Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

What a very fancy outfit that bird has 2P, beautiful colours!

pp, that kayaker picture did make me laugh, it looks like he's doing it on a twig And I think it was wort, not me. That hellebore is really pretty too. Your cloud picture is just what it was like living in the valleys, being above the cloud and in birhgt sunhine while everyone below is in fog was very weird. Beautiful photo. i thought your thrushes wer very christmassy too, very retro eighties cardswith the spray on snow.

Dusty, good news re septic tanking, and lovely cat pic, I'm surprised they didn't bat the fence over like they do with vases or cups or anything on an edge. Nice orsh too cor blimey, what a colour on your calicarpa [sp?oops] Beautiful camelia too. My sister has Mrs somebody or other, can never remember, it had a fabulous year this year with all the rain, let's hope it blooms as spectacularly again...Mrs Campbell? It's a very blousy red though and I love it.

wm, awww! poor thing, what an expression!

Hey ybe, hope you haven't become a total alcoholic now, but agua tonica does sound like it's healthy or something

Farway, how's the limbs? Lovely shoo fly, it is a bit upbiquitous with you isn't it...you might have to hire your green shoo fingers out...that offer is amazing, I paid a tenner for about thirty purple sensation aliums...could have pad two... ::sigh:: oh well...

wort, I feel your pain. I once had to cuk a rat out of the sofa with a hoover to get it out after Fatty brought it in and ripped its guts out.

Actual sun here today so I went and sorted out the compost heap and checked my cunningly disguised onions were still planted. I have seen lots of time birds pulling out the sets before they start srpouting so I threw a load of leaves over the bed to disguise the tops sticking. Seems ot have worked, only one pulled up that I saw. Unfortunately, it's bloody difficult for me to see them too. Another tip run tomorrow and then there again to sort the roof out and rake more leaves for the compost heap, which contrary to popular opinion contain bindweed, blackberry thingies, nettles and other heinous stuff. Its well protected with cardboard ot stop anything growing before it dies though so we'll see...I'm in the mindset of chuck it all on now. This is if it can't be composted in place that is. I swear my gardening gets simpler every year.

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Joining in the eye sub thread, Into town first for routine eye test, passed with one advisory, make sure to use sunglasses in bright sun, incipient cataracts, no worse than last time but better safe than lasered

For once no need for new specs, must be a world first.

I'd heard of Hoggin, goes with a Wacker plate, like peaches & cream, cat & sick mouse

I think with all that is going on, growing more fruit & veg is a good idea if you've room

My eye result was virtually the same as yours. Last time, I didn't need new specs either, but I should have replaced them because of heavy use in undergrowth etc. They were very scratched by the time I had the new ones last week.

No wacker for our barn's drive, but I agree one should have been used, as on the 'posh' one. There again, if we'd been doing a top-notch job for a property we hoped to keep, we'd have gone down much deeper.

I think I'll remove the photos of the trees now before someone recognises them, takes offence and contacts the fuzz. I don't want to be involved in a 'non-crime hate incident.'

-taff said:

Dusty, good news re septic tanking, and lovely cat pic, I'm surprised they didn't bat the fence over like they do with vases or cups or anything on an edge. Nice orsh too cor blimey, what a colour on your calicarpa [sp?oops] Beautiful camelia too. My sister has Mrs somebody or other, can never remember, it had a fabulous year this year with all the rain, let's hope it blooms as spectacularly again...Mrs Campbell? It's a very blousy red though and I love it.

The septic tank drain field has been sorted now. I accidentally deleted most of the photos I took, but they were pretty boring. Once you've seen one hole in the ground.....Poor Mrs Campbell,' when she was resident at the RHS, she was a Lady, but from recent personal experience, I know being a Lord doesn't make one polite or caring, and I expect the same applies.

https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/camellia-japonica-lady-campbell/classid.2000019756/

I have a feeling some loose genetic material from this Lady fell into my clothing a few years ago at Rosemoor, but despite treating them well and giving them a correct burial, there was no result.

Lovely cormorant 2p and brave paddleboarder pp. Apologies if I've missed anyone but I dare not turn the page back now!

We are back to murk and mizzle this morning, but 12c, so it'll be OK for what I've planned, which is a quiet catching-up day. Mrs Dusty is doing major topiary with her bay tree out front, which is risky because everyone can see the result. It's to be a ball on top of a cube, apparently. If that works, and it turns out to have some peculiar meaning in the world of free bricklayers, we can look forward to some interesting handshakes!

Having unwittingly deleted stuff, I've nothing new yet, so it has to be another piccie of the sunset the other day.

Farway

I'm also back to murk & mizzle this morning, I had sort of thought, maybe, clear some gone over plants if sun kept up, but saved just in time to put it off for another day.

pink_poppy said:

I hadn't heard of hoggin, but I've duly googled and apparently it's available from a builder's merchant here. Is it something you have to get tradesmen in for, with Farway mentioning the wacker??

No, you can hire them, wakers that is, depends on area really, there's also a lump of metal on a pole that you wack down on the bumps, you may have seen the pothole fillers using them

Or, you can do as sounds like Dusty has, just lay it and bash it flat

twopenny said:

Farway I had a look at the site. Lots of lovely stuff but why £1? Are they last years stock?

