Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Good pics again Dusty, except the East Lyn bridge one, I think this is ill eagle under new law, because it has caused me distress   

Not sure on Land registry, I use them for free, Property Alerts. 

There is a scam where bad uns can buy your house from under you without you knowing. 

With the alert scheme, the LR will inform you of any searches or attempts at Title changes on your registered property.

Once they "own" your house they then remortgage, and you get the bailiffs and years of grief

Search under Property title fraud

https://propertyalert.landregistry.gov.uk/

Ah, but the law asks if the distress caused was intentional, and with someone of good character, like me, that would be unlikely.   Never mind, I'll post the most recent photo I have of friend's developing garden. There can't be anything triggering in that......  and I'll reduce the size of the bridge photo. 

Agree about the alert service. Well worth doing.  

Hope the back is better soon. Some things are best done horizontally, but not gardening.  

UPDATE: It's raining properly. I'm off to do the shopping!

pink_poppy

I love that Canna leaf, Farway, very tropical looking.

Raindrops on roses sounds like it should be a Sound of Music lyric - they're lovely, YBE.

Dusty, in the absence of rubber digger tracks, what can I use to separate lawn and gravel/slate?? I seem to remember you mentioning tanalised something or other?? I'm after something that is fairly flexible because I have curves, don't cha know    It needs to be robust enough to cope with a lawnmower going over it occasionally. I'm not particularly looking for longevity though...

Also, can anyone suggest a good mulch?? I've used bark chippings before, but I need something a bit heavier than that because it's for a windy area.

twopenny, do you have any pics of your dragon hedge?? I'm not surprised you did that either, you're our resident artist    

What do you do with the drying out pea pods, Farway?? Do they need to go somewhere dry until it's time to sow them?? I still haven't watched the Mull BG episode - must do that soon.

Dusty, your friend's garden has really taken off.

OT - it's certainly windy here and we've had some powerful gusty gusts   Trains, buses and ferries cancelled and reports of trees down locally. The sun was trying to come out earlier and we had a rainbow that kept coming and going. I kept missing the photo opportunity though...

pink_poppy

We had this very well fed baby blackbird in the garden yesterday… 😁

molerat

pink_poppy said:

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OT - it's certainly windy here and we've had some powerful gusty gusts   Trains, buses and ferries cancelled and reports of trees down locally. The sun was trying to come out earlier and we had a rainbow that kept coming and going. I kept missing the photo opportunity though...

Blowing a hoolie here.  Loads of power cuts, lights keep dipping, SSEN will be busy.  Could show a picture of all my planters on their sides 

Wind has changed direction so quietened down a bit out the back.

Reports of loads of trees down.  Photo from my daughter

Grandson-in-law says he will be over to have that tomorrow 

edit.  That's the power off 

edit 2. Power back on after 4 hours, it did come back on for 5 mins after 2 hours though, longest we have ever been off as townies.  Still loads off all around, currently sitting at 209 reports North of Perth and seems to be getting bigger rather than smaller.  Never seen so much of the country showing as red on the SSEN map.

twopenny

Awww that's a fluffed up and chubby blackbird Poppy.
Hope he sat tight in the wind because it will be his first one.

Molerat that's a bit scary but not near you I believe.
I have a hidy place under trees where I go to read but I'll leave it for a while because I saw a big split in a branch of one of them.

Lovely colour combinations in that garden Dusty. Something I've never been good at. I just buy something that takes my fancy and bung it in. Mostly for scent and seasonality which is mostly pointless because as a smoker I can't smell much 🥴

Farway do you ever listen to Gardeners Question time? That's always good in an emergency. There are many years worth. I always enjoy Christine and Bob Flowerdew.......do you think that's his real name.

