Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Oh and a pic. This only took me 19 goes 😃

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

Dusty someone's got to embrace the siesta...won't be long before we're doing as the mediterraneans do and have the afternoon off and it can't come soon enough :

Oh, it's coming, but courtesy of AI, not global climate boiling. We've heard how the robots will be taking over the NHS, and it'll be the same elsewhere.   Suddenly, having manual skills looks attractive again. AI can probably plan a new estate of houses in many ways: lowest cost, maximised sunlight, highest degree of privacy, most accessibility etc, and then combine results to give a 'best fit' scenario, all in a few minutes. Architects? Who needs 'em? OTOH, no robot is likely to replace our local thatcher here. His business is inside his head.   One day, maybe, but surely no robothatchers for some time yet!   

YoungBlueEyes said:

Good to see you're keeping your chin up wm "The lord never gives us a cross we cannot bear" as the Oracle says. Be excessively nice to the prique, keep your karma straight. Respond to his emails but only once a day, maximum of a coupla dozen words ish. Then imagine that wheatfield being rippled by the breeze, or R0meo running through it to bring your heart rate back down again  

What wonderful advice. Bluey!    You're wasted in a solicitor's office. You should be Agony Aunt for The Journal. 

I'm loving your wee silver birch, pp. They do grow satisfyingly fast and make few demands, being tough enough for harsh environments. Thy don't steal too much light, either.

It's obviously hydrangea season, with wort and WM weighing in with some pink beauties. I have some bright blue examples on our very acid soil here, so I'll have to grab a picture of the one that looks as if it's a plastic fake! Every year it fights with other less choice plants in the front hedge and manages to come out on top.

Another very warm day in prospect here, before some welcome rain comes in from the Atlantic tomorrow. In view of that, I've cancelled this week's walk. It won't matter, because it's all going on in SW19, apparently, with young men disporting themselves energetically, and grunting now and again. Fair enough! 

Mrs Dusty and I had run out of so many comestibles yesterday, we took a quick evening trip to civilisation, picking-up fish & chips to scoff on the way home. We were just in time to admire this rural view in the local rolling hills, best appreciated as shadows lengthen. 

If you click to enlarge, you'll see the tractor working in the middle distance, collecting the trailers loaded with hay bales. That would have been more restful if our own hay had been cut!  However, on arriving home, our partner farmer rang to reassure us, we've not been forgotten.  If Countryfile says next week's OK.....

wort

Fab photo YBE 😀persistence paid off , look at those gossamer wings.
Farway your photos are much better than those in the video. How’s dog poor border doing?

I split the bleeding heart, I possibly could have gotten 3 but wasn’t sure where to put another. Was a quick job, so will check it today. I’m off and waiting in for a parcel. Washer is on, it’s overcast and 17 due today. Need to colour my hair too. Roots need doing before a wedding next week.
Work all this weekend then appointments next week so not sure when I’ll do more gardening.

-taff

Wow ybe that is an excellent photo, worthy to include in a This is a Flying Thing example book! Lookit the wings! And the body! It's a marvel.

Farway

More sun & blue sky, cooler though so not as sticky, managed to sleep a few hours at last night, but still up & giving weekly feed to the front pots by eight.

wort said:

Fab photo YBE 😀persistence paid off , look at those gossamer wings.
Farway your photos are much better than those in the video. How’s dog poor border doing?

Second the photo pat on back YBE

Dog poo border is coming along far better than I hoped. 

So far I've had hairy poppy and Shasta type daisy in flower. And noticed the recently planted Morries Blanket Flower has buds on it. 

Plus Rozanne is in there flowering. Hardly room for a dog bum now. 

Dustyevsky said:

-taff said:

Dusty someone's got to embrace the siesta...won't be long before we're doing as the mediterraneans do and have the afternoon off and it can't come soon enough :

Oh, it's coming, but courtesy of AI, not global climate boiling. We've heard how the robots will be taking over the NHS, and it'll be the same elsewhere.   Suddenly, having manual skills looks attractive again. AI can probably plan a new estate of houses in many ways: lowest cost, maximised sunlight, highest degree of privacy, most accessibility etc, and then combine results to give a 'best fit' scenario, all in a few minutes. Architects? Who needs 'em? OTOH, no robot is likely to replace our local thatcher here. His business is inside his head.   One day, maybe, but surely no robothatchers for some time yet!   

Mrs Dusty and I had run out of so many comestibles yesterday, we took a quick evening trip to civilisation, picking-up fish & chips to scoff on the way home. We were just in time to admire this rural view in the local rolling hills, best appreciated as shadows lengthen. 

