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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 17 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Confirmation that the new shed has been made by the maker, so I am at least half happy, but have not been given a date for erection-holes and concrete etc. before he can start.
I am glad you enjoyed the show Jam Lady. I have heard about the snowstorms coming to US, Jam lady, from the news paper, it worries me that it is on its way here and I can cope without any snow, what we have had so far has been enough-2inches on 2 occasions is adequate. Telling the lady to tell husband to collect her from the next stop is easy, if both are switched on. I just get by without a working 'phone; on the other hand I have one when I can find it, and it is charged-basically I forget where I put it last!
Colmar sounds more Irish to me. The name gwynned I would have expected to have 2 d's at the end and pronounced 'Gwineth', but spelt in Welsh-Gwynedd.
I tell you what my mother said MR, 'when the USA has snow it is 3 weeks and we get a dose', but the onion sets should survive a spell of cold I think the rule is more applicable to us in the Midlands and above. I suspect you have some influence on weather from the sea-salty air-and you warm up much earlier and quicker than we do here. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 17 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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Yes! Hey there Gregotyn. There WAS a sizable Welsh settlement in Pennsylvania.
In the late 17th century, there was significant Welsh emigration to Pennsylvania for religious and cultural reasons. In about 1681, a group of Welsh Quakers met with William Penn to secure a grant of land in which they could conduct their affairs in their own language. The parties agreed on a tract covering 40,000 acres (160 km²), to be constituted as a separate county whose people and government could conduct their affairs in Welsh. The Welsh Tract's boundaries were established in 1687, but notwithstanding the prior agreement, by the 1690s the land had already been partitioned among different counties, despite appeals from the Welsh settlers, and the Tract never gained self-government.
The area is now part of Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware counties. Many towns in the area still bear Welsh names. Some, such as North Wales, Lower Gwynedd, Lower Merion, Upper Merion, Bala Cynwyd, Radnor and Haverford Township, are named after places in Wales. Others, such as Tredyffrin or Uwchlan, have independent Welsh names.
Some communities in the area that formerly comprised the Welsh Tract were subsequently given Welsh or Welsh-sounding names to improve their perceived desirability. Among these were Gladwyne, formerly "Merion Square" (which was given its new name in 1891, although the name is meaningless in Welsh), and Bryn Mawr, formerly "Humphreysville" (which was renamed in 1869). |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15603
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15603
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 17 7:47 am Post subject: |
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That looks like an amazing show Jam Lady. The Princes of Orange, of whom William III was one, originally came from Orange in France. Another piece of useless information I have picked up over the years.
Your snow sounds quite serious. We have a friend who was supposed to be flying to New York yesterday, but last I heard is still in the UK waiting for the airport your end to open again.
Here spring is springing like mad. Daffodils everywhere, and because the weather has been quite mild during the day this week, the leaf buds of some trees are starting to break. Saw lots of primroses yesterday too, and there are a lot in the lawn in our garden. The fritillaries are just coming into flower too.
The largest of our local winterbournes, the Lavant had started to run yesterday. I wasn't sure if it would this year, as we have had a reasonably dry winter, but yesterday it had come up; about its normal time as they tend to run March to June. More work in the coppice today, so another heavy day. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 17 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yes Jam Lady, it does seem a serious amount of snow, the spring onions will float away! I supply a local coal merchant and have advised him to get some extra stock in ready for the next 3 weeks when the snow will arrive. We have hedges on the move sprouting well in some places, and there is plenty of grazing around. It sort of looks as though spring has sprung, but I am not going to hold my breath in case it is a false start. I have viewed the show and very good indeed, most importantly the machine allowed me to access the show without going into 'chrome'. I am hoping this will work every where now!
His Lordship will take you on Saturday if you smile sweetly to him.
I just hope Bryn Mawr is a 'big hill' which is the literal translation.
I have no news really just get up go to work and hope for the best! Worst thing is that I have developed a cold which has been spread to others by the lad who is now on holiday for 5 weeks. The other new boy second in command has developed a disease called 'fot, hand and mouth'-highly contagious. I must keep going to work as it will leave all the work on the last member of the team and he is allergic to work itself, unless he is making the money; he has a theory that he should be waited on. I on the other hand have a motor full of wood just waiting to be converted into kindling, via my deWalt saw, and brummack. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15603
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 17 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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The cold is still with me and is probably mild flu. I am the man what does the early mornings only. There are 3 of us, no.1 is lambing and the carrier of the cold-he kept coming to work every day, so that is how I got it; no.2 is off for an indefinite period as he has caught hand foot and mouth disease, which is having a spell round here, and being highly contagious, he is not with us also, for an unspecified period. This means me and the wages clerk to do the work, and he is lazy/superior-so I am doing all but serve customers; I am happy as I will be booking from 6am rather than 7am. & hours today so I may as well be full time, this week is 31.5 hours last week 30.5 hours. Tax man gets a lot but so do I! I have, to be honest, a lad there who wants to do my work as well as his own and if he can he does, so that things that the top man would leave till I get there in the morning are already done by the new man when I arrive in the morning. Pity he doesn't concentrate on getting the hard bits right first. I soldier on-mother would be proud etc.! I have just read what I wrote on Tuesday and as usual now I am repeating myself-please make allowances!
