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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 18 8:17 am Post subject: |
 
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Sounds like a good idea, and having a regular income if the worst comes to the worst isn't a bad inheritance. Make sure you listen to the solicitor and make sure you are protected if they fail to pay up. I am sure from, what you say, they won't do it intentionally, but always be sure. Husbands uncle very kindly lent us some money when we were first married, so we could buy a house, and the solicitor tied that up legally so he didn't lose out if we had to default. We never did, and it helped us no end.
The weather here is continuing to be horrible. It was moderately windy yesterday but we were still in a cloud, so as the trees husband and son needed to fell were in an exposed position, they had to leave them. Son came up and cut down the small birch with the chain saw and helped me take the twigs and bundle them, then carry them down to the truck. I currently have all the bundles loosely tied up in the log store and am hoping they will dry quickly. I need to get them in the dark as soon as possible, but don't want them to go mouldy. We managed another 6 bundles, so that is now 9. Need to get as many as possible, so plenty more to gather.
Today is blustery winds, so no work in the woods again today. Having been there when trees were coming down all around them, husband and son stay out when it is like that now. |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
Posts: 1733
Location: Tasmania Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 18 9:24 am Post subject: |
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I agree with MR - make sure if they default you are covered - ideally hold a full mortgage, so that the property reverts to you in the event.
I was off to the dentist this morning and after a checkup and repair of the second tooth I had broken I headed further into town and bought a surveillance camera. It's rather clever as it sends its images to the phone (so I don't have to wait till I get home if there are shenanigans). It also has a speaker so I can talk to the person I am monitoring (though I doubt it would carry to the far end of the yard if she is down there). I can also steer it using the phone to do a scan rather than having it just facing the one direction. It operates after dark as well as daytime and is movement activated too! The only thing it didn't bring with it is a notice to put on the window, but I suppose I can make one up on the printer and post it front, side and rear.
Having done that, I called into the supermarket, bought myself some potato cakes to keep me going, and headed to my favourite patch of pine trees that provide shade on the hottest day (like today). There I ate the potato cakes, broke the tooth that had been repaired last week, and headed back to the dentist - sigh.
Now the anaesthetic has worn off I feel I will be drugging myself before bedtime, and I was restricted to soup for dinner due to the idiosyncrasies of the repair. There not being terribly much actual tooth left above gum level I have a sort of defacto crown cap on the tooth made entirely of white repair material. So I don't think I will be using it tonight - will give it a chance to get used to its new location. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2506
Location: New Jersey, USA
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 18 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Sad to hear about your cat, Cassandra. It's a loving thing to do for them but so, so difficult for us to cope with. About your tooth - Mr Jam Lord has had a couple of implants - the no good / unable to repair or crown tooth is removed and a post is implanted along with bone chips. Your bone grows in / around (it takes months) and then a permanent crown is attached. Positive - excellent results. Negative - takes a long time and is costly. Just a suggestion.
We're in the January thaw. Snow is gone. We had a torrential overnight rain on Monday night, just sheeting over the skylights. Which, amazingly enough, did not leak. Dare we hope that the repair Mr Jam Lord made is working . . .
Today is garden club, with a talk about fungi so we're to bring in mushroom recipes and little mushroom figurines if we have any. My clever daughter told me about a pinterest page https://www.pinterest.com/explore/glass-mushrooms/
and I have created a clear glass "mushroom." It's also our white elephant sale to benefit the club. The back of my car is filled with stuff I am relieved to remove from cupboards and shelves.
Tomorrow I'm off to the botanical garden to peruse the Wild Medicine exhibition in the conservatory.
It's also the day that a long out of touch cousin who died a week ago yesterday will have a green burial upstate New York where he lived. He had numerous allergies to paint, chemicals, additives etc. His scientific research was with bees and kinship. This meadow and woodland, no embalming, plain wooden casket will be exactly what he would have chosen. I have a link to the green cemetery if anyone is curious / interested.
And now I'm off to garden club. |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
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Location: Tasmania Australia
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 18 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like a rather bothersome couple of days Cassandra. Hope things take a turn for the better. Do you have any friends/acquaintances who can read Chinese? I always found that things translated from the Japanese, often via German were 'interesting'.
Our surveillance camera is static, but useful to cover the yard for intruders. Also not linked to anything, so we only know after the event, but as the phone signal there is erratic, not sure a clever one like yours would be much better.
Jam Lady, hope you enjoyed your meeting and got rid of your white elephants.
The weather was wet and windy here yesterday, so husband came shopping with me and son stayed at home. No point in even trying to go to the woods. In fact a nearby country park was closed because a dog was killed by a falling branch, so we put out a warning on our woods FB page.
