Daydream fund challenge part 4

I think we missed most of the really heavy rain. Our stream was just trickling this morning and the river's still below average for the time of year, whereas the river cams in Wales show flooding. :eek:

This is obviously because I raced to install the 12m drain at the bottom of our trans-Afghanistan main path at the end of last week. Dropped in half a tonne of gravel and a nice new pipe wrapped up in geofabric, all leading down into the lower lawn, which is always solid underfoot. Testing will have to wait a while longer.:(

I closed-up the side ventilation on the polytunnel this afternooon; a job that takes a couple of hours. So, now it's officially autumn here and maybe, just maybe, all those chillis in there will ripen.

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 ...

Is it worth having your premium increased for a telly? We have one that might be worth claiming for, but that's hung on a very substantial frame, just in case. Never having had a posh TV previously, we took it all very seriously!


Sam has been in and out of the Children's Hospital a lot, as the initial plaster they apply didn't do its job and one of the pins came through the skin:eek:, possibly when he had hisT shirt changed at nursery....but he'd also been seen riding a tricycle there. His excuse,"Well, I still have one arm working!":rotfl:

Now they are hoping he can put up with another temp plaster till they can remove the pin......:undecided

Not much happening here, apart from some unseasonally good weather that's enabled me to finish the basics of the big path. The rest may have to wait. It's headless chicken time as we try to decide what to do before the weather goes to pot! DW put up our old market stall frame inside the polytunnel and covered it completely in greenhouse bubble wrap, so we have some defence in case of another Eastern Beast.;)

Meanwhile, DW spotted an elderly couple pinch two squash from our sales basket on Thursday.:mad: We went in pursuit, but they hadn't stopped in the little town, so they were probably heading to South Molton ( market day) We checked our friend's CCTV that clocks every vehicle in and out of the village. It picked them up, so we know which direction they came from...;)

alfie_1 wrote: »

isn't it sad that in this day and age people have to TAKE something that is not a lot of money anyway... if they can afford to run a car they can afford to pay for a couple of squash !! go get em Davey boy x .. :rotfl:

I'm sure karma will get them anyway, alfie, but you never know, we may be able to give karma a hand.....;)

Crikey, Chesapeake, I thought you were still in Cornwall! ....Good you'll be in a proper house when it does turn nasty weatherwise, though I know its already been very different from down here over the past few weeks. Yesterday, for example, I was still having problems working, due to perspiration running into my specs. Not sure what temperature we had 'officially,' but it was well over 20c. :cool:

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.

You take care of that back, choille! I'm not the best person to dish out that advice, but after my tussle with huge sheets of ply and the sciatica that followed, I've tried to behave better....and almost have.