Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Working_Mum

Good morning everyone,
I'm working in my office today so can actually post!!

I have been reading along diligently and loving the chat as always. 

I've done very little in my garden to be fair - finally got the grass and hedges cut which was a weight off my mind. My sweet peas are still blooming and I noticed a few raspberries on the canes yesterday - so dropped them in my yoghurt for lunch. I'm hoping to get out there this weekend to do a little bit of tidying up before the cold weather hits.

I'm a bit worried about a laburnum tree I planted last year - it seems to be leaning after the horrid wind we've experienced recently. So I am hoping I can re-secure it and it'll be ok.

The sunrise this morning was beautiful - I took a couple of snaps on my early morning dog walk (on my way to my 7.30am flu vaccination appointment!) . Not on a par with the sheep's bums or the Wisley pics but I think they caught the mood perfectly!

 
I've been making apple butter with apples from my next door neighbours tree - zero food miles. It's used my slow cooker and I have to say the taste is wonderful - there is no butter in it and I've added cinnamon or vanilla or ginger on the batches I've made - the ginger one is my fave.

The skeins of geese flying overhead have been a sight to behold - I live in their flight path towards a large Mere which apparently is a SSSI and they spend the day there and roost on the big river H near me. I hear them for about 30 seconds before I see them - joy at this time of year



I went out for supper with my book club (shamefully I hadn't read the book!) and ran into YBE who was out gallivanting with her H. It was lovely to see you again YBE and I hope you enjoyed your night.

Right, I need to do some work now but I wanted to touch base with everyone before I started my day "proper".

Have a wonderful weekend everyone

Farway

A bit late clocking on, tummy troubles , my guess it was something noxious in last night's stew. 

Still not right, but I'd better not say too much, or I may get dragged away & appear as Soylent green, now our betters are discussing what to do with old folks. Care for dying folks.

What a nice misty sunrise WM, and captured the pterodactyls as well

Dusty, seems to be a habit with small local garages, forgetting work until asked on progress. I had the same when my starter more was playing up.

I like pittosporum, not got one here but had one at a previous house. Hope you & Mrs D get a day off before the weather changes to bleh

My T & M offer seeds are on the way, I did get some sweetcorn for next year, not that I fancy any food right now.

No gardening today, just tum nursing

twopenny

Well WMum, that was worth getting a post in this morning

You sunrise is already on the Forum Highlights and indeed, on the front home page    

Heavy clound here again and very cool.

Out all day and evening so just enjoying all your hard work..................

pink_poppy

Lovely to see you back W_M. Gorgeous pics and congratulations on making the front page
I'll have to investigate apple butter, I've never heard of it. Cinnamon and ginger additions sound lovely. I'm wondering if I could add ginger to my appley porridge now.
YBE's gallivanting could explain her absence today    

Get well soon Farway. Plain water and dry toast might help.

Enjoy your outings, twopenny.

It's looking like the Aurora will potentially be visible (weather permitting) all weekend from tonight, including down South in Englandshire. Shame I'm headed into dismal weather this weekend     

YoungBlueEyes

Too many posts to individually catch up on (I was up and out this morning for Friday Doings + late lunch with Lovely Neighbour).

I don't think I'd have got robin in 1000 guesses pp! Conker... onion... a gammy ball after a dog's finished with it.. a close up of a big queer seed...  

I've more than enough shield bugs here thank you very much Dusty without looking at other peoples' If that's a recent picture I need to start worrying about my hydrangea - it doesn't look a bit like that *sigh*

What've you got planned for your 3 dry days 2p? Getting some more sea swimming in before schools break up again I bet  

How are your churning innards Farway? Never pleasant isn't that. Hopefully short-lived so you can get whizzing round Wisley on your chariot  

It was nice to see you too wm  Book club indeed, I think I need to join a 'book club' We were all out for himself's niece's birthday. It's a dreadful thing to say but I don't know how she turned out so well when you look at her mother   I got (what I thought was) a great pic of the sunrise this morning but look at yours! Much better, well deserved front page status  

Benbecula. Stunning yes. Military yes (I was a trailing spouse). Dull yes. We were only up there a year before he got posted back to the mainland (Alnwick). We were supposed to get Cyprus before Benbecula, then they promised it again before posting him to Alnwick, but it never materialised. Then one day I looked at him and thought 'yeah I think I'm done actually'. I waited for him to go to work, put my passport and important stuff in my handbag, put my coat on, put my dog on his lead and walked out the front door. 

