Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

Don't worry, wort, plenty more sunshine to come; rather too much from a farming POV. We've woken to rain this morning, though. It's light, but there may be a thundershower later to liven things up.

There have been some interesting or pretty skies these past few evenings.I'd show you a rather threatening one from Saturday, but for some reason the file won't upload......Ah, and neither will Sunday's. I suspect cyber-gremlins at MSE towers, so I'll return later with those.

Yesterday, Mrs Dusty and I began filling the border where we cleared-out all the grasses and asters last week. I've done a 'before' photo, and when it's done, I'll get a snap of 'after.'  I've barrowed-in 6 loads of rotted manure and compost to improve the soil there, and planted with plenty BFB, so the plants should get away OK if we keep an eye on watering. 

twopenny

I had trouble logging in to this part of the site this morning too.
I could get into every other part, just not gardening so if I'm missing in action that's why.

The hay fields round here are looking especially good and anything already growing but newly sown is struggling.
However rain overnight too may have helped. The birds have been thrilled and stuffing themselves with real food so babies in the nests. 

Nothing gardening wise today other than watering because the pots are drying out quickly with no significantly in full growing mode and no real rain. I may have managed to kill off a Hebe which takes some doing.
I've fun activities all day and out tomorrow hopefully. 

Farway

Dull this morning after a scorcher yesterday

I note that the weather folk have downgraded my Wisley weather tomorrow to dull as well. As long as Dustyshire rain holds off, I'll settle for that.

No gardening today, my twinging back is a bit sore and I don't want to chance it with Wisley whizzing tomorrow.

Hope 2P back is not too bad

Nothing much needs doing that can't wait, home wanted for peas, top up bird bath etc but nothing that can't wait

I was going to catch up with Gardener W, but they are gawping guiding round a flower show

OT, When did things start being Helmed? As in, "I'll be helming my Wisley whizzer tomorrow"

I've come across this a few times in the past few days

Is it a job like "Showrunner" and non-female bovine's manure?

Dusty, the pea / bean sprouter looks handy, be ideal for bean shoots i'd imagine. Years back I used to grow those, from Mung bean seeds, but rinse in large jar.

That tray would allow rinsing under tap

Final garden bit, one aquilegia is out, nice creamy ivory colour, but only about a foot high, so a photo will be awkward without me tumbling into the flower bed.

-taff

You have some rpetty aquilegia wort..And I love a duck transporting a duckling. It's like, aww, are your poor toeses tired from paddling? hop on! with you on the untidy gardening. I am beginning to get somewhere with the front garden in terms of no bare earth, but it is definitely untidy. And having left some of the usual weedy suspects do their thing I' actually quite amazed at how large they get, thinking of Herb Robert and creeping buttercup so far...I have the Herb Robert smells nice gene so I'm not bothered about that one, besides, the little pink flowers are cute. Hope your strain has gone..

2p, hope you're too much has gone too...Does your sage flower? Mine did for a couple of yearsand then just stopped doing it. The whole site was being recalcitrant this morning, so not just you

Dusty, oh no, don't act your age, only when transpoting heavy items to garden, not about anything else...and bigger is always better if there's room as anyone with a greenhouse or polytunnel knows Love the kneeling man shadow too. SHame you weren't closer, I'd buy some Bishops children...Cor them arums are already out?! I have one so far [ but at least another 13 on the way not that I counted or anything - OK, I counted] Beautiful wisteria and wisteria bum , a new species?

Farway, hope you're preapred for your Whizzleying tomorrow. Does an hour and a half away count as miles? I'll give it a try. My allotment next door neighbour extols the virtues of all the autumn ones I have apparently, so mine may taste of raspberry too if I ever get the fruit cage sorted out. Hope your pears are doing better.

pp, beautiful beach photo!

Weather here dull too after rain last night. Happy about the rain but wanted to try my battery operated mower out on the allotment, will have to wait till tomorrow. But that does give me today to pot on plants in non pc compost [ bought from the allotment shop]. I've actually had damping off this year for the first time ever. Not happy about that. and my beans went to the fjords at the allotment,they had been cossetted too well here first. We picked up a load of tree chippings last week for me to use to make pathways in the fruit cage bit. Hoping the raspberries have consented to growing in rows otherwise they'll be in for a shock. There's a load of alkanet around the cage bit too, might try to transplant some of that into the front garden if it'll grow under rosemary...

Dustyevsky

The photos alluded to earlier are now loading.

Saturday evening.

Sunday evening:

As for 'helming,' blame the guys across the pond. Publications such as Rolling Stone seem to be using it. Since the word can also mean 'hijacking,' a publication that nicked its moniker seems an appropriate place to find it! 

