Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

greenbee said:

Does this mean we can call the local landowner and demand that he remove his s*dding partridges from the garden? Or do we just report the feral partridges to DEFRA?

I doubt it, but ring DEFRA, anytime you feel the need; there are plenty of things they could be doing that would be more useful. From my limited research, it seems a special exemption exists in the case of the 60 million or so game birds released for sport every year. But woe betide the 'landowner' who has a couple of unregistered birds in an Eglu at the end of their garden in Preston! 

It's almost as sensible as those other rules they rolled out when.....Oh, hang on, did Farway say cheap seeds and free P&P?

-taff

Less, that's the plan, grow as many as I can get [ barring slugs and triple sowings] and freeze the beans. I love borlotti in soups and stews.

Lovely robin pic dusty, artful blurring and I would have made that lot into passatta or conserva as my cousin calls it quick smart. If you need any quattro stagioni jars, just shout, I have lots.

Farway, your info is duly noted for the future..

PP, my favourite stars, the Big Saucepan.

YBE, you have a fresh take on so much stuff, it always makes me smile see?

Farway, you are a temptress with your free p&p you know, I might have to look...and buy...

Nowt done today, my green toms are hanging up in the greenhouse slowly turing slightly edible, 8 baby jars of conserva made ready for pasta asciutta in the winter. It's been a long time since I had that. Still got two jars left from last year though. My sister made a pact with my cousins son to avoid all mention of having them this year so I didn't get to make any there. And I didn't buy any crates on the way back either but then we didn't go to the cheese shop she wanted to so ha! take that! [ a bit cutting my nose off because I do love all and any cheese except edam which tastes like smelly feet smell to me...]

YoungBlueEyes

I forgot to mention your beautiful wee robin Dusty, he/she/they look/s a little cracker   Has he calmed down now? I was thinking of you and your birds last night - we watched a Grand Designs about a fellah who built a horrendous carbunkle architecturally stunning home on the end of a row of lovely wee houses so he could look out to sea all day. Lots of angles and glass and boxiness. He had to pay an eye-watering sum for the glass to stop the birds going headlong into it (£90k iirr). A fellah from the RSPB said we lose 35 million birds a year through bird strikes The windows looked like some snails had had a party all over the outside of it, that's all it takes to kill the reflection apparently. Would that be an idea for your robin..? 

Dunno about your lavender wort. Are they in the ground or a pot...? In the ground - leave em, they might have diddy wee roots that'd snap if you tried to get them up. In a pot - fetch it up to shelter it like Farway says. Or go full #Shawshank if it's just bits you've snipped off your own bigger plant. It's 50/50, they'll either die or they won't. 

Where you sailing off to pp? Fingers crossed for the ferries And you're welcome for a cuppa any time

Hurrah for cobettes Farway, worth the bother then. All the talk of beans is making me wonder if I should try some next year. With a bit of luck they'll all die cos I don't actually like them, but himself does...

Are your partridges tame gb? I used to have a friend in Lincs and his garden attracted them. They used to eat peanuts out of his hand Would yours do that? He fed them at the same time every day and they'd come running up to him. It was lovely to see. 

Nice to know I make you smile taff, that's a lovely thing to say about a person I do sometimes wonder if they built me wrong, but granny loved me and Cissie loves me so I'm fine with myself  

Speaking of families, Beloved Cousin sent me a link last night. They've had gorgeous weather over there, mild and sunny and Spring-like really. Here's what she sent me - 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51157ep524o

Cheeky beech. I think they built her wrong too  

Edit - OT - it's alright out there today, the rain's stopped at least. Sunny ish, later, possibly.

pink_poppy

Ooh, I'll have a bag of those tomatoes please, Dusty. Homemade tomato soup. Yum.

Farway, if your moon pic is anything to go by, your Plough pic will be epic. I need a steadier hand or a tripod or something - my pics are all over the place when I try to zoom in to take a photo    
Congratulations on the sweetcorn cobettes.

I agree with the smelly feet smell of Edam, taff, although I will still eat it. I had some Pringles at the weekend with a similar smell and I still ate them   
I'll have to google pasta asciutta, but I'm guessing it involves lots of tomatoes.

We had a lovely sunset last night, with what looked like a strange jaggy silver streak just above the sun. It was probably an aeroplane trail highlighted by the setting sun, but it looked weird. I've had to crop the photo, but that really was the colour of the sky - we get a lot of orange sunsets here.


It was another clear sky last night, but no luck with any Aurora pics. It's looking like another lovely day today, dry and sunny with just a nip in the air to remind us it's October.

pink_poppy

You must have posted while I was busy typing away, YBE. We're going to Harris, via a few islands if the ferries and weather behave. We've both never been before so we're really looking forward to it. The weather isn't forecast to be great (wet and windy), but it's our big holiday and we WILL enjoy it   
That's awful about the bird strikes   I think wind turbines take out a few birds too

pink_poppy

Just read the BBC article - I should be extremely happy and healthy then with all the rain we get here    

greenbee

Partridges are bred by the local landowner as game birds YBE. They are pests and very destructive in the garden. 

YoungBlueEyes

Ah, I didn't realise partridges are destructive gb Hopefully you don't get them in big numbers? 

Cracking sunset pp Bet that makes it to the front page! 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

I forgot to mention your beautiful wee robin Dusty, he/she/they look/s a little cracker   Has he calmed down now? I was thinking of you and your birds last night - we watched a Grand Designs about a fellah who built a horrendous carbunkle architecturally stunning home on the end of a row of lovely wee houses so he could look out to sea all day. Lots of angles and glass and boxiness. He had to pay an eye-watering sum for the glass to stop the birds going headlong into it (£90k iirr). A fellah from the RSPB said we lose 35 million birds a year through bird strikes The windows looked like some snails had had a party all over the outside of it, that's all it takes to kill the reflection apparently. Would that be an idea for your robin..?

Well, we've plenty of slugs and snails, but I don't fancy letting them slime their way over our windows. With the robin. it's not a case of, "Can't see it," or even, "Can't see through it," 'cos when I turn around, he flies off!

Yes, pp, wind turbines are a problem for birds, just like the huge manipulation of the avian environment for 'sport,' but it seems the government are blind to those things, preferring now to focus on hobbyists. It's been a requirement to register flocks of more than 50 for many years. Fair enough, but many of us feel it's not only daft, but over- bureaucratic and downright intrusive to bring small flocks into 'regulation.' Lovely sunset, by the way. That new phone is earning its keep!

Taff, thanks for the offer, but we're already maxed-out with frozen, whizzed-up toms.   The food bank/cafe will appreciate them more than us.

Today's photo is a powered hang glider person heading past our garden into some rather threatening looking clouds, just before the weather broke last week. I hope they made it to wherever they were going! Today, dull but benign!

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Just read the BBC article - I should be extremely happy and healthy then with all the rain we get here    

Smiling in the rain: Derek Brockway filming his BBC programme Weatherman Walking in Llandrindod Wells, Powys

Llandrindod Wells was the place we met a very rare breed: an honest estate agent. Asking about properties that might be positioned well for a small plant nursery, she looked at us and asked, "Have you factored-in the long and sometimes severe winters we get here?"

We hadn't!   Well, I knew, but Mrs Dusty didn't do A level geography, and she hates the cold. Back in the car, a big line went through the rest of the Mid-Wales properties!