It rained in the night-well, 4.30am-ish, as I was getting up, but stopped as soon as I went out so that speeded the journey a bit, and overall I did this morning more than I expected to achieve, so pleased about that. I perform much better when I am left alone to get on with "it".
I went to the house yesterday to cut wood and there is a digger on site now so the shed is imminent, in theory, but a digger is a start. Hoping by Sunday I can move stuff in-depends a bit on of they have done the concrete for the posts or not, but as they say I am on the list! It is to be 5x6 metres as I look at it it will be too small, but if I can get most of the contents of my current area inside that will be a good start and I already have another shed for spare timber to go in. I just need to set the saw up in the shed and cut for 3-4 days kindling lengths to stop me hoarding stuff that 'may come in', but probably won't achieve either!
It is always good when you have a good productive day, MR. I don't get too many of them, there is always the b..ration factor, which hits the final blow on a good day. All over now till Monday |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 17 12:09 am Post subject: |
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Oh dear - missing in action once more - sorry for that but life is full and when I sit down I seem to have grown a cat on my lap. Billy is being ridiculously affectionate and possessive. The dog gets a swipe if he gets too close, and so does Smidgen! So I guess Billy has become a little more confident!
The shed has two doors Gregotyn. One goes into the garden tools section (which houses garden tools, beekeeping equipment (for that distant day when I resume bee-keeping) and currently a set of shelves that will be filled with the contents of kitchen cupboards preparatory to dismantlement. I plan to add a pallet on one wall to house long-handled tools and a bin for stakes and such like. The other bay is the work shop and will eventually have a wood heater in it. I am presently lining it with insulation left over from the ceiling as well as some panels of bracing ply which will be used for attaching stuff. I find me and tec screws do not get along, but we are coming to an agreement, slowly. It also has three sets of shelves (two small, one large). The smaller ones are flanking an old kitchen table and will be my dyeing area. The kitchen table top is chipboard which has deteriorated badly from being out in the weather. It will be replaced with some of the counter top I will be removing from the kitchen and have a long flip top box (currently housing my herbs and spices and taking up valuable benchspace) for the littler things like thermometers, commercial dyes, chopsticks, tongs etc. There is electricity in there now - two double power points (one above the dyeing area, the other below the front window) and one of those dangly power points that are useful when you are working in the middle of the room, as well as two strip lights that are lovely and bright. I have been using them all lately to vacuum out, use power tools etc and it is an absolute treat to have a space to work in (even if it has been a bit hot just lately).
The first load of wood has been stacked, and I await further loads. This is good at Wednesday will be rather cooler than the 30 degrees we had yesterday. It is Autumn so the morning mists are a feature of the day. The mushrooms have yet to put in an appearance but as it is very dry this is hardly surprising. I am looking forward to the next few days of rain and showers as this will hopefully bring them out in droves.
Other than work on and in the shed I have been spending time in the History Room and getting a bit of spinning and knitting done. Am working on a lace-work scarf (only a very simply one-line repeat with alternating purl rows), and spinning up the sock fibre I bought at the Spin In - it has nylon in it so is specifically for sock work.
Rowena gave me a heart attack by suggesting my moorit fleece might have a 'break' in the fleece, but when I tested it I can see no evidence of this. I will take it to her on Thursday to double check, but it sounds sound to me and I can not see any thinning in the staple.
Spending my 'off' days transferring stuff from the kitchen to the shed. I am hoping to employ a young girl with trade qualifications to help me set up the workshop as she will presumably have a better idea than me on how to arrange things for maximum effect (and may have a better relationship with tec screws).
So it's all go. I will wait with bated breath on the progress of your shed Gregotyn! |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8621 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15603
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 17 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Nice idea Jam Lady. Glad your courses were well attended and that the weather didn't stop anything, even though it does seem to be doing nasty things to the trees. Noticed our quince is starting to break leaf, so hope we don't have any really severe weather now. The blackthorn is just starting into flower, so we still have the 'blackthorn winter' to come.
Cassandra, I was going to PM to see if you were joining us again soon, as I have been missing your posts. You have been busy; I had seen the knitting and spinning, but didn't realise you had been so busy on the shed. Look forward to hearing about future progress. Nice Billy is getting more confidence, but seems he has decided you belong to him and won't share, which isn't so good.
It has decided to be wet here again, so husband is going to sons flat to sort out the last of the wiring. DIL will be at work, and they need to take up some of the floor, which would isolate her in one room if she was at home. No doubt the cat will have to be shut in one room as last time she nearly ended up lost under the floor. Husband only knew she had gone down because he saw her tail through a hole so could extract her before it was capped.
We managed to get a bit more of the buddleia shredded yesterday, and husband has managed to seal the holes in the pond liner, so the pond is now pretty well full again. Some progress on the garden, and primroses, violets and fritillaries in flower. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15603
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