Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

Farway, I like how chatgpt brings in all the players, well, just Dusty and his pollen. That's like the kids books stuff where John gets up on his ox [ why has that stuck in my head? Idon't think I ever read that either] Well done on finding another apple too. Lovely carrot too... 

ybe I see your BeeBum and raise you another BeeBum And that's a huge mock ornage, I love the smell of those except for the one in my front garden that smells of bubblegum. 

pp, d'you know, Haign never had hostas I didnt even know they flowered, I thought they were just leaves. Loving the bird fo's too, it's funny when you think they could be moving like that at speed without flapping any wings And you know where you can put your tom. 

Dusty, beautiful septic tanks. 

Weather cooler, yesterday was face leakingly hot in the greenhouse and potting on even outside, but it's all done now even if it's not pretty. Rejigging will have ot wait until the winter because the plants are now in. Was thinking of asking an enginnering firm to make me some troughs that actually fit since I've been relying on one I can buy and they don't fit so well...and as you can see the tomaotes are nowhere near the size of some of yours! The kale is in there because it's quite a good size and I don't want butterflies mistaking it for a creche. There's some sacrifical stuff outside for them. 

PS all the tomatoes were in 9cm pots until yesterday and the evening before...!

Dustyevsky

Pp, your app is probably right about the valerian. It's flowering now, and wild garlic is long past. The bracket fungus looks like Turkey Tail. I always liked Silverweed as a child, usually finding it in sunny, dry, gravelly places, like road verges and the station yard. 

YoungBlueEyes said:

Running late this morning, the shower was pigging about. Grrr.
Give R0meo extra loves from me wm, in case we wake up fried to death tomorrow.

For me, the time waster this morning was Firefox deciding to bestow new features on my already crowded screen.  Took a while to get rid of them!   

And don't you, of all people, go believing all this nuclear stuff! It's about as real as all the other nonsense the Matrix pushes out daily to keep good folks in fear, or distracted from what really matters. Ask Cissie! 

Thanks Farway, and others, for all the toe prosthetics advice, but I'll stick with Elastoplast for now, if I need it. As I tried to explain to the lady, I don't go around comparing my feet with other peoples', so I've no idea how 'bad' mine are. If what she meant was "Pft, that's nothing to stress about for an old burgher of 76!” she should have said it. 

Finding this site very clunky this morning, or maybe my rodent requires a fresh battery.  Either way, I'll sign off by reporting a damp start with some intermittent sunshine to come, according to the usual suspects in Exeter's cider district. Looking a little further ahead, I'd say the hay looks ready, so a cut tomorrow, or Saturday might be on the cards to take advantage of predicted higher temperatures early next week.

But....it's not up to me. I just grow it!

twopenny

Worth noting Dusty. Don't do any long or time dependent journeys the next few days.
It will be all tractors.
Been tempted to take some photos of the wheat and barley fields around here because they are lush and ripe.
So we should be getting cheaper bread following? 😄

Garden wise I've got raspberries, strawberry and Apricots ripening. So far so good 

pink_poppy

I used to love driving over to Fylingdales, YBE, we used to call it the golf balls. Hope the shower is an easy fix.

Well I never knew carrots flowered like that, Farway, I learn something new every day 😁
Cheeky pussycat - it’ll be after a nice warm spot for snoozing. Yep, they do poop on grass sometimes - we get one occasionally who does that to antagonise our indoor kitty.

That’s a lovely bee bum, taff. Is that a scabious?? I’ve only ever seen blue/purple ones. And I now have major greenhouse envy, thank you very much.

Dusty, I was surprised that I could smell wild garlic, but it was unmistakable. I can see why the fungi would be called turkey tail 😂 The Silverweed was on a verge - is it a weed?? I wouldn’t mind it in my garden. Lovely field of hay - I can just picture it swaying in the breeze.

Wow, those fruits look gorgeous, twopenny, I bet you can’t wait to sample them 😋

I’ve been filling in application forms and writing covering letters and CVs today - my eyes are going all googly… 👀  Shame I’ve been stuck inside because it’s been a nice day, even though the forecast said thundery showers. I could have put a load of washing on 🙄

Another pic from yesterday - the name of it made me blush so I won’t say what it is… 😂

diveunderthebonnet

pink_poppy said:

I used to love driving over to Fylingdales, YBE, we used to call it the golf balls. Hope the shower is an easy fix.

Well I never knew carrots flowered like that, Farway, I learn something new every day 😁
Cheeky pussycat - it’ll be after a nice warm spot for snoozing. Yep, they do poop on grass sometimes - we get one occasionally who does that to antagonise our indoor kitty.

