Daydream fund challenge part 4

DaftyDuck

Changed from warm, wet, and muddy to dry, bright, and icy cold. Water tanks have an inch of ice on them, and fleeces have frosty tips. It is all stunningly beautiful, though.

Hay prices are through the roof round here, half as much again as last year, if you can get any. I have stocked up, and should have enough, but might squeeze a bit more in a barn somewhere.

I have been given a large number of trees grown from local stock in an ancient wood run by the local wildlife trust... s0d all chance of getting them in the ground though. They are going in down on the edge of the floodplain and, over the next hundred years or so, will turn into a coppiced wood. Just a shame I don't have kids or grandkids...

Decided not to go into work today (it was one of the rare Wednesdays I usually would), as there will be a hundred colleagues equally in utter despair at the total bilge and idiocy of our Great Leaders. Jeez !!! Where's the whisky?

So, instead, I shall smash some logs up, throw rubble in a hole, burn rubbish, and grouch at the sheep and goats. They'll soon cheer me up!

How do you remove a brick from a telly screen? Any mse advice?

choille

Great stuff Dafty with the tree planting. I too have plans afoot - had plans a few years ago but met surprising opposition from someone who opposes everything other than what has her name on it, but will resubmit soon.

I am also watching the death throes of the PM - not a pretty sight.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Changed from warm, wet, and muddy to dry, bright, and icy cold. Water tanks have an inch of ice on them, and fleeces have frosty tips. It is all stunningly beautiful, though.

Hay prices are through the roof round here, half as much again as last year, if you can get any. I have stocked up, and should have enough, but might squeeze a bit more in a barn somewhere.

I have been given a large number of trees grown from local stock in an ancient wood run by the local wildlife trust... s0d all chance of getting them in the ground though. They are going in down on the edge of the floodplain and, over the next hundred years or so, will turn into a coppiced wood. Just a shame I don't have kids or grandkids...

Decided not to go into work today (it was one of the rare Wednesdays I usually would), as there will be a hundred colleagues equally in utter despair at the total bilge and idiocy of our Great Leaders. Jeez !!! Where's the whisky?

So, instead, I shall smash some logs up, throw rubble in a hole, burn rubbish, and grouch at the sheep and goats. They'll soon cheer me up!

How do you remove a brick from a telly screen? Any mse advice?

You could adopt me, Dafty. No bothering with teething, tantrums (well, not many) or teenage strops, I'm good at remembering birthdays (or conveniently 'forgetting' them if the person prefers not to be reminded), wholeheartedly approve of anybody who spends their time caring for things they're allergic to and could easily do the quizzical look over the spectacles when silently [STRIKE]nagging [/STRIKE] encouraging you to take it easy occasionally, rather than doing your best to break yourself...


Himself has been [STRIKE]snoring[/STRIKE] resting his eyes whilst [STRIKE]slumped[/STRIKE] relaxing on the settee this evening after I pressganged him into helping me work out the PA system at the local church in preparation for the Carol Service next week. And he's 'volunteered' to come and help set up and run it on the night. Both felines took one look at him as they wandered round the corner and leapt up either side for a big, fluffy sleep with him. I'm still not quite sure whether I left him in peace for a couple of hours because I'm feeling kind towards him or because the cats looked so happy [STRIKE]weren't bothering me for a change[/STRIKE].



Got to ask a question in case anybody here knows the answer - instead of the usual vicar, who was only stepping in because we don't have one, we've got the new Incumbent at the Minster coming to give the intro/address/prayer/religious stuff. He's a Reverend Canon Dr Firstname Surname - how do I refer to him in person or in print? I wouldn't want to offend anybody by getting it wrong (and the Lay Verger/Admin at the Minster is already less than keen on me, so I don't fancy getting my head ripped off again).

choille

Ask him what he is called? I wouldn't really know but would venture Rev.

It's gotten quite windy but dry out there - my washing was almost dry so I brought it in & put it on the pulley as it will probably lash down later in the night.
New steps down to the hen house which is great - the route was a treacherous mud slide affair that was getting far too dangerous. I will get some gravel down on them after putting some membrane down I think. It's one of those jobs that should of been done ages ago.

DaftyDuck

I agree with choille... wot he's comfortable wiv. But, I think you have the order right, but a verbal apostrophe:

The Reverend Canon, Dr Sodom Gomorrah.

Think... don't know. I know you don't mix earned and Royal awarded titles, not even sure I know that.

I had seven tonnes of topsoil delivered yesterday morning. I had it all moved onto beds a hundred yards away, some by my tractor, some by wheelbarrow. Brilliaaaant!!! Then, at dusk, friend turned up with another five, and is bringing the same today! I am going to so ache, especially since OH has p1ssed off to her office for a few days. There are several hundred(:eek: ) paving bricks buried in it all, great for saving, but makes shoveling a right booger. Shovelthwack ... ouch...

Mind you, since they deal with the legals and medical of drug safety, they are having a rather fraught time at the moment...

