Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

and wort, I just discovered what your name means quite by accident. I was enthralled.

twopenny

Gwad Taff, I was exhausted before but now I need bed after reading that!

The going to the GC for coffee and coming back  with a raised bed made me laugh.

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Gwad Taff, I was exhausted before but now I need bed after reading that!

The going to the GC for coffee and coming back  with a raised bed made me laugh.

I agree, taff made me feel indolent, staying in because it was chilly!  In my defence, was saving myself for a walk in the sunshine today, and getting on with some important indoor stuff too.

When I go to garden centres, I often come back with only raised blood pressure, though there are a couple around here doing a much better job in the plant areas than they were 10 years ago. The one we make many larger purchases from is 80 miles away, in Somerset. That's somewhat chaotic, but it goes like a fair due to the lower prices. It's fine, if people know what they're doing and don't need much in the way of customer service.

And taff's right about it feeling more spring-like as the days lengthen-out at both ends. Yesterday, when I heard the church clock strike 17.00, two guys were still working on the neighbour's roof. Here's a fake panoramic picture, with Dartmoor still easily visible in the background.Note the number of steel chimneys. Nearly everyone's on wood burners here!

The long range inebriate forecast is for pretty average February weather here in the south, and rather more in the way of wet stuff up in the NW and Scotland. Nevertheless, I expect the MSM will give us more dire warnings of snow bombs and polar plunges. Panic will probably set-in here around mid-March, when I realise all those winter jobs, still undone, will need to wait until November!

Farway

Wet start, with sun is just coming through, as promised, but I'm already worn out just reading Taff post

-taff said:

I know it hasn't but having got out today, it does feel like more spring has sprung..p.s. Farway, if they aren't rotten or going to be, leave them there

 I checked yesterday, the bean canes are at the stage where OK until a full crop and then will collapse , so I'll need to sort them by April.

 It turned out dry & warm enough to get my pot grown, Yellow stickered from Morries last year, Achillea into its final space at the front. 

The Japanese anemones are not yet large enough to risk planting out just yet, rooted & growing, but I think they may get swamped until a tad larger, so leaving in pots for maybe another month

Checked on the aquilegias I managed to save last year, still in yoghurt pots. No fresh top growth but roots have left the pot, so that's more plants left for another month until more robust.

More good news, pruned all the posh fuchsia from last year, all seem alive with green twigs. Pruned back to tidy up, I'll leave them a bit before I add some fertiliser for Spring boost. Be nice if they have all survived and get away to a head start this year!

Removed all the dead & brown nasturtium “vine”, and had a visit from my robin while removing that. I expect plenty of goodies were under there.

Ran out of bendiness by the time I reached the dead Lucifer leaves sprawled everywhere , so a job for another day, and maybe my Litter Picker grabby thing if I can find

Loads of potential buds on my plum, no colour showing yet, just a hint, could this year be the year I get a crop? The past couple of years the weather at blossom time has been rotten, so zero plums.

One bit of gloom, I think my Boysenberry has gone to the Fiords this winter, unless there is a surprise waiting underground it looks very dead to me, in a deep coma at least

I found a spring flower, aconite I think, but only managed to take a very blurry pic, will try harder later

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

It's been rather cold here of a night but today and yesterday reasonably mild in the daytime, for where we are at least, it's not raining so that's always a bonus. 

Can't find the willpower to start jobs in the garden yet, currently decorating the hallway in spare time.

Couple of photos from this morning's walk, bit of a breeze at the top which was most rewarding after breaking a sweat struggling to climb up there! 

-taff

Don't get too impressed I did some work, it's the first time in six weeks ...I didn't variously chainsaw wood, dig out trenches, dig up sedums, make ponds, go for massive walks,  tidy up or do anything strenuous...so...You've all done it sensibly, I've done it like a moron....

Weather is rain today on and off, feels colde than the temperature says it is so I'll liht the fire in a minute and go and put some holes in walls in the inside where it isn't windy [ lunatic], cold or damp [ farway, dusty...]

And anyway Farway, you seem to have amassed more work than me!

LessImpecunious

Keeping up with reading, not much time to post, but here are two photos from past two or three days, one weather-related and one herald of spring (as others have experienced, almost feeling that way in warmish middle of day sun...)

Apologies for poor focus on first (and lack of actual sunshine at the time...) and errant washing-line in second!

YoungBlueEyes

Before I read back and catch-up -

Happy Spring everyone! 

YoungBlueEyes

Not a hope lol. Well, 2 hopes and one of them plays golf :lol 

OT cool out there, and getting colder all day from the high of 5'c at midnight down to -3 this coming midnight. Hmmm. And that's the sobers! 

It was a beautiful sunny day on Thursday, sunny and mild and with appreciable and appreciated levels of apricity I took this pic on my way to work - 



It looks like grass growing through it but it can't be can it, it's come up too fast and it was never there before...

Appraisal went alright. Well I'm still employed, and starting looking round at what kinda car I could maybe have. I've got 9 months left on my MOT so I want one before that runs out, ideally.

Anyone else think that the high pressure brings the birds out? I had a robin and a song thrush having a right tweet-off earlier, it was definitely of the gerr'off moy laaaand! variety.

Oh and having titivated me Christmas/Winter pom wot I made at wm's and got all the bits shortened and rearranged so it was lovely looking again and gave the whole thing a good drink, the storm took it. I've got the ribbon and the straw left and that's all I've got

Best do some gardening today, I'm getting left behind  

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

 I took this pic on my way to work - 


It looks like grass growing through it but it can't be can it, it's come up too fast and it was never there before...
Appraisal went alright. Well I'm still employed....

Regarding the grass: if it looks like a grass...... and it does!

Employment is becoming a rare commodity in some fields. In our fields, I still find a bit to do, but no one else would want me. After all, I've now reached the average age at which people of my gender go off to pastures new. If you're looking around at potential end products of your toil, you probably feel your feet are under the table and the situation's tolerable....even interesting at times. 

Incidentally, the market for small used cars is red-hot just now. Dealers can't get enough. This must mean something.

Your beautiful, sunny Thursday reached us yesterday, so walking friend and I decided to do a short, but strenuous tramp down to a little known beach, to see if our legs still function OK. I find descents harder than uphill slogs. This picture doesn't do the gradient justice, but after shooting it, I spotted the fungi growing under the tree trunk.

  We had the beach to ourselves. The sea was much calmer than last Friday, when Mrs Dusty and I were a few miles east of here witnessing the aftermath of that storm with the foreign name:

Apart from the large shadow, cast by the cliff behind, it almost looked like summer!