Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

Any identification welcome obviously bottom right is my barnsley baby and left anemone. 

wort

YBE , fingers crossed the sirens not connected to the protests that are said to be happening today. I'm staying home, suggest you do the same stay safe all 

twopenny

No riots here. Just the hoards of tourists. Sheesh they feel entitled and are clueless on our narrow roads

Wort the bottom tiny one I have. It seeds and looks after itself and provides a filler when other things are fussy. Think it's a type of Feverfew. Could be wrong, I often am.

Good for you stopping when you should. I've been pushing things and walked around 6-7 miles yesterday for the first time in ages. Want to walk today too but I know I should pace it.

Sandra, thanks for that lovely name. I like Cherry Brandy so I'll call it that  

And there you go, I saw a huge clump of it in another street, and it's white  I may ask if I can take a cutting and hope they offer me a root

Bluey, there are just stems, can't see an oportunity to propogate.

Well the rain came just as I decided it wouldn't and went out. It's odd showers in different places but not enough to do any good.

Yup, got my honey from the barbers, the butcher had some too. Though he's the son of the lady who has the bee hives. They are up on the moor now for the heather honey fingers crossed.

Blowing but dry. Maybe washing? It's one of those days that gently defeats you whatever you attempt.

Farway

Gosh, it's turned cold, no chance of me doing owt in the garden today, nothing urgent is required for now

Some broad beans, started on kitchen roll & then potted on this weekend, are now poking green leaves through the compost. Photo due.

And, Ta Ra, toot toot!, My sweetcorn, bought as straggly cell plants, on impulse from Morries, now have a flower [tassel, pollen thingy?] stalk appeared at the top. Photo due.

YoungBlueEyes said:

There's no sense in people any more is there. Why would someone let cardboard boxes get wet? If they reduce them further could you get a couple and dry them out? Would that even work...? I might nip out and see if my morries has that paint reduced too, it's what himself used on our fence. #BetterLookingAtItThanForIt.

I don't think drying out will work, the boxes were starting to swell, so I think contents must have got wet and probably just one big blob / cake inside.

Hope you get lucky with the fence paint, at least that's in plastic tubs

Wort, I like that large yellow on, top left, don't know what it is, but I like it. 

That sound like some !!!!!! Emery punchline, doesn't it?

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

That sound like some !!!!!! Emery punchline, doesn't it?

This is the respectable face of social meja, so you can't shorten Richard or pussycat on here and post unscathed!

wort said:

Any identification welcome obviously bottom right is my barnsley baby and left anemone. 

Top left looks like Telekia speciosa.

Top right: possibly a Helianthus, like giganteus, perhaps.

Middle right: Looks like Helianthus 'Lemon Queen.'

Middle bottom. Achillea ptarmica???

wort

Dusty thank you, they are all very tall , and the white achillea is such a great punch of bright white that I love, apart from the 2 I could identify and the Telekia, which the birds must have planted, the other two were given from other family gardens hence not knowing what they are.

YoungBlueEyes

I see Dusty's already given you the answers wort but I was gonna say - I like the middle bottom one, it looks like stalks of clouds I haven't had the news on this morning so I don't know what happened re the riots last night, or if the sirens and helichopter were the same thing. The Oracle invited herself  came over for coffee yesterday aft and she said they were expecting something to kick off and businesses were sending their staff home at lunchtime (one of her son's works in 'Ull and they were home by 2.) They used to have a Natwest and it's now a mosque apparently, so they were expecting something around that area. I don't know. Nothing happened here anyway, is everyone else alright? I doubt it's over yet, the weekend's coming up and if we get good weather...

Anyway. That's enough seriousness, this is supposed to be a light-hearted thread. 

Good news and bad news from Shawshank Patch this morning. Good news - I've found a contender for Rottery Acres! I know it's a bunch of money but you get plenty for it imo - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148992092#/?channel=RES_BUY I'll give them a ring and tell them to leave all the furniture and stuff. Only thing is it's mountainless   Bad news - I'll not be paying for it. I saw this on the news yesterday, so I'm officially potless and coinless  https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/bluey-coins-worth-309000-stolen-by-australian-warehouse-worker-police-say/ar-AA1onTGA

In other news, I'm giving up on my Plum Crazy idea. When the sun gets a bit further round I'll take a pic so yous can see what I'm talking about. But the plan was to bend the branches into the word plum and it was going great guns 'til it sprouted more stems up the middle of the U and they're too thick to bend really and I didn't want to chop them off. Plus it would have taken ages to do and then it would only have said plum for a wee while 'til the other branches came in so I'm giving it up as a bad job. Shame really cos I'd have loved it to have worked!

Speaking of Richards and pussycats, you should've seen all the tits in my garden this morning. Great ones, blue ones, coal ones, ones with long tails... 
I think this morning was the best and longest list of birds I've had so far, thank you again to the lurker who recommended the bird app. It's pure brilliant, it really is  

OT it was lovely first thing. The sun came up gently through a few clouds and a light breeze. Bit damp but it's lifting now. Cloudy later with a lot/some/a bit/more or fewer rain. Possibly. The band that's sliding it's way across the kingdom might have dumped all it's rain on Cissie + pp and be empty by the time it crosses the hills to us. But you never know, we could do with a bit. Still mild though, so I'm happy enough.

-taff

OMG, I did laugh at how many birds were in your garden this morning YBE....and that house! I double double want it, it has a walled garden, quick, out with the flower beds they can go somewhere else, and in with the veg and fruit! Decor is a bit busy though...Posting and running as usual, builder tea lubrication is very important!

In veg nws, at least I have courgettes ad tromboncini now, the tomatoes are ripening in spurts, snails love jalapenos and aleppo peppers, copper works to deter mozzies..

-taff

That is such a fab idea to spell the name of the tree...maybe get another one and have a second go?

YoungBlueEyes

Don't forget biscuits to go with the tea taff! That house is beautiful eh. I can't claim credit for finding it, it was on the 'Have A Look At This' thread. I thought it looked like a good buy meself. Gardens could be rearranged by whoever has the mojo/knowledge

I've got a pic of me plum tree, I just need to do another one where I write on the branches so you can see the word. It looks better in real life than it does on the pic.

Full list of this morning's birds, in no particular order - coal tit, common swift, great tit, european robin, dunnock, common woodpigeon, common kingfisher, eurasian wren, collared dove, goldcrest, european goldfinch, western house martin, carrion crow, long-tailed tit, eurasian blackbird.  I'm not sure about the kingfisher, it's the only time it's appeared on the list. 

OT Sun's out and it's warming up