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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
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Location: Tasmania Australia
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area
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I have moved! And a pleasure to sleep in a double bed which was a reject from the neighbours and so, so, comfortable, that I fail to understand why they got rid of it! My caravan single bed had bias to the right and I almost fell out a few times, now gone to the skies.
Now then dpack we have something in common. The name Ewart is my middle name, after my father-Ewart Gregory from Ecclesfield, just outside Sheffield. The Ewart name was given to him in relation to Ewart Gladstone, who in turn was named after a Scottish general from the Crimean War. My best friend at school was Arthur Ewart, direct line to that General He still goes to Scotland to visit relatives when he comes over to the UK! He now lives in Brisbane, but been in Australia for about 40 years as a doctor. Anyway dpack I am not going to give you my whereabouts, in case you feel the need to eliminate me as part of family tradition, in a night raid! Highly unlikely we are related, and I haven't gone into my family tree in any depth!
I have a lot to do at the house to get it into shape for proper living, but at least I am on my own with no one going through my stuff-his hobby it seems; I set enough traps-quite annoying but when the devil drives, you take it and say 'one day' to yourself!
The electrics work, and as I don't have tv there is no distraction from doing things to make life better. You have got it-radio2 and radio4 are my listening whilst "doing" anything. Chopped wood this morning at work for the first time for a few months and the arm is holding out. I had a problem with the right arm, following me holding a sheep and unravelling electric cable from said sheep, with the now ex friend, who released it before I did and sheep dutifully wrenched the arm, about 10 years ago and still it hurts!
First job tonight is to get the bedroom into a shape where I can walk round stuff as opposed to climbing over stuff!
Think if you want to come back from Australia, Cassandra, I would choose a Common Market , country, and come over to visit us!
I love watching gun dogs make a mess of things MR, especially Spaniels because they love life so much they are just happy and often oblivious to where they are and what they are supposed to be doing-I had a sheep dog who was much more at home with the shooting fraternity than sheep, and the Labrador I had was a wonderful pig dog, no fear of them, but scared witless with a gun bang! The people I go to see in Bridgnorth have a wonderful Springer who works the ground when on a walk with my friend; he says she always points when a bird gets up and when it doesn't fall out of the sky I guess she thinks my friend has a silencer fitted and he is a bad shot! |
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Glad you have finally moved Gregotyn. Now to get yourself settled and comfortable, although it seems you have the bed situation well sorted.
I see lots of characteristics of my father in my son. Not too surprising in some ways, but they are odd things that I don't think son would have been aware of, so think it must be genetic. I am said to sound just like my mother did on the phone, which isn't too surprising as we have the same shaped face. Husbands cousin is said to look very much like him, but I can't tell as I have never met the cousin, who is in Aus.
Had a busy day yesterday with charcoal. We dug out the kiln, sieved the charcoal and did 53 bags. 27 of them are loaded in the van and are to be delivered this morning along with 10 log sacks. It's all go! Yesterday evening we had a coppice group committee meeting, so had to rouse myself enough to take the minutes. Luckily a short meeting, so we got finished by about 9pm. |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
Posts: 1733
Location: Tasmania Australia
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Mistress Rose
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013
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Location: Tasmania Australia
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I had a happy day interfering at the History Room today. I took in my desktop computer and started to transfer files from the office one. Mine has an XP operating system, but the opportunity exists to upgrade it to Windows 6 - what do you think Dpack? I rather like XP but if 6 has some positive aspects that are missing on it, I will happily upgrade the machine.
The folder I moved was huge - images, Excel files, and goodness knows how many documents. And of course, totally disorganised. But it is the one Steph works with, so I am reluctant to reorganise it without discussion. Perhaps once the whole lot is on the same computer I can see what is duplicated elsewhere. I have suggested we move the images to an external hard drive for a start, so will see what the reaction is to that. Not all the relevant software is on my computer either, so some of the docs may be difficult to open till I get in there on Sunday and sort out some more transfers. Still, it's a start.
I am presently downloading those same images onto this computer (I hope they fit!!) so that I can have a go at developing a model for storage that Steph may be able to work with. Hard as we all have different logic processes so what works for me may not work for her. None of the other volunteers is technically literate so they avoid the computer like the plague, so what works for Steph and I should be fine with everyone else, haha. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area
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Thank you all for the good wishes on the completion of the move; I on the other hand can't find anything, but there we go-what's new!
The weekend is to be taken up with the foundations of a pair of field shelters, tack room and hay store for the 2 horses I have presently grazing, in rotation with their normal home. As they are tenants they wouldn't get permission to put up a shelter from their land lord, for me it is an added bonus-as the shelter is mine, but they are providing the posts and rails for the shelter-I already have the tins for the roof. And the good thing is they are also have the digger for the foundation work to be done. It all happens on Sunday and Monday. They are interested in buying the place-we will talk, but somehow I don't want to leave yet till I have sorted my mess and got rid of a lot of rubbish-most of which was "it'll come in one day" stuff; it is being downgraded to, "I'll never use this". To follow with "it's out", (hopefully).....then again.......!
I guess I am lucky not to be related to the Ewart's, dpack, as pale blue and yellow are not my colours-anymore than dancing is my exercise! I will tell friend in Aus., that there is a Keith Ewart who did TV studios in the 80's.
Glad you are getting the winter fuel sorted for those who are sensible and buy early for Christmas, MR, as well as the charcoal; much too cold for bbq's in this part of the world, for cooking and eating outside?
I too am a slow coach when the roads are wet, Cassandra. Glad the lump is non-alarming. I am in a 'heat it up for dinner' situation as I can find the Microwave but not much else so it is another cauliflower cheese tonight, last night being camembert cheese on bread. I will do a jacket potato with it so not too bad, but hardly balanced, pud will be an apple, again!
