Awful weather - typical Brits talk

LessImpecunious

Cure for all those weeds is to use something like a pointy trowel and lever out the root as deep as you can, then do it again every time you see the same bit regrow - it does work, eventually, though the thistles take a bit longer than the others...

Very warm here yesterday under cloud, until evening when temps dropped and chilly breeze returned  ... Looks good, coolish but sunny, for next few days though...

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Thanks for clarity re Llandegley airport Dusty. Doh! Not heard Mornington Crescent for years, do they still do it? I didn't know the Hundreds came into the same bracket though. 
No conclusion yet to the absolutely solid legal advice issue. They apparently offered a bit of money to get in immediately, then quite a bit, then a lot of money, but were politely refused :clapping: #PrinciplezRoolOK 

Well, the Hundreds were real, but being responsible for them doesn't involve real work. 

Responsibility in a legal sense is hard for some people to grasp, especially if it falls on them. It's sometimes possible to buy a way out, but not for your average Joe/ Joan, like your firm's clients. I can think of a libel case involving 2 politicians, in which the one with the money and party backing is using every legal trick in the book to delay proceedings and load costs onto the other. Naturally, the MSM don't show interest, as it would demonstrate clearly to Joe or Joan our long-established 2 tier legal system is alive and well. Yes, principles rule, err...most of the time, and for most of us. 

I'm not sure what other principles are involved, but my 'puter has just informed me the photos in my MSE file are self-identifying as PDFs this morning. I've run a quick test, and they seem to upload OK here, but clicking on them takes me to Adobe, not my photo program. I may later be found in the Techie Section of MSE, but frankly, I'd rather chew my toes off! 

OT A much fresher feel to the weather this morning, so I may be able to move our small plants and seedlings out from behind the hedge where they've been hidden for a week or more. 'One day' I'll have a shade area. I've given up fretting about the hay, as there's no time now to cut and bale it before damp weekend weather.  At least the neighbours haven't cut theirs yet. 

Today's photo is a nice contrast between an Olearia and Elderberry 'Black Lace.' The Daisy Bush (variety unknown....'acquired informally' ) isn't in flower for a long time, but while it is, the juxtaposition works well.

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

The potatoes which were coming along nicely have turned yellow and collapsed through lack of water and fruit is not looking good either.
The amount of water needed to keep them all doing well would cost a lotta.

We have 2 tier gardening as well. I was reminded of reading comments about GW and BG not delivering what we average gardeners want when I opened the latest issue of 'The Garden' this morning. In there, the eternally smug-looking, usual suspect, banged on about her use of peat-free, and lamented the lack of a government ban on peat-containing products. Nowhere did she address complaints about the dire contents of many eco-composts. 

The RHS has spent 150000 hours and £2.5m on researching peat-free to help 'the industry' transition, but evaluating what it sells us isn't part of that. Her advice is, “try a few brands to find out the one that works for you.”

Yes, I have, and the best one without all the lumps of woody carp and plastic bag fragments, is the one with peat in it!

Farway, lamenting the apparent lack of nutrients in the stuff he bought, was given this helpful tip: "Water little and often, and feed a bit earlier."

And, coming to your water costs 2p, after all this eco stuff, at the back of the mag is a woman who just happens to garden on 3 acres of Surrey. For the past 10 years, she's created her own brook by running a recirculating pump from her huge pond through a rock gully lined with Portland Stone. The garden is now much less formal and more wildlife friendly. Jolly good. Nothing to see there. I bet she uses peat free too. 

Farway

Rain at last, not a lot as Paul D used to say, but welcome all the same.

It was awful last night, hot & sticky, the morning rain did briefly freshen it up but now back to humid as the damp evaporates, so I'm left with dull, warm, damp & humid.

At least I'm spared watering today

The eco stuff, I was watching a YT joke rant. Stop telling me to wash out my peanut butter jars while [insert celeb here] jets off to a posh $50 million wedding in Venice.

Sums it up succinctly, I thought

As does the exemptions granted to commercial growers to carry on using peat, tells you all you need to know when big money is involved.

twopenny said:

Cooler here. Took a leaf out of Farway book and did mine in the evening. Front now starting to look like a garden again.

Was going for the siesta too but a half hour job at a bank turned into 3 because again they didn't get it right, hot sweaty and exhausted because they're useless only to read on the news they are buying out our excellent and superb bank so more nonsense as I go and open an account with the only other option (also useless which is run with one person on the front.
Add that to the doctor's surgery that has no doctors and life is going to hell in a handcart as big companies take over and don't deliver.

The amount of water needed to keep them all doing well would cost a lotta.

Good to hear a garden is returning, and I was hearing about lack of water, a lot of farm crops will be expensive this year, like your spuds million fold.

I was intending to start pruning my grape free grape now the wheelie bin is empty, but with the humidity & lack of sleep, snoozing may take place instead.

BTW, Mr F & Browns have 99p seed offer on, normal P & P though

twopenny

Well after going to find out about my really good bank being bought out by a carp foreign one and finding the staff only knew from the news yesterday then going to another to open an account to be told do it yourself online I went for a coffee to calm down only to have the cup on a dirty tray with dirty spoon and some woman on her phone as she walked around.
So went for a sea swim, body board only to get back to my stuff and a woman, on an empty beach was sat there on her phone 😬
What is it with the world today?!