That’s a lovely bee bum, taff. Is that a scabious?? I’ve only ever seen blue/purple ones. And I now have major greenhouse envy, thank you very much.

Dusty, I was surprised that I could smell wild garlic, but it was unmistakable. I can see why the fungi would be called turkey tail 😂 The Silverweed was on a verge - is it a weed?? I wouldn’t mind it in my garden. Lovely field of hay - I can just picture it swaying in the breeze.

Wow, those fruits look gorgeous, twopenny, I bet you can’t wait to sample them 😋

I’ve been filling in application forms and writing covering letters and CVs today - my eyes are going all googly… 👀  Shame I’ve been stuck inside because it’s been a nice day, even though the forecast said thundery showers. I could have put a load of washing on 🙄

Another pic from yesterday - the name of it made me blush so I won’t say what it is… 😂

The Golf Balls are now gone but there is still a Tracking Radar or what ever they call them these days ,i think it is either US maned or a joint one with the UK .

YoungBlueEyes

Yesterday went from bad to worse 2p, but today can only be better. Apart from the ridiculously early start I mean Why are people such entitled angry yobs the second they don't get what they want, and then nice as pie if they get put through to a proper person?!  Anyway. Strawbs rasps and apricots yummy yum yum. I see a lot of jams and baking in your future

I'm not on fb Farway, that explains why I didn't see that refuelling pic. So plants get a long lie in at your morries then? They should be fully rested and good to go when ou ge them home then, not suicidal and pining for the feee-yords Self-sown carrots, wouldn't that be something. Lovely flower to look at in the mean time though eh. Did you at least get diddy wee carrots...?

Ooh what plant is you BeeBum on taff? I have a couple of those, they're proper triffids but I don't know what they are ha haa! Your toms are further on than mine, I've only the one pot left - 3 so far blight free plants - but they're smaller than that

I can imagine what Cissie would say about it Dusty "Ach whadda I care about that carryon! I don't care for I haven't got one so it doesn't affect me" That's a nice treat for you today then, your hay field getting a cut. The smell of a baler is my absolute favourite That's the sort of fragrance they should be getting into candles and deodorant and stuff

We called them giant golf balls pp. Our nearest ones were Staxton (I'm not sure if they're still there you know, and I only drove up there last weekend )  Did Bertigo take a back seat for the dentist..? Good to hear you're finding jobs worth applying for   If I knew what your plant was I might blush at it's name too...  Shower could still be bust for all I know, I don't shower every day. Himself said he would take a look at it last night (he's no plumber but he likes to show willing so I let him).  I didn't mention I'd already knocked on the Oracle's door on my way to work and she's sending me her man to sort it. Hopefully that's today but I don't know. I gave her the spare key :fingercrossed:

Nice to see you back again Dive. Interesting about the Golf Balls. Was it you that has loads of toms...? Hopefully they're doing rightly in this weather are they?

Saw a fab Rottery Acres this morning. Room for everyone, plenty of garden, and an interesting outbuilding for 2p to inspired and arty about
https://www.thejournal.ie/river/daft-ie-property-magazine-2482468-Jun2025/ Only 5.5m euro too.  (Why don't I have a euro sign on here? Oh aye, cos it wasn't invented when my laptop was built )  Early up today cos I've gotta go to work. Again.

Dustyevsky

Ouch! I missed taff's greenhouse yesterday.   Doesn't it look well? A very well-organised Goth greenhouse, and I love the supports for the tomatoes twirling down. I can confirm kale does really well, protected in our polytunnel, and it's seemed to cope OK with the higher temperatures. 

I'm another one not on FB, Bluey, nor any of the others. This is my social meja. Your Rottery Acres place is OK, especially having an ancillary castle and all that, but where's the lake? I must have a lake, and 2p will find water essential too if she is to paint reflections. It seems choosing Rottery Acres is going to be tricky, when we win the Euromillions.    Mrs Dusty and I viewed 50 properties before buying this place, and I only wanted it because of the stream, not knowing it would dry up every summer.  I'm not getting caught out again!  

Hmm, I still sound grumpy, don't I?  Maybe it's because I can't ID pp's plant with the offensive name. Fancy, losing out to AI! Well, it's not Horehound anyway. Yes, Silverweed is a classed as a weed, but it's an upmarket one. Perhaps your wild garlic foliage hangs on longer up there; mine's all gone for this year.

