Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

I am sending healing vibes to all with illness and aches and pains, but please don’t send anything back unless it’s good weather. It’s cold dull and dismal here, so the washing is not moving on line.

2 p the lavender according to Anya on insta you can take cuttings now ,any non flowering shoots , just remove lower leaves and stick in compost and grit then leave out side. You should have roots by spring ! Worth a punt with a few bits.

Farway your canna was giving bird of paradise vibes. Lovely. Both my grandads were gardeners, one of which did groundsman duties at the local football ground , and bowling green. The genes have been passed through to just over half of the grandchildren.
Dusty that entrance is worthy of a grand house , Mrs Dusty must be pleased with her planting. I love the pic of the autumn colours and reflections too.

wort

Just been to check the lavender cuttings I took in sept and they already are rooting !  So just took a few more see if they take over winter.
pulled a few weeds in the path , and the cosmos that I planted a full pack of seeds that only sprouted 6 , are finally getting buds on 😳 just in time for the frosts 🥲
I brought in the washing which was as wet as when it went out if not more so as it was invisible raining ☔️ grrr 😖 

twopenny

Awww Poppy, not a miracle cure then. But give it time if it's like anti biotics they take a few days to kick in. Remember to keep your vitamins up too (am I alowed to say that, it's nutritional not medical) and fingers crossed for you. I watched 2 episodes of Diy sos in a row and sobbed most of it!

Wort I know that about washing! Sheesh the air is so damp here nothing will dry and trying to keep the heating off means inside isn't a goer either.

Farway I'm awaiting results of the TB before I try. I've tried Teatree and lavender with not results.

Pooh about your pear, I share your pain after my apple misery.

WM good thing you are staying healthy, we need hte workers to keep going to save the rest of us.

So I went out over the moor to get my honey and on the way saw this..........stag is muddy because they urinate in a wallow and then - wallow. It's supposed to make them highly attractive to the hinds but today it didn't seem to be working.

The birds in the distance were a huge flock of Fieldfare swirling around but they go too fast and change direction like starlings. I keep trying to get the whole massive flock in a photo. One day..............

Just amazing to be able to witness the wildlife even on a miserable day. All happens in a couple of months so you've got to see it while it's there. We went for 20mins and were there for an hour+. If my neighbour hadn't been with me I'd have stopped on the way back.

So lets just say this is my garden It's sort of a back yard.

 

I have spoken to neighbours about their front garden and what will be there. Will send them some photos of how it should look and see what they do with it. Hopefully loads of the self seeded Cyclamen will make it across the road

-taff

So your entrance planting is lovely Dusty, it's screaming a rottery acres entranceway sympathies to Mrs Dustyand her lurgy too

PP, ho very annoying, I sympathise with you or at you, spinning heads is no fun at all.

2P, sorry you've got a lurgy too, love the upside down one. I wouldn't worry about your kitchen, looks very atmospheric. Love the cat, he's is doing You Shall Not Pass...

ybe, I'm hopeful you're in one piece now? 

Farway, it does indeed look like you're family have been passing teir genes on, it's really nice ot be part of a succession and doing what was important to all of them. I see your TB and raise you some vicks

wm, a lovely haul of potatoes, they do taste so much better. Oh has actually asked me to grow more because I don't think he's ever tasted potatoes that taste of potatoes before.

No gardening here. Tomorow is the tart of wood phase one, cutting to length anything that will work as bed edging. I took the cardboard ot the allotment yesterday and some metal net that I picked up for nowt, and the builders have left the building for now until the kitchen comes which will be a coule of weeks, so odd visits from plumbers and electricians will happen but I've basically got the rest of the week for free now. Good job because my ionion sets need planting along with the various bulbs and aliums I have magically acquired. A friend gave me some daffodils so I'm reciprocating with aliums [ I may have taken advantage of a Farway special]...

I'm still pretty exhausted after doing anything but I'm sure I can do a strenuous potter or two. I've gone a bit seed crazy too, Real Seeds has had a bashing but I will have some nice stuff, if i grows next year.

I did not know that about stags, who needs Chanel eh...

Dustyevsky

No invisible rain here today, wort, but we often specialise in that. Great news about the lavender; it's given me the impetus I need to have a go, too.

I know one Great Uncle did something in a Notcutts of Woodbridge, Farway, but I've no photos like yours I can share. The pride people had in their work and achievements is so evident from old pictures like those. Ask a young man to pose with a broom today, and he'd probably put it somewhere uncomfortable!

We need to know where to send the Attenborough Award, 2p! I love how you just nip out in the car for an hour to shoot great wildlife photos most of us never see! Your fieldfares haven't made it down to these parts yet, but there's quite a good harvest of apple fallers for when they do.

Here's my wildlife photo for All Hallows Eve. I had to sit out for hours in thehalf-light to get it!