There's a report just out, seem AI is killing off entry level jobs, the ones spotty yoofs did, like [mis]filing, sorting "stuff" etc

And robot NHS bum wipers are years way, surprisingly AI robots are more likely to replace some surgeons than personal care folk, but I suppose cost per hour may factor in there

Another nice F & C spot, avoided a chippy finger lens filter as well

-taff said:

Farway, try a bit of Hugh Richards if you haven't already seen him. He is also very enthusiastic and while I do know a lot fo the stuff he talks about, I am also learning some bits too, which is always nice. 

I do sometimes watch him, nice & soothing but he is large scale stuff. 

I was watching some other chap yesterday, a Geordie, his allotment had burned down, but it was more small holding, chickens etc, than what i'd call allotment. A disaster though.

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Which is understandable, but for that many noughts I'd have let them in #MoreMoneyThanSense. Apparently AirB+B's are "for the undignified"  

Did you get to your grapes and goosegogs then Farway? Sod's law the gogs will be full after the rain to the point of splitting, and the grapes will just be hanging there watching them I hardly think you need photography help, yours are consistantly belters  

I'd do the same, given enough noughts

Goosegogs have shrivelled even more, ripe and tasty but titchy. Grapes, not one grape this year, zero, zilch, etc despite this being ideal weather for the blighter.

I did manage to prune some of my apples, and some grape, plus cut back some brambles, and, Ta Ra, my first ripe blackberry, that tasted just like it should

I had to stop because I came over light-headed, with the sun, heat & blood pressure, and didn't want to finish up toppled in the border

Over the next few days, if it cools a bit, I'll carry on pruning

Now, some food pics, at last I have tomatoes setting  , reliable, for me, Balcony Yellow.

I've also got a sweet pepper, which I will transplant into the basket where one of my sickly toms is looking northwards

pink_poppy

Brilliant pic, YBE, you must have been so chuffed to capture that, even if it did take 19 goes - that was one very obliging beastie    

The job hunt is on-going - no interviews yet, which is probably just as well at the moment, given the state of my Yetiness.

The meteor was captured on folk's CCTVs, but lots of people actually saw it as well, which makes me wonder what they were doing up at that time of the morning    

Farway, I think I could be classed as a hairy poppy, at least until I get my hair cut (an appointment has been arranged).

I forgot to say about wort and W_M's hydrangeas - I love them because they're such a showy plant. I like the colour of the one in W_M's second pic. We have a blue one here, but it's just a stick at the moment, I think it's usually out in October??

What a stunning view, Dusty Last night's Gone Fishing was in Devon - they were fishing off a stony beach and it was just idyllic. I can't remember what fish they were after - I usually just sit watching the programme with a daft smile on my face. We've started watching old episodes of The Fast Show now, which are still quite funny at times, Paul Whitehouse is so talented. And of course that programme is where 'Scorchio' came from, with the late Caroline Aherne.

It's certainly not scorchio weather here - It's hot chocolate weather - we had really heavy rain earlier (when I was out shopping) so big puddles everywhere and it feels cold. I'm eyeing up the fire being on tonight...

twopenny

I'll start with apologies because I seem to have missed posts even though I thought I was reading them all 🥴

Poppy shame your wizzyness is still hanging around. Do you think the hot spells are not helping?
Haven't got Dusty's clouds, still hot and dry here and everyone is suffering now, not just the gardens.

Farway great news on the tomatoes 🙂
I tried to thin out my apples but as I turned my back more dropped off! Not worried though because I never get to eat them.

Hope the workers get some downtime this weekend.

I've fixed the fountain twice and now found a way to water my plants 

pink_poppy

We haven't had any hot spells lately, twopenny, just relentless rain    It's 17.8 degrees in the front room and I'm sat here with a big cardigan on feeling absolutely freezing. I keep looking at the fire and am honestly thinking of getting it set up and lit. Wet and windy outside and it's making me feel even colder.

I made a very nice salsa to go with dinner tonight, using my home grown tomatoes. A taste of summer, at least...

pink_poppy

Decision made… 🔥

twopenny

Ooo you must have our rain Poppy.
Because we've had none to speak of for months.
What a lovely fire! I think you're right.

I have a slight problem.
There's a freezing breeze coming through the open door and I'm in a stroppy tee shirt but - there's a blackbird who's been sitting still on the bird table and now under a shrub not moving and it's been an hour now.
I don't know what's wrong.

I can't close the door or go out so I'm wrapped in a blanket.
I've thrown out some sausage (I lack worms) but it's too close to the door.