Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

Very frosty morning, with mist over to the west. The garden looks lovely with its sparkle of white. Not sure the cat appreciated it, he charged in this morning 😂

Farway

Bright & frosty start, I imagine Colin won his Darwin Award last night

pink_poppy said:

Good idea about the flask, wort. We used to have two stainless steel ones years ago, I'm wondering now where they've got to.

Love Colin the Caterpillar, Farway    I'm envious of your Jersey milk hot chocolate, I bet that tastes lovely. Hope it was nice and hot, because my lukewarm one yesterday was not nice.

What a good idea to tie teasels (??) together for the birds, Dusty. Hope Mrs Dusty didn't bring too much tat back from the garden centre.

Your flasks are in the Garden Vortex which contains trowels, secateurs, hand forks, pruning knives and gloves

My hot choc failed, time ran out , but I have it down for this afternoon's treat

I also like the teasel bunch, never thought of that, I've just left them as freestanding, but idea nicked for another year

Here's the morning sun hitting a tree I can see from the front window of Farway Towers. 

A bit like Summer Solstice at Stonehenge

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Good idea about the flask, wort. We used to have two stainless steel ones years ago, I'm wondering now where they've got to.

 As Farway's said, they'll be in the black hole that entraps things we don't keep an eye on, especially ones that come in pairs. Why is it always the right hand's glove?   Flasks are a good thing to have anyway for the unplanned cuts, when we might be boiling water on the wood stove, gas camping grill or barbecue. Of course, we might not need to do that, but knowing how well some matters have been handled, and the people handling them, I'd not put money on it!

You all seem to have had a frosty start so far. We had frost in the evening yesterday, but it was gone this morning. That's a stunning tree Farway. What is it? Bert seems to have denuded most trees here, except the ornamental pear, Chanticleer, which is showing no acknowledgement of the season.

I toured the 'estate' last night while waiting for the hens to perch. Two willows in the little grove near the far end of the field succumbed to Bert. Being multi stemmed, no one spotted this. As they grow, the trunks often list to one side, so I cut them down before the inevitable happens. These weren't listing, just old and weak at ground level. A little extra firewood for 2026.

I fiddled with the Rosemoor House photo. There are cleverer ways of straightening, but I took the easy route. I can now see the central sandwich smudge!

PS. pp, I looked up the planet I saw in the east early evening yesterday and it was Jupiter....I think!  Memory isn't what it was. Hope your crystals are settling, and 2p's tummy.

pink_poppy

That tree is an amazing colour, Farway, and I noted the matching colour date   Enjoy your hot chocolate today.

I think I can see the smudge as well, Dusty - what was it again... cheese and pickle??    Thanks for the Jupiter ID.

Crystals seem to be a little more settled this morning, but I'm not convinced they'll stay like that. I took the opportunity to take some frosty photos...

My poor Hydrangea looks like it belongs in Miss Havisham's wedding bouquet...


Icy tentacles on my window (it was 9.5 degrees in that room)...


The forecast is for sunny intervals this morning and then heavy rain this evening, which seems unbelievable looking at how much ice is around at the moment and how cold it is...

twopenny

Wow that's a lot of early mornign reading!

What gorgeous photos All sunny and rosy colours on this cold morning. Nature sends us some lovely things to get us through the winter.

I pass two big trees one orange and one yellow. Still have some leaves with a circle of the ones that fell off beneath. But it's somewhere I can't stop and photograph.

Aren't ice chrystals beautiful! Shame we have to be cold to see them but another of Mother Natures little joys.

3c last night which is cold for us. Staggered up to 4 this morning still feeling bitter. But it is brighter.

So again, it won't be gardening. Either too wet or too cold. Other stuff to do today.

Envious of the pommander! They are gorgeous WM.

And the hydranga. I'd like to draw or paint that. Too cold here to try as I didn't put the timer on the heating for this morning. Got away with it for weeks but gamble didn't pay off this morning.

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

You all seem to have had a frosty start so far. We had frost in the evening yesterday, but it was gone this morning. That's a stunning tree Farway. What is it? Bert seems to have denuded most trees here, except the ornamental pear, Chanticleer, which is showing no acknowledgement of the season.

II can now see the central sandwich smudge!

The tree is a Swamp Cypress, it had a Willow cousin, but the willow literally got the chop.

They were planted by the developer because that is / was the site of village pond, all the surrounding roads, hills, bumps, naturally drain down to that area, a bit like Mr Canute's plot

Still floods down there in heavy rain, but without the Cypress sucking up gallons I guess it would be worse

I can also see the Cheese & Pickle filter now

PP, great photos, so hard to get a real frosty feel, but you've got one there

Ah ha, I did wonder if anyone would spot matching tree & text colours, one of my little Photoshop toys. Have a virtual Poppy pat on the back.

I was trying earlier to get sunny photos of my ghostly Shoo fly seed pods in the winter sun, failed, too blurry, and it's not a C & P filter

I'll give it another go tomorrow

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Crystals seem to be a little more settled this morning, but I'm not convinced they'll stay like that. I took the opportunity to take some frosty photos...

