Daydream fund challenge part 4

pink_poppy

I've got a lovely image of sheep with painted nails now  
Did you decide to go with the kitty, Ted??
Fay, I keep meaning to ask if that was your kitty in the garden pics??
 I am a bit kitty mad
Nothing doing here, going out for walks and that's about it. Beautiful day today, very warm and still.

Ted_Head

Yes - we have to await his arrival later on this month. 
Lovely warm day here - almost too warm which seems a bit whinging - just not used to it!
Found some seeds I 'gathered' accidently from plants at Inverewe last year. Just been sat on a window sill - probably won't be viable but will stick them in some compost. Long twisted thin pods that I think is from an Aussie flax? Some poppy heads that'll be scattered somewhere and some lupin pods.

Davesnave

Sadly, very few of the plants whose seeds fell into my pocket last year germinated. I think we were too early with most. It's always difficult to time. One week R*s*m**r is awash with autumn bounty, and the next, it's been cleared into dumpy bags. They should practise what they preach and leave more for the wildlife....and me!

Tomato planting-out day, today: 

Also, here's my patent butterfly proof cloche I probably copied from someone on the internet:

Just 7 bits of batten, some old polypipe and corner brackets out of Lidl + the netting. Even I can make them.

Ted_Head

Very good Dave - very professional. I've never had much success with tomatoes but that could be because I don't actually like them - and  they know it.
I have used poly-pipe over my raised beds with plastic over to grow tender plants. 
Felt a few midges when out earlier - dreaded midges - I remember now.

Davesnave

Not much to report, except that my peppers, which are just the sort for chilli wusses like me, have peppers on them already! Never had that in May.

They're called Beaver Dam: https://www.plantasia.co.uk/shop/oxfordshire-chilli-farm/chilli-plants/beaver-dam-detail

Ted_Head

My pepper plants are about 3" high grown from seeds from a bought pepper. There in the porch too so I've no excuses really.

Those trees I bought from the Bargain Store are dead. Didn't look great when I bought them, even less so now. I didn't keep the receipt - I don't think bah humbug.
Midges chased us indoors this afternoon - that's them fully on biting mode. It's gone that still and overcast way.
Moved the sheep up onto the hill so that'll give the fields down here a rest. The road was so quiet - they just trotted up beside me and went in the gate - they know where they are going sometimes.

Davesnave

It's still quiet here too, but down on the coast they had a barney at the weekend with people arriving to enjoy their exercise on the huge beaches and no car parks. The police fined about 70 people for illegal parking. Locals were unhappy, not just about the mayhem, but the fact that people were coming to our low-Covid area from places where its bad.

Covid snobbery now: "I think you'll find we are considerably less Covid than yeuw!"

greenbee

There've been issues where my mum is with so many people coming out of London to their second homes. The police have sent some of them home, but there are so many they simply can't deal with it. The locals are very unhappy as the R is now above London (and they still haven't gone home). Apparently the early infections in the area were all in people who had been in contact with second-home owners who didn't seem bothered about distancing. All the villages and footpaths are heaving with people walking/running/cycling in places they've never been in before, and there are problems with people straying onto private land/farmland as they don't know where the footpaths are, as well as motorcycles on footpaths and private roads. Apparently last bank holiday weekend the coast road was nearly as busy as normal. It's cooler here today, and looks like it will be tomorrow too, which hopefully will discourage people from going out. I expect when all the shops open they'll happily abandon the countryside and head back to the malls... 

Ted_Head

That's terrible with the 2nd home owners. We cannot get a Tesco delivery - even a pick it up in a car park down the road as all the holiday home owners have the slots booked. It's absolutely ridiculous. Someone is travelling 80 miles and 80 miles back to pick up click an collect orders for people who are sheltering.

greenbee

Hopefully if they want medical treatment they'll be referred back to their own GP or hospital.