Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Some good stuff on there Farway. Some I think I could better

Went over the moors for a treat but going through cloud and out again. Raining and such everywhere except where I live! We seem to be in a dry hollow. Nowt to be done about it other than a rain dance.

Shame we can't share the rain and dry Poppy.

The trees are going into autumn colours already, usually late November here.

Bluey I used a well known dish washing liquid with water in the spray because there are flowers and beans. Sadly the beans have horrible blackish leaves and the beans some of so I'm fighting a loosing battle. Cold and still dry is not helping. I think from here it's fair to say produce is a write off for the year.

Oh, and buy your Christmas cakes and mince pies now! Morries has a shelf of them - and the kids not back to school after the summer break -------

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

The results of the World photo project are in, if you want to see how it could be done, have a look here, in the Galleries. Some real crackers and ideas to work on.

https://globalphotoproject.org/

Having said that, a photo I submitted has had over 100,000 views since 2021. Of all things, it's a chippie supper on Google maps!

Nowt wrong with practical photos showing others what they can expect for their £££.   There are always moaners, but I find the reviews pretty accurate overall. Our chippie scores 5* anyway, and so they should. I phone, they have it ready by the time we get there, and it's never overdone. They even compensated for some complex, 10minute to negotiate roadworks I'd forgotten a few weeks ago!

They couldn't compensate for the road closure we faced after picking our meals up last week, though. The way to our favourite vantage point, with animal visitors like partridge and hares, had such a long detour, we opted for an old haunt with rabbit occupants laid on for entertainment. However, when we reached it, this is what we found:

On the aerial view, this is part of a 10+ acre field, wild in the corners and along the railway, but now it's been totally re-wilded, no doubt with a government grant. The footpath used to run from here to the circular thing, marking a railway crossing, but it's obvious no one is using it! I'm sure certain animals are having a field-day (!) but it's not 'bad' land, it's potential to feed us is being wasted, and we're paying for that. 

As for the rabbits, they might be there; in fact they probably are, but we'll not see them again.

Today's weather looks reasonable after another damp and muggy start. Many big slugs observed still active after dawn. I'm now baiting them with sacrificial oversize courgettes, chopped-up, and that seems to work.We must preserve what we have left of the real slug pellets, IYSWIM.

Farway

Not actually raining, but it's managed to be wet & damp anyway, very odd. A few raindrop cobwebs spotted, tempting my camera.

Dusty, your vantage point and "wilding". 

Seems a right mess along the way, I listen at times to Farming Today on R4, seems lax in whatever department is supposed to deal with it, total amount not yet agreed.

Party in a brewery springs to mind, with everyone blaming someone else of course

Never mind, soon be covered in houses anyway

twopenny said:

Some good stuff on there Farway. Some I think I could better

Oh, and buy your Christmas cakes and mince pies now! Morries has a shelf of them - and the kids not back to school after the summer break -------

Glad you liked the photos, and I may be in Morries tomorrow, so you never know, a Christmas Pud could find its way home with me, depends on if the cheese counter, or dead plant section gets me first

Had J Parkers catalogue arrived in the post, good for a browse later even though there is nothing I want, but that's never stopped us, has it?

Today is the turn of Shoo Fly, you may recall I said one had popped up in my carroty carrots, now it's flowering and turning into a cuckoo among my carrots

I think I prize the shoo fly in the hand more than carrots in the bush. I intend saving seeds again.

The ancestor of this one arrived a few years back, ex supermarket dead plant zone, 10p

Seed saved & spread about, now it has offspring at the volunteer place & in the garden of one of the other volunteers, as well as popping up in my garden every year.

Good 10ps worth there

You can spot some carroty carrots, at the bottom.

pink_poppy

That's a pretty plant, Farway, the leaves as well as the flower.
When will your carrotty carrots be ready?? We were gifted some homegrown carrots by lovely neighbour a couple of weeks ago, along with a leek, some tatties, an onion and some curly kale (I think). They all went into homemade soup (I'm back eating soup after my food poisoning of a few weeks ago) and very nice it was too.

Dusty, we have a good chippy here too, about 10 minutes drive away. It's only seasonal though, which is probably just as well. £10 for haddock and chips. Yum.

I took this pic this morning - I absolutely love the wall anyway, but the Japanese Anemones make it extra special...


Cool and rainy today, but the forecast looks nice for the end of the week.

twopenny

I've never seen that plant Farway. Interesting and different.

Love a wall Poppy. And I like Windflowers. That's the perfect place for it because it can't run rampant

We've got a lot of that around here Dusty. The dry and dying look isn't great but hopefully really good for the birds.

Was horribly dark this morning and depressing then exactly as the forcasts said, the sun came out. It came out proper with blue sky and heat.

Having decided I'd go sea swimming it's clouded over

I've got lots to do in the garden but still tired as the ear thing hasn't quite gone.

