MEET THE FAMILY AND THE FUTURE OF BIKERBOOTS AND CHICKEN FEET

.... meet the new arrivals.... 2 duck eggs have now hatched and are doing well...

so here is a family photo...



not much money going into the daydream pot at mo, and the way ebay is going with their policies....i better watch my account... so i am now looking at other auction sites to sign up to.. there are 2 main ones cqout and ebid, which are starting to get alot of ebayers signing up as they are fed up with the ebay changes...so might be worth all you shabby chic'ers taking a look, as by what peeps have been saying, there are some good bargins to be had... will try and get some links on my page for you

BUT...even though there isnt much money going into the pot.. i have got the start of my smallholding ( or backyard farm...lol..) in those little cuties.....

They are the start of my daydream becoming a reality.....

WHAT'S WRONG WITH PEOPLE???????

It makes me MAD!!!!!!!! how some people are so horrible...and selfish and no manners and well just twonks really..

While i was doing my weekly firday pick ups for work, i called into tesco to get some red wine vinegar for my rhuburb chutney ( lidl's dont seel it booooo) so i was strolling round the shop looking to see if there were any good offers this week, anyway i went down the milk isle, and i waited and watched, while a little old lady ( same hiegth as me lol) strugged to get some milk from the upper shelf, as they were right at the back and she couldnt reach... while she was struggling there were people ( including tall blokes) just pushing passed her to get to the other milk in the cages... and not one person asked if she needed help, Plus they were acting as though she wasnt there...so in my 'speak loudly to make a point voice' asked the little old dear if she wanted help.. so she pointed out the milk she was trying to get, and i stood on one of the cages and managed to get milk for her, even i struggled.... and still no one stepped in to help....

WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??????? where's the respect and manners gone ? that poor old lady not only did no one help her, you could see she was in a bit of a tizz because of it....

When i handed her the milk,, i made a little joke saying that no one thinks about us shorties... to make her feel it wasnt only her that had this problem....

If this is the attitude society is getting, i dred to think what its going to be like when/if i reach the age of the little old lady...

Right i think its time to put the kettle on......

ooo ye little chooks are doing well.... more pics to follow...

ooooo we have the pitter patter sound of baby chicken feet

oo i am sooo 'egg'cited the donated chicken eggs we had from Rose-Sparky have HATCHED!!!!!!

this is the first time we have ( well mrs chook did it lol) ever hatched baby chicks.. in the passed we did buy some fertile eggs and tried to incubate them, but without success..

they are soooooo cute... there is a yellow one and a brown one....the brown one is a bit stronger than the yellow one... and it is 'egg'actly 21 days since we put the eggs under her....there is also 4 duck eggs under her too.. so we will have to wait another 10 days for them...

and i was having a bit of a poo day too.. so this has really put a smile on my face, and i want to see more baby chooks hatch out.. so this must be a sign... to show i am doing the right thing by trying to save for a small holding...

i think you lot better start thinking of more names..( hope the father doesnt want custardy)

WHAT NO NAME !!!!!!!!!

i am now feeling really a bit mean now...as i havent named my chook, and she is about 14 months old now..... shame on me...

but there was a reason. when i used to have quite a few chickens and ducks. i used to name them, and if they died or the dreaded fox had them, it would really upset me, especially when the fox had Mrs Fluffybum...so i stopped naming them, thinking i wouldnt become soooooo attached.But now that i only have one, and hopefully is is going to my a mam, i think its only right to name her..

soooooooooooooooo C O M P E T I T I O N.......T I M E..........

i need a good name for her, as hopefully she is sitting on the start of my live stock for my smallholding.. or if not my backyard farm...lol..

so i am setting a competition... to name the chook..

the best name that the kids pick out of the suggestions will win a prize..... dont know what that will be yet... but something wil be in the post to the winner...

here she is.... so get your thinking caps on... and get entering...( saves me thinking of another flipping name...lol....)

RAIN STOPS PLAY

I have managed to get hubby to help me in the garden... to try and tidy it up so i can turn it into my backyard farm...lol...

but within 10 mins it started raining, and hubby was back indoors... with his feet up watching tv....so rain stopped play again....

managed to sow 2 rows of turnips..... havent eaten these for years, and if i remember rightly i think they taste a bit like swede... but are smaller and quicker to grow...its only me that like turnips, but i am sure i can put some into casseroles without them knowing...hehehehehe..

going to try a diff way of putting a pic on my blog, so bare with me dont know if its going to work...lol..

its a VERY rare pic of hubby actually doing something in the garden...

what does an itchy right palm mean?

i meant to ask earlier on, but for the last few days i have had an itchy right palm... noe does this mean money coming in ? money going out ? or just that i have the lurgy on my right palm?

i cant remember what it is suposed to mean.....but what ever it means i did get £50 today.... hurray!!!!!!!! i get a lovely coupole who lives a bout 50 odd miles away, and they go round the festivals... selling clothes... but they dye them, re-vamp them etc.. to make them more individual... this is the 3rd time they have called to my unit.... i save things for them, that i think they could use... and they call with me every time they are passing to go to a festival...

so my total has now gone over the £500 mark..... which is a bit of a boost for me, as i must admit... i was hoping i could save/make loads of money in one go...lol..

more things being listed tonight on ebay....so please take a look....hopefully from next week i will be doing a few buy it now items....

kids are on hols from tuesday onwards i think.... so dont know whether i will be able to save a bit during that time.. might need the extra cash.. just to keep up with the food bill...lol...

i would love to have more comments from you guys who read my posts..... even if its just to say i am mad i will never save/earn the money.. or i need my head seeing to.. or just to introduce yourself and say hi......

and i will try and post more photos...i know i keep saying it but i will.... soon....

