THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

fuddle

I was looking at some photos last night and saw that my dad had split our garden in 2. One half for an allotment and the other for us to play. I knew he had done this but never saw it in action. He'd even put up a little neat fence probably to stop me trampling all over it! Maybe from him where I get some of my gumption. It was a small garden Lyn so I understand what you're saying. Up this way on we're quite hot on smaller front gardens and back yards. There are a lot of older houses here that have the small garden and small yard then have a lane and more 'garden'. Now that would be ideal for you. MILs old retired miner's bungalow was set that way so there will be out there!

I'm coughing an awful lot Lyn but I expect that it's those decongestants. I feel fine in myself and as yet no warning signs of anything sinister. I'm hoping and praying and continually sipping the clove drinks! (10 cloves are still releasing oils on their 3rd boiling) I'm mixing my threads now aren't I? Wrong thread!

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Oh yes, that would be just right! a separate little veg garden and a 'patch' for a few pretty flowers and a tiny patch of lawn to sit out on would make so much sense.

Keep going with the clove drinks, whatever you're doing it seems to be doing the trick. I thought of you on my Cookie walk this lunchtime, I found the very first few little clusters of elderflowers in bloom and could see you out with your basket and scissors gathering in to make cordial, lovely!

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fuddle

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38469880.html

wish they had these down here. This sort of build would be ideal for the active elderly, much better than being stuck in a pokey flat in an old peoples development

fuddle

Yes! I could afford that one as it stands

mardatha

That is gorgeous kittie, I like that! Loads of them up here and the village I grew up in was full of them, they are red brick but still there - rows and rows of them. I can remember when they had outside toilets out the back, and the NCB rent was 1/6d !

GreyQueen

I'm just gobsmacked that it's possible to buy somewhere to live that isn't a static caravan for just shy of £50k!

And the place is much bigger than my flat. Mind you, most double garages are bigger than my flat..............:rotfl:

DigForVictory

We've clearly started the estate agent - it's off the market but I can still see the details.
Given my beloved father in law's profession, me moving into an "Aged Miners Home" would have me giggling til I tried to unpack.
At which point, tears & bedlam. The downside of a three storey family home is that we accumulate things. Ulp. Still, my Great Wall of China is also my undocumented pension. (Presuming I can find a moneyed Denbyholic to transfer items to.)
If not, then I have some thoroughly superior potsherds to go under plants that love drainage, or a very special line in memorial entertainments - shoot your mother-in-laws wedding chinaware...

fuddle

Ah Lyn I've just seen your elderflower post. I'm so sorry. Serve me right trying to catch up whilst in the sun on the school yard. I have sourced one elder on our walk over the bridleways to school. It's quite a size so either I'll be ok or they'll all be up aheight. I'll be a wandering all over my new place looking for my source of elderflower and elderberries.

Nargleblast

Monnagran - finding a new house is always a matter of compromise because there is no such thing as the 100% perfect house. As Fuddle said, any house can be made a home, and a bungalow will be anything but bog standard with you in it! (I mean that in the nicest possible way)

ivyleaf

Hear hear, Nargleblast - our monnagran would soon give it plenty of character