I've got tomato blight too - which isn't fair as I've had no tomatos ripen

YoungBlueEyes

That's not fair 2p, blight and no tomatoes I like your thistle pic, isn't the light beautiful. I had to look twice - it looks like there's a little red-faced white-beaked bird on top of one of them ha haa! Fingers crossed now your ear lurgy is moving it'll soon be gone. Your hole in the wall pic reminds me of something, I'll see if I can find the place again and put up a link... 

Doesn't the nasturtium look well among your toms Farway? How's the canna this morning - has it Opened Grandly yet..? I like your Shoo Fly flower too, seems like an awful lot of leaf for that one wee flower though… I'll have a look at your pic link in a min. Reminds me, did anyone see Countryfile on Sunday? They've got a vote open for the front page image, jeez they're all beautiful. Some have pleasing captions too  https://www.countryfile.com/countryfile-tv-show/countryfile-calendar/competition-2025

Your buying wellies and waterproofs has turned the weather round pp, it's to be lovely and sunny and dry up there for a few days while the suvveners get soaked. Make the most of it Ah your anemone is lovely, looks just right in that wall :jealous: 

Gb my ex mil had some variety of unwanted tree growing in her front garden. She cut it down, chopped a big X into the stump and drilled some holes down into it, and lathered it in creosote (proper stuff mind cos that’s 25+ years ago). If that helps? 

It's a shame buddleia is such a bu99er Dusty cos the diddy flowers on it are so charming. Not that you'd be saying that if it was all up in your gutters and wrecking your drains  

Oh and me beastie ain't timorous - it's a rat  You wanna see the tail on it, about twice as long as it's body! *sigh*

OT another cloudy, still, humid day here. 12' now with a high of 17' to come. It was quite a nice evening yesterday, the sun finally came out a wee bit and I got a couple of good shots of the sunset - 

And a diddy wee bug on my gardening scissors. I could hardly get it in focus cos it moved so fast! But he/she/they looks like he’s got the ‘Don't worry, be happy’ smiley face on his/her/they’s back - 

Edit to swop the bug pic for a zoomed in one. 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

It's a shame buddleia is such a bu99er Dusty cos the diddy flowers on it are so charming. Not that you'd be saying that if it was all up in your gutters and wrecking your drains  

Oh and me beastie ain't timorous - it's a rat  You wanna see the tail on it, about twice as long as it's body! *sigh*

But buddleia isn't a burger at all, unless the house is falling to bits and no one's maintaining it properly, nor will daffodils kill the dog, or foxgloves poison the grandchildren. It's all rubbish put about by the MSM hacks, whose chief role these days is to confuse and scare people, or instil ideas those who own the media want to promote.....for their own purposes. At least the BBC tries to be subtle!

And your mouse isn't a rat; not if that's a standard engineering-type house brick, because it wouldn't fit in the hole. Its pose isn't rat-like, either. A long-tailed field mouse fits, 'cos they're feisty little things. They'll fight back if the cat brings them in. I like them....outside that is!

So it was you lot up there that stole our nice evening? Your pretty pics look like evidence to me!  It came over all grey and cold here. I looked at my squash and said to them, "Most of you guys ain't gonna make it!"  I think they already knew. The small ones are dropping off.

However, a good morning has arrived today, after what might have been the aurora, glimpsed last night at around 01.15. Very bright to the north, not a puff of wind, and the automatic searchlight on the barn up the road wasn't detecting anything, for once.

No news here, I can tell you about  The fridge is almost empty, so I suppose it's a trip to town today. I would string it out until Thursday, when we're to have heavy rain, but Mrs D says no.

Someone mentioned Garlic Chives somewhere a few days ago, so here's a snap of some with insect visitor, possibly a hoverfly, rather than a bee. I might know a mouse from a rat, but insects...... e

YoungBlueEyes

Now that is a charming little flower Lovely glossy leaves too. It's a shame I can't stick the smell or I'd huge swathes of them in the garden.
I'll be showing my ignorance here but I thought daffs were like bananas in that they give off a gas? I love cut flowers but rarely have daffs in cos of that. So that's another thing I'm wrong about. I'll add it to the list  
I did get a second pic of the beastie where you can see it's tail but I didn't put it up for some people don't like them Look away now if varmints make you go sqiggly - 



I'll swop my nice evenings for your aurora any time!

greenbee

I was woken by a cat just before 5am who thought I should know that there was a slug on the landing. Apparently it came in through the window...

Dustyevsky

 Yup, Long Tailed Field mouse on house brick.

And the Garlic Chives aren't Wild Garlic; they're like ordinary chives with flat leaves. The Wild Garlic is invasive, and Garlic Chives aren't. I doubt you'd know they were garlicky, unless you picked them. And yes, I should be using the Latin names! Can't be bottomed this morning, though! That Alice will be along soon to correct my insect as well! 

I don't know about daffs giving off a gas. I just know they're toxic, but probably not life-threatening, to us. Apart from lily stamens' threat to the cats, I don't fuss about poisonous plants. After all, we don't need to teach the sheep not to eat the foxgloves.

No, don't swap your evening for my possible aurora; it wasn't that great, and it still might have been that town to the north.