In the evening we had a meeting about the Gathering we are having in the autumn, and have made quite a bit of progress considering it isn't until October. Looking at the shortcomings of previous events helps, so we know things we have to address.
Had a meal at the local pub we were meeting in first with son and DIL, and it was very good. We hadn't been there since the new landlord came in, and he seems to be doing a good job. It was quiet, but not unexpected for midweek, but he provided us with a reserved table for our meeting as well, and was generally very helpful, so we will be back, probably for future meetings and also for meals out. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area
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My trusted solicitor has declined to be of assistance, which is annoying. I wanted to talk to her rather than engage with them formally initially. Never mind plan 'b' will come into operation. What is plan 'b'? Not sure yet, though I will be approaching another solicitor. There must be a legal way to give me security, and my friends a home of their own. For convenience I will be going to one in Welshpool, rather than Oswestry.
I have thought of the possibilities of default, but thought the legal folks would be the ones to come up with a solution-one partner dies for example-insurance for example? He works in a dangerous occupation-tree felling.
Oh dear, Cassandra, I hope all works out for you with the camera. Often the camera without the connections acts as a deterrent. Any way you can ask if she wants to see a picture show of the property, even if it is not working, once she knows there are cameras about it is unlikely she will be coming round to visit uninvited. If you make it known, then that may well put her off. But it would almost be good to ask her in for coffee and give a demo of what she has done on your property, without telling her of your camera-fun whichever way you like to play it!
Sorry about the tooth. They are the most painful of things when they go wrong. I sometimes wish I had all false teeth. I have a few at the top and they give me no trouble at all!
Glad all well for you, Jam Lady, in the storms you have had. We seem to be in that situation here with high, (strong), winds, and right now very heavy rain.
The Wild Medicine exhibition sounds really good. I would like to try alternative remedies to the current conventional chemical choices, but I don't know enough about it, or more likely, have the ability to understand how it works.
I shall be making my own coffin-casket-out of pallet wood soon. I have benefitted a great deal out of pallets for years and so I think some of those pallets may like to help see the back of me when I go!
Good to find a new eating venue, MR. The new landlord is always going to put himself out to attract as much business as he can. But how nice it is to feel wanted, and to be made welcome. A couple of years ago my friends and I went to a 'local' when I went over for the weekend. Our meal was awful, one of us finished ours before the others had anything in front of them. When we had all eaten our first courses, I went and got the bill, they asked if everything was ok and I said 'Yes, I haven't had to experience the second course to find out that I don't want and won't be coming again, as your service is appalling, and I was not impressed with the food either, and I have only had to pay for one course to find out!' A table of people who came in after us got served with 2 courses before they came to clear our first course and we had finished our first course before they arrived! I used to drink in that pub many years ago when I lived in Abdon, near Ludlow, and it was a pleasure to go there then, and I had taken one or 2 young ladies there for the odd meal. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2506
Location: New Jersey, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 18 1:50 am Post subject: |
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White elephant sale - there were tables full of mostly junk = things people want to get rid of - some pots with (or without lids), a set of 3 nice casserole dishes (I resisted), glass bowls, pictures, books, stuff, stuff, stuff. None of mine came back home with me by dint of one member with a barn who holds on to all the unsold "stuff" until the July art festival event at the park. If there are left overs from that I have no idea what happens - nor do I want to know.
I did gift her with a couple of flannel pillow cases (we like flannel sheets but not the pillow cases, and bedding seems to come in sets these days.) She uses them for lining the walls of cages where she cares for rescued bats - they like to crawl between wall and flannel, especially now when they hibernate.
Mushroom lecture was excellent introduction to the ecology and world wide web connections that fungi have.
Traffic was pretty good today, about 1 hour 45 minutes going in and much the same coming home. Very good signage but basically I was looking at largish trees with green leaves. Did see cacao pods poking out of the tree - funny looking things. Citron, lemon, grapefruit trees in fruit, red passiflora in bloom. But really, they're not going to strip the bark off cinchona or cinnamon.
This was a small exhibition, making use of extant plants in the conservatory. Next big exhibition will be the March orchid show, an annual event. And then starting in May will be a Georgia O'Keeffe Hawaiian exhibition. I have always thought of her as rooted in New Mexico. But apparently Dole sent her to Hawaii where she made 20 paintings that were used in advertising. NYBG will have some of the actual paintings also on display - in a gallery, not the humid conservatory.
