Awful weather - typical Brits talk

in_my_wellies

It's been a while................life got in the way but I've just caught up, enjoying the photos

I'm still in my 'not my house', the landlord is in no hurry to have me move out due to events in his life and I'm not ready to go but if I see something somewhere I fancy I'm ready. 

The garden and allotment are ticking over, even though I might move I can't help myself. Plants have jumped into about 60 - 70 pots so I have those to care for. Emptying the saucers this past three days has taken as long as it does to water

Long story short, I seemed to acquire a very small piece of land which in turn blocked access to a very large piece of land. This in turn made my piece of land very valuable. I'd gained rights after working it for 43 years. I couldn't pass the land directly on so everything legal had to go through me, complicated, I just signed where I was told to and now the land is in trust for the village, community allotment, and I have some of the proceeds, remaining proceeds go into the trust. 

I second the wooden greenhouse. I bought one 39 years ago and it's as good as new even with irregular care. I regretted not  taking it with me the first time I moved from here but I'm wondering if it would stand the disruption. I could never afford a new one and the LL has already said he'll replace it with something like the picture in the other thread. 

It was still raining at dusk. No hens to lock up but I still feel the need to walk round the garden and 'check'

YoungBlueEyes

Morning wellies, I was wondering how you were A community allotment, that's a beautiful thing to do. Can you seem to acquire me a small piece of land please?  Your greenhouse should stand a move if it's done carefully I'd say, with enough men and time. And beer and pizza. Are you still house hunting? 

Lovely and cool here, breeze just about crawling through the house. Back to the heat today after the (relative) cool of yesterday  

I've just seen what's in the middle box under this text box  - "You won't believe this laundry life-hack". I'm not given to pride but I did just grin!

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

I love all of the photos, especially Wisley meadow and the pic Dusty posted a while back of a garden and some huge plant he was envious of - I would love a garden like that.

Console yourself with the knowledge it's down a badly-made, steep track, half a mile from town and you'd need a 4x4 to get in and out, even on a good day.

Rosemoor does sculpture too, in winter, when it's much harder to get folks in and the tourists are long gone.

It's a fine thing you've done, wellies, making sure there are allotments for folks in the future. I think demand for those is bound to remain high. Someone did something similar in the little town here, creating a space which can never be built upon. It houses a small golf course, and the clubhouse is a useful community resource too. We had our garden club social there on Monday night, before the rain came, and the views from the elevated terrace were perfect.

twopenny

Hi wellies, great to start the morning off with happy news.
I thought you were going to say you'd made a fortune from it and were looking for a big house but thats a great thing to do! 
My lovely. gardening neighbours bungalow has sold before coming on the market at a whopping£100,000 over what others have gone for so no chance for me! 

Rain over night and cool which is nice but continuing today. Good for the garden but I wanted to go out on the open top bus so plans to be made.

YoungBlueEyes

They're oddly pleasing. I wonder what caused their shocked expressions...

YoungBlueEyes

£100k over?! Holy moly! I hope they're not flash gits that just throw money at everything and then expect to do as they please  What was it's asking price? (if you don't mind me asking)

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

They're oddly pleasing. I wonder what caused their shocked expressions...

Admission price.

YoungBlueEyes

Your rainbow pic Dusty, ain't that just the definition of bucolic  

Dustyevsky

in_my_wellies said:

I'm still in my 'not my house', the landlord is in no hurry to have me move out due to events in his life and I'm not ready to go but if I see something somewhere I fancy I'm ready.

The very best situation to be in, especially now prices are generally falling, and will most likely  fall further. We'd never have secured this property without being ready to purchase immediately, and nobody would have given us a mortgage for it either, thanks to the agricultural tie. We'd spent ages, attempting to find the right house, and there were some cracking smallholdings , but there was always an impossible-to-solve issue that made us say, "Hang on a minute...."

Here, it was 'just' the ugliest property in the area, strangely configured, and many years of near, or total, neglect....

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Your rainbow pic Dusty, ain't that just the definition of bucolic  

It's a stolen photo, but the wee town is very rural and attractive. I recall coming here on my bike when I was about 12 or 13 and thinking, “Wow! This place is frozen in time!” Returning, almost 50 years on, not much had changed, except the cars, and they had wheelie bins...

Like all the last bastions of rurality, it's being 'discovered' now, so prices aren't so reasonable, but those terraced  houses in the background have small gardens with the same preserved views over the golf course and beyond. People could do worse for retirement.