Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

We've had some yarn bombing with a difference.

The postboxes I've never had my camera with me but this one I managed to get. Gardening related too.

There's some clever people about

A new challenge for WM and Bluey?

10c here and it feels sooo warm!

Wet too of course.

Dustyevsky

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head said:

Dustyevsky said:

Ceredigion then featured for it's physical similarity to Devon, but our focus gradually switched to selected parts of South Pembs. There, we thought our plant business might just about survive. However, events conspired to thwart that plan. We ended up here in Devon, where we have previous connections. 

Sorry to hear, hopefully everything worked out for the best  

Dustyevsky said:

It's a high-risk strategy, leaving town and heading-off to a new life in the sticks. We saw a lot of failed projects....and marriages! Without the help of a skilled family friend, and a few helpful locals, I doubt we'd have finished our renovation.

We're at the point where the house is comfortable so there isn't as much of a push to finish off the last bits and pieces, getting there slowly, no divorce yet! 

 I believe things work out when they're meant to. We had half a dozen false starts, to say nothing of the many other properties we viewed and walked away from. We didn't buy this smallholding with long term ownership in mind; it was just a safe haven for our money in a financial storm. At first, I hated it. However, in the much quoted words of Ingrid Bergman, "Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." It grew on us, so, like her, we've no regrets.

Your "getting there slowly" is indicative of contentment, too.

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Love that play area Dusty, my GC are older now, but they would've loved that.

Time to reminisce about falling off witches hats, jumping from American Swings, backwards down the slides, accessed by climbing up the outside framework & not the steps.

Dusty, 

Your grass neighbour, I wonder if some green subsidy is involved?

I'll try & look in Morries after collecting my fruit trees, but as it's Saturday morning I may avoid once I see the car park.

+1 with the play equipment from ye badd olde days. Goodness knows how we survived, eh? Mind you, GS1 has still managed to break both arms! (not at the same time, I might add. )

I doubt grazing is subsidy-worthy. Sheep and coos produce noxious gases, and they're not useful like beavers and pine martens. They may also become obsolete, when we 3D print our meat. Yum, yum! No more supermarket queuing then.

pink_poppy said:

Glad you're getting the tree you wanted. I'd avoid any supermarket on a Saturday - only early morning midweek shopping for me.

 I can vouch for the productivity of  a Cosford Cob, but if the fruits will go AWOL, you're left with the best looks. It's no beauty. Recent experience here is finding Saturday pm a quiet time for shopping. I put this down to people watching or participating in sporting events, and in good weather, heading for the coast etc.

Oh, and I agree, your hydrangea bits are remains of petals. Down here, we're just seeing the beginnings of new leaves on those, apart from the aspera types. As usual, they're giving a very good impression of being dead!

-taff

Wort, wish my erigeron would  make a bigger show. I'm probably treating it too well.Farway, thanks for those thoughts..I'm definitely staying away from both types of waste now! If you find you do like rocket, there are also different types and the pepperiness increses with the types..But it is bombproof, I have some in the garden that's still growing now.

2P, i moved the primroses on your advice because if they don't mind being stepped on, they can probably live with being uncermoniously picked up and dumped somewhere else I love thyme but it's a swine to find somewhere good for it, and I never understand how they can grow it floppy when mine is like twigs. I'll have a think but I have some beds before the keyhole that are just plain rectangular things...and I'm wary because I'm lazy, so will I really walk around in a circle? dunno...but I will make a wilder bit where I transplanted some teasel, inclusing comfrey, a small bucket pond, some lumps of wood etc..I'll even scatter some foxglove seeds I found last week Brilliant yarn bombing!

Dusty, geez, that's a play area? I feel quite hard done by now with having to make do with a thing that span you round or a see saw...or those seats on springs...Camelias for cheap? Must go to Lidl today then...

PP I dunno, they look like dead butterfly wings to me...ouch to the cat bite.