I have to tell you, cataract surgery has a major benefit - no eye glasses to fog up! going from chilly outdoors (27 degrees Fahrenheit) into tropical glasshouse. Camera lens - that was a different story.
Had lunch with a friend from the PR department, nice chance to have a peaceful conversation - the press previews are hectic.
Stopped off at Wal-Mart and at the grocery store on the way home. Photographed a bottle of saw palmetto pills to accompany the picture of saw palmetto plants in the conservatory when I do my web site entry. Wanted yautia at the supermarket, ditto reason. But apparently this branch of that chain doesn't have sufficient Hispanic customer base to stock it. Will go to the other store tomorrow. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
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Location: Tasmania Australia
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 18 9:18 am Post subject: |
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If your solicitor is unable to help, perhaps she can recommend a trusted colleague Gregotyn? Perhaps it is outside her skill set - they all seem to specialise somewhat, and contract law can be quite tricky.
I have spent the day spinning. Today is Australia Day which is the date that the British raised the flag at Port Jackson (now Sydney Harbour). It is a much debated date as it is not the date the First Fleet arrived, nor is it the day the British formally established their Colony of New South Wales and Australia as a name was not adopted for another six years and it quite reasonably upsets our first nations people, but for all that we do it. And today was did it by spinning in the High Street - a group of it outside my favourite wool shop.
It was also quite a hot day, but the shade crept across the footpath fairly early on. Unbeknownst to me it did not quite shade my foot for rather longer so I am presently nursing a sunburned foot. The shop has shared the video on Facebook so if you go to the Lucky Ewe at Oatlands, I am the one spinning black wool. That was my subversive acknowledgement of the Indigenous peoples, with the blessing of the only one i know presently, who happens to live across the road. I was going to be a bit more overt and take a basket with black, red and yellow tops (the colours of the Aboriginal flag), but decided against offending my hostess.
And tomorrow will be even hotter, so I have stocked up on milk and liquid coffee to eat iced coffee all day which will be about all I can cope with. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
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Location: Llanfyllin area
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My dear Mrs K has said they find it unusual and so no one in their practice would undertake to conduct such a sale. I think they all think I am trying to avoid taxes if they are payable. I thought my castle/home was all mine and its sale was all mine too if I have no charges on it. I have been to see another firm of solicitors in Welshpool where I work, and see if they will undertake the sale legals for me. I am not trying to avoid tax or anything else if it is payable then so be it. But I am a bit upset that my trusted friend and solicitor won't do this for me. I have been their customer for 30 years, but there we are, loyalty is not the order of the day now it appears. My own lady is more of an adviser in the practice now, and the administrator rather than a doer it seems from her e mail to me. I suppose I will have to see her at some point to get the gen from her as the deeds had been lost by my original seller's solicitor, a man I hope not to have to need if he is still alive; the seller himself is about 60 and has had a stroke and not expected to live! I am wondering if anything else can go wrong.
How good to be able to be outside again and doing Cassandra. It is a lovely day, but feels cold, even if the sun is shining. You will please to be having a good week, weather wise, then, MR, if we are following you-well I hope so! I can do with some dry for a few days and warm would be helpful too as I haven't many nets of wood in stock, and they are flying off the shop shelf-guess I should be at home now and not here! Chopping wood is a warming process but netting up definitely is not a hot process. I hope 'the boy' gets better quickly, MR. Working and not being well are a no-no'-sickness lasts much longer if you try to work it off.
I am a flannel sheet man by choice Jam Lady, but I presently sleep in a sleeping bag, much warmer in bed at this time of the year. I also have 3 hot water bottles, put in the bed at 5 pm to 6 pm, which, when in conjunction with the bag and eiderdown stay warm all night-and so do I! I get up between 4 and 5am to go to work so I appreciate being warm all night. I did the same when I lived in the caravan under the barn but that was much colder, there I had 3 sleeping bags and 6 hot water bottles; sometimes getting up in the night to reheat one or two of the bottles. My house is a hot house compared to the caravan, and relatively much warmer in the morning, almost a pleasure to get out of bed-well not quite pleasure. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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Location: New Jersey, USA
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
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Location: Tasmania Australia
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 18 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Hot. Very hot. But not as hot as it will be tomorrow. And the promised afternoon storm has failed to eventuate. And doesn't seem likely to do so. Unfortunately the associated humidity seems to be here to stay.
And Monday will not be much cooler. Tuesday, on the other hand, will plummet to 16 which will be a great relief to those of us who hate heat! We Tasmanians are not accustomed to prolonged bouts of heat such as we have had this summer - usually short bursts followed by weeks of more moderate, if not downright chilly weather.
