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Jam Lady
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Mistress Rose
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Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8822 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Mistress Rose
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 18 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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I am glad you are feeling better, MR., don't rush back to hard work too soon.
I'm back in circulation after an interesting weekend. Very pleasant; my idea of fun if I am honest. Christmas will be different there will be 3 minors there to be entertained; the boy needing most, and has to be "doing" all the time and I am getting too old to get up off the carpet, I want to sit at the table where I will be half up way already!
We went to a firework display in the local village, for an hour and had dinner in the daughter's house, a new build, in a village where I lived for a few years in the early 80's. (I had 7 acres of upland land, let to a local farmer). Left to get married, and regretted it in the end. I think they did the do well-no bonfire-so much less dangerous.
We didn't see my friends' other child and his wife they were at a party for a friend's boy. They will be around at Christmas. Their boy is a demanding boy and I seem to be charged with playing with him as a bit of respite for others! We 'do' Leggo. He has a low attention threshold and can be quite violent with his toys. He is expecting to inherit my Hornby Dublo 3 rail, but I don't think it will survive very long, so I'm planning on selling it sooner rather than later whilst it still has value. There is around 400 ft of track, 200 trucks, 80 coaches and around 30 locomotives. I made some stations and so on, with airfix being the provider of most of the lineside 'stuff'. I will sell my Dinky toys as well, 30-40 of those left, mainly of the farming types, but I will keep the army and agricultural vehicles, the cars can go! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 18 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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The place to sell toys is in your neck of the woods MR-well the South East they say. But I don't know where the best prices are to be found. I don't know many people now who still have their model Dinky any Hornby OO trains from childhood.
When you say rubble sacks is that those really big bags that we call dumpy sacks round here sort of big with four lifting straps? The sort of thing they put sand or gravel in for builders and fertiliser for farmers. My neighbours collect sawdust from a mill in those and then re-bag it into smaller bags and sell to horsey folks, like themselves, but their feet are on the ground as they are not rich! They entertained me for my birthday, with a present of new wellingtons the thick heavy soled type by Dunlop. They will, I expect, see me out as it has taken me 30 years to get through the first 2 pairs! I feed the nags and cats when they go away, her mother has the dog! But they keep an eye open for me when they are about-which I appreciate.
I am doing the anti-freeze in the tractor tomorrow. It needs to be checked, as the stuff in there is still blue but been in it for around 10 years, so should need checking at least. I am not very mechanical so the friend will come and supervise-and hopefully do the job for me; I bought the tester kit from work for the process!
I expect you to be having a lot of log orders, MR, as the weather is changing rapidly up here to wet and cold with several frosts last and this week, I got a good store of defrost spray in last year and it came in handy. Certainly the kindling is flying off the shelves at last, which is pleasing, having been slow so far this season, I usually catch the last of the weekenders, but they are over now. My neighbour is hoping to do some logging soon for himself, he favours larch and oak mixed, but he has been burning some spruce which is only really suited to enclosed fires, his is an open fire! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 18 7:07 am Post subject: |
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I think the prices for most things are higher in south east England, and even higher in London. It is well known in our business that taking stuff to London, even with transport costs is frequently worth while.
No, I didn't mean fertiliser sacks; I meant thick rubbish sacks. I think you just make a few small holes in them to let out any wetness and let the worms in. Put in a quiet corner somewhere and let it rot. Tell neighbours which corner you put them in in case you forget.
We are working our way through our orders quite well now, but still refusing new customers at the moment, although that may change. We had a flurry of activity through August and September as people realised summer was coming to an end, but it is steady at the moment. Most of our regulars have had at least one load, so they are happy for the year, but we may have some come back to us later. We have one that has already booked 3 more loads, and one who has had 16 loads to cover 2-3 houses as their main heating. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2541 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 18 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Pallets are my "thing", I do a lot of my firewood from pallets and want only the driest and straightest grain for the job, it makes the hand chopping easier. So I select 4 pallets, four feet square-(1.2 m square) and wire them together; do I need a base and lid-solid or slatted covered in polythene? I funnily enough gathered a lot of plasic coated wire a few weeks ago at work-something arrived with it held together by green wire I scraped the roof on Sunday morning and have a large pile to transport to a suitable place. The weather was such that leaves on trees now are a much less, but those left look wonderful-a sign winter is upon us even though the weather today is lovely and sunny, if a little cool. I am not wearing a jacket yet.
I would have thought that oak was preferable to soft wood however well treated. My former neighbour used to do veg in 2 raised beds that I made for them over 20 years ago, and they are only now showing their age and starting to rot, and all with no treatment. I still have quite a lot of that timber left. If I get round to finishing the kindling early and have enough stock for 3 months I may just start a set of raised beds for me, about time I did a bit of gardening again. I did spuds, tomatoes and beans when I lived under the barn. Time to start again. I am planning on retiring soon-12 months max- and want to knock my place into shape and get rid of all my scrap. I want a small bungalow with a suitable veg patch, garage and workshop and I will be happy for the rest of my days. |
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