'm OK myself now, so I guess that was partially correct....Lovely morning again, so no skiving-off!

I think that if it was admitted that aspect of the immune system reacting to a previously unencountered virus was a natural part of the flu jab doing its job, more people would claim that was proof the flu jab gave you the flu/made you sick than do already and they'd refuse to have it.

The one that made my arm ache was the one that contained the Swine Flu one - the one that some people claim was 'really nothing' - but i know three completely healthy people who were hospitalised as a result of that, one, who was a competitive long distance runner, has been left with permanent lung damage as a result. And the bloke who lived downstairs from my old flat worked for an undertaker - he was working 72 hour weeks throughout the subsequent winter and said that they had never been in such a situation with so many 'clients', they had no idea what to do with them all.


As Himself has been brought up in a household where vaccinations were seen as evil plots, he was very susceptible to feeling unwell after he had his first flu jab ever last year. I told him it was purely psychosomatic/thanks to his father's beliefs as it's an inactive vaccine and, moreover, if he could feel that rough from something that doesn't make you ill, how on earth did he think he'd feel if he actually caught the real thing?


I'm a harsh woman sometimes.

tori.k

Sorry to hear your family news alfie, 60 is very young, we've seem to have hit the age where sadly its more funerals then weddings and christenings.