Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you have a pollinator for your pear?


What size bath do you need? Ours was a choice of default, it was the only one of its size I liked, but narrower than we wanted really. The architect suggested having one made of fibre glass or whatever here to the exact size we wanted but we decided we were less high maintenance than that. .

No we don't have a pollinator, if I can remember rightly it was a self pollinator? Maybe I am wrong and that is why nothing is happening :rotfl:

We need a standard size 1700 x 700 and we are just going to get a cheapie as our bathroom is quite small. We are having a black slate floor and I want to have mid grey walls with an Art Deco Mirror and some Art Deco prints Now all we have to do is figure out how to fit it!

Itismehonest

choille - Agreed & thanks :A

We planted some pears many years ago.
They're the one fruit that didn't seem to like it here. They developed something like peach leaf curl & slowly went to the big orchard in the sky.
Must admit we didn't really nurture them, though, as we were too busy with the business. The fruit trees rather got left to do their own thing

Murky this morning but Wednesday & Thursday are supposed to be warm & sunny. One last blast for summer?

RAS

choille wrote: »

Well sounds like you are mega organised RAS - good for you.
Cellars what a wonderful idea.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Not in the least, choille.

Been really struggling the last couple of years with dodgy knees (not good for attics and cellars), and shoulders or elbows (not good for wrenching open stiff taps, U_bends etc). Amazing what WD40 and a vicegrip does however.

Really struggling to harvest and process stuff fast enough. Job does not help as August is always mega-busy.

Got a few more jars preserved yesterday and now running out of jars.Grrr.

lostinrates

Wish I had a lot of money spare. Seeing ponies I like in Scotland now, lots of them, but all quite sizeable price tags really. Really smart little black mare dh likes and a gorgeous cream dun I really really like....

At least its looking like I have the interest back.

I also have been really up to scratch for a week.

lostinrates

Wish me luck davesnave....

We're just about to call......op.nr..ch.

Davesnave

Well, wood shed roof is on, but one bit will have to come down again for trimming to shape with the angle grinder. I'm really hopeful that we can do the other two sides in-situ, otherwise it'll all have to come off!

MoT time again today, so another walk in the vicinity of Winkleigh while I waited. In July I commented on the lack of insects there, and despite pretty decent weather since then, things were much the same today. Saw some manure flies, a dock beetle, a couple of clegs and a wasp in 90 minutes of walking. How very odd! (Car needs track rod end and ball joint - could be worse! )

DW is out in the conservatory doing her exhibits for the gardening club's Autumn Show. I don't know why she bothers, considering our track record of disqualifications in the other two shows. Ah, but I hear that this time it will be different!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Wish me luck davesnave....

We're just about to call......op.nr..ch.

Would you like to call them for me too? No word from my man on the inside, despite assurances that we're a priority case now. :mad:

We continue to 'enjoy' 0.5mb download speed on our super broadband connection. How am I supposed to build up a huge music collection from dodgy sources like that? I have something like 100 albums earmarked, but at about 30- 40 minutes each I just lose the will....:(

I'd complain, but I have a horrible feeling it's partly to do with the modifications in the loft made by the previous owner who had connections everywhere.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Wish I had a lot of money spare. Seeing ponies I like in Scotland now, lots of them, but all quite sizeable price tags really. Really smart little black mare dh likes and a gorgeous cream dun I really really like....

At least its looking like I have the interest back.

I also have been really up to scratch for a week.

check out dragonsdrivein....;)

choille

RAS my sympathies with the stiff knees & hands I am the same. Some times I can hardly get up - have to use my arms to lever myself up & I crack & creak like ole floor boards.

I didn't do much gardening wise this year & last year it all went awry, but I aim to get it tidier this autumn as it gives you a lift. I just get depressed seeing all the mess & weeds.

Torrential rain here all day, but a house to clean so that was a good day to do it.

Sold a few things and a few abroad so that's better going.

lostinrates

My humbug pear's hopes are rather too heavily invested in an Indian summer!



Especially as this morning was a properly misty morning. The kind where you cannot help but think of hot apple recipes and what might be appropriate for a winter flask. the horsewoman in me is waking up, because the inevitable start of the autumn calendar , even though i don't want to hunt, made me think of ratcatcher and mist lifting for road fittening this morning. Instinctive patterns of thought that whisper through me usually unwelcome but this morning with a bit of a smile.

The grass is heavily wet, the wires for planting look like strings of beads and the spiders webs are transformed from delicate lace to heavy crochet with the dew. I plan a day of weeding but I'm going to let the sun take the dew of the grass first, I'll end up soaked and shivering otherwise, I envy organised and neat gardeners who weed on kneelers or in stout trousers that protect them from mud and water.

The climbing roses are putting on rapid last efforts at growth. I'm itching to tie some of these long tendrils in and cut others out. But resisting the urge to over neaten and do a winter job in autumn.

I noticed a little elfin cyclamen peeping out under the should be white but is blue buddleia and the Virginia creeper is softly turning now.....



I'm looking at are lack of progress, and instead of being quite so het up as normal (my herb garden is now two years late) I'm only mildly annoyed. Could it be I'm starting to slip in to a more relaxed frame of mind myself? It would be shocking if that happened!