Daydream thread continues.....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: no it wasn't hubby and his butty starting those fires, there was a huge one in morriston and in Trebanos by all accounts last night??? So Davesnave it looks as though its not just happening in your part of the world.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave it looks as though its not just happening in your part of the world.

Yes, there was a bigger one up on the edge of Exmoor last night too.
Although we can just see Exmoor, I don't think it was that we witnessed, as our bird-spotting binoculars surely wouldn't show us blue flashing lights and moving vehicles at eight or nine miles distance? I know my Pentaxes are good but they're only x8.

This was relatively small, like one field.

rhiwfield

2C outside but it feels raw in a strong northeasterly wind. Yesterday's hint of Spring seems like a distant memory.

Easter Holidays + common land + dry conditions = fires

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, there was a bigger one up on the edge of Exmoor last night too.
Although we can just see Exmoor, I don't think it was that we witnessed, as our bird-spotting binoculars surely wouldn't show us blue flashing lights and moving vehicles at eight or nine miles distance? I know my Pentaxes are good but they're only x8.

This was relatively small, like one field.

There have been several, Dave, but there always are. I found this on YT (Start about 1.5 minutes in. I noticed some bad language in it so, if likely to be offended, mute )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS348DzPBAI

An older, more official version with Johnny Kingdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RolK2NXaQQA

It does get a bit hairy if you see a wall of fire coming across the tops toward your house.
There are beaters kept handy on racks at the places where homes are most at risk.

lostinrates

The wind blew a gate shut lat night, thankfully all the horses were on the same side of it.

It also knocked over all the trees in pots.

It's thrashing the house.

Davesnave

Finding excuses to stay indoors, this site reminded me that time for setting up a 2012-13 ISA was rapidly running out.

All done and dusted in 3 minutes....Now I have to look for somewhere to transfer it! :rotfl:

I will try to remember that about the medlars, ferretkeeper. There really weren't many on the trees last year and I was a bit concerned whether they'd become diseased. Too soon to tell in a bad weather year. My Cydonia type quince has quince leaf spot and needs to be destroyed.

The medlars are on quince rootstocks.....:(

lostinrates

Snow...brrr. . Didn't last long and the wind has died down a lot now too.

ferretkeeper

Davesnave wrote: »

I will try to remember that about the medlars, ferretkeeper. There really weren't many on the trees last year and I was a bit concerned whether they'd become diseased. Too soon to tell in a bad weather year. My Cydonia type quince has quince leaf spot and needs to be destroyed.

The medlars are on quince rootstocks.....:(

Dave, last year fruit in general was pants for a lot of people apparently, it was for me. There was nothing on my young apples that did ok the year before, or the crab apple in the hedge next to them that was full last year, hardly any sloes, few berries on trees even

A late cold snap caught the blossom if I remember rightly, after the heat wave got everything going too soon, and/or lack of pollinating insects in cold weather, suspect this was the same for your trees rather than disease being the issue unless you've seen other symptoms?

I don't know much about leaf spot in quinces specifically but if it's anything like other types of blight the damp year will have been the biggest problem. AFAIK it's not a disease within the tree as such BUT it will linger in affected fallen leaves or in parts of the tree that were killed off to infect the tree again the next year.

The advice I read

(see http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=745)

was to rake up and burn leaves, prune out the dead parts of the tree in winter, so still time now, and give the tree a really good feed up once it gets going to support more leaves. If you use chemicals a fungicide can help...


There's hope for your trees yet!

Must dash, it's about bottle time, and one of my goats looks like she's going into labour :eek: I never got round to buying the remote camera I've been after for ages so have to go and check in person!!!

Itismehonest

What goats do you have, ferretkeeper?
We used to have Saanens, Toggies & Angoras. All long gone now but we kept goats for years & bred a few.

alfie_1

i would like, to meet the guy
who tells my weather each day,
on looking out my window
id have a lot to say...

cold and snow only in the east
is what he did declare.
well he needs to come to my house,
and out MY window stare.

today ive battled, a wind thats howled
and walked at 80 degrees
my nose and my toes were totally numb
and my !!!! was part of the freeze

so please mr weatherman,take a break
and leave me to see for myself
ive got more idea of whats going on,
get back on your bl**dy shelf.....................