Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

wort said:

Oh Dusty that’s lucky they found them, hope they were not injured. 

The view is great not sure if I’ve enough puff for a 1 in 4 let alone the rest . Well done hope the knee is better soon.

The lost person was OK. Though wobbly, they're quite robust. It was raining and getting dark, hence the panic-mode search. There's a helicopter with the right kit 4.5 miles away, but no one wants to call it out without being sure that level of help is required.

That view was great..... and unexpected. The one on top of the 1000' hill was disappointing.

 I used to work in the house top left so I know the hill well - but I was a lot younger then Everyone had sinusitis from the damp what with the river, hills and trees. And it was different seasons to where I lived. Each village on the moor has a different climate.

In my younger days, Dulverton had a somewhat different image from the one it has now. I won't say much, but it wasn't wise to attend dances there without plenty of back-up!

pink_poppy

Morning all, we've moved on from Sutherland, but still on our hols in another Northern location for a few more days   
Lovely photos, as always. I'm going for an animal theme today...

I don't remember seeing any bum pics on here for a while, but I couldn't resist this one - not sure why she had a love heart on her bahookie    


Sorry, that pic is HUGE    Another sheep that we named Sheena - she was beautiful and the only one who stood and looked at us. Her fleece was gorgeous, so clean and fluffy  


Our welcoming committee at the new accommodation



We saw at least 4 different pussycats, but the cottage owner (farmer) thinks there are a few more. They're pretty feral, but beautiful.
I was saying hello to the calf in this photo and the mother wandered over. I don't think she was very happy with me as she blew a couple of raspberries in my direction - I'd forgotten just how big coos are, so I made a hasty retreat   

Anyway, OT, it's wet and windy this morning, but we're off sightseeing this afternoon, come rain or shine

YoungBlueEyes

Late on this morning to give Dusty a chance to put a pic up of him in a bikini It says we've 18' here now but it's that murky and gloomy you'd hardly believe it. It was nicer yesterday after the wind dropped so I got a bit further with me swish wall. Wm's slates are in, soil on top, rained on overnight and I was gonna get the gravel on today but I've crinked me back Just down one side, jeez it is sore when you move wrong *sigh* I'm not fit to be let out, really I'm not. Himself thought it was quite funny, and I was unamused with him  

Good news they found the wobbly wanderer Dusty, no lasting damage I hope? That's a great pic looking down on the village, did you feel like master of all you survey?

2p feather duvets are a wee bit heavier but not uncomfortably so. Bit like when the weather first gets cooler and you sling a dressing gown or a fleecey blanket thing on the bed, it's a snuggly kind of weight. Itms? Feathers are definitely a lot warmer than fluff though, even at the same tog. The 4tog bit of the all-seasons duvet we have is what we use in winter. The thick half is on the spare bed, it's too warm for anything.

I like your coos and horses and skies pp, but them is 3 mean looking cats Like they're just eyeing you up before talking the face off ya. The fluffity sheep is a cutey though eh  

How's your innards and flippers Farway? You right again now? Are your pipes still having a clearout taff? 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Late on this morning to give Dusty a chance to put a pic up of him in a bikini I

 That's a great pic looking down on the village, did you feel like master of all you survey?

I like your coos and horses and skies pp, but them is 3 mean looking cats Like they're just eyeing you up before talking the face off ya. The fluffity sheep is a cutey though eh

Sorry, the bikini no longer fits.    It was way too wet to use the mains pressure-washer anyway. Another day, perhaps. I also forgot I'd to go out today to a free lunch meeting., so I couldn't get all mucky.

 As to how I felt looking over the village.... certainly not master of anything. “Puffed-out,” more like. I enjoyed seeing they fly the flag of St George from the church without apologising to anyone.

I agree, I'd not mess with pp's cats, even though they look well-fed. The sheep look very healthy too, so whatever grazing they have seems to be doing a fine job. I never imagined I'd appreciate sheep in my younger days, but they're more likeable than some people. It's important not to get between a cow and her calf, but you were OK on the other side of the fence, pp. Mum was just checking you out, like Mums do.

It's still tipping down here. Now, some roads and rail lines are affected by flooding. This was mid-morning. For a short time, the path was like a stream.

And speaking of streams, ours was in full flow. I could hear it tumbling down the waterfall from the garden. I only peeked, but it looked like Mr Canute's barrier had been washed aside, the water going straight through where it was instead of round the side.

