Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Love the rainbow Dusty. I'd like that along the side passage of the bungalow to cheer it up.

The predicted shower at 12o'clock came at 1pm and is still going. Too wet to get out on the lawn. The washing that has been out for 2 days is wetter than when it left the machine!

Tomorrow is sun all day or rain depending on which site you look at so I'll see when I wake up I guess.

Farway

More dull, grey & a bit damp even though not actually raining. Promise of some sun later, perhaps.

twopenny said:

Farway I have something for you to play with on a dull day.

Have you seen the 3D stero photo maker? The one I saw was Owl3D images printing 2 photos with one minutely offset and using an old fashioned victorian viewer

https://frankenfiction.com/stereophotography-victorians-3d/

The photos were amazing! you could look right through a dandelion head or a multi headed flower - and of course all sorts else.

Aparantly you can also photo something a tad offset but that sounds hard to me.

Not seen that, reminds me a bit of those 3D viewers that had a wheel with pics of tourist stuff, like London etc, clicked the wheel, and you saw 3D of the places.

View master, I craved one, but we only had dirt to eat [Yorkshireman sketch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen ] so could never afford one

https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/view-master

There are also programs to make moving image from old faces, eery, I used one on some family photos, they smile & blink, spooky. 

I've not tried this one, AI of course & needs signing up, I may play later instead of gardening.https://deepnostalgia.ai/

Dustyevsky said:

We have fuchsias hanging-on too, but probably not for much longer. A pleasant couple who left the neighbouring enclave for pastures new, oop norf, bequeathed us a fine specimen of 'Mrs Popple.' I was delighted... until I went to dig her up. She had rampant fuchsia rust, and that's something no one wants in their garden. There's no cure that I've found which works.

Luckily Mrs P gets about a bit, I've seen her showing off at Morries. And my hardy one has a look of Mrs P about it, no idea if it is or not.

I've not come across fuchsia rust, so spared that. Had the gall mite though one year, solved by binning the plant.

I like the Glow tunnel, with cheese & pickle filter?

My intended photo of the red rose down my garden has been cancelled, the rose went manky mildew instead of opening properly

Here's pics, soon to be historic, of the two TPO oaks at the volunteer place, being felled next week

I've included cars & bungalows for scale purposes. 

A fellow volunteer measured the girth & reckoned these could be well over two hundred years old. 

If possible, avoiding chain saws & contractors, I'll try for an image of the cut trunks for a ring count.

PS, the yellow car is mine

twopenny

Beautiful trees Farway. Were they planted before or after the buildings?

Could you take a cutting? Would they leave the base to become a bush? Could the trunk be carved into something interesting?

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/377387643778809787/

Yes the double photo thingy should be free for the basics. I had one of the Viewmasters. As a kid I was underwhelmed. But this thing was amazingly good if you have the right, ordinary viewer.

Actually got out to start tidying the garden with some satisfaction. Lovely starting to see the dismal space start to look like a loved garden - but then repeated showers turned to cold and dark rain without stopping. Even the washed undies hung under a blind got damper. Really had enough of this  

Trimmed the box hedge and to heck with the Box Moth. Didn't get around to topping up the bulbs - again. No idea what's in the pots but it's growing so turning it out is not an option. It will have to be a surprise.

I've got a row of Crocus popping out of the soil along a row of Box. They are the ones on the darker side that didn't do anything last year but already up an inch or so. May get some Christmas Crocus

Also discovered a pack of onion sets in the garage. Didn't know I had those. I think they were sold cheap and by the state of them a few weeks on they are last years. I will get around to planting them anyway. They should swell with all this rain.

The T&M bulbs.....I too seem to have non growing aliums.

This was working so fast to get those nuts burried.............

Dustyevsky

I would say Farway's oaks are older than the buildings. We have a few good-sized oaks, some maybe as old as me, but nothing that impressive.

When I was a lad, the middle class kids had the View-masters. We oiks were given air guns, cowboy outfits and Mr Potato Head.   I can't say I was unhappy with that. Unaided, my eyesight's abnormal, so I didn't 'see' the 3D simulation, although I pretended to. Those pictures that turn into something else if one stares at them long enough are another joy I seem excluded from.  Things could be worse!

It's interesting you chose a squirrel for today's photo, 2p.  I snapped one at Rosemoor on Friday, arguing over something with a crow. I thought the crow would win, but no, the squirrel drove it away. The camera was slow, of course, so I'm not going to make Wildlife Photographer of the Year. The crow was just taking off when the shutter finally clicked:

To be fair, it wasn't the most photogenic spot, but at least the smudge on the lens didn't matter! (How on earth did Farway know my sandwich was cheese & pickle?  )

Again, no significant rain here today. I finished chainsawing the lower field hedge. Rain and an easy day tomorrow.

