Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Bah! We have to look at a potential new car today, but after studying the photos carefully this morning, I can see the 'brand new tyres' the dealer has just stuck on it are cheap, Chinese rubbish. Putting a set of Wun-Hung-Lo Ditchfinders on a tidy 4x4 is the motoring equivalent of sticking a flat pack B&Q kitchen in a nice house! :wall:

I'm generally not too fussy about the appearance of our cars, but I am about the thing that sticks them to the ground and stops them.

Anyway, it is cheap, and it gives me a reason to make it cheaper, but there is bound to be 'something else,' because there always is!

alfie_1

AND JUST FOR GOOD MEASURE ....


NEIGHBOUR /FRIEND 'S CAT GOT RUN OVER !! as they were occupied with poorly mother , I went to identify and bring back said cat from lady who found it and had it in her freezer !


BIMBLE HAS A MASSIVE TOOTH ABCESS !! got him to vet today and he is booked in for Friday morning to have whatever done .. his poor face is all swollen £500 ! :eek:


SO i am officially fed up to the rafters of illness, death, teeth and anything that involves bad news ....


apart from that its BEAUT weather here

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

SO i am officially fed up to the rafters of illness, death, teeth and anything that involves bad news ....

apart from that its BEAUT weather here

Now what was the theme music that 'nice' PM used to have played for him? You know, the one who didn't vandalise wheat fields....

Oh yes,"Things Can Only Get Better."

Well, if you can still see the beauty of the world around, there's hope....and Bimble will be everso grateful.:A

We didn't buy the car. Took it for a spin, and if the woolly steering, naff brakes and horrendously dark privacy glass hadn't already put us off, the smell of the previous owner's dog sure did. Been there, done that. Of course, some of you might not have noticed!:rotfl:

Pete phoned last night. We have young ewes and logs arriving soon.:j With the oil tank being filled in the next week and what we have stashed away in wood, we're ready for whatever comes our way this winter.

I'm also in the middle of an energy supplier switch, which is supposed to save us £300/year.....we'll see. Seems painless so far.

tori.k

Bet you will be glad to see the back of this year Alfie.
Winter seems to have arrived this morning bit of a u-turn on the last few days im even contemplating long trousers and its not end of the month yet.

alfie_1

I was thinking more ... always look on the bright side of life , dave !!
strung up and making the most of it ...:rotfl:


re the car being whiffy.... yes I am immune [my back seats are never up and a giant duvet is down for all the mutts] to eau de pong BUT I also have a bottle of expensive perfume that I squirt more in the car than on myself !
someone actually said they prefer the dog pong to the perfume


well , my bimmer, is at the vets , he was all cosy in his new dog coat [which he actually HATES but has realised the benefits of it actually keeping him warm !] and off he trotted


got various errands to run today to keep me occupied !


its a tad nippy here this morning and slight drizzle ...


have a good one , peeps x

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

I was thinking more ... always look on the bright side of life , dave !!
strung up and making the most of it ...:rotfl:

Oo-er, that takes me back.....I remember the city fathers wouldn't allow a screening of that in our cinema, so we had to go all the way to the den of iniquity which is Frome to view it!:rotfl::rotfl:


Fingers crossed for Bimbles. :A I'm sure he is whiff-free....well, if he's anything like a relative's dog which is a JR/Pug cross. That one has a permanent smile.


Some stats for you this morning...

This year we sold 63 cucumbers, 100 courgettes, 22kg of toms and (so far) 36 squash.

Also, 35 bunches of cut flowers.

As for plants in pots....well, a lot, but by the time expenses are taken out and the money's halved, I think we still have nothing to declare! :A

Is it worth it? Probably not, but we aren't going to change now!


Weather here a bit mixed, but enough sunshine to open up to the conservatory for some free heat soon....:j

tori.k

Can finally say this place is starting to feel like home, we have carpet so no longer have to ninja down the stairs to avoid the carpet gripper rods.
DH has hung his beloved Jack Vettriano Bluebird at Bonneville print, I keep hoping that one will get lost between one of the house moves it's a nice enough print but did he really have to buy the 90 by 120cm and with this house so much smaller it really did dictated the overall scheme for the whole downstairs so he had to put in a new fireplace in exchange for it going up
We put the central heating on for the first time last night then swiftly turned it off again half hour later the house is well insulated and sits around 17c at its coldest which was the best I could get in some areas of the last house with the burner going full pelt, so bodes well for the gas bill.
Big jobs are afoot outside again, DH has started drawing the plans for my little workshop to save money he will adapt a basic 16x8 shed we will keep it in the same area as a replacement of the rotten existing 8x8 shed so it wont effect the neighbours sightline, a nice little winter job, I have to smile as he thought that this newer house would mean he'd finally get to put his feet up...maybe he will in a year or three :rotfl:

Davesnave

This house needs no heat while the sun's shining, any time of the year. Even the crummy conservatory we had originally did quite well, but the new one's better for collecting free solar energy.

I'm putting off lighting the wood burner till 1st November, but it looks like temperatures will be up again by then. I have a few days 'free' now while DW is visiting her folks..... and look what happens to the weather!


Can't remember if I posted this picture before or not, but I meant to. Anyway, it bears repeating. It's a tree in the local Forestry Commission wood, but it pre-dates them by a few years! A friend is standing there to give a sense of scale.....






Apparently, the new fence surround is not oak, but chestnut. So says a local I met carrying away an offcut! :rotfl:

alfie_1

2 1/2 hours in the dentist chair :eek::eek:


but I now have a row of teeth fit for a queen on upper jaw !
it was at the point when after 3 doses of the needle deadening stuff that I said "oh, just go for it" when he was trying to remove a tooth , that I just wanted it to END :rotfl: he did "go for it" and it came out ... he actually patted me on the shoulder and said "well done" ...
IT HURT .... but it was over
[apparently it was because of the infection I had had that the tissues/area were still tender ]
feels strange now and is finally thawing out ... will probs feel like ive been kicked by a hoss in the morning :rotfl:


bimble got over his vet op to remove/flush infection from his cheek but oh boy did he milk it ! cuddles and lifting him up/down/up/ down on the sofa for 24 hrs !!


dolly is next !


its like emergency ward 10 here !!


REALLY cold here over night and only warms up a tad between 11am and 4pm .. actually lit my fire last few nights . note to ones self ... stack more logs close by


choille .... parcel will be in the post to you in the next few days :A

Davesnave

Hope it doesn't feel like I suspect it will feel this morning, alfie. :eek: Like Bimble, you really need some R&R. :A Doesn't sound like you'll get it though!

Weather here like yours, so I'm going for it with a shovel between 11 am and 4 pm, before things turn wet and windy. I'm shielded from the wind where I'm working, so it's quite pleasant....if you like digging holes, that is. I'm very tired of it now!

Last night was officially only -0.6c so why are my Poblano peppers in the polytunnel perceptibly poorly? Alliterative answers appreciated.:D On past experience, the Bishop's Hat ones will probably survive another month or so yet.

As I've posted elsewhere, my Gardener's Delight toms were anything but delightful this year, (and last year too) so I suspect the original strain is no longer available.:( The RHS came to the same conclusion. One plant actually produced decent fruit of cherryish size, so I've kept a few to maybe see how they reproduce in the future. OTOH, maybe I won't bother, as there are plenty of others worth growing!