Chatback #16

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All Raining here but still quite warm. Have a lovely Sunday

[Bren In Pots]

Morning its raining here and according to the metoffice its here for the day, got some toms to pick but that's about it for outdoors.
If you're smelling bacon Nicos it could be my bacon, eggs and mushrooms on oatcakes but for the rest of the week I'm back to pinhead oats so you'll be tempting me then

[Nannysally99]

Morning all, been up a while.
The sound of rain woke me up in the night. It’s been raining for hours now.
Had to happen didn’t it. Us southerners have had it so good lately.
Work yesterday was extremely busy, people clearing out and others buying their stuff. Works a treat.
Not got anything planned today except eBaying a load of craft stuff that came in yesterday.
If it ever gets light enough, I will get the camera out.
Have a good day folks

[Thelma Sanders]

Mornings!

Keep getting a popup message here this morning 'website has an error' what's that all about?

No rain yet here, 80% chance of some at 12, so fingers crossed....
I've to walk round to the plots in a mo with the veg waste for the bean trenches, then need to hoover through. Then I have a book......

Have a good'un

[burnie]

We have dull and overcast, but that strong wind has subsided now, no plans for today as we have a busy week ahead, probably finish off some of the modelling I was doing for my railway whilst SWMBO was "Striclyfied".

[Snoop Puss]

Warm yesterday and positively hot this morning. Swifts still about - a month or so after they should have gone. Wasps think it's time to start making new nests. Hope they, but not the swifts, get caught out by nature. The wind is now kicking up big time. Rain forecast this afternoon and this evening! 100% probability but one website says only 7 mm, another says nearly 34 mm. Guess which I've got my fingers crossed for? Oh, and more on Thursday!

Not much other news. Picking up some friends this evening and then off out for pizza. Their choice. Bizarre.

Work calls between then and now. Hope you're all having a great day. Good to see you back home, Rary. And sorry to hear your news, Deano, but still nice to see you here.

Oh, and Rary, I pass on a smile to everyone I meet locally. Doesn't always work so well in big supermarkets in Bristol. The shop assistants like it but the customers think I'm mad and look at me sideways as they wheel their trolleys well out of my way.

[bramble]

Late on parade..
It must be our bacon you can smell Nicos.
Thats with egg mushrooms a and tomatoes.
Our weekly treat Saturday and Sunday.
Sun is shining and s blue sky.
Hard to believe after the awful day yesterday.
Off to mass shortly and then just chillin
Have a good day all.

[Snadger]

Heating on for 10 mins this morning then lit woodburner. Phew, I am sweltering now.
Had bloke out to price for pointing chimney stack this morning. He's doing stack & cappings next week at a reasonable price.

Expecting a trailer load of logs today (Approx 2 dumpy bags) Then I've got to stack them and keep them dry. Canny little job for today!

[Nicos]

Thelma...are you still getting the error message?
Anyone else?

[Nicos]

2dumpy bags worth Snadge?...presumably that's about 2 cubic metres?
OH still has 4cubic metres of ours to stack!
Sadly I have too many other virally important things to get done to help him!!!!
At least he finished the roofing for it yesterday. A quick 3hr job ended up taking 2days and 2trips to the 'local' builders yard.
We've always thrown weighted down wriggly tin and a tarp on before now but it didn't look very nice and was tricky to move logs.
I can proudly say I have a log stack 12metres long made up from pallets and wriggly onduline

[Nicos]

Oh...and I think we may well have up to 20 more cubic metres coming next week or when we get back from the uk...but that can go up to our Woodyard for further splitting and stacking.
I love splitting wood...the smell is absolutely fantastic!

[Snadger]

Oh...and I think we may well have up to 20 more cubic metres coming next week or when we get back from the uk...but that can go up to our Woodyard for further splitting and stacking.
I love splitting wood...the smell is absolutely fantastic!

Flippin eck Nicos, and here's me thinking I had done well with 2 cubic metres. Rain imminent so it was a case of getting it stacked and covered. Weighted tarpaulin over one pile (which I agree does look a bit unsightly) and carpet over the other pile until I get something more substantial and tidier built.
Well impressed with the mixed hardwood load. Tree surgeon was pointing out Larch,Oak,Beech,Cherry,Hawthorn,Ash etc but I am not that well versed enough to tell the difference. Been under cover for year and he recckons that's better than kiln dried which burns away quickly? (And is a lot more expensive)


What the heck do you do with 20 cubic metres Nicos?

[Thelma Sanders]

What the heck do you do with 20 cubic metres Nicos?

She stays warm m'thinks

I've stopped using mine regularly as the stacking/chopping wood etc was getting to be too much like hard work, for me. I just use the c/heating nowadays, but I reallydo miss having the fire alight

[Florence Fennel]

And cultivates a 6-pack

[burnie]

Turned into a fabulous Autumnal afternoon so went out with the camera over the border into deepest, darkest Aberdeenshire.

The leaves are a picture with a bit of sun on them.


Hoped to see some Salmon leaping the falls but too much water today.