And here's another picture I shot for taff, whom I thought might think it slightly Goth, before realising pp, with her spinning head, might also appreciate still having a head to spin!

OK, I'll get me coat....but before I do, there's a pretty Abelia in the background there.

Here's hoping everyone under the Awful Weather is a little (or a lot!) better this morning. 

-taff

OMG Dusty, you are secretly Batman and have a Bat Lair!! Now I can see why the driveway planting is so impressive...

If that's a modern scarecrow that's a blummin good idea to have wafty skirts scaring the birds. I do like it

pink_poppy

I know what you mean about invisible rain, wort, I could feel it on my face when I had my wee wander in the garden yesterday.

Stunning photos, twopenny   I love stags - they're so majestic. I've seen the 'Monarch of the Glen' painting in Edinburgh and you just want to sit and stare at it. I wonder if we get the Fieldfares raiding the crab apples again, like we did a couple of years ago - I remember we'd had a prolonged cold snap and I think that's what brought them in.

Dusty, I love the 'bat' and 'scarecrow' pics. Whitby is the place to go for Hallowe'en and all things Goth...

Whitby Goth Weekend: The town where a subculture feels safe - BBC News

Hope you enjoy your time at the allotment, taff, it'll be a break from tea making.

It's bright outside this morning, but wet. I might attempt another wee wander if it dries up as I'm craving fresh air.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all. 

Glad you're feeling better less spinning top-y now pp, hopefully the tablets will kick in proper today  

Great collection of photos again. I love your stag + birds and reflections 2p and your Cool Garden and Halloween-y bits Dusty It's not a bit wonder you're a gardener with that lineage Farway, if not blue blood then green blood...? I prefer your starry pic to mine wm, mine looked a bit like snotters all over my lens ha haa! Woohoo for lavender rootings wort You'll be pootling about at your allotment then will you taff? Daffs for alliums is a good swop I reckon  

No gardening done here but I'm gonna get on it today. Weather is good for it and I'm sure there's plenty to do, I just need to get out and bluddy do it instead of sitting on me erse applying for jobs and looking at cars to no avail! I've no Handsome today for Lovely Neighbour is off for half term so I've the day to meself  

OT dull out there but there's a bit of a breeze and the humidity will drop to high 70's, possibly, and that'll make a nice change. 11' now with a high of 15' to come, which is 10' cooler than Marmaris. (Am I really the only one with a load of global places saved on the weather app things...?) 

Oh and I didn't get an air rifle for me birfday :rolleyes: He bought me an interesting looking book and a bookmark, and a giant box of Guylian seashells + seahorses chocolates. Didn't I say he's a non-listening one  

-taff

Join a shooting club and get your own That's my plan to own a shotgun for the zombe apocalypse...

Happy belated too!

Farway

Dull & grey, very uninspiring looking out.

Cracking stag pics 2P, and sort of on your door step. I had a Labrador that must have had Stag in her, she loved rolling in unmentionables, the grosser, the better it seemed.

Hoping all the poorly folk are a bit better, only upside is the weather is not sitootery weather right now

pink_poppy said:

The TB I have looks like ear wax   I think there are at least two different ones you can buy. Hope it helps the knee, Farway.

Mine is the same earwax style, I thought it would be more gel like, similar to Vic [Hello Taff ] 

I managed to oik some out and rub into achy bit of knee, seems to have worked, but maybe it was just time related anyway?

At least it gave the impression of doing something positive instead of just hurting.

I think for my next application I'll use the tip of a knife to dig some out of the pot and go from there, but I now spot they do a spray. Which could be much easier to use, sort of TB40. Just a quick squirt to stop squeaky knees.

At least my knee is now much improved, this time last week I was horizontal and in agony.

Can't match Dusty Halloween, some houses in this area really go to town, but my road is full of grumpy gits older folk like me, there is the occasional child but not many.

Dustyevsky said:

I know one Great Uncle did something in a Notcutts of Woodbridge, Farway, but I've no photos like yours I can share. The pride people had in their work and achievements is so evident from old pictures like those. Ask a young man to pose with a broom today, and he'd probably put it somewhere uncomfortable!

I remember Notcutts, and still going strong I believe

I found this 1939 Newsreel, carnation growing. https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/80542/

I used to see the greenhouses from the bus, and family tales say G grandad was a grower and had a carnation named after him, but I've found no evidence despite trying.

Wouldn't be surprised, after all if the main industry in the area is growing carnations, then like coal mining, be hard not to be involved somehow.

Can I book you for some sharp shooting next year YBE? Just squirrels. Wouldn't be too bad if I had one of the white ones that live around here, at least it would be a change for a photo.

Belated Happy Birfday.

Today is out of season Honeysuckle, spotted during yesterday's garden limping