Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Abelia grandiflora and a nerine. Thanks Dusty, I'll keep my eye out for those. I thought the bigger one looked like my myrtle but I'm glad I didn't say that now ha haa. That's a bu99er about your chainsaw, but maybe it's for a reason. Maybe it's so you'll stop and hear the inspector when he goes to the stables and says "sorry love, the whole thing will have to come down, the water valve's gotta be under there"  You wouldn't wanna miss that would ya!  

More cracking pics pp, I reckon I could happily live in that wee cottage. A whole rainbow too Lovely wee bird with a thousand yard stare Did the Galileo bobber not fit in your handbag..? Himself used to work on site up at Inverness, he said it's the most beautiful place he's ever been. That beach is a belter! I wonder what caused the dragon's tail pattern... looks like turtles but they don't have them all the way up there do they? I'd have stopped up for that display too, beautiful with the stars out too  

Your Rozanne looks like it's backlit Farway, that's lovely  2p's right, it does look summery. Shame you didn't get to go visiting and wade knee deep through all the Halloween/Christmas/Easter tat. I doubt it's going anywhere mind. Fingers crossed DiL shakes off the soar froat and coff so you can get visiting next week. Are your jagged flippers still improving?

Your pecked moss might be blackies 2p, they're what's making a mess of Lovely Neighbour's garden. She does get mad when they're slinging bits left and right ha haa! Booo to rotted bean poles but yaay for repotting and fixing stuff. Combe Park Lodge - that’d do eh. If they could just move that river back a bit... The colour of those trees though, aren't they beautiful I've never heard of Mann’s brown ale, is it a good substitute for whisky..? A big hole - that's a good mystery. Is it something getting out or something coming in?

OT cool and dry. Not cold like it was yesterday morning but there's really no heat out there. Countryfile reckons it'll be bikini weather midweek I was telling Cissie to get hers out back again, and she said a thing that I thought'd be good on here. Now that erse and wee are established, here's level 2. Swearing. Och yer hole - translation = I find myself disagreeing with that statement. God love her  

-taff

I am reading long and lving all the fantastic photos [ I used to drink Manns] and laughing at Cissie...but not commenting, decided norovirus was the way to lose weight so still a bit wobbly...

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Your pecked moss might be blackies 2p, they're what's making a mess of Lovely Neighbour's garden. She does get mad when they're slinging bits left and right ha haa!

OT cool and dry. Not cold like it was yesterday morning but there's really no heat out there. Countryfile reckons it'll be bikini weather midweek

The blackies are late returning here, but when they arrive, one of their first jobs is to hoik-out all the grass clippings I've carefully placed under the hedges!

The warmth arrived here last night, along with more cloud and rain. The Exeter imbibers tell me we are just experiencing a 'blanket of cloud' today, without acknowledging we're inside the blimmin' thing, so it's wet! Yes, the forecast says I'll be able to get my bikini on by Wednedsay, which I might well do, because all the gutters, windows, and facias need a good jetting with a pressure hose. It could be the last chance to do that comfortably.

Oh, no, taff,   just when things were going well with the extension and the allotment.   Putting a positive spin on it,  that must excuse you from tea duty for a couple more days at the least. 

Farway

A wet & rainy start this morning, very sodden outside.

Jagged flippers are a tad sore but OK, I think I have Side Affects, or maybe it's just the passing decades?  Feeling a bit knackered & appetite gone. 

I was like this a week or so back, when I had whatever it was, which may have been Covid MK II

-taff said:

I am reading long and lving all the fantastic photos [ I used to drink Manns] and laughing at Cissie...but not commenting, decided norovirus was the way to lose weight so still a bit wobbly...

Another Manns drinker here, and I raise you a Nut Brown. Concur on the weight loss, my recent bout saw few pounds vanish.

