Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

Better_Days

Wow CTC, that looks like a fab fireplace. Cna't beat a fireplace for a focal point in a room. Love the stone.

Hope you are feelling better alfie.

Sounds like you are making good progress Dave, well at the very least moving lots of soil around your land We are always short of topsoil and will probably have to buy some more when we do the back garden. Won't be until next year though now. Chickens have done a fair bit of excavating in their run, looks like the Somme when it rains.

Chilly 12 degrees here this morning, still windy, more like October.

Mr BD lappy has died, screen doesn't work at all. :mad: Will have a fiddle with it, but I think I am going to be spending some time this week trying to rescue his photos that he doesn't want to lose from his HDD. Mr BD and 'backups' are strangers even though this isn't the first time he has lost lots of photos. Ahh well.....

lostinrates

Cool here too.

When I drove foundinrates to the station I wore a tunic I wear as a dress around the house and pull trousers on with anywhere if I go out. Car counts as house IMO.

Regretted that decision, was shivering a lot!

I have put the autumn duvet on the bed with a flannel duvet cover on, for a wee bit more heat.......trying to train myself off having mountains of bedding, as we'll have heating this winter too, of course!

I_have_spoken

Does anyone have a Pyrus salicifolia 'Pendula (weeping silver pear) in their garden?

I'm trying to decide on a more interesting small tree to replace a laurel, aspect is sheltered, south facing.

I'm tempted by the weeping pear but wondered if it's temperamental?

choille

Well a bit of a carp weekend here all in all.

Decidedly cooler & just stopped raining.

The fireplace will be a feature CTC.

Hope the headaches abated Alfie. I get one when the air pressure changes.I can fortell thunder. Only time I get a headache.

Digger we hoped to get a shot of is jiggered, so back to square one.

My rash is calming down but the pain seems worse. I'm sleeping a lot!!! Early hibernation possibly.

lostinrates

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Does anyone have a Pyrus salicifolia 'Pendula (weeping silver pear) in their garden?

I'm trying to decide on a more interesting small tree to replace a laurel, aspect is sheltered, south facing.

I'm tempted by the weeping pear but wondered if it's temperamental?

We had one at a previous house. It wasn't temperamental. ( did die while we were there, but that was just one of those things) but I think it was not that interesting in the world of amazing trees tbh.



I love our June berry, also a common tree, but the berries are nice.

I adore our strawberry tree.....but would have bought bigger...its slow...are they tender ? Cannot remember.


Architectural plants website has some lovely options for evergreen broad leaves, lots are tender but not all.....might be worth looking at?

I love trees. Sigh.

I_have_spoken

>strawberry tree<

That was on my long-list, but sadly it's not one for the Scottish climate.

lostinrates

Lilac is rather underrated I think, how does that cope? The reason I think its underrated as a tree is that while the flower period is short here its one of the first things to come in to leaf and hangs on to them as long as it can . No groovy colours or anything, but a longish period of screening and early hope of spring.

Better_Days

It's no good, I've put the heating on, hands are freezing despite 3 layers on top and legs under a duvet.

Fingers crossed for an Indian summer:D

Rummer

Better Days you are not alone in the cold stakes as we have had the heating on the last few days while people have been under the weather. Sometimes I think I am colder in our house over the summer than I am in the winter as I usually refuse to have the heating on until October!

I have just got back from a successful shopping expedition I had popped into town (child free ) to get some material and I happened to pop into Poundland where I was delighted to find their bulbs had arrived :j So I now have loads of Alliums, snow drops, anemones and hyacinths all for far less than I had been hoping to spend :j:j:j

Now what I need is a child free dry day to get them all planted :rotfl: