Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

pink_poppy said:

Farway, I love the photo of the cones, do they open up or stay that shape??

They open up as they dry out, then the seeds drop out

Dustyevsky said:

pink_poppy said:

The silage looks like my hair    

Aw, emotional support chickens, that sounds lovely, but sad at the same time (if you're being serious - I'm never sure with you   )

Hmm, a cherry picker, it could be, but it was way above the height of the building and trees. Urgh, it doesn't bear thinking about being that high up...

I'm sure your hair smells better, though! As for the person on the crane/ cherry picker, it's the same for those who maintain steeples and things like that. I saw a video involving steeple maintenance recently, but I had to stop watching, and the chap hadn't even left the ground! 

I don't want you to worry about the emotion-calming chickens today, so I'll explain they're knitted, not real.

Emotional chickens & cherry pickers, somehow triggers my lower instincts, about the people who remove pheasants feathers! I'm sure mucky minds will soon rearrange those into a well known words or saying.

Was the steeple maintenance, the Salisbury Cathedral changing the light bulb? Shuddering just watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzi_M1dzxYQ

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Was the steeple maintenance, the Salisbury Cathedral changing the light bulb? Shuddering just watching it.

Yes, that was the one. As a child, this picture haunted me. Nowadays, I can make it small enough to cope with....just about!

Lovely, sunny afternoon here. I did some weeding, chopped-up one of the fallen willows and came indoors to find a phone message from Mrs Dusty, who's visiting the Out-laws. The gist of it was, “I've bought a Noble Fir about 6' tall. Now, we must decide where to put it!”

twopenny

Decorate it with tinsel and put it in the living room Dusty until the weather picks up

Still cold and too damp here though brighter.

Only contribution to gardening was reading GW in the dentists and clearing up seeds and tools in the garage!

pink_poppy

Just a quick post to say today's Wordiply letters were SHOO - I'm wondering if Farway can guess what my first word was...

Wordiply | The Guardian

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Just a quick post to say today's Wordiply letters were SHOO - I'm wondering if Farway can guess what my first word was...

Wordiply | The Guardian

You're obviously looking for trouble, quoting the Grauniad here!   

Red dawn suggests something unpleasant on the horizon, but it's not arriving until after dark. It's just more wind & rain. It looks as if I shall be shopping for DIY bits today, as our resident tiler is pushing on with work I never got around to these past 5 years. Hurrah! Tiling is one of those jobs where one's skill, or lack of it, stays on display for years; hence my reluctance. In fact, the only tiling I've done since coming here, is to pull-up and re-lay a few that others have laid badly. That's not necessarily been a skill problem; more a desire to work speedily and keep costs down. Our recent drain work necessitating the use of a digger is a good example. We've just been billed for that, and it's under £100! The gentleman concerned could easily have billed us for a day, but 2.5 hours is what's on the ticket.

It's past 09.00 and I must fly, so here are the emotional support chickens, as promised. I'd love one, but the Noble Fir cost less!

Edit: Looking closely now, one of them might be an E.S. pheasant!

Farway

Dull and dry, another non gardening day ahead

Sort of gardening, my T & M shrubs & hyacinth offer is on the way, hope the blighters are labelled this time

One job later is locating some pots to put the hyacinths in, I'm undecided whether to have them indoors or near the front door

Near door would be easier, if I can find suitable pots

pink_poppy said:

Just a quick post to say today's Wordiply letters were SHOO - I'm wondering if Farway can guess what my first word was...

Wordiply | The Guardian

Ha Ha , now I really do need to get out ASAP and get a decent photo of the seed pods

The workers having lunch break on the girder, hard to look at. I looked it up, have you spotted bloke, far right, has a bottle of booze for his lunch?

In contrast, when someone here replicated the pose they were threatened with the sack, Elf & safety

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9307352.Construction_workers_may_lose_jobs_for_recreating_iconic_photo/

Dustyevsky said:

It's past 09.00 and I must fly, so here are the emotional support chickens, as promised. I'd love one, but the Noble Fir cost less!

Edit: Looking closely now, one of them might be an E.S. pheasant!