There you go, pp, as soon as you feel a little better, you're away taking brilliant photos! I love the icy tentacles, and that view's just stunning!

Farway said;

The tree is a Swamp Cypress, it had a Willow cousin, but the willow literally got the chop.

I really fancy a Swamp Cypress down at the other end of the fields, where it would catch the evening sunshine. Unfortunately, to get a fiery view like Farway's, it would need to have been planted it at least 25 years ago. We have a 10-year-old copper beech there, so that will have to do.

Err, I've been matching text and colours for some time too, but it doesn't always work. I've also played with the Rosemoor photo a bit more, making it a spooky book or film flyer for horror-loving horticulturalists. As it's so long until the next Halloween, I'll pop it in here. I promise it's the last time you'll see it!   

Obviously, this would be one of a series, including 'Seeds of Doom,' Alien Species,' and 'Something Invasive This Way Comes.'  

In other news, it was a chilly 8c here today, when I finally attached the gutter by its new brackets. The old ones virtually disintegrated in my hands. They're onto a good earner there. Then, it was replacing all the ground cover Bert had thrown around last weekend. At least none of it escaped, unlike bits of a neighbour's home-made plastic greenhouse, which I'm finding in many interesting places.

-taff

Love the cloud pic Dusty. I sometimes used to see them on the way home from work, in my imagination it was an tsunami. Your bench is like my garden lanterns. They really shine brightest in the summer when they're not really needed and dimly in the winter when they are. Also in a greement about the teasel heads. I could still do that to mine [ one more job added to the list] Did you move the sculpture to straighten the house ? the Cursed Cuttings? pronounced Cur-sed? I like it!

PP, didn't get them planted no, I am slacking. So annoying about the bertigo though. And I think I actually like hydrangeas like that.

that's a very swish pomander. I need to cut down a holly tree so I think some of that is going to be put to a more decorative use. I brought the loppers home from the allotment for just that purpose.

Glad yu have twinkles farway, it really does cheer me up seeing those. Have you cheked on Colin today? Or maybe lauhed him towards the fire tree? Gorgeous colour on that.

It was frosty as this morning but I gridded my lions and went to the allotment. I sneaked two bags of compost , the perks of no one else being there, and sorted out part of the fruit bit. In my head I was going to do the whole area, but for the life of me I cannot find a way into the fruit cage past the netting. Does anyone have any cunning ideas or I'm going to have to cut it. I can't see any overlapping areas, there are bars thigh height or wires all the way round too. Maybe he was a magician and disappeared and appeared into and out of it.

YoungBlueEyes

Am alive! Have survived! They did, too, Farway  Bluddy tricky though, who knew being an Office Dolly was actually quite complicated. And you wanna see the phones - I'm sure we had less advanced technology going to space. But the people are lovely, and Big Boss Man calls me poppet, which I don't mind actually (sorry feminism). Crepi il lupo taff

pp are you still improving bit by bit? That's a bu99er about the job but there'll be another. What's coming for ye won't pass by ye  

2p have your innards finished having a clearout? (I didn't see mention of it but did you have a nice birthday...?) 

Beautiful pictures, I like the waterfall and the spooky Rosemoor polo - I vote for 'cur-sed' or even 'a-cur-sed' - and the beautiful glowing red tree   I reckon Miss Haversham would be pleased as punch with the hydrangea. The misty "Hidden" photo is a belter, front page material for sure  

My pictures aren't anything like as artistic but - where I sit for my lunch has birds in it, and they're obviously used to begging. Day one I had a robin and a sparrow.



Day 2 - robin and Mrs blackie



Day 3 - robin 



I'm going to try training the wee robin and prob Mrs blackie to eat outta my hand. Robin is all but there tbh, and blakies are very trainable so :fingerscrossed:
I gave the pigeons and squirrels stern side-eye but they didn't take a blind bit of notice so people obviously feed them, too

Are we  3D printing a Rottery Acres then? Best start now for I believe it is quite slow  

Oh and my pomander was much welcomed by His Holeyness wm. It's just the right height to land on when he launches himself off the fence. Shipbag.

Farway

Cold & bright again, the Cypress is catching the sun, but it's not as fiery as the other day, that must be when sun is a certain angle to the needles / leaves

YoungBlueEyes said:

Am alive! Have survived! They did, too, Farway  Bluddy tricky though, who knew being an Office Dolly was actually quite complicated. And you wanna see the phones - I'm sure we had less advanced technology going to space. But the people are lovely, and Big Boss Man calls me poppet, which I don't mind actually (sorry feminism). Crepi il lupo taff

Glad all have survived YBE, just time before Christmas to flounce out & get a sex discrimination case, AKA Blue Swift fund, comp claim going, or have I been reading the Fail Online too long?

Not wasting lunch breaks either, training the birds, any squirrels there? They usually get quite "tame" when fed.

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With the sunshine, I may try again for the ghostly Shoo fly pods photo

BTW. The matching text & colour idea I stole from paid homage to Dusty, all future royalties should go to him