Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

Lovely pics, Farway and Dusty

wort, you should definitely post your pink sunrise pic.

I did snigger at the swelling grapes comment    

YBE, I forgot to say your wiggly bits (!!) looked a bit like the beginnings of ferns to me.

No Aurora last night - or if there was it was hiding behind the cloud and rain that we had. I've seen pics on FB this morning so it was visible in other places. Apparently the one we had on Thursday night wasn't that good, according to the page I follow... I beg to differ - I was completely enthralled by it

Grey and miserable today - spitting at the moment and forecast heavier rain later. We had the fire on last night.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh that's what I call a sitooterie Less! Another calendar worthy one for sure. I just love the pics on here, even the 'carp' ones. Put your pink sunrise on wort, g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan  

It's a shame that cherry is poisonous, they did look sweet and juicy. It's a tree on the way into the fields I walk Handsome round, and I bluddy nearly picked a few 'til I realised the tree was still full  

Hurray for ripe fruits and lovely flowers and fixable + fixed cars and vans and decent garages. Hopefully the Working Car gods will smile on me next Wednesday when mine’s in for it's mot + service. Thankyouplease  

A couple of nice pics. The field was empty last week when I took Handsome out cos it was cold and drizzling ( ) so we had the whole place to ourselves - 



Half of my Autumn Bliss are ripe  



...and my wosname flowers have fallen out with each other  

Cool out there this morning but not as cool as it has been. It says sunshine and clouds, but possibly they mean clouds and then sunshine. The sunshine part being tomorrow. Or next week. Or something. 

Farway

Chilly morning, but I still went up to the volunteer patch, mainly to see if water needed and also plant the Tete a tete daffs I bought in Home Bargains the other week

Watering not needed but planted the daffs.

Unfortunately it was easy to find a space , something, probably vine weevils, has nibbled the fuchsia roots.  

I couldn't spot any weevil grubs, so after putting the daffs in I replanted the fuchsia deeper, to see it new roots may form. However, given summer is nearly over, if we lose these fuchsias it is not the end, and can start again next Spring

Watering required in some pots at the front, a job for later

Dustyevsky said:

Broken van may yet live! The non-turbo-ing turbo was just a holed vacuum pipe, and the rear brakes will be OK if I don't load it up with too many more railway sleepers! Application of a few hundred £ should see it back for another season of mellow tip runs recycling excursions. Then, away it must go to pastures new before our luck runs out.

I'm not rising to your bait on swelling grapes! My courgettes seem to have survived the air frost, and I've a matching pair for the Autumn Show today, which is all that matters to me! Oh, and the toms seem to be OK too. 

Good van news, and now you've more time to look around.

My late sown, on off chance, courgette plant is looking healthy but will never calve this year . Worth my trying though. Good luck on matching a pair for the show, it's harder than it looks, isn't it?

Tomato report, I sampled one of my Divinity toms, excellent, not too sharp or sweet, and quite fleshy inside. I'll grow more next year.

BTW, not on commission, but if anyone is interested Divinity F1 is 99p a pack of six seeds [down from £3.49] from T & M with free P & P this weekend.

YBE, nice to see Handsome enjoying himself, plenty of space there for a run around

Bad news, I think, your Autumn Bliss isn't. 

Another wrong label jobby. AB is red, yours is yellow. I think it could be Fall Gold

See what you think here.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/76281/rubus-idaeus-autumn-bliss-(f)/details

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/78493/rubus-idaeus-fallgold-(f)/details

I have Fall Gold, it's OK, and IME birds seem to not recognise yellow raspberries as fruit, and yellow raspberries are unusual, a bit of condescending “Oh, I only grow the golden ones” should put folk in their place if raspberries are mentioned

Today is Dahlia day, this is one of Bishop's Children from seed. 

Goes into OK category, lots of foliage with flowers on top, would be fine in a big border but a space hog in my small patch.

twopenny

Wow so much to answer. I looked for the aurora as they said clear skies but they must have forgotten out neck of the woods as there was cloud and almost a full moon so no chance.

Lovely spot for Handsome that is Bluey. What a lovely area

No books, though I did discuss on a thread with other travellers who had the most 'incidents' while travelling. Two of us had the most and wondered - should we travel together and contain the fallout or seperately to disperse it. Honest, terrorist incident on plane, medical emergency diversion several thousand miles over the red centre with the pilot making up time and that little screen with the plane was for once interesting, returned in hours before tsunami and again torrential storms in desert that wiped out hotel and airport just after leaving.

Thanks for the nice comments about the photo but I feel undeserved. It's something that happens around here a lot so it's like shooting fish in a barrel and you're spoiled for choice.

Garden untended and suffering from the repeated cold just as I am. Had to put the heating on the other day but just when you do - it's turned out nice again as Georg would say.

So yesterday my bits were all in working order which is something new and I took reclusive neighbour up over one of my favourite walks in glorious sunshine and she bought tea and welsh cakes to be had on top of the world. Photos later. And I survived considering I'd played table tennis and a swim before hand.