A little wind here and some hardly noticeable rain though it did at last penetrate half an inch down.
So that should be dried out shortly as it's sunny out 24c. Getting hotter by the minute 

pink_poppy

Hope you got through the rest of the storm unscathed, molerat (love that name), it certainly caused some disruption up here.
I keep saying to my DH that he should buy a chainsaw and take advantage of fallen trees, but apparently the safety equipment would cost more than the chainsaw. We've just paid £180 for a dumpy bag of Ash.

twopenny, the baby blackbird was gorgeous and plump. I knew there was at least one baby in the garden, so it was nice to actually see it. I feel like I've been supplying food to help out the parents for months this year   
I'm the same with buying plants, although apart from the wee sweet williams the other day, I haven't bought any plants for the garden for ages, there's no point until I get it under control. I do miss going to the GC with my gardening sister though.

There was a lovely orange colour in the sky first thing this morning, but it's grey and raining now. We're due thundery showers later and it doesn't feel very warm. I always think there must be somewhere in the country between twopenny and I that has 'just right' Goldilocks weather...

YoungBlueEyes

Thanks for the kind words re my roses 2p They're my Swish Ones and still doing well. The rest of the garden is decidedly colourless (see first pic in last post as proof) Well except my bird's sunflowers which are just fine. Hopefully you got a few drops of Floris yesterday?  I'm with you on the How I BuyStuff For My Garden, and miss most of the scents for the same reason :rolleyes: Occasionally one gets through though, I've a powerful honeysuckle at the bottom of the garden that smells sublime

Bluddy 'ell argenon daisies Dusty, been a while since we seen them on here. With a bridge and lush foliage and a stream too  A little square of heaven that is For news I like The Journal and CH4 and not much else really. With The Journal being 'foreign' it shrugs off whichever nonsense is the Topic Du Jour of the englishers, and sometimes you even get happy stories. There was a good one the other day that I meant to put on here, I'll have to go find it.

Those Property Alerts are well worth doing, and well worth repeating Farway. There was a good piece on R4 a long while ago about one scam that was successful, and the fellah came home from holiday to find renters in his house. It was a V long holiday mind, gave the scammers enough time to redirect the mail and all sorts, but he was ...a couple of years...? unpicking it all and getting it back. The land reg weren't much help either iirr Anyway. How's your back this morning? Will I ask The Oracle for some Olde Worlde Wisdome..? I'll second your distress+trauma+mental 'elf over the daisies  

Glad to hear you survived the storm pp I don't know about heavy mulch, but for keeping your slate off the grass - I was in morries at the weekend and they're kicking out their gardening stuff. They had those rolls of diddy split log things that you see sometimes, I can't remember what they're called. A roll was only a few quid. Can't find it on morries website so here it is from B+Q - https://www.diy.com/departments/blooma-ungava-green-pine-vertical-log-edging-h-15cm-l-1m/1906490_BQ.prd That'd be bendy and snuggle round your curves  Love your fluffity babby blackie Front page pics are racking up eh  

Welcome @molerat. Ooh that’s a stormy pic, but free wood though.... every cloud and all that Hopefully it'll be safer up there today and the SSEN folks can get the place back together again. 

OT showering on and off here, and actually cool with it. 13'c currently and feels like 8'c  In August. I'll take it over that uncivilised heat we had a wee while ago mind. It'll get up to 19' later, they say, but still a gusterly westerly with it. We topped out at 44mph yesterday and it could be 39mph today, possibly. Despite being outside the warning area we did get a bit of it yesterday - mid aft it absolutely threw it down with near horizontal winds and everything, but it was only for about an hour. Then the sun came out and it was a summer's day. What can you do.  Oh and Cissie rang me last night to see if we were alright and I said aye we're fine Cissie, it's yous up there that'll bear the brunt of it. She confidently announced that this wasn't a real storm, the weatherman doesn't know what he's talking about, "ach sure I haven't even closed my bedroom window". So there you go. The new ...barometer... for if a storm is real or not is if you need to close your bedroom window. God love her.

