Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

diveunderthebonnet said:

I bet that leather seating is fun in this hot weather ,would have to be parked in the shade for comfort ,the car itself looks good .

What seating? What Car? 
Leather seating's been around longer than me, and I've had some experience with it, thanks. I refer you to the Hitchhikers Guide  to the Galaxy's section on towels, which are so useful in many travelling contexts.

Dustyevsky

wort said:

Dusty I’d skipped over the maggot pic thanks for reposting 👿

I can delete it if you like now.  Be assured, if you keep your butt covered, you will be safe from a personal experience. (Hmm, that doesn't sound quite right, but it's sound advice!   )

Love the squid joke Bluey, but I doubt Gen Z would get it. Wasn't that ad quite a long time ago now? 

Thanks for the advice. I'm still mulling things over. I must do something in that direction pretty soon now, but downsizing from 3.5 tonnes is difficult!  The big advantage there is I know the garage owner. We bought Mrs D's purple peril from him 2 years ago.    Anyway, it'll probably be gone by lunchtime. 

OT: It's currently sunny, but there are big blobs all over the radar rainfall map, including some heading 2p's way. However, after Tuesday & Wednesday, I'm not making any rash promises.

twopenny

No rain here. It's been predicted as all day. 
Dark and grey cloud is all.

No news as yet. Still collecting buckets of water.
I have found that if I pull the net curtains over the patio window it looks more green so I can pretend.

Went on the moors yesterday. It's green up there and Dusty's side is looking positively lush.
Looking down on the landscape we do appear to be in a bowl of desert from porlock to Bridgwater but to the left is green.

I have photos but they need to come off the camera. Might try tonight if I'm not too lazy 😉

Farway

We had a few blobs of rain yesterday, waste of time of course, not really enough to wet the roads

And now it's hissing down ! Yay, hooray 

Loved the squid joke, Bluey. 

Brings to mind the time Mary Poppins stayed in a hotel and while getting ready for dinner she noticed free lipstick on the dressing table, however when using it, it kept breaking & smudging

She then goes down to dinner, and opts for the cauliflower cheese, she is very impressed by it and compliments the chef

The next morning, after the previous good meal, she chooses scrambled eggs on toast. However, the eggs are hard, grey & toast is burnt!

On checking out, the management ask her if she would mind completing a Trip Advisor review

Mary wrote

Super cauli, fragile lipstick, eggs were atrocious.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Might it be time to sacrifice that pear tree Farway and get something less infuriating instead? Illustrated Man being South African was my thought too, when I looked up Boerboels. I haven't seen him to speak to yet but. To Be Continued... 

Beer Can Chicken - there's a blast from the past wort Boooo to work but yay to DGS's distinction and 21st partying :clinking-glasses: 

I would happily get rid of the pear YBE, I'm just is not up to it, spirit willing, weak flesh. Too much physical work involved for me these days, and I'm not going to pay someone to do it. 

Having said that, I just picked half a dozen more bigguns, with as many rotting on the ground.

Maybe, after ten loooong years it is getting going? 

Still have the ripening problem though, but I'm going to leave the fresh picked ones overnight & stew them tomorrow.

I've also just picked six Beurre Alexandre Lucas pears, supposed to be super, but this is also my first year of getting a crop of these, so into the unknown. 

Supposed to go well with cheese, hope so. 

https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Beurre_Alexander_Pears_18487.php

Beer can chicken, I remember that, never had it though.

Congrats to Wort DGS. 

Wheelie bin trundled around the back, picked my pears, and the Champion apples are looking excellent, small but going red / gold

Phone call from Dr. booked me in for flu & covid jab, double tap, one in each arm, perhaps slip Prostate check in at same time? 

Hope your Illustrated Man's dogs are not mixed doubles like my neighbour, her pair managed to beat the Vet's snip by a few days, and she now has a litter eating her out of house, home and destroy her garden. She is not happy at all. 

twopenny

T&M have a potted pear tree on off 😉

-taff

Cor blimey there's a lot going on...ybe, with your cogis, I remember seeing something about corgi crosses once, where all the dogs crossed with corgies came out looking a corgi shape of their other parent...

https://www.boredpanda.com/corgi-mix-cross-breeds/

and I do laugh muchly at your office shennanigans I'd take your BiL up on the offer of shooting them out if softly softly doesn't work. And that's fast work of one neighbour out on in...the dogs sound lovely though. Fast thinking to take some seeds..maybe some cuttings wouldn't go amiss either..or a whole plant? 