I am a bit concerned that the dog trials are being pursued in this heat - and am very much hoping they have water in the yards where the sheep are penned. I have not been down since this morning when I snarled at them about the lack of a booking (oh, but so and so called in twice and you were not at home - erm, have you heard of leaving a note?!!) and the chap who had chained his dogs to the gate (but that's not a public footpath says he - so what? It's OK to obstruct the gate of a private property then? - the type of brash barechested youth who is convinced that even when at fault, it is someone else's fault because he is perfect) which put me in a thoroughly bad mood. So I took off into Oatlands and had an iced chocolate and caramel slice and came back home again.
Later in the day I spotted the wee kitten who I bought the live trap to capture. The kitten was having a wonderful time clambering over the straw bales in which I usually hide the trap, so I have reinstated it, in the hopes of catching him/her. It is only about 12 weeks old and starting to show the evidence of a life on the streets, so needs to be captured and tamed soon.
During occasions when the sun was not beating down like a sledehammer, I have take Seb for the odd walk, had a nap and have now eaten some fish and chips with vinegar for dinner. Some yoghurt and honey later in the evening will be more than enough to keep me going in this heat.
Tomorrow will be 35 and I am not looking forward to that at all. Though it is doing the solar dyeing a treat. And Monday will cool down to 29 - still far too hot for this little black duck.
I am afraid I am losing track of who owns what in relation to your property Gregotyn, but hopefully you can find a solicitor who can guide you. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 18 8:41 am Post subject: |
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When we bought our present house our solicitor found it interesting that it had been transferred between the parents and children, as far as I recall, with no money changing hands, but I might be wrong about that as it was about 35 years ago. It should be possible to do something about yours Gregotyn, but isn't the usual run of the mill, which is why the solicitors find it tricky I suppose. Important to get legal advice though.
Jam Lady, that is interesting. Our woods is a good case in point I think, as being semi natural ancient woodland we have a very good selection of fungi, including death cap I think. We have some quite unusual ones, and had a very good crop of magpie fungus this year; not rare, but quite uncommon.
The weather here is variable too, but between mild/cold/wet/dry, mainly wet. As you say Gregotyn, we need some good dry days. I think my birch is now dry anyway, so we will get that in the dark today. It was supposed to be raining, but I think it is coming in later, so hopefully we will get a bit more work done.
Cassandra, the dog trials people sound a real pain. As you say, I hope they have water for all the animals. If not, it might be worth mentioning it to you friendly policewoman. A word from her might concentrate their minds (if they have any). It never ceases to amaze me how some people appear to be functioning human beings and can still be so incompetent. Anyway, hope you catch your kitten and the weather cools down for you. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
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Location: Llanfyllin area
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 18 10:33 am Post subject: |
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I like the mushroom link Jam Lady, impressed with the glasses as they really do look mushroom-like.
Cassandra, enjoy the heat, watch it from the cool of your sitting room and turn the fan on! I am only happy when the weather is warm not hot, and when it rains at night and so allows me to do 'things' outside during the daylight. It has started raining again now so not much outside going to be done today if it keeps on going, I will get plenty of wood cut and chopped today and tomorrow if it keeps raining, so that will help for next winter's demand, I have put into the shop 12 nets of kindling in the last 2 days-this year is still cold at night! Here in Wales we are more used to rain overall, but when the sun shines it is beautiful. We have all our dog trials in the summer here too.
I am a bit different to you, Cassandra, I would have cut the dogs' leads and that would have started the ball rolling. It would have been good to see if the dogs came back when called! Or opened the gate and rung the police if the dogs came onto your patch, or better still if the dogs wouldn't let you out of your patch! I was one of those young men I suppose who knew it all, thought my mother knew nothing and was so pleased when she started to think like me when I got to 30-I must have taught her something, actually it was the other way round! The iced chocolate will have done some good! I hope you catch the stray kitten.
I have found another string to my bow in the attempt to sell my holding to my young neighbours. There is a company who specialise in all things farming, but mainly accounts. They set up in Wales a few years ago and seem to be doing well. I got signed up at the Royal Welsh Show one year and they have sent "stuff" to me annually, with intermittent bulletins for 'changes' in the farming scene. They won't have come across my friends' and my proposals, but I think they may be able to help, as they have solicitors on their books, as well as accountants and farming advisors. And they are close to me at work-fingers crossed! There can't be many people who want to buy your house and want you to stay there and be looked after-I don't want to lose these friends, otherwise I will be hived off to become a cabbage! The main thing of this is to be legal and not be left penniless and homeless! |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
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Location: Tasmania Australia
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