Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER HERE TODAY... Sorry, had to put that in capitals so I can refer back in a couple of days time when it's pouring down with rain again   

I did some gardening yesterday (weeding) and have been out this morning doing the same. I was roasting hot in the sun (obviously not used to it), but there's a gentle breeze now which is just lovely. One thing that wasn't lovely was uncovering loads of ants when I was weeding between some paving stones I think they've moved there from the anthill

The aurora was visible again last night, but I was fast asleep after having only 4 hours sleep the previous night. I don't know what the forecast is for tonight, but it's a bit hazy in the distance and apparently it was misty/foggy at Loch Lomond last night so they didn't get a clear view of it. 
YBE, I downloaded the Ventusky app, but I can't see anything about aurora alerts - do you have the premium version??

WM, hope the speed awareness course goes okay.

Dusty, your friend's garden has really filled out now. No thoughts on what plants would work. I'm still procrastinating over my pergola plans - where to site it rather than the style of it.

Bloomin snails seem to get everywhere, Farway.

Right, I'd better get my bahookie in gear and do more weeding while the sun is shining...

Farway

pink_poppy said:

The aurora was visible again last night, but I was fast asleep after having only 4 hours sleep the previous night. I don't know what the forecast is for tonight, but it's a bit hazy in the distance and apparently it was misty/foggy at Loch Lomond last night so they didn't get a clear view of it. 
YBE, I downloaded the Ventusky app, but I can't see anything about aurora alerts - do you have the premium version??

Just the bog-standard mobile one

Top right corner is a big orange blob, with whatever function is selected showing alongside, like Radar, satellite etc.

Touch orange button and you get a list

Bottom of the free list is "probability of Aurora"

By selecting that you get a map with percentage of likelihood, plus a green haze where it will be visible, 10% chance in Alaska right now

There is not an Alert as such, you have to check it yourself

Plus, if you click on the Cog wheel, top left, you get settings, one is webcams, which show as a camera on the map. Handy if you want to see if it's raining, or, right now, blue sky in Glasgow, grey sky for Wareham,

YoungBlueEyes

No I just have the freebie phone version pp. As Farway says, it’s the thing in the top right corner, mine is on temperature - 



If you tap where it says temperature you get a menu - 

Tap Probability of Aurora you get this - 

That make sense?

twopenny

Interesting Bluey and Farway. I was wondering where I could see cloud cover for the UK. The Met used to do interesting stuff like that but they're more into pictures now - and since their new messing with wht works - nothing seems to be in the right place.

Poppy, yipee for you getting a lovely sunny day.

Yes, thanks, I got my second day at the beach in sun - just. Heaving everywhere but I enjoyed a couple of hours watching the children and dad, some trying to keep the sea at bay and some trying to surf on 2" waves. All having a wonderful time and not an argument anywhere. I do wonder why people go through the hassle of taking kids abroad or to theme parks when a bucket and spade on the beach and barely a peep out of them.

Dusty didn't go down to Devon, I always check the webcam and it was heaving even more. 3 days left and sanity returns  

I did a bit of bug spraying in the garden to try and rescue some beans and broccoli. Chucked a load of bath water over them. Hope they like Radox and laurel sulphate I've got to the end of my thether with doing stuff right, who knows I may discover the miracle ingredient.

Everything is beginning to loose it's leaves, yellowing and curled up as it tries to deal with no rain for 3mts and tomato plants showing signs of the cold nights.

Otherwise, woke up today with an ear bite/infection,13c and darn cold NE wind so I'm having a duvet day and sorting out the photo files of which there are far too many and I found this...........Erigeron in a mass, Look beside grandad

wort

YBE if I eat more cheese I’ll get mistaken for a mouse, love cheese 🧀 as well as carbs, if I could live of just those I would.😁

pink_poppy

Thank you Farway and YBE, I spent far too long yesterday playing with the aurora alert   I could see the green haze and 10% probability where we're going to be next month.. Talking of which, it's September today!! White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits!!

That grandad pic is brilliant, twopenny. I love that he's got his garden fork and cup of tea next to him. I'm glad you had a lovely time at the beach.

It's looking like another nice day today, although not at sunny as yesterday. I was weeding and DH was cutting the grass and washing windows, so quite a productive day. Hoping to get out for a walk today because it's back to rain tomorrow.

My pic, taken on Friday, of a heron looking like Uriah Heep...

pink_poppy

wort, I'm now imagining you looking like Wallace off Wallace and Grommit...

YoungBlueEyes

Ahh happy grandad, and I love that erigeron! My ones keep dying on me, I should stop buying them and give it up as a bad job really but I just want one of them to thrive... Fingers crossed your bug spraying works. Did you try the dock leaf thing or proper actual stuff? 