That spot was completely dry a few weeks ago. It'll probably run now until next May.

twopenny

Well my day out was a bit of a challenge! Torrents and floods to drive through but came home with 6 goodsized Hidcote lavenders for £7. I looked and thought it will take a couple of years for cuttings to get that far and it's a bit late. So that'll do me.

Very tempted with the feather etc quilt Bluey and I think probably a thin one. The hollowfibre one I have is lovely and cosy but heavy. With my bad bits it's making them ache turning over in my sleep.

Hope your side, ankle and wrist are all doing ok. That's your 3 now, you can relax  

That path looks like the road today Dusty. But I thought it was good for me to give it a go rather than opt out due to age. Oddly I was faster than some youngsters but got a soaking with a 4x4 going fast through water and my window open to let the heat out. Its cheaper to be driving than home with the heating on  

I was going to take a photo of the thick mist and autumn foliage but it would mean getting very wet. Here's a page showing what I've been driving through - scroll down a tad for photo. And no, I don't live there or near so I'm not passing my personal info on

https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/24657533.flood-water-a358-near-bishops-lydeard/

GC has both Halloween and Christmas. I tried looking at future presents but they've crammed so much in that I began to get claustropbic! Seriously it was just overwhealming, thousands of bits of nonsense.  Nothing related to gardening and the sale items were just near dead.

Pots were 2 for 1 - you could get 2 massive glazed pots for £40 each - which if you've looked lately is a deal.

One plant that took my eye was a new Jasmine growing over narrow arches. Summer flowers and scent and red autumn colour and I think, evergreenish and doesn't loose leaves

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/december-2020/trachelospermum-winter-ruby-trared

LessImpecunious

Have to say I quite enjoyed today's awful weather - it was like stepping out into a sauna here, and felt at least a degree or two warmer than the 16C forecast/observed at our local weather station, with the "heavy rain" more like light-to-persistant drizzle with intermittent heavy showers... Having a couple of days ago taken the plunge and very belatedly begun to "summer" prune the apple trees (a good year for it, as there are practically no fruits to get in the way on any of them ) I decided to throw further caution to the winds (not that there was any wind) and continue in the damp weather, turning to what could only be called (very warm) rain later... I may have risked inviting all manner of fungal diseases in, but am hoping they will have been washed away instead, and anyway will invoke Bluey's Shawshank rules, as apple production is fairly marginal here... Plus it was too wet to do anything else outside

pink_poppy

I'm looking forward to seeing the finished wall, YBE, I bet it looks lovely (I'm picturing it in my head). Hope the back is better. Like twopenny said, things come in threes and you've had your three now.

Your pergola/archway looks lovely, Dusty, in fact that whole bit of garden does. Hope Mr Canute doesn't accuse you of sabotage with the stream barrier   

twopenny, you mentioned porpoises a couple of days ago - we're hoping to see bottlenose dolphins on Saturday. We've seen them a few times before and got rubbish mediocre photos - you can see them chasing salmon from the shoreline

Less, that sounds like a productive day in the garden.

DH saw 5 tabbies at the cottage yesterday - 1 adult and 4 kittens, so that's at least 7 we've seen now!! Aye, a couple of them look a bit mean, but there's a ginger kitten that has the cutest little face  

There's another decent Aurora coming up this weekend, but the weather here has always been cloudy overnight. No sign of the comet either, YBE. It's raining and foggy this morning, but clears up later, still really windy though.

Here's a pic from last Thursday/Friday morning's big Aurora - it was incredible and I couldn't believe what I was seeing - apparently it was the Corona

Farway

Sunny morning, and mild. Yesterday was a very warm & humid, but at last I toddled out and picked the last of my apples, plus a bunch of grapes I'd missed first time round.

Looks like I got off lightly weather wise yesterday

Just one pear left outside now, it's looking decent as well, but not ripe according to online, suppose to get red blushes as it ripens

YoungBlueEyes said:

How's your innards and flippers Farway? You right again now?

Innards fine, flippers also fine, but I have a blood test later, so that's yet another hole in my skin. 

Fingers crossed for blood, usually OK but has been known for my vein to avoid the needle and I finish up with Nurse chasing my veins with her needle, stabbing as she goes, like harpoon fishing.

I try & drink gallons of water to swell my veins, supposed to help.

twopenny said:

GC has both Halloween and Christmas. I tried looking at future presents but they've crammed so much in that I began to get claustropbic! Seriously it was just overwhealming, thousands of bits of nonsense.  Nothing related to gardening and the sale items were just near dead.