I must admit I envy all of you who know about computers, and whether to change to this or that, I simply operate what they give me and I hope they don't change anything soon. I seem to be getting used to how this one works, and would never contemplate buying one, in case, if I accidentally mastered it, I would never come off it-not a good move with 5 acres to play with, and a lot of fencing to play with-read repair! I also have a few trees to fell-not trees, but weeds, as they are plants, but growing in the wrong place. My other "Plan" is to cut and sell logs at the farm gate. My local shop sells around 10 "long x 4-5" diameter logs in a net for £4.89p which I find extortion. I aim to do roadside bags for £2.50p. each or 5 for £10, but as yet I have to source bags at the right price. Guess I may find my introduction to e-bay coming soon. The kindling I supply to the shop sources the nets for that so no problem, but the prices this year have gone through the roof for those, and we will be having a price rise to accommodate that, with my price static-no jam this winter-have to stick to treacle! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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I get my nets from Bag Supplies Gregotyn, but if you can brave the internet, there are several suppliers for them. We do about 12 logs to a net, but ours are 10", so they fill the net pretty well. We wholesale those for £3.50, and rarely sell them retail, but would be about £6. You may think that extortionate, but reasonable price with the cost of timber these days. Don't underprice yourself as it doesn't do anyone any good, either you or the competition.
Hope you get the stable/store base sorted this weekend and look forward to hearing about progress.
Cassandra, I have gone onto Windows 10, and have now got used to it. Most of the bugs seem to have been sorted out, and it is compatible with security software. You seem to have been pretty busy sorting the computer out.
I seemed to have a fairly bitty day yesterday. Didn't go up to the woods, but had a few things to sort out for the business, some minutes to write and odd jobs to do. I pulled a few onions that were ready, and dug the rest of the potatoes from one bed as the tops had gone over. Not a great yield, but at least they grew reasonably. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area
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The first positive thing for me, gz, is to start by throwing away "Stuff"! I am a known hoarder-folks always ask for things they want from me, they know I will have "it" in stock so to speak. I suppose as a child I had very little and I had to save for what I wanted from pocket money, my father died young and we had to draw the horns in to make sure we could get uniforms for school and the like. I did save for a model train and I also had dinky toys, but a slow process-I still have them, too precious to give to friend's grand children yet! If fact I think I will be in a home for the insane before I let them go!
Thank you MR for the tip about the bags. The buyer supplies the kindling nets, they are quite small. If you imagine a bag which you get to put loose fruit or vegetables in from a super market-pull off a roll or separate from the pack my nets are able to take 5 of those full of sticks no more. I net them down a chute. The reason we have small nets is to cater for the lol-little old lady-who has to carry them home, and also why we keep the price fairly low. I don't do this for the income more as a service to the local shop whose supplier is so expensive that lol's would struggle to buy them in the first place. The logs I will hopefully sell at the farm gate, are for a friend who is down on his luck and can't afford to do a lot money wise so he I am helping out and will be much cheaper, so that they sell and he gets some money back for his work. He thought a sack of logs would fetch around £1.50-I had to enlighten him. Thank you for your concern, and you are right-too low price wise and you do no one a favour-becoming a busy fool! I won't be delivering the logs, farm gate sales only.
I am off to work in the morning to get the timbers I want for the shelters and store. The man with the digger is coming on Sunday and Monday to prepare the site and bring the round posts in larch for the corners and intermediates He has cut them and it appears that they have come from tall trees so they are matching and around 15inches in diameter, 16ft long. We will set them in concrete about 3ft6" deep once the site is ready and stoned for the floor. I thought that stone would not be good for horses, but I am wrong as you cover them in rubber matting and the wet drains through leaving the bedding- shavings-fairly dry, I am told. I already have a lot of tin sheeting, so they will do the roof. If the couple move on, then I have a useful building as a workshop! but is an asset to the place in any event. I don't want the folks to go but they are young.... The girl works in an office but the lad, is local and has good references. He drives a timber harvesting machine and I'm told good at it. I have to get some treatment for the posts-not sure what, but I suspect it won't be cheap! has to be environment friendly stuff. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
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Location: Llanfyllin area
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Disaster following yesterday when I left here. I couldn't find my wallet containing all sorts. I thought I had it here in the library went to the local shop and there it wasn't searched everywhere is the house, but clearly not where the absent wallet is hiding. I checked with Sainbury's this am too-in case I lost it there as that was the last place I used it
I went to work this am and have brought home a few pallets on the pick-up, for home and taken the truck back to work.
Hay/haylage is in progress at home by a friend whose wife seems addicted to keeping sheep and horses. It will be hay if it will make, but wrapped as haylage if it looks like 'weather' is coming; suited to horses/sheep I am told. My ground has had no fertilizers for the last 20 years just horse manure, so I don't claim organic status-far too expensive to think of going that route-but it is for all purposes non chemical. The only place I have sprayed is the weeds around front the house.
Are Bag Supplies an internet company or a place where you go to fetch the bags from MR? We are having difficulty locating the same size as before for our kindling. Measuring nets is not an easy task, they stretch so much in all directions and I am after a fixed size for a fixed amount-well the same as last time but the computer operator, Wife of the shop man, who bought them has its memory wiped, not by the operator, after a certain length of time and that was one we didn't want to lose.
I would be interested to know what size bag you order for your logs-a sample would be good, if possible? I am only going to want about 50 total this year I expect. If it takes off then I may have to get more logs let alone sacks! |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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Location: New Jersey, USA
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