OT It's been a glorious day here today, sunny and calm and mild and lovely. More of the same tomorrow, they say. Good job cos I need to get rootling about my garden. 

pink_poppy

I wonder if things with your ex would have been different if you had made it to Cyprus, YBE. Or maybe not. Sometimes you just know it's not working, no matter where you are in the world. Anyway, you seem happy enough with himself now   

Pic taken seconds after the mutant conker/onion/gammy ball one - definitely identifying as a robin, although still not the best photo as it was zoomed in and low light (excuses, excuses)...

YoungBlueEyes

Ah I can see it's a robin now What's the low level plant in your pic pp? I have a lot of that coming up from somewhere and I'm forever pulling it out but it keeps defying me. I'm leaving a patch now to see what it turns into... Aye himself's alright, I may as well keep him now Anyone remember me saying he might have to go if I found a name-sake plant to swop him out with? Well in Lidl/Aldi yesterday I saw some bulbs that are almost his exact name, and they're daffs I'm excessively fond of daffs....  

Lovely morning here. Not quite as good a sunrise as yesterday but not far off. I waiting on the breeze getting up to blow the damp away. It'll be a nice southerly one with a bit of heat to it, possibly. 

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

I was going to ask if your smilies had been having the Ozempic jags, as they're looking very skinny   

We'll have to see how they go today. As hinted, a strenuous walk followed after reporting for duty here yesterday. I may have lost a little weight in the process. We ventured just into 2p's territory, so I wonder if she can spot where we were from this photo:

We were promised sunshine, but it didn't happen, so no wonderful bird pictures, like WM's dawn one on the front page.  

Continuing the bird theme, we saw literally hundreds of pheasants and partridges, but their timidity and the poor light made it hard to get a good photo. That's my excuse. Here, a pair of pheasants are being joined by a partridge, which is the blurry thing...

This was on the way down after climbing from the river to 1000' for a promised great view. It was hazy , but apart from the dead plant stems, as above, it was still possible to pretend it was summer. Soon, the footpaths in the fields and old trackways at lower levels will be too muddy to do this sort of walking with dry feet.

 It looks like May, with the bluebells about to bloom, but those are rushes along the pathway.

I hope you're feeling much better this morning, Farway. I wouldn't blame your 'foraged' meal without evidence. I'm not blaming my walking for the horrendous cramp that had me leaping out of bed at silly o'clock this morning! Mrs Dusty did the same thing after a wedding recently. In her case, it was "Those b£*&y shoes!"

Oh, good, normal smileys.

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Ah I can see it's a robin now What's the low level plant in your pic pp? I have a lot of that coming up from somewhere and I'm forever pulling it out but it keeps defying me. I'm leaving a patch now to see what it turns into...

Creeping buttercup?

YoungBlueEyes said:

I've more than enough shield bugs here thank you very much Dusty without looking at other peoples' If that's a recent picture I need to start worrying about my hydrangea - it doesn't look a bit like that *sigh*

OT It's been a glorious day here today, sunny and calm and mild and lovely. More of the same tomorrow, they say. Good job cos I need to get rootling about my garden. 

The hydrangea is late. It was starved in a small pot, and it's catching-up now we've re-potted and fed it well. As in life, none is too far gone to be saved!

So, it was you, stole our nice sunny day then!

pink_poppy said:

It's looking like the Aurora will potentially be visible (weather permitting) all weekend from tonight, including down South in Englandshire. Shame I'm headed into dismal weather this weekend     

More security light last night!

I wonder if 2p and I were near each other yesterday? I was probably a bit far south. Today was 'dismal' earlier in the week. It's wall-to-wall blue sky currently. You never know.

pink_poppy

Yup, creeping buttercup. It's a pain in the derriere

Glad your smilies are back to normal this morning, Dusty. That looks like a nice walk you had yesterday.

It's damp and windy here this morning and we have some last-minute shopping to do and packing. I think it's going to be a choppy crossing tomorrow, so seasick tablets are on the shopping list... that's if the ferry is able to sail of course...