I'VE BEEN THUNDERED!!!!!!!!

all i can say is WOW i am impressed. i have never seen thunder live.. but boy did they flipping rock.... We went to the concert mainly to see whitesnake, but to be honest thunder were the main band even though they were on first... they totally out rocked whitesnake and def lepard.. and in my opinion stole the show.. ..def lepard were really naff.. walked out after about 4 tracks... and so did a lot of others.....

take a look at an old thunder video.....

it will really get you rocking..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlK9mCpZ6gU&feature=related

right going now to carry on being a rock chick.......well until i go to bed with my fluffy slippers and my cup of coco....and a good book to read...

i am going to be a rock chick groupie tonight

i am all excited..... only a few more hours before we go and see whitesnake in concert... with thunder and def lepard playing too... corrrrrrr that david coverdale is still sexy with those to die for cheek bones.... ok he has gone a bit wrinkly..... but hay havent we all....

We seen whitesnake not so long back.. we had freebie tickets to go and see them, our friend Ashley Williams used to be their roadie, and drum tech to the late great awsome drummer cosy powell... who i personally think was sex on legs.....aaahhhh who died 9 years ago in april i think....

i know this is totally off the plot of my blog..... but i dont care.... lol.... i am still a biker and a rock chick at heart...too..

http://www.deep-purple.net/gallery/whitesnake/whitesnake-1985.htm

the one of the left is the georgous cozy powell and then there is david coverdale.. mr cheek bones himself...then there is john sykes.. guitarist, and then neil murray...

still cant quite get the hang of posting pics...

i have taken some money out of our household emergency fund and added it to my total.. just to keep me motorvaited..plus so now i have £455 in my isa account...

right going now... as i am sooooooooooooo excited....
' here i go again on my own, going down the only road i never known, like a drifter i was born to walk alone...so i have made up my mind, and i aint wasting no more time.. so here i go again...'
( ok.. i am no good at singing..lol... so good job there is no sound with my blog....hehehehe)

my new wellies look soooo sweet i could eat them

oooo my new wellie boots.....the family knew i wanted a pair of 'girlie' wellie boots to use in the garden, and yesturday they came home with a sweetie pair..lol..so now i dont have to wait until its dry to go in the garden..Plus they said it was an early birthday pressie from the kids...bless

what do you think? i am going to take them to the bulldog with me if the weather is anything like its been lately...lol... so you will see a biker chick..( well old boiler of a chick really) with my black goth leather look.. with pretty wellies on.... what a sight... especially the morning after the night before...


Over the years i have bought loads of gardening....self suficiency books... and in general the 'good life' style books... and i found this one last night called LIVING ON A LITTLE LAND by Patrick Rivers it was written in the early 70's which i quote 9 written on the back of the book)
This is a book for those who, by choice or circumstances, are having to tighten their belts.The never ending spiral of inflation remains a constant factor in our lives...

Its about a couple who bought a run down ..overgrown...neglected property with land... a good read...

in one of the chapters... there is advice which to be honest is a very good and valued point for me...
quote....' Before embarking on your venture you have plenty of homework to do. You can prepare for it generally by weaning yuorself off city habbits, such as convienience foods, eating out, entertainment. you can learn about farming and other usefull skills, meet like minded people, read, and accquire capital by saving..

It also goes on about other things... and i thought yep... this guy is right.. if i want a smallholding... its all well and good daydreaming about it all, but i must learn the skills and also the mind set that will be needed.... so good job i have started trying to grow some veg again...AND..... going to try and cook more from scratch.. and try and bake more cakes and busicuits rather than buy them...

ooo no things are going to get worse

now i am really piddled off...i was watching the news last night and car tax is going to go up by loads in thev next 2 years... waht the heck is the government on....????? we have a p reg mondeo so i think our road tax is going to be £400 plus ... we are allready moaning and complaining about the rise in food prices and fuel... and they slam this on us... gorden brown is saying he is going to help.. but no he's not.. if the government really wantevd to help they would lower the amount of tax they ahve put on fuel...

i wish there was a revolt against the government.. we voted for them ( well not me personally) to run the country.. they should listen to us....

how the heck am i suposed to save for my dream.. when all these price rises are happening...all my extra money i an trying to get will be used in living ..expenses and feeding my family....

sorry i am not normally a political person, but i just had to have a moan and a groan.... i do not trust that gorden brown with my kids sweetie money let alone the countries financial decisions.... when ever has there been a politician that actually done something right for the country financially...????????

no wonder people are stealing scrap metal and pinching petrol.......


and on a brighter note......lol.....its FRIDAY.....and the sun is shining through the grey clouds......HURRAYY ... maybe we are going to have some good weather.....ok maybe not...lol...