Edit: We lit the wood burner tonight. It's officially winter now at Dusty Acres. 

twopenny

Wildlife is endlessly entertaining

Well done getting that shot Dusty.

Just popping it to tell Poppy her bird photo is on the blog  

It's still raining. We;ve got your share Dusty.

wort

Dusty the rainbow walk, I saw as Ivy lined at first glance, then realized it was stone. It was 5.0. Am though. A lot of places do the light walks now and they are so nice, shame they charge so much for most. There was one at centre parks the one time I’ve actually been there, and we stumbled across it by accident.

Farway ,another who didn’t have a veiw finder, not only a dirt eater but had a mud kitchen too in the garden to play with.😂 

2 p the squirrel must know bad weather is on the way to be burying his food so fast.

yesterday was miserable ,did nothing only bake a cake. At least that warmed the kitchen a bit.
Snow predicted early hours of tomorrow 🧐 misty and cold and damp this morning though.

YoungBlueEyes

Who turned the heating off?! My god it's cold. Himself got to work this morning and text me that his weather thing (different to all mine) confidently announced that it was -0'c So that's a new one. 

Our viagem was indeed boa, and voyage was bon too Hot the first few days - 'feels like' was 27', then cooler and rainy the last few. Still good fun though, even if the tourists are turning the whole world into the same town itms. Other than lemon+lime vodka I hardly saw anything different out there, and we strayed up into various little towns and villages. One thing I have now definitely got a taste for is pumpkin jam. Gawd you could eat it with a spoon That and the bread. Yummy yum yum. And whatever it was they were adding to my L+L vodka when i asked for tonic water, cos that varied depending on which bar/cafe we were in. All delicious though. 

I got plenty of pictures. Sunrises and sunsets, mostly plants tbh  

I've read back and we don't appear to have lost anyone else but still no Arb @ArbitraryRandom

I'm missing their coffee already....

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

 It's still raining. We;ve got your share Dusty.

Thanks, you're welcome, but now we have our own. Domestic nonsense awaits today, I fear!

wort said:

. A lot of places do the light walks now and they are so nice, shame they charge so much for most. There was one at centre parks the one time I’ve actually been there, and we stumbled across it by accident.

Farway ,another who didn’t have a veiw finder, not only a dirt eater but had a mud kitchen too in the garden to play with.😂

My friend was wondering if she might like the Glow, until I mentioned the cost, especially for non-members.....about £15, and one has to book, then go, even if it's raining.   I think the mud kitchen would have been far superior to a View-master. I didn't do kitchens, but I'd a mud heap and a hose, so constructed cunning watercourses and dams to defend my troops against enemy attack.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Who turned the heating off?! My god it's cold.
I got plenty of pictures. Sunrises and sunsets, mostly plants tbh .

Welcome back.  It must be like our experience as kids, hiding in the showers, because the water in the unheated swimming pool was freezing when school swimming lessons began just after Easter. The teacher would chase us out and make sure we jumped straight in.....sadist!   Apparently, it's another north/south divide, but we're not basking down here, even if no snow's forecast. It's returning to mild towards the end of the month anyway.

After bougainvillea, we may struggle with the plant IDs!

The photo today isn't very clear because the light was poor. It's just half the length of the hedge I've cleared. All the cut stuff thrown down needs sorting now, but not today in the rain.

You can see how the neighbours have all their other hedges cut tight. Only this one is left, barely touched, since they insist it's ours, not shared.

A closer view with one obvious bit still to cut and some of our (shared!) oaks in the background. 

YoungBlueEyes

Jeez Dusty, that's some work you've done there!

We didn't have ViewFinders growing up, we had a potato gun between us. I'm not sure it was an actual potato gun, but when the rolls of red paper with a wee dot of 'gunpowder' on them ran out we used to just stab the bullet end into a tatty and fire them like that. I remember that working, and hurting!  

The pics I've got are mostly for interest because queer/pretty. ID's are superfluous really. This is my garden this morning (before it all dies on me in the frost/snow/Arctic blast that’s coming - 

Not a great pic for I was trying to get it all into one :rolleyes:

twopenny

Lovely to see you back Bluey. Hopefully you'll adjust to the temp before any big freezes. Yes, I miss the coffee too. Even instant is better elsewhere, I think they save the floor sweepings for us because we take whatever is given us.

Your garden is looking lovely and colourful for the time of year.

Wort we've had berries thick on the trees since August. I don't think the plants know whether its arthur or matha these days.

Dusty that's some therapy cutting you've done there! What is the end result going to be?

Wet and damp here but not the continuous rain forcast so far. I wonder if they've got the days in the wrong order?

No sign of the icy blast this week. Hopefully that's something they've got wrong too.