The E S pheasant looks well plucked

pink_poppy

Oops, I didn't know the Grauniad was controversial    

Some people are so clever with their knitted creations, Dusty - I'd buy one of those   

Farway, I'd never even heard of Shoo fly plants before you mentioned them on here - it got me 9 letters because I went for the plural version    
EDITED & CORRECTED - I've just googled and what I put down was actually a small insect, not your plant, as I didn't realise Shoo Fly was two words at the time (it was early haha). So, double oops, but lucky for me that what I put was an actual word   

Here are my foraged cones from a couple of weeks ago, including Odd Job in the middle. I'm never sure whether to call them Fir or Pine cones and Google doesn't help with that either...



And I love this piece of kindling that I found in our stash this morning...


OT - it's a chilly one, with heavy rain forecast again this afternoon. Bah Humbug...

twopenny

You should keep that as a garden sculpture

Better than the big stone thing.

I have a heart shaped stone in my garden along with all sorts of other odds and ends. Huge part of an amonite and of course - an emotional support chicken.........it's a pottery moneybox with no stopper and a chipped beak that was in a charity shop but it sits and guards my cuttings.

It's climbed up to 10c here but still cold and wet. I eyed up the lawn and bed clearing but it won't be fun in this weather.

So I got too it and moved some pots - the apricot which is still alive and covered in buds, so some blossom at least please before you pass on.

Hoed the veg beds because the soil was going green with all the wet, and weeded after a fashion. Moved the strawberry plants that were unsucessful and replaced with mine which have come on better for being moved.

aerated the lawn bit I trampled and the mossy bits and Garottaed the compost heap, by then a sudden Westerly wind came in wild and spat with rain. Also it was dark of course.

17 Days 9 Hours 21 Minutes 33 Seconds.till the sun starts rising again...........

-taff

PP, I used to do that, I did find I got better as time went on, then I completely forgot about it until you posted. Why is it controversial? That's a pretty bit of kindling, now you can bever burn it unless there's a kindling emergency

Farway I discovered the friend I went to see today has bought the aliums for a pound and is trying to foist some on me, so I have politely declined being as I have so many! Shame about them losing their jobs potentially, I did like the insouciant way he was describing the roof only being 12ft below... Very interesting about the fish too...

Dusty, I like your emotional support chicken pheasants...I have Mona Lisa socks too, but they are a lurid yellow where she is isn't...

2P, your squirrels are cute even if there are noises about their population explosion in the paper [ what's an online paper? Is it an online?]

And whoever voted for the simplest answer re the fruit cage, well, I found a way in. It might not be The way in but it's A way in and that's good enough even if it will involve shimmying under a metal pole and avoiding the wires in the middle. The fruit cage clean up begins....

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:
Oops, I didn't know the Grauniad was controversial    
Some people are so clever with their knitted creations, Dusty - I'd buy one of those  

There's no controversy. I was giving people a clue for the puzzle, not that they needed it, of course.

Some woolly creators are in this picture. There were 8 of them altogether, spinning. By the way, that's the closest I'm going to the fatstock in the background. I don't want to offend anyone's sensitivities.

-taff said:

Farway I discovered the friend I went to see today has bought the aliums for a pound and is trying to foist some on me, so I have politely declined being as I have so many!

The Allium moly included in that lot have edible flowers.....but you'll probably know that. I wonder if any others may also be consumed?

twopenny said:

I have a heart shaped stone in my garden along with all sorts of other odds and ends. and of course - an emotional support chicken.........it's a pottery moneybox with no stopper and a chipped beak that was in a charity shop but it sits and guards my cuttings.

17 Days 9 Hours 21 Minutes 33 Seconds.till the sun starts rising again...........

I was horrified to find my heart-shaped stone among the rubble collected for the next bit of road making here. There's only real chickens in our garden, but we do have a concrete West Highland Terrier patrolling outside the workshop.

Wasn't it dark today? At 15.30 some hens began looking to roost!

Farway said:

The workers having lunch break on the girder, hard to look at. I looked it up, have you spotted bloke, far right, has a bottle of booze for his lunch?

In contrast, when someone here replicated the pose they were threatened with the sack, Elf & safety

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9307352.Construction_workers_may_lose_jobs_for_recreating_iconic_photo/

The E S pheasant looks well plucked

I hadn't looked that hard at the picture!   Typical UK company. Hire workers with some spirit, and then try to make them conformists.

Hmm, the pheasant looks to have a bit of cashmere or merino in its genes. Surely that should have given it the edge to outrun the most persistent pluckers?

EDIT: Just seen Friday to Sunday's forecast.