HURRAY MORE MONEY

After a few quiet days without earning/getting extra money for my fund... i sold £21 worth of bits from the unit.... hurraaayyyy!!!! which now brings my grand total to wait for it...lol... the huge sum of £396... I know i have other money to add over the next few days from my ebay sales and slice the pie.. so as soon as that money is my bank account it will be added...

still havent done much in the garden....... flipping british weather.. dont you just love it.... all this rain..... but i have managed to re-pot my courgette plants, which i have put outside..... my lettuce seedlings now need transplanting, and so does my marigolds....plus i think it is now time to start the cabbage seeds off too....

i really do need to get get more pics on my blog dont i ...... will try my best.. honest......

speak to you all later.....

ooo ye before i forget...... i am going to see whitesnake..... thunder....and def lepard on monday night... yes i know ..... but these tickets were bought months ago... before all this lot began.... so iam being a rock chic.. groupie for the night.....

oooo heck i'm lost

its saturday and i am totally lost.... realy i am.. i dont know what to do or where to go...

where is the shabby chic cafe gone ? i need to catch up on all the gossip...oo well i am sure i will find it somewhere..

hubby has decided he wants to go out tonight, i have given excuses for the last 2 weeks, but today i can not get away with it, so we are going out tonight...as i have said in an earlier post he doesnt know that i am trying to save.... and i want family life to be the same, them not knowing or seeing that i am penny pinching etc.... plus i have had such a poo day in work with flipping annoying work neighbours, which hopefully will be all sorted out on wednesday morning with an official meeting in the site offices..

Today i have started back on slice the pie, as the new scout room is open, its a great palce to earn some money by writing reviews on up and coming bands and artists..
here's a link www.slicethepie.com there is no referral etc.. but if you want to take a nose.. and see what its all about., so i think i am up to £9.20 will leave my money build in there, and when i had a decent amount i will get the money out and add it to my fund total.

The weather is totally naff... wet and cold, so not much doing again in the garden, so will do some painting on one of my projects.... before i get ready to go out..

going now i can hear the kettle has just boiled so going to make a nice cuppa see you all later.....

be good and if you cant be good be carefull.....lol...

i own up..i have been stripping for money

yep.... i have lowered myself to stripping.... well with the prices that they offer these days..... i just couldnt refuse it...

it will take a bit of time...... but in the end i am hoping that they will be a large amount of money going into my DayDream Fund....I do it in the evenings , once i have sorted the family out etc.... so its not interfering with anything else i do..... except trying to finish a shabby chic project that i have got on the go...

Ok its NOT that type of stripping..... you lot.... what are you thinking...lol.......

As you know i weighed in my alu cans this weeks, and found out that the pirce of scrap metal is very high at the mo..... so we are sorting out hubby's stash of bike/car bits, plus what he has still got up his mother's garage.... we actually found a remains of one of his land rovers.... which we honestly thought had gone...lol...

there was also an old copper tank there from when hubby's mother had her cental heating changed a few years back.... so as one does.... i phoned the scrap metal merchant to find out the price of various scrap......FLIPPING NORAS !!!!!!!!!!! they are buing copper for 3 thousand pound a ton.... alu cans are 5 hundred pounds a tone .and steel cans , which they never used to buy before ,they are now offering £150 per ton....

soooooo i have been stripping all the old electrical things that have broken that hubby has stashed 'thinking' that the inner bits might come in handy for something...lol.... yep they certainly came in handy.. for me to strip to copper from the cables etc....

so in a nutshell i have been stripping wire cables etc for the copper.....and also keeping the brass pins in hte plugs etc.....

We also go through about 10/12 tins of pet food everyday, which we wash and put out for the recycling every week, because they are steel....... not any more..... they are going to be kept and weighed in..... even if its just a few £££££'s every now and again....

ok.... you can get the straight jacket now.... i have def lost the plot.....how sad am i..... stripping in front of the tely every night......hahahahaha

I've just come back to reality.

Yesturday i came back to reality.. as the house that made me start all this is now sold subject to contract...i was gutted, this brought me back to reality..what the hell am i thinking off, did i honestly think that i could save that type of money???

Take a look at the house..
http://www.ctf-uk.com/pontardawe.html

it was the living room that i totally fell in love http://www.homesonview.co.uk/Scripts/ShowPhotos.asp?CompanyID=CLEEPONT&ID=CPP00705&pic=3

I could just imagine my family there.... with my shabby chic furniture projects....cooking with veg that we had grown in our own veg patch...

life's a bitch..........BUT.. its another day.. so i GOT to try my best and try and get closer to my dream...


A BIT MORE ABOUT ME.......I love cooking.... i have recently started painting unloved small bits of furniture.....which i love as while you are sanding down and painting, you can just forget about the world and just get lost in what you are doing......here is one of my finished projects.