Oddly found a crab apple tree on top of the hills among the heather. Met a guy talking about carbon emissions and the nuts ideas the graduates and commities come up with. Dusty would have enjoyed that I think

Today pushed it too far, went by bus to a talk about the valleys and trees of the NP to find it was cancelled - so went for a walk in the sunshine by the river and now I'm aching. Included a discussion about climate change. Honest, the people you meet in the woods and villages have amazing knowledge and interest in discussion. It's been fun.

May have a photo or two that's quicker to download/upload.

Dusty will know where I was today :DI still haven't had chance to play with the water cannon

Tomorrow is pruning, feeding, repotting and blackberrying - possibily. Must be, I need a rest

wort

Gawd 2p , let us know where and when you’re holiday Ing next , and we will avoid it😂 
hope the aches and pains are feeling better today. 

Farway and YBE stop bragging about the raspberries, the only thing with  colour on mine is the leaves , yellow and brown 🥹
Dusty good luck with your matching courgettes. 👏🏻

wort

Pink sky as requested waiting for morning lift. As we set off beautiful rainbow too 

pink_poppy

That's a gorgeous sky, wort I bet you just stood and stared at it.

YBE, Handsome really is a handsome dug, isn't he. He's not quite matching the colour of the leaves, but he's not far off. Lovely pic and looks very autumnal there.

That's a nice Dahlia, Farway, I like the colour.

twopenny, what can I say... I agree with wort, we'll avoid going anywhere we know you're going to be    

It's another grey looking day, with showers forecast. Next week is looking good though, with lots of sunny days

Dustyevsky

Yes, I know where you were 2p. It's a somewhat run-down attraction, apparently quite costly to enter, but that view can be had for free! It sounds as if Armageddon would have followed, had you gone in!  They've had one disaster, and surely that's enough?

I agree with Farway on Bluey's rasps. Didn't want to say anything, as I'm no expert. My blackberries were unplaced in yesterday's Autumn Show....and quite rightly too.

It was a good show; much better than last year's, so I shall bring you some highlights later. That won't my courgettes. We ate the ones that might have won on Wednesday. I was certain they'd be amply replaced by Saturday, but as you can see, I was wrong!

Matching, but miniscule!

Wort, that's a well-worthy pink sky photo , although I'm seeing it as orange here. After the show, where Mrs Dusty actually did OK, we headed off for fish & chips to eat in the car in some peaceful spot. The sunset we had was 'interesting' rather than dramatic. We were somewhat later than usual, or rather the sunset was earlier, so we need to be quicker off the mark now the nights are drawing-in.

The above is also much as things looked at dawn today. It's brightening-up now.

Farway

No sunsets or sunrises here worth mentioning or photograph, got a blue sky though so that's a plus.

Hard luck on the courgettes, Dusty, but at least you had some to enter. My blackberries have gone mouldy, all the rain, or perhaps it was the Devil popping by and weeing on them.

My, you're getting around 2p, sounds great, tea, cakes, crab apples plus interesting chats along the way

Now the car is back on normal keel, with no repairs or faults outstanding. It can have a trip to RHS Wisley to give it a darn good blow through, and me a chance to see what's changed & some photos of course.

Just have to arrange a powered wheelchair to get me around, Wisley lends them out, free, but need to book. It's quite hilly in parts and with my bones & lack of puff it would be Mid-Winter before I got as far as the tearoom.

I've watered the drooping Evening primrose in a pot at the front, it's the only plant lacking water after all the rain, very nearly another watering season over, where did summer go?

Today is, at long last, my Canna. Better late than never!

YoungBlueEyes

Aww Farway, vine weevils   I expect it's an age-old unanswerable question but is there anything you can do? If they're in planters/troughs can you sling everything and start again, painful as that may be? From the other side of the coin, is there anything you can introduce that'd eat them..? 
You might well be right about my rasps being mislabelled, but from my end rather than morries end. I binned the labels after I'd potted them up into big paint pots in the Spring cos I couldn’t work out which way round they went. I thought I’d rather have 3 surprises than 3 things wrongly labelled Looking at those links I think it is Fallgold actually. I wonder which one of the other 2 is Autumn Bliss then? I've that and a Loganberry. Time will tell eh. 
Where's @taff gone? I bet she'd like the colour of your dahlia, and your canna! Come back taff, you're missing all the orange-y goodness!

How did you get on at the Autumn Show Dusty? I like your leafy butterfly Are those sedums the ones that are a bit firm to the touch..? 

Praise for your photo isn't undeserved imo 2p, it's alright taking a picture of a thing but it's another to capture the feel of it and yours did that  
I'm gonna disagree with the others, seems you're a lucky bu99er getting out of all manner of things just in time so I'd rather go where you go cos then I know I'll be safe no matter what ha haa! Are those things going in your book are they?   

I don't know why you thought twice about putting on that pic wort, that is a properly mesmerising belter!  

Yep Handsome really is a handsome dug He's got used to me now so he looks for me to come back to rather than looking for Lovely Neighbour, panicking and making a run for it when he's off-lead. I was telling her this last week when I dropped him back and she was entirely non-plussed, turns out she a person with a dog and not a Dog Person  

Coolish and cloudy here and showers this aft. Possibly. Lovely and sunny next week though  

Aha, good job I hit refresh before posting so I can see you at least got a prize Dusty :clapping: Ooh your canna's gorgeous Farway. Have fun whizzing about at Wisley