Weather has been drizzly, raining and cold still but today is drizzly and warmer. Went back yesterday to cover the big lump of hay and rescue the sheeps wool [ forgot to put it away, thought the foxes would go crazy for it but they didn't] Had a bit of a potter, wove some more stuff around the bed, decided it's going to be a free form weaving because not enough of what I have is long enough so it's going to be ush bits in and hope for the best. Had a wander round a few other plots, identified some stuff my neighbour might not want so will ask them when I see them next...Circular economy is a great thing [ it's probably not exactly what it does mean though...]

Farway

Dull & damp drizzle, a bit misty as well, but much milder.

Actually the rainy drizzle is good, getting the ground right for planting my Filbert nut bush, maybe this Sunday, depends on how I, back, legs, knees, finger joints etc feel that day.

The apple is for DD so will need to be bunged nurtured in a pot until I get over there. DD is very busy these days, works from home, plus has dog walking business. Nearly at the stage where an appointment is needed.

No sign yet of any seeds coming up from my recent sowings, but early days, I'm not really expecting anything until weekend at least, which is seven days

Only gardening today is already completed, ordered online BF & Bone + wall baskets from Home Bargains, plus some kitchen bits.

It's £3.95 delivery but saves me lugging it home, or finding nil stock in local store

The three wall baskets are for hanging on my front steps railings, hoping to have “something” hanging down there, which could be tomatoes, geraniums or something yet to be spotted in Morries.

Lobelia like would be good, but doesn't last long, petunias go sticky and yucky. I want to plant in Spring, and it keeps going until at least autumn, realistically plastic ivy sounds ideal

-taff said:

.Farway, thanks for those thoughts..I'm definitely staying away from both types of waste now! If you find you do like rocket, there are also different types and the pepperiness increses with the types..But it is bombproof, I have some in the garden that's still growing now.

The one I have sown is an “improved” wild strain. Once my P Bonds come up, I'll get a gravel patch & sow it there, along with erigeron.

Cheap camellias, no room, luckily.

pink_poppy

Thanks for the wet & forget confirmation, twopenny. I'll need plenty of it here.

taff, the pussycat caught me off-guard, I'm usually primed for any attacks. I know what you mean about the dead butterfly wings - I'm glad it wasn't that though. I love the idea of freeform weaving.

Farway, that's a good idea to order online from HB - our nearest one is an hour away. I think I must have used my BFB when planting the tatties last year as there's no sign of it in the garage.

Dusty, I can't believe your hydrangea/s are getting leaves already - mine looks terrible (apart from the skeleton petals that I love as well, twopenny).

Warmer rain today...

pink_poppy

Urgh, spotted a body on the lawn earlier so went outside to see what it was. I'm guessing it was a pigeon, now half eaten. A pile of feathers a little further away, so I think it was a sparrowhawk's meal. I'm hoping something else finishes it off as I doubt the sparrowhawk will come back for it now.

We've just had an extremely heavy rainstorm, followed by hailstones, followed by bright sunshine. Crazy weather.

Farway

pink_poppy said:

Farway, that's a good idea to order online from HB - our nearest one is an hour away. I think I must have used my BFB when planting the tatties last year as there's no sign of it in the garage.

The P & P is £3.95, I bunged extra items in but the likes of Tomorite, Phostrogen etc are there as well so maybe useful to save faffing finding some, and a long drive

Hungry Rodents eat BFB, rats in your garage?

Warm rain here as well

pink_poppy

I stand corrected. The sparrowhawk did come back and carried the pigeon corpse to a more private bit of the garden (but in full view of my kitchen) to carry on plucking and eating - she was there quite a while 🤢

This is after she (I’m guessing female because she was big and I know they’re bigger than the males) had finished her meal…

pink_poppy

No BFB box in the garage, so hopefully no rats 🐀 although we did have something nibbling the homemade coconut fat/seed things I made last year that I stored in the garage - they were swiftly moved out of there. I think the culprits were probably mice as I’d seen a couple in the garden.