Pots were 2 for 1 - you could get 2 massive glazed pots for £40 each - which if you've looked lately is a deal.

One plant that took my eye was a new Jasmine growing over narrow arches. Summer flowers and scent and red autumn colour and I think, evergreenish and doesn't loose leaves

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/december-2020/trachelospermum-winter-ruby-trared

Hmmmn. I wonder if GC I'm off to on Sunday will follow yours, probably, be hard for them to resist the money.

That jasmine looks like a good one, not that I've anywhere to put one

Cracking Aurora pic PP. 

LessImpecunious said:

Have to say I quite enjoyed today's awful weather - it was like stepping out into a sauna here, and felt at least a degree or two warmer than the 16C forecast/observed at our local weather station, with the "heavy rain" more like light-to-persistant drizzle with intermittent heavy showers... Having a couple of days ago taken the plunge and very belatedly begun to "summer" prune the apple trees (a good year for it, as there are practically no fruits to get in the way on any of them ) I decided to throw further caution to the winds (not that there was any wind) and continue in the damp weather, turning to what could only be called (very warm) rain later... I may have risked inviting all manner of fungal diseases in, but am hoping they will have been washed away instead, and anyway will invoke Bluey's Shawshank rules, as apple production is fairly marginal here... Plus it was too wet to do anything else outside

Sounds similar weather to mine.

You may just be OK with the apple pruning, I did mine at the "right" time and have some regrowth which needs trimming back

Apples this year, for me, have been hit & miss, some trees with loads, others just a few. I suspect it was the cold & wet around blossom time that did for most of it

Here's some of my apples, as you can see, very mixed results from different trees, same weather for all

Large ones are Champion, which this year has done very well

Dustyevsky

Good to hear you're almost mended, Farway. So is my van, apparently. I believe the garage has had it a month, with the 'technicians' doing the mechanical equivalent of your nurse, vainly vein-chasing!  Still, a van with no MoT isn't worth much, and once I'm done with the tip runs, it's going to a new home.

That's a wondrous photo, pp. It's great to know magical experiences like that are possible without leaving the UK.

pink_poppy said:

Your pergola/archway looks lovely, Dusty, in fact that whole bit of garden does. Hope Mr Canute doesn't accuse you of sabotage with the stream barrier  

Mrs Dusty does that bit of the garden, and she had a big hand in the pergola, building too. Mr Canute doesn't speak nowadays, so I've no idea what his purposes were in trying to control what's a natural occurrence. With thousands of gallons pouring through per hour, I can't imagine what he thought would happen.

I'm not knocking that Trachelospermum 2p; if it's really bone hardy, that's a plus. However, my MiL has had one for years, and it goes reddish-purple every winter, so that's 'normal' to me. We lost ours. Probably bad husbandry, and it was small.

Here's hoping Bluey is up and recovered today, though I'm not going to post any pictures of me in shorts. I don't think they allow parental advisory stuff here.   It could be that I'll get some pressure washing done, as it looks sunny out there just now, but I'll wait until I've collected the van. Might need a lie down in a darkened room instead! 

As people have discussed the ups and downs of buddleia growing recently, I'll put in a plug for the newer 'miniature' ones, like this:

I believe this is 'Buzz Raspberry.' (Pinched a cutting from DD!)  It goes happily in a patio pot and stays very well-behaved.

LessImpecunious

Farway said:

Sounds similar weather to mine.

You may just be OK with the apple pruning, I did mine at the "right" time and have some regrowth which needs trimming back

Apples this year, for me, have been hit & miss, some trees with loads, others just a few. I suspect it was the cold & wet around blossom time that did for most of it

Yes, I think that's what did for mine too, plus poss over-vigorous attempt at renovation pruning last winter - hence more watersprouts than I would have liked, and keen to get rid of them before consigning them to removal at the winter prune, which would presumably just make more of them grow...

We're probably a lot later here (with everything!) than you in softy south, and tend to get warmer autumns and colder springs (except when we didn't and got a mini heatwave in Feb/March!) and summers - so I tend to think the summer pruning can be pushed back a bit here anyhow (rationalising as never seems to be time during the summer ) Pity we had that early frost last week though, which seems to have made some leaves, as others have pictured elsewhere, start to fall already... Wonder how pruning rules will have to adapt to the coming boiling climes...