Hope you improve soon

What lovely pictures this morning, that aurora one is stunning PP, that is one thing I would really like to see & savour

I must have another look for my YBE style bobble thermometer, last seen remembered on my mantel piece a few years back, I suspect it was "tidied away" when I was in hospital, a lot of Tidying occurred during my enforced absence

The Lodge looks charming as well 2P

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Fingers crossed DiL shakes off the soar froat and coff so you can get visiting next week. Are your jagged flippers still improving?

DiL froat has now moved to DS, so they are now coughing in unison & share a Family Pack of Lemsip. The forage into GC Halloween tat + cafe has been rescheduled for next Sunday

My blackies love chucking the moss off my roof & the gutter, which then thumps onto my conservatory roof, one day a lump will come crashing through like a meteorite.

Dustyevsky said:

The slanting writing's also easy with the photo program I use.

I've just found my CD with PaintShop 7. It was one of the first photo progs I used way back, and I thought I'd lost it with PC replacements. I did like it but moved over to Photoshop. 

I'll load it later & have a play, most I remember it allowed you to swap eyes over, so you could have cat's eyes for instance. Back in the innocent days of photo manipulation.

No gardening today, rain & rain. I was hopping to squelch down & check the last of my apples

twopenny

Another who's wet and soggy here so no finishing off the beds today. Yesterdays forcast said dry for a few days so I left the mowing, last nights said rain for the forseeable

It's sort of like a puzzle, can't do the garage because it's full of garden waste for the tip, ditto the pile of tree in the front garden is sodden, can't put weed and feed on the lawn if its blackbirds. Like the saying 'plot twist' I may have to think about starting on the kitchen ceiling if my bits are working.

So meantime Bluey said 'move the river'...........well it would be a tough job because this is whats just down the path from the house.

Dusty the other photo is from Holford Bridge, free car park and easier walk to Watersmeet and tea and scones. It's not as scenic as the one from Rockford but gentler. Lovely wildflowers in spring.

Re the Manns Brown Ale  replacing whisky? Well the ale is 2.4% so you'd need a lot to fall over  

Farway if you've not been well so recently it's likely that you would feel poorly after jabs for 2 different bugs. You're poor body doesn't know which to go for first. But you should be fighting fit once it's sorted itself out. GC should have some bargains with end of season and the wet weather so remember your credit card  

Wort, well darn you are getting everything going. Any chance you can snuggle down with good tv or book and just get some beauty sleep? Or are the builders still there? Could they make you a soothing drink or are they keeping well away?

Thanks for the northern lights photos Poppy. Haven't seen the sky for some weeks so good to know the world carries on. Also we get an exclusive So beautiful, and folks travel the world hoping to get a glimpse of that. You just had to nearly suffer a nervous arrest to get there.

YoungBlueEyes

Oh taff Well that definitely lets you off tea+buns duty! Go easy and take care. Did you bring it back from holiday? Fingers crossed it works it's way through soon.

Gawd Dusty you better ask MrsD to take a picture when you're in a bikini  

Blackies/crows/ravens sling stuff down onto my connie roof too Farway, makes you jump eh! Specially when it's got a bit of mortar or summat in it   Reading on other boards about people having the jab - it seems a couple of days ish to get righted is the norm. Hopefully you're back on an even keel soon

Bluddy 'ell 2p, that's a stunning picture! Look at the light in the trees, it's beautiful I think I want that wee house even more now. How's your bits? Kitchen ceiling need much doing to it..? 

Well we've had quite nice weather on this side of the country, probably to make up for the c-o-l-d wind we had. Sunny and nice yesterday. The drunkards said it'd be thick cloud and drizzly rain so I umm'd and ahh'd and got 2 loads of washing done. All dried and sorted and put away by 1600 I tipped up yesterday though. My 2 rainbutts are full of erm not rain water so I emptied the one in the garden and I've been refilling it from the one by the back door cos that is rainwater. Caught my foot on the edge of a wheelbarrow and came down straight onto me swish wall. Jeez I did squeek. So now I've a big ouchy bruise which is just considering which unholy colour to turn to next Mind me wrist is going down, so there's that. It never ends does it :rolleyes:

Edit - Has anyone seen that comet...?

