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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 20 9:43 am Post subject: |
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I do have heat in bed in the winter, MR, up to 4 hot water bottles when really cold, otherwise I am outside working or delivering and shopping, which keeps me warm. If I get cold I add another layer or work a bit harder. It is a great life meeting lots of people and having no serious commitment to them, except to help keep them warm with wood!
I have to admit to meeting a woman locally who is very good company, but I have yet to take her out anywhere, but if I don't ask she won't know! I met her in here-the library-where she was doing her ancestry with some man on the next pooter and she was not only born in the same town as me, but also in the same road! Powys council offer a service for finding out who and where you were from "ancestrally wise". Regrettably mine was done years ago and I appear to be a black sheep! After a family tree which took my family back to Macgregors in the 1600's, in NW Scotland, to the 1700's and to Wolverhampton via Suffolk and Sheffield!
I have just been given some stones which are not wanted but heavy, I can only carry 1 at a time at the most from her back garden to the pickup. I took the trailer first time and found it too hard to reverse uphill to where they are going. So I am now just doing the pickup, which gives me recovery time between loads.
Firewood going like mad right now.
We have had a major upheaval locally, I don't know if I have said so before. There have been a massive influx of tourists to go up a mountain, driving, which has caused traffic troubles. A local man said that the waterfall had been "Blessed" and now every Muslim from the Birmingham area has felt the need to go an see this water. According to a local it is the owner who said it was blessed. Indeed that may be true, but the traffic mayhem was amazing to the point the police had to come and sort it out with barriers. However one of the locals gave a field up and allowed parking at the rate of £5 a car and took over 2K I am told, on one day! Most of the cars were big Mercs, BMs and Volvos! These traffic jams all took place opposite where I used to have my shop in the village, before I bought the holding I watched from the other side of the road where a friend now lives. Made all the local press folks happy! Got to go! |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45468 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 20 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Oh yes, I will ask her out at some point, but I don't have reason to rush anything, too much to do at home. But I have seen her daily as she has given to me a lot of big stones suitable for stone walling and my plan is to sell them, and take her out on the proceeds, we'll see. Her sister lives in Llanrhaeadr, where I used to live before buying the holding. The sister what brought her up here in the first place. We have several things in common swimming, the library, Alsatian dogs and our background-Walsall. As a matter of interest does anyone know the value of dry stone wall stones?-in case!
However it is a giant step to commit to someone at my age and get out if it goes wrong! Her house is picture perfect inside, everything is immaculate. In my case It stays where It falls until I have to search for It again. Basically I have far too much for my 4 bed house and buildings, when I spend my time in the fields and wood shed doing exactly as I want, when I want and now, most of the time.
Going back, you mentioned heat in bed, MR, surprise, surprise I cannot find the hot water bottles! I am not ready yet for them, as I am still only in one sleeping bag, doubled when it gets cold and bottles added as needed!
Worrying for me dpack is I don't remember Father Ted-except I have heard the name!
I am off now for a look around. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45468 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 20 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Judging by your opposing attitudes to the house, perhaps a long term commitment might not be a good idea, but no reason why you shouldn't go out together on a 'friendly' basis.
Judging by the clear nights we have had recently, I think you need to go hunting for your hot water bottles, as it could be starting to get cold soon. Better to know where they are now than not have them when you need them.
We went out to pick up some timber yesterday and had all sorts of trouble. It is in a position the large tractor and forwarder can't reach, so had to take the little one. To start with the tyres on the forwarder were leaking, then the steering went on the tractor. It is a point of weakness with those tractors, so husband managed to get it settled again to get it back to the yard, and is going to wire it into position.
I went on to have a look at the tree that went over a fortnight ago, and the bridle path is now passable with a lot of timber and wood stacked in odd places and a huge pile of brash. Husband and son then cut me some bagging logs, so the end of the day was spent putting logs in nets.
Addition; Cassandra has got the grant for the improvements on the village hall. She posted it on FB yesterday. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45468 Location: yes
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 20 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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I will give thought to the stone and may get excited and have a go for myself with added "compo" as an insurance on the roadside wall, thankyou for the comment on the stone, dpack, I have about 6 tonnes, but that doesn't go too far as you can imagine. I took it for 2 reasons for hard core under a shed I am preparing the ground for, or to sell on if there was enough to justify it. I have a couple of wells on the farm as well as in the back yard so I may set the stones round one of them as a "feature" for a future selling point! It would do a rockery feature for someone with a sizeable lawn! I am waiting to see if there is more to come yet, but wanting to get prepared ahead, in case.
Every stone was heavy, range half, to one and a half, cwt or at my age heavy; my guess is about 5 tonnes total, plus the little "fill ins" about 2 tonnes.
I am not sure what is happening with the times here in the library now, but we are not in, in the morning, but I think next week is Tuesday. I will have to wait and see. This stuff is good enough for a garden and would do an imaginary well, with some left over, and I would add the proverbial roof and winder for a suitable "townie sale" and with the right money I would build it well, as a well-(pun)!
Not sure when we are back in library, ttfn! |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45468 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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