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Post by graceomalley on Aug 23, 2024 10:49:39 GMT
Today's temperature is..windy!boss messaged earlier,big top tent pegs popping out,and weighty blokes hanging on for dear life.dying down a bit now here
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Post by parrotandcrow on Aug 23, 2024 16:57:43 GMT
Was a bit breezy here too, earlier. The wind handily deposited the apples from one of my favourite trees on the roadside, so I brought a good harvest home while I was walking Bruno.
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Post by oldkeith on Aug 24, 2024 10:52:15 GMT
A very wet morning here, and looking like to continue if the Met Office is right, which they are occasionally...
Saves watering the potted plants in the yard, anyway. Time for a few little jobs indoors.
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Post by bernie on Aug 24, 2024 20:21:28 GMT
The storm missed us more or less and the dilapidated castle is very dilapidated. Feels more like a squat
Water coming through the roof in one room and a lot of bare creakyfloors and old faded carpets around the place.
It must have been magnificent once but there is a lot of work to be done if they think it would ever be restored
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Post by oldkeith on Aug 24, 2024 21:58:18 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 24, 2024 22:37:06 GMT
How horrible living in luxury in a posh castle....what they have to endure.
A leaky drafty castle squat sounds more fun.
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Post by bernie on Aug 25, 2024 7:44:46 GMT
The guy who owns it just rents it out on air bnb for parties apparantly
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Post by oldkeith on Aug 25, 2024 22:07:52 GMT
Interesting... Raises all sorts of questions... Does the quality of the clientele fall as the castle degenerates? Do the prices grow less too? Who will be the last occupiers, zombies or squatters? It sounds too far away from towns to be a comfortable squat, unless everyone has bicycles (electric, of course, if there is still electric available)  |
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Post by bernie on Aug 26, 2024 7:36:38 GMT
Interesting... Raises all sorts of questions... Does the quality of the clientele fall as the castle degenerates? Do the prices grow less too? Who will be the last occupiers, zombies or squatters? It sounds too far away from towns to be a comfortable squat, unless everyone has bicycles (electric, of course, if there is still electric available) The owner rents it out on Airbnb but it would newer pass the safety checks required for fire safety, electrical safety, etc to be done 'legally' as a proper holiday let. I shudder to think how much it would cost to fix the place up But Airbnb don't care about all that. You can rent out a pigsty with the pigs still living in it on airbnb |
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Post by parrotandcrow on Sept 2, 2024 13:29:12 GMT
Today feels pretty cool, I'm sitting inside wearing a jacket but am going to light a fire once I've walked the dog.
Once we've been through autumn/winter and are coming out the other side, a day like today will feel mild. However, I'm chilly now.
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Post by bernie on Sept 2, 2024 14:47:59 GMT
It's both muggy and cold at the same time here.
Our neighbours are Croatian, they have just come back from visiting family over there.
This morning she said how wonderful it is to be back here in the cool weather. Over there in August she says it's just too hot and she doesn't like it
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 2, 2024 14:50:04 GMT
Im roasting here its 24c humid and windy,storms forecast but they were yesterday and nothing happened.
The owls were out en masse hooting last night and i noticed today the trees are turning colour so autumn is nae tae far awa.
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Post by bernie on Sept 2, 2024 15:01:02 GMT
We are driving down to Cornwall tomorrow. No doubt we will see the trees starting to turn as we head down. At a certain point in the year it can be magnificent but not yet.
Instead I hope to see a constant stream of caravans and motor homes coming the other way.
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 2, 2024 17:41:47 GMT
Always my favourite time when i lived in Pembrokeshire and the Outer Hebrides..when all the summer tourists buggered off back home and normality finally resumed and the narrow roads werent a constsnt long trail of white caravan snails and motorhomes.
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Post by parrotandcrow on Sept 2, 2024 19:55:16 GMT
Always my favourite time when i lived in Pembrokeshire and the Outer Hebrides..when all the summer tourists buggered off back home and normality finally resumed and the narrow roads werent a constsnt long trail of white caravan snails and motorhomes. Must admit in a day or two I can head to the coast and will find it empty. Even the most isolated spotswould have had people popping up in the last weeks. |
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