Edit - a bit of jolliness for anyone in need  
https://www.thejournal.ie/world-dog-surfing-competition-6781643-Aug2025/

YoungBlueEyes

Here 2p, lift one of these if you see one. I can’t remember where I got it but I think morries? It was definitely only a wee thing when I bought it so it’s got all this far in 2 years - 

Plum tree on the right. No plums or flowers or nothing on it. Maybe it’s searching for concrete first. 

twopenny

Glad you're in one piece Poppy. 
And great to get some logs in ready to cure. Or are you posh and buy them ready to burn?
Loads of ash logs, whole trees around here that have been felled for Ash Dieback. I know they've been left to rot for the beasties, good excuse, but I can't help wondering if it's just leaving the disease in the ground.

Like that Journal Bluey. Been looking for a replacement for the BBC news. Not only depressing it's full of media nonsense now.
It says I have to sign up though. Do you get email nonsense from them and such? I'm cautious 😟 
I must have posted this for you before but in case not have you met Jessie the Dog - this always makes me happy 
duck://player/P9Fyey4D5hg

We seem to have got the wind today! Blowing and sunny. Bedroom window still open but it's a bay so I just pick the window away from the wind.
13c so cool. 
No sign of rain though. We're still parched. The trees are dropping brown leaves, it's just like autumn.

Someone was reving and engine at 6.30am. someone going to their allotment at 7am then an alarm went off somewhere 😬

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Dusty, in the absence of rubber digger tracks, what can I use to separate lawn and gravel/slate?? I seem to remember you mentioning tanalised something or other?? I'm after something that is fairly flexible because I have curves, don't cha know    It needs to be robust enough to cope with a lawnmower going over it occasionally. I'm not particularly looking for longevity though...
Dusty, your friend's garden has really taken off.
OT - it's certainly windy here and we've had some powerful gusty gusts  

Glad you came through the Floris flap unscathed.  Here, it lasted about as long as my shop in Morries at Bideford. When I went in, it was raining. I emerged to bright sunshine.   Going over the Torridge Bridge a few minutes later, the blue sky reflecting in the water, and all the white houses, boats, etc, made it look like the blooming Mediterranean! Not what we were led to expect.  But isn't that often the case? 

I used tanalised 150mm x 25mm boards to edge our curving path. You might get away with 100mm x 25mm. The boards will bend, but steep curves aren't possible. For tighter curves, Everedge is the professional solution, but it isn't cheap.   

 https://www.everedge.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOoqLMBX3VvLWbYaoxLyUoJGxDE1cM7Bw-8eKYO-l9pglHF9P6ocp

My walking friend now has it edging her front lawn As you've observed, her back garden's coming along nicely as the structural shrubs mature. It helps that others have planted a few trees in their gardens too.   

pink_poppy said:

I keep saying to my DH that he should buy a chainsaw and take advantage of fallen trees, but apparently the safety equipment would cost more than the chainsaw. We've just paid £180 for a dumpy bag of Ash.

Small, modern, electric saws aren't like the fearsome, noisy beasts with tons of torque the pros use, so the most important safety tip is simply remembering to respect them. They can still inflict serious injuries, but it will be from carelessness, or losing one's footing, not kickback from an uncontrollable monster. Having said that, fallen trees still belong to someone! 

If it happens north of Hadrian's wall, molerat the news won't get the coverage it would receive if the Home Counties were affected.  As for power cuts, they happen randomly and without apparent reason here in Ruralshire. While not usually long, we have many, separated by a few minutes, so having switched things back on or reprogrammed etc, they go off and on again a few times. 

Loving 2p's plumptious baby blackbird....just think how many of your worms it's consumed!    Also Bluey's surfing dogs, who took me down another rabbit hole....
And finally, any plant with Graham (Stuart) Thomas in the name is worth having. 

OT: Still blustery, so one of the numpty neighbours has put out cardboard recycling in the wrong week, and it's off down the road. Sunny, and according to a video I saw, Cher can still trot in high heels!   Time for two dogs guarding some steps for Bluey to consider. There might be a Rozanne in there too. Apologies if I posted 'em before.....can't recall.