I can't be tempted. I've bought fancy tulips before and they tend to only return once. So now it's Poundand tulips for me. They come on year after year. Just plain though but I'm glad of the colour after winter.

I have enough daffs to start selling bunches! And don't regret it.

Not AFAIK, just over supply & need to clear out before they are past selling in time to plant for next year, equivalent to Yellow Sticker I guess. 

Seed sales are often last year & use by is say 2024, but most will be fine as we all have old seed packets which still grow year-on-year

You can never have too many daffs

-taff said:

Farway, how's the limbs? Lovely shoo fly, it is a bit upbiquitous with you isn't it...you might have to hire your green shoo fingers out...that offer is amazing, I paid a tenner for about thirty purple sensation aliums...could have pad two... ::sigh:: oh well...

Limbs are OK thanks, knee sometimes twinges but generally fine given the vintage

Yeh, sometimes offers are very good, I didn't buy any, tempted as I was by the alliums, they never grow for me, odd really how exotic shoo flies pop up but Love in a Mist & alliums fail. But that's gardening, always wanting to grow what you can't.

Hope I've not missed anyone. I did try & get a pic of the pelargonium in flower, but the result was pants. I'll give it another go, hopefully before Winter arrives next week.

Dustyevsky

Looking at the date, I've suddenly remembered something happens next Monday, and probably in the days afterwards. Those who've prepared may not need to be immediately concerned, but ultimately it's going to affect us all. I won't link to him for fear of breaking the 'no politics' rule, but The Bowler Hatted Farmer is one person who explains straightforwardly what's going on. He also refers to the Spanish floods, which will place an extra burden on our food supply in the run-up to that thing beginning with 'C.'

Possibly unrelated, but I've just seen the local removal company's small van going into the farm across our wee valley here, so it looks as if the 'Sold' flag on Rightmove is accurate. The price? Err....just north of £1million.

pink_poppy

Lovely Cormorant pic, twopenny, the detail on the feathers is excellent.

The paddle boarder pic isn't the best as I had to zoom in. The person does look quite funny, a bit 'stick-man' like and not quite real    It just seemed a funny time of year and day (it was dusk) to be doing that.

Lovely sunset, Dusty. Your post was quite cryptic (aye, I know it had to be) I hope this doesn't mean a run on loo rolls again - I bet some people are still using the stuff they hoarded last time...

I'll probably give the hoggin a miss, it sounds a bit too tricky for what I had in mind. We don't get many pothole fillers here, Farway, even though they are sorely needed    

Another grey and windless day - I can't remember the last time we had a decent breeze for getting washing dry outside.

Farway

Sun has crept out, it's quite warm if in it.

Thanks for cryptic clue Dusty, I was unaware, I'm collecting my prescription tomorrow & will be in Morries anyway, so I'll bear it in mind and stock up on limp pansies

With sun comes camera, here is the pelargonium at last

BTW, these were from Morries earlier in the year

Dustyevsky

Pelargoniums are such good value plants, Farway. Yours is a hue we don't have in our little collection. Cerise or pink? I'm not sure, but it's lovely.

We almost had some sunshine here, and later, almost some rain too.Maybe 2p had that. I'm not sure how warm it was, because I did a few hours chainsawing, which keeps the circulation going wonderfully! I'm all-in now, and it's not even 15.00. This has been a pretty full-on week, so maybe I'll have a break tomorrow. Next week looks distinctly chilly!

I posted this property over on the "Look at This!" Thread, but to save you going there, here's the link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86823939#/?channel=RES_BUY

I was searching for a reason why it hadn't sold, when I saw the name of the neighbouring property on the aerial view! 

pink_poppy

Lovely pelargonium, Farway, such a pretty colour.

I've been out for my walk and got fretty rained on pretty much straightaway. It was forecast, but supposedly later in the afternoon. Grr.

I took this pic while I was out because the mountain looked like the top had been sliced off due to the low cloud - it's not usually flat, plus the lovely sunny bit looked nice in amongst the gloominess. I think I've inadvertently captured a bird of prey, possibly an eagle and something else, on the right hand side. I didn't see if when I was taking the photo, so that was an unexpected bonus

wort

Yesterday, stayed grey and still all day so washing was still wet when I brought it in. Boiler man says all well , that’s as maybe but the price was a pick me up off the floor job.

Today was foggy to start and I was to meet friends for short walk and early lunch at small GC , by the time we arrived it was sunny and the area we walked had lots of birds ,and many people with cameras . One of my pals spotted what she says is a rare bird but I can’t recall what it was. She’s into all that stuff, so I believe her. We walked to the GC and had a wander around the Xmas stuff , quite reasonable prices actually. 

I had looked at Farways offer on bulbs before I went and put some in the basket but couldn’t get the code to work. So I picked up some bags of narcissus 99 p for a pack of 7. There was bigger bags of mixed but I wanted the small ones. So when I got home I’ve planted those. And had a good chop back on the bamboo. Just in as it was going dusk.

A lovely colour sky in that sunset Dusty. Pp that is a very atmospheric scene table mountain style! 

wort

The walk round the lake