Sorry 2p, but we did have a massive downpour yesterday, that lasted five minutes, put about 16 inches in the waterbutt, then disappeared...still need much much more...lovely toms and gooseberries! I'm hoping my sere wilderness will bounce back a tiny bit when and if we do ever get rain so unpin them blinds and take a good look to remember when the good times roll again

Well, at least your swifty is working ybe, mine has the dreaded adblue reset which I'm trying to get sorted before Monday because I'm supposed ot be taking my sister to the airport..oops...dom non today, waiting on plumber and mobile mechanic...

Green lipped stuff sounds interesting 2p..it was me who said they had mini lillies, offer still stands, mine are in a small glavanised tub and have not gone super crazy yet...

I am going to share one picture, this was a park in Bristol last weekend [ I was driving the bride!] but it looks like October..

Shame about your pears, can you not give it the Paddington Bear?  That single pear on the scale is lovely colour though! that samubucus really does look a bit bonsai though

Dusty, good to see you're still smiling and influencing people cattle [to part ways and let you through] I do find it quite hilarious to keep seeing your walking companion from the rear..imagine if you put all those photos into a gif, that would be very cool...I don't mind the rat tailed maggots, it's the smell of the comfrey I obeject to, it's very plant sewer and it will stay on your hands for a while [ you know why I know that]

I'm contemplating a bit of rosa rugosa for the allotment,, I love the hips, just to act as a windbreak as well as any bay I can get hold of , the wind from the right hand side [ no idea which direction it actually properly is] is biting with no shelter..The dead hedge is coming along although I did miss an opportunity to get some brash from a fellow allotmentier..ah well, it'll come..

pp, well done on one good nights sleep too! 

wort, also well done on hard playing following hard work

No gardening done but old greenhouse is gone after offering to second responder on fbmp after one messaged to say, I'll give you thirty because I've seen other people selling them for that, so my response, I'm sure they'd be happy to take it off you so go ahead, ...then I left and blocked him, to find he'd messaged me in spam saying, oh, oh, that was a quick end to the conversation...Yes, because it's not a conversation when you tell me what I should charge you. I bet he's hell on tradesmen. Sorry, ranting there...

Yeah, hoping Arb did well in potato experiments this year, anyone reccomend a nice floury one for next year? 

YoungBlueEyes

Up V early, there's a tawny owl (thanks Merlin app) out there going wree wreee every 15 seconds or so. Gawd it's a piercing sound  

Glad my joke was well received, and my seed-head snipping (forgot to say that before!). I dread to think how old it must be, that ad has gotta be 20 years off the telly if it's a day  

Are you joining us Swifty's then Dusty? Not comparable to a van but useful in their own way, and knowing the garage owner is a big tick in my book.... 

Woohoo for the moors recovering 2p It'll be your turn for rain next, then you can pull back your nets and sigh with relief

Farway I'm pinching your Mary Poppins joke, it's a good groaner is that Did you get more pears rescued/stewed? Pears + cheese is a fab combo, beaten only by apples + cheese imo. Yummy yum yum Hopefully the Beurre Alexandre will be a good replacement for your hard red jobbers. Your neighbour being eaten out of house and home by puppies, I shouldn't laugh but Please god my neighbour hasn't mixed doubles....