And while we're on etymology, Trump wasn't the first to use 'bigly.' I also saw my first Brimstone butterfly of the year yesterday too!

Farway

-taff said:

Farway, hope you're preapred for your Whizzleying tomorrow. Does an hour and a half away count as miles? I'll give it a try.

I suppose it depends on the roads TBH, I'm about an hour, just over 40 miles away, which includes queues on Guilford bypass.

Actually for me, it's a doddle, dual carriageway A3 all the way, just two roundabouts & slow on the Guildford bypass

pink_poppy

On my way home on the ferry. It’s been a lovely couple of days with 3 beautiful beaches, one with coos on. DD’s bf took some amazing footage with his drone - we could actually see seals swimming around underwater - it was like a nature programme.

The weather is perfect today - sunny and warm, although a bit windy on the outside deck, so we’ve retreated to the cafe for some Isle of Arran ice cream (I haven’t been to Arran, it’s just what they sell on the ferries).

I’ll catch up properly when I’m home, but in the meantime here’s another drone pic of my favourite beach - we had it to ourselves yesterday (except for the seals and oyster catchers)… 💙 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

-taff

Saturdat evening looks pretty ominous yes...also quite beautiful.

PP, your beach again too....

Farway, just done a DDG directions thing, it's 80 odd miles for me at the straightest bird flying on motorways

Well, it spat a bit of rain today, then it was mostly sunny all day and still now. I've finally repotted all my seedlings that were in the carp stuff for good stuff [ hopefully] and made a stack of what to sow next. I'm fair pooped now. Don't know if  I'll be walking tomorrow, so if I'm not, it's paint fence panels time, if I can, it's mow allotment.

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

I’ll catch up properly when I’m home, but in the meantime here’s another drone pic of my favourite beach - we had it to ourselves yesterday (except for the seals and oyster catchers)… 💙 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It's fantastic to still find beaches we can 'own' for a short time. We nearly did it last month, though on a smaller scale than above. The amount of effort required was considerable, and having met no one en-route, our confidence grew. Then.......

At least they weren't skinny-dipping! It's a tiny beach, and they'd made it theirs, so we took a few photos of the amazing rock strata and went on our way.

Best of luck with the traffic and the weather tomorrow, Farway, as you whizz to Wisley......hopefully. Our rain today didn't amount to much, but I saw they had some huge thunderstorms in Mid Wales.

-taff said:

Saturdat evening looks pretty ominous yes...also quite beautiful.

It was a weird sky, but Sunday wasn't awful; just a bit of rain.

I've just been out taking photos of the full moon. Too tired to tweak them now, but I'll have go in the morning.

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

Dusty, oh no, don't act your age, only when transpoting heavy items to garden, not about anything else...and bigger is always better if there's room as anyone with a greenhouse or polytunnel knows

Apart from the aches & pains, I rarely consider my age in the day-to-day world. It was a shock when a young man stepped forward and offered to heft my 20 litre jerry can into the van last week.  That mirrored the young lady who offered to do the same with some 20 kg bags of chicken feed a few weeks ago. These are two examples of why I like living here. It's a place where folks still say 'Hello' in the street, and where people are generally helpful. In the narrow lanes, even Audi drivers sometimes pull over for you! 

I agree, bigger is best, but in the case of outbuildings, bigger may mean planning permission. If we had 15+ acres, different rules would apply. Draw your own conclusions. Should the farmer across the road want to expand and build a new barn, 40m long, completely blocking our view, he could, all without going through the planning process. However, if we want a shed more than 15m2 it's a different matter. Even our polytunnel, a very temporary structure, had to have planning permission. Now it's reverted to personal use, I'm supposed to tear it down and replace it with another, no more than 14' wide! Very eco!

Where was I? Oh yes, the full moon pictures were all rubbish . Sorry! I think I was too tired to pick the right settings on the camera. 

Yesterday pm, I managed to do my bucking bronco act with the ride-on and cut the neighbour's rough acre, so that's out of the way before the really hot weather returns. Not too many repercussions from that. I hope you're walking OK today, and Farway's zooming along in his Whizzley cart. The forecast there is mainly sunshine with a little cloud and 22c max. Ice lolly territory. Apparently, there's an 'Omega Block' in the middle of the Atlantic, causing the jet streams to veer north and allowing continental air to defy Brexit. (Well, everything else does! )

Todays photo, a good old stalwart that vanishes  in winter, so I never quite know where it is. Then, suddenly, it pops up again in spring.