Farway, you can get seed for pink wild carrot flowers. I'd show you a photo, but my attempt to grow it failed. 

https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_437y_daucus_carota_dara_seeds?srsltid=AfmBOorDV1DZVTDMQc2EsKfklH6OXM6Qnw7XtqUAxl20Nqeov9DWl8bd

OT: Nice out there this morning after overnight light rain. I'm informed it'll be a warm sunny day, before cloud returns, and it rains again, so I'm not betting on a hay cut today. I may go for a wee walk somewhere. 

No more bee bum photos in my photo stash, but here's a hoverfly I managed to snap last week, its wings going so fast they're almost invisible. 

-taff

Is there a difference bewteen smells of the coloured and white valerian? I chopped up a root of the red/pink one and transplanted it to the font garden because I like it. The white one looks lovely though although I seem to remember someone telling me it's different for growing somehow or maybe I don't remember that bit clearly. 

My goth greenhouse sits atop a rectangle that's full of mares tail. When I excavated down and removed the builders bags that were covering the dirt, there were about four black bags of roots underneath, so it's not good for growing, they'll just come back. Builders bags and industrial tarp went back on top.

How do you go about growing stuff for other people to cut? Was it an already establshed thing or was it in the pub over a pint and dodgy handshakes under the table? Or is there a country fixer that introduces you to other people for a fee? Thanks for info re kale, I'll keep it in there but I think it's going to have t stand in a reservoir though. The supports are galvanised metal, bought from ebay about 20 years ago, for twenty quid, about eighteen of them, used every year since, absolute bargain! One of my best gardening buys. Your hoverfly has definite tones of Predator about it, most impressive camo that! 

Apricots! Oh my! How cool is that! 

Never heard of Flyingdales, so had to ddg it, how cool are they too! There's so much stuff in Britain I haven't seen, didn't know about and this thread is definitely broadening my education/knowledge...

Yes my beebum is giant scabious, gifted from a gardening friend who has given me a little bit more for me to put aomewhere else.{I feel an allotment redesign happening too, I have a hypericum that can go there in the winter ] That was an inspired bit of sideswiping shower fixing btw, very impressive! 

I picturethis'd your plat PP and why would it make you blush? We've all got them! One of my friends used chatgpt to write a cover letter and I have to say, I was deeply impressed, it was amazing. 

Rained last night, will go and see how much in a minute [ old greenhouse collects water at the gutters] , doesn't feel cooler in the house but slight breeze and overcast outside...

pink_poppy

What a shame the golf balls have gone, dive, I didn't know that. I haven't been over that way for years. I think we used to pass them when we were going to the Hole of Horcum, but it's been that long I can't remember.

YBE, I think it was inevitable that folk called them the golf balls, because that's exactly what they looked like from a distance. I used to always watch what I was saying when we passed them, just in case 'they' were listening   There was no Bertigo inducing reclining at the dentist, thank goodness. My heid is still not right, but at least I'm not swaying all the time.

Fab hoverfly pic, Dusty, I can just about see the wings.
The plant name isn't offensive, just funny    
Have you ever seen 'Gone Fishing' with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse?? It's such a nice programme (mostly about fishing, obviously) and I always think it would be your kind of programme. We're watching the whole series again on iPlayer. Your 'must have a lake' comment reminded me to mention it.

taff, some people have three   
I did toy with the idea of looking at AI for the letter and I must admit to using a couple of phrases for my application form, but changing them to my own words/interpretation.

Heavy rain forecast for today    

Working_Mum

Hello everyone,
It's taken me until mid-morning on Friday to catch up with everyone's posts - I'd been reading since Wednesday but work has been crazy for me this week. I am Chair of a local charity and we are being attacked by someone on all fronts - it is so awful I've had to get proper legal advice (not just posting in this place and asking for sage wisdom) but proper sit down with a very intelligent (and expensive) lawyer and make a plan ....I'd even call it a strategy.

I wouldn't mind but his complaint is completely fabricated and not actually connected to us but because of the nature of what he's saying about us we can't publicly defend ourselves and this chap is a loose cannon. The balance feels out somehow but I am sure I'll feel perkier once the weekend is here and I can have a bit of respite.

So you guys have kept me motivated and balanced this week. Thank you for all of the glorious bee bum pics and garden progress shots, Goth greenhouses and all round bally loveliness. It's been a real tonic and has shown me that not everyone is boundary busting, angry, bitter and downright rude and out for revenge. 

I'm hoping I'll get on top of things today and be able to get into my garden at the weekend and regroup. 

((WM))