Doesn't cheese just go with everything wort?   Was this you in my garden this morning?  



Did you see any of the aurora last night then pp? 

Got some gardening done yesterday, lots of weeding and then bulb planting - dozens and dozens of daffs are now on their way I wanted to get them in so the thunderstorm we're meant to be getting today can water them in. I had to lift my stash cans to make room for some and my god the smell. Never mind 'looking for Huey' I very nearly found him   

OT Mild out there and no breeze. I'm not sure how the humidity's got so high without it actually raining

Oh and a pinch and a punch for the first of the month, white rabbits   We're in in the BER months now :clapping:

Dustyevsky

Blimey, 2p with a piece that Erigeron and some of my Persicaria 'Firetail,' someone could fill the whole of a modern postage stamp garden!  I hope the ear is OK today. It has been cold at night lately....well, most of the summer, actually, but it is verboten to suggest it's anything other than the usual global boiling.   I'm tempted to say your guy on the seat looks very pleased with himself, but I won't, for fear of misgendering him. Difficult old job, navigating the interweb these days!

Wort, I'm another fan of cheese. I'd probably put more in my lunchtime sandwiches than I do, were it not for the eggs, which tend to pile up when the hens are knocking them out at one a day. Eggs are more MSE of course. Some loony in our local Morries suddenly had a brainwave last week, measuring-out all their deli portions in humungous sizes, no doubt thinking they'd sell more. No pack was much short of a fiver, so I passed. Do they not know there are single people and cheese marginals who will never pay out like that to throw away the stuff that goes mouldy in a week? Sorry, rant over!

I haven't needed to have Ventusky to know where it's cloudy; it's here! Yesterday saw some sunshine, but I felt a little queer unwell near lunchtime, went for a short sleep, and when I awoke, it was grey again. Mind you, that was better for making some concrete. Last night, it may have been clear, and I may have glimpsed the aurora, pp, but in all honesty it might have been the lights in the town 10 miles away. DD2 definitely got it on her phone a week or two ago, though.

Today is container-filling time, which is probably why I'm the only person up at well after 09.00. I may have gardening things to do which can't wait.  It won't be picking grapes yet, but there were some hiding after all, so here they are....with nothing fto indicate scale! 

Farway

Hard to tell what weather is, supposed to be about 20 inches of rain in one hour sometime today, but then it's sunny & radio tells me it will be humid. Anyway, currently it's dull & warm without an Aurora

I think I want Erigeron even more, having seen your show 2P, if I could get it going it would look nice along some steps at volunteer place

I still have to get my new Tete a Tete daffs planted, YBE, still in the packets.

twopenny said:

I did a bit of bug spraying in the garden to try and rescue some beans and broccoli. Chucked a load of bath water over them. Hope they like Radox and laurel sulphate I've got to the end of my thether with doing stuff right, who knows I may discover the miracle ingredient.

Very mixed gardening, I was just thinking yesterday whatever happened to my Cabbage White caterpillars on the sacrificial nasturtiums?

The butterflies laid eggs as expected, they hatched as expected but seem to have vanished, so much so the nasturtiums are looking great growing up the tomatoes & mingling with bug free beans

All very odd, and I've not noticed lots of birds eating them, very odd. 

Not complaining though, bug free & beans are not often spoken in same sentence.

Dustyevsky said:

Wort, I'm another fan of cheese. I'd probably put more in my lunchtime sandwiches than I do, were it not for the eggs, which tend to pile up when the hens are knocking them out at one a day. Eggs are more MSE of course. Some loony in our local Morries suddenly had a brainwave last week, measuring-out all their deli portions in humungous sizes, no doubt thinking they'd sell more. No pack was much short of a fiver, so I passed. Do they not know there are single people and cheese marginals who will never pay out like that to throw away the stuff that goes mouldy in a week? Sorry, rant over!

Today is container-filling time, which is probably why I'm the only person up at well after 09.00. I may have gardening things to do which can't wait.  It won't be picking grapes yet, but there were some hiding after all, so here they are....with nothing fto indicate scale! 

Another cheese fan here. I think there must have been a Morries Memo, our pack sizes were large as well, but under a fiver, so came home with a big lump of Danish Blue as well as a Rudbeckia.

Your grapes look like mine, Dusty, which is good because sort of confirms they are both Lakemont

I don't know what size they eventually get to, but they better get a move on now it's September.

Today it's Horticultural DGD, collecting her RHS  Level 2 Certificate in Practical Horticulture on completion of her one year training near Aberdeen

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