Nice to see you again taff, and back with such a good pic too The newly marrieds will have fab wedding pics if that's the state of play down there How do you give something "the Paddington Bear"?  Those corgi mix-ups are just wrong, hilarious but wrong I'm glad someone thought to put them online though, I haven't been on boredpanda for years so I'd have missed that Good for you not tolerating that fbmp headnob, people like him are a scourge  

Anyway, next question. When you're pre-emptively looking at gardens that come with a house, how much garden is too much garden? Cos I've found a house but I think I understand now why people say "no that's too much, I'd never be able to maintain it"... 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163936076#/?channel=RES_BUY

House-hunting because it's almost certainly not gonna work with new neighbour. He was messing about in his van when I came home from work last night so I stopped and said hi welcome to the neighbourhood etc. He's not South African sadly, he's a Hullite Hullensian (Hullites get all itchy if you don't call them Hullensians :rolleyes; like that makes a difference) Well the dogs were going mental inside and he was completely immune to it *sigh* He didn't try to quieten them down, or look at them even, or address that they were there. He didn't even introduce himself or shake my hand and tell me his name... Not a friendly sort   The Oracle came over as I was at my front door and said the dogs are in there all day, barking and growling and carrying on and did I have my now-ex-neighbour's number as she was going to ring him. She's got stuck in a council/RSPCA loop, each saying it's the others' responsibility so she wanted wosname's number.  I don't know how himself will react when I tell him we're probably moving  

OT cold and dark, 12'c currently and a high of 19' to come, perhaps. We did get a bit of rain last night - not the fab storms they predicted for 3/4 o'clock but it did rain a bit on and off about 8ish. Breezy and mild today, with some/little/no rain.

Dustyevsky

Wow! That's some house + garden there Bluey, though the agent's choice of camera lense exaggerates the space. (Don't they all!  ) Looks like there would be quiet/elderly neighbours to the west, and very quiet ones behind!  What strikes me most, though, is the way everything's been done solidly. There's a terrific amount of hard landscaping which would cost a fortune in £ and energy if carried out at today's prices. OK, concrete isn't a great growing medium, but there are oodles of walls to grow things against and, with imagination, the overall harshness could be softened in time . The lawns look ideal for a robot mower too! 

While putting a positive spin on the property you linked to, I'm not neglecting the sadness & justified anger you must feel if you're contemplating a move solely due to others' ignorance and lack of thought. Sadly, it's a trend, judging by what I hear, read, and experience first hand. It's something that motivates me to consider moving, too. Our smallholding may be difficult to maintain, but what worries me more, is its situation, close to many people who've little in common with us, or the wider community. They support nothing locally, except, maybe, the pubs. If we go to events here, we don't see any of them. Half the properties are second homes or rental 'investments,' but the post-Covid property bubble has popped. It doesn't make for a happy place, and wasn't always like this. 

Where our DD2 has bought is entirely different. There are more families (no kids here!) and people have practical skills, which they share. In the coming hard times, they'll be the resilient ones who pool resources and help each other. Our lot, across the way....Frazer in Dad's Army put it succinctly! 

OT: Heavy rain most of the night will certainly have gone some way into the soil, and there's more on the way. Surely, this time, 2p's had a decent amount? No more watering here  for a while, but I can see lots of grass cutting in a week or so! It's been a good year for all sorts of berries, including the ones we won't be eating. This is our largest hawthorn, smothered in them.

Another sign indicating the end of summer, is the sudden reduction in the number of House Martins and Swallows. Last week, I could see 30 or 40 on the wires in the morning. Now, the majority seem to have gone. That's early! Do they know something? 

wort

We had a mini storm about quarter to 4 YBE, I was at work getting ready to finish and it was clattering on the roof, there were big puddles when I got out at 4 .
Shame about the neighbour though. All that work you’ve put in the garden, and you’d miss the oracle.
Taff, Paddington bear? Put it under his hat? Nice autumn pic 😉

Colder than of late with sun struggling with grey cloud outside at the moment.

twopenny

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Rain. A centimetre at night now an inch in half an hour.
11c!!!!!! Bit of a shock after a 28c average.

Can't stop. Buffet party this morning at table tennis if I've got the day right.

Bad news about the dogs bluey. I think people like that should be locked in the house and get a taste of their own medicine.
But another house nearby maybe, more plants to buy?

Working at 4am wort! Yuck!

Yes dusty, we have uninhabited properties where no one lives and motorhomes where people bring everything with them and park up on the streets for free. There's still all these new builds that haven't sold. It's not where people want to live.

Anhoos break from watering today 🙂