Farway

Dull but milder, supposed to be warm winds from the south for a few days, I'll settle for that.

What a sickly crowd we are, now YBE in the wars, hope the bruise clears up, at least bruises always look painful even if not.

My jab leftovers seem to be clearing, but I had a touch of sore froat this morning, which is a well-known side effect, I'll wait & see. With so many aches & niggles, it's hard to differentiate the normal from the "that's not right".

Now the rain has stopped, I may get to splosh down the garden on apple patrol, only a few left on the tree now, so if sort of ready I'll have them to ripen indoors

YoungBlueEyes said:

Edit - Has anyone seen that comet...?

Nope, just clouds, but I have camera ready just in case

twopenny

Yes Bluey, it's a lovely walk, waterfalls and ponds. Used to do it spring and autumn with a friend, coffee at hers, lunch at the lodge, ice cream going back. All changed now but hoping to do it again one fine day - whenever that is!

Darn to slipping again and a matching bruise. Hope you're feeling better soon. Perhaps persuade your OH to take you on a nice day out to make up for it.

Stayed wet, grey and cold all yesterday even though no rain or wind. The warmth and sunshine predicted hasn't materialised and it continues grey and wet. Everything too soggy to get on the garden. Even the builders aren't their usual chirpy selves. When I see how hard they work outside each day and neighbours son lolls around on his backside at his mums with 2 kids to keep I have to keep telling myself it's none of my business

I'll do with the blackies digging up the moss for me One less job.

I'd pulled out the pots with bulbs in to refresh. They are already rooting probably thinking this is winter. Perhaps I'll get some early flowers to cheer things up.

Bought a pot of Pinks from Tescos a few weeks back. They are still in the pot but lovely and healthy, still blooming so perhaps it was worth the money I shouldn't have spent

Hope everyone's bits clear up quickly. 

Farway I'll look for Nut Brown. Don't remember that but the Manns is £1 in Morries which is good with all the rest at £2. I found Mackesons one year. Supposed to be good for you

"it's hard to differentiate the normal from the "that's not right"." - ain't that the truth!

wort

It was a problem with the plane when they inspected. So happy not to have got on it 😱. They put us in a hotel for the night, but weather wasn’t good and we had been waiting and traveling round all day so tired and just wanting to get home. Apparently we won’t get compensation.🥲

We wondered if the winds were tail end of the storm across in USA. Couldn’t sit out in it, and all the sun beds etc were tidied away. 

Today is grey and overcast but forcast says no rain, so washer is on . Tomorrow is big rain and Thursday is nice again 🫨

lovely autumn photos, shame the leaves fall so quickly we don’t get time to enjoy them.

PP glad you got back safely, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the scary road either. 

YBE look after the wrist get it checked out if it’s still not right now. Big hugs x

Farway

twopenny said:

I'd pulled out the pots with bulbs in to refresh. They are already rooting probably thinking this is winter. Perhaps I'll get some early flowers to cheer things up.

Bought a pot of Pinks from Tescos a few weeks back. They are still in the pot but lovely and healthy, still blooming so perhaps it was worth the money I shouldn't have spent

Hope everyone's bits clear up quickly. 

Farway I'll look for Nut Brown. Don't remember that but the Manns is £1 in Morries which is good with all the rest at £2. I found Mackesons one year. Supposed to be good for you

"it's hard to differentiate the normal from the "that's not right"." - ain't that the truth!

I think bulbs get going with roots in the ground, even though still dry & dormant out of ground. Which is why sooner planted the better.

I love Pinks, I bought Dianthus from Morries, similar but smaller. Both are perianal so fingers crossed for both of us next year.

Never tried but supposed to be easy from cuttings, the break a bit off & poke it in a pot type

Nut Brown was Watney's, so may not be around

Mackeson, I'm so old when my daughter was born the Maternity Home recommended I take in a bottle of Macky to "build my wife up" after her exertions. 

Those were the days, all the new Mum's drinking Macky & puffing Woodbines