Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Yesterday’s rainbow/s … 

…and the new development … 

…and a post sunset cloudy sky… 

That'll do.

Farway

Sunny start, a bit windy, rain due lunchtime, so I need to get the garden wheelie round the back before then.

Like the common blue pics Dusty, not common around here, but when I was a Middlesex lad they were plentiful. They used to fly up as we walked through long grass, but in those days the sun always shone from May to October.

pink_poppy said:

 I love hazelnuts (mmm, Topic... a hazelnut in every bite) and didn't realise that's what Filberts were.

I think there is a différance, not always obvious, hazel is rounder, Filbert is longer & sort of oval, Cob is a larger, rounder hazelnut.

Kentish cobs I remember being “In season” and we used to buy them green in the husks on the way home from Saturday morning pictures. ABC Minors FYI.

Not checked, but I think the outer husks and ripening times also differ.

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm ready for a week off 2p. I really want this filthy lurgy shifted before we go away, I sound like a barking seal 
How did volunteer meeting go Farway? Did the trouble get resolved? I hope you find toadstools, 

Enjoy your, hopefully Lurgy free, hols

Meeting was OK, trouble never fully resolved but chickens now roosting with them discovering the need to pay someone to weed etc.

I'm giving the volunteering up now, with my health and lack of bend. 

I struggle with my own garden, so doing extra is just not really possible. Plus, my fellow volunteer is also giving up, health & wanting to spend more time with family.

No toadstools yet. Or rainbows, I was hoping for one yesterday, it chucked it down, but nothing appeared.

Gardening, pick more toms to finish ripening indoors, before the rain & slugs get them

Check apples, are Champion ready?

May stew & freeze more of those I've already picked.

OT For those who may not know, or coming down Memory Lane with me

ABC Minors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmEDEZPnEyA

twopenny

Awe Farway, now that tune is running round my head 😬
What are the words that usually go with it? There's something else to that tune and I can't place it.

Shame about the volunteer plot but understand why. Will you still pop the odd plant in now and then? Can you resist?

Cold and wet here. No wind to speak of but I did some washing anyway.
Hobbling today. Tried table tennis but the stiffness is still there. So cooking up the fruit probably. Doing more domnon as it seems interminable these days now business has got us all doing it ourselves. 
I reckon we should be paid for doing it.

https://startsat60.com/media/entertainment/this-86-year-old-womans-letter-to-the-bank-has-gone-viral

LessImpecunious

Quick input on Aeoniums...they take very easily from cuttings, like other succulents the problem is more one of overmultiplication....( e.g.,  have a look in the background when Monty is repotting etc...)

These were just broken branches stuck in this trough in early summer...