Luckily, most of my research is already funded for the next few years, and I'm pretty part-time, believe it or not! I do see colleagues turning grey, whilst the bleed'n forreners just smile wanly, and plan to head home/California/European research stations for larger (much larger) salaries. Of course, all of them being beautifully multilingual, they can pretty much go where they want. That was the UK... ha ha ha ha ha.... Recruitment at the moment of foreign talent is..... rather difficult... Recent survey showed 97% of my local colleagues wanted to remain, and 3% wanted... well, were probably drunk or high on something at the time.. We are hardly split down the middle in sciences...

In fact, corridors at work could look quite empty in a few months. Meh, it's only the future of science and high tech industry, glad it doesn't matter.



Not so frosty, but still lovely out. Sheep, goats, donkeys and horses. That'll calm me down.

Edit: Jojo... You could adopt me for a few days, give me my slippers and a whisky, then you can get on shovelling. Maybe muck the goats out, and get some more wood in while I watch the telly..... ... if I try that with OH, I get threatened with an axe, for some reason. :rotfl:

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Offer on the bay re selling fees but as so little is selling I don't think I will take full advantage of it.

I did. Sold the petrol saw I don't use and some posh boots that I can't get on with either. Turns out the boot buyer near Manchester knows my dentist! How weird is that?

Dafty, I don't know how many tonnes of soil I sifted and piled-up in the summer, ready to make deep beds, but don't think I'll see those in 2019, unless Brexited GB Plc turns us all to a peasant economy overnight. DW always claims to value vegetables, but when it comes to the crunch, it'll be ornamentals that get priority and I will just have to fit in a few leeks and squash wherever....:(

Spent the past few days acting as chauffeur to DW, who's been back & forward to the hospital for some badly-timed scans etc. In a normal modern society, they could maybe run a shuttle bus to the hospital with parking at a distance, but here it's organised chaos after 'improvements' create jams hundreds off metres long at peak times. People arrive early, just in case they can't actually reach the place in time, with the result that the parking is rammed around 10-11am, no one can get into it and it all becomes a self fulfilling prophesy...

But if one has a chauffeur, a mobile phone and can walk a bit, all that may be avoided.....Cue people, even those on crutches, being dropped off at Smokers Corner 400m away!:rotfl:
In other news I've been to the quack myself over two numb fingers which might be arthritis, or might be a trapped nerve, or.....anyway, we shall just monitor them for a bit and see if they go away.

I've also cut down all the leaning willows for this year and the pile in the yard is growing nicely.

alfie_1

hi all
stonking cold
stonking bad temper
stonking idleness
stonking stonking stonking.....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


apart from that alls well.
horses have raided the hay stack , pulled the canvas off one end and got stuck in ..... cant be figged to clamber up and restore the diet so left em be..


anyway im back to my lemonysips and sulks
have a good weekend peeps xx

BlazeRavenwolf

I have 2 allotments, one which i only took on today, but my big dream would be to own a smallholding, but I am on benefits so prob never gonna happen, lol

choille

Good for you dave with the selling of stuff you don't want. It's great to get rid.

I hope your DW has good results. I had a hospital thing this week also & the car parking sounds identical to ours. I got dropped off & picked up by OH as parking is pretty hit & miss for spaces.
I doubt I'll get the results this side of XMas - but will have to wait. The hospital was very busy = people come from the Islands even to there.
Hope your fingers ease off Dave. I am suffering from very sore joints. I don't know whether it's the new medication or what. I ache & drag myself about. I doubt the damp & cold help matters.
There were trees down across the road after the gales but the council cleared them before we went through. The private woodland is due to come down & is really treacherous looking with trees leaning over the road. These recent gales have cut swathes through it & I think it makes the rest vulnerable. Creates wind tunnels.

Hope you get shut of the cold soon Alfie - OH is coughing & spluttering away & getting quite horse - it that's how you spell it.
These wellies you sent have been a god send as they are more roomy & I can get them on. I need that extra room as my foot/ankle is still swollen. They are mega comfy too - you are an angel. They also have loads of grip. I seem to be quite airy since I fell & am more ginger when walking - turning into a right old bag so I am. Thank you so much.
Quite still here but bad weather forecast for later so I''ll get off out with
CollieWobble.
Welcome BlazeRavenWolf - hope that the 2nd allotment is a good one & you can get a lot out of it.

Davesnave

Hi Blaze. We had two allotments back in the early 1980s and never dreamed we would end up with a smallholding. Our attention wasn't spread so thinly then, so our fruit & veg was better than it is now!:o

Speaking of blazes, I managed to have one yesterday and cleared all the brash from the willow felling. :j Today, it was just one wind-driven downpour after another. Even wild, woolly cat Lila stayed indoors.

I have to announce the sad passing of Vera, the last of our original Vorwerk hens, who slipped away quietly in a nest box on Thursday night. Always the most talkative and nosy, Vera feared nothing and lived to the grand old age of 8.5. (Clicky)




We have none of the original flock left, but I think we might be up for some of pullets in the spring. The two Sussex we bought to keep Vera company may have been from a prize strain, but they're not exactly the brightest or most sociable birds. We probably got them too fully developed.