So counteracting the healthy activity with a wine and pizza lunch in the garden 😁

Still hot and dry but a pleasant breeze. Flowers in hibernation, fountain bunged up with the green water but the runner beans nibbled by something are heading upwards so there's something.
My tomatoes that have been green for a couple of months are still green. These are the honey crunch I picked up somewhere.

 
Snooze is an excellent idea Farway.
Dusty, I'll get on to using my pond for watering then. About 3 litres and a frog in there.

Working_Mum

Hello everyone,
Well this week is definitely better as I've caught up and it's only Wednesday.

Thank you all for the solidarity on the charity front. I've only had to deal with FIVE emails from this person requesting FOIA information this week  - it felt so empowering to know I can write to him telling him to do one as we are not bound by the FOIA rules and he has no right to know. But because I am petty and I've asked him to write to me in paper format and not email (he emails me at crazy times of the day) I intend to write to send him five letters in the post bang on the 20 working day deadline. Gosh I am so passive aggressive sometimes!

I love seeing the birds in my garden but my knowledge is pedestrian in comparison to yours PP. You have some amazing birds in your garden. That little Dunnock was so scruffy and beautiful. The step clouds reminded me of the very old David Niven film, A Matter of Life and Death, where he plays a pilot that has been shot down in WW2 and he goes to heaven on Technicolor steps. I hope you're keeping chipper as you plough the job hunting furrow.

Your D's house sounds a lovely project Dusty - the garden has good bones. Personally I love the kitschy, concrete planters etc. (Your little toad is gorgeous 2P). I hope your daughter settles in well with the new baby etc. I agree with friends showing up when everyone else walks out. Hold on to those that matter. I love the garden in the High Heckington house on Right Move - it is clearly loved. The sheep's faces made me laugh on your pics - they really are so irreverent aren't they!

I am so jealous of your hydrangea wort - will you dry them so you can make a wreath at Christmas (they are very de-rigeur at the moment appaz). I have a couple of them both of which are flowering - one in a pot by my back door and one in my cut flower bed that I'd forgotten about as I thought it had died last year. Anyway it has come back and both are a beautiful pink colour so we must have the same kind of soil!

The raspberry ripple lily is lovely Farway - I was pondering on whether lilies may be a good choice in my new border - it is super sunny. I'm pleased your peas are such a success for you.

Thanks for the cherry update Less - I might have only had one cherry this year and it was eaten by the birds but I am hopeful for a glut next year! Even if my cherry trees has one arm which is growing like topsy so it looks a bit lop sided! I feel certain I will have kilos next year and I'll be able to preserve them a la -taff's recommendation and maybe even make some jam lol

Thanks for all of the airport talk - I definitely learned something new - a wholesome British practical joke. Loved it!

Your Welsh cloudy pics are amazing Luna - you live in such a stunning area. We never really have to go outside of the UK for phenomenal scenery do we.

You did right getting out early and weeding YBE - it was raining at stupid o'clock when I woke so Rome0 didn't get a walk! OT we are now in muggy rising warmth territory but I'm working from my desk so I've got the fan to counteract things. If the rain stays off I'll get into the garden after I've taken Rome0 for his walk after work. I'll need to weed after the inevitable influx after all the rain! It's days like these I wished I lived nearer a beach -  it'd be perfect to decompress in the sea after a heavy day/ week/ month!

I was at Mum's yesterday and the field of wheat(??), on the way to the turbines, is now golden and yellow - it's been lovely seeing the change in colour in this field.



Wishing everyone a lovely Wednesday evening.

((WM))

wort

Luna, that’s a stunning photo, would gladly put that up on the wall.

wort

Pp well done on the tomatoes, hope the migraine has gone. It’s irritating when you want quiet and there’s something that won’t stop, even bird song when it’s early morning.
Couldnt get to sleep last night it was after 2am and then the bin men came at 7.30 am so got up .

Yesterday was overcast much cooler, and today is sunny but a really strong wind I did an hour tidying up the garden, just deadheading and I repotted a small shrub, as it kept getting a weed or 2 that had long tap root I couldn’t get out. Saw someone on insta that was dividing bleeding heart so may do that shortly. If I can be ersed. 

I’m rather hungry so tea is going on now.

pink_poppy

It’s surprising how loud a wee sparrow can be. I was cutting the grass the other week and I could hear one above the noise of the mower 😳

Headache is still lingering, but I’ve been outside weeding this afternoon and it was nice to get some fresh air.

I loved the sheep 🐑  pics - I should probably multiply that 🐑 by 100 😁

Sorry about the toms, Farway, I meant to take a pic on Monday to show they were ripe in June, but forgot. At least you have/had some lovely cherries 🍒 I had to buy some the other day and a lot of them were mouldy.

W_M, I love a bit of passive aggression - well done you. And lovely pic too.

wort, I was awake early this morning too 😴

twopenny (I used that word on Wordle the other day) have you tried copper coins in your fountain water or maybe a different pot?? I don’t know if it works, but I’ve thrown a few coppers in my temporary birdbath as I’m fed up with it going green.

Waves to YBE, Less, taff and lunatic 👋🏻 

Got to go, my dinner is ready…

pink_poppy

Ooh, just a quick pic - a wee feast for the birds…