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?