Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

I'm with you Farway, so over bloomin erigeron [ which means I'll buy more seeds next year anyway or evn a pot and see if they make it this time...] 

oh gawd ybe, does that mean they'll change your name to Petunia Plunket or something without you looking now? 

A-mazing views Dusty..makes me wish I could do that too...I do miss the sea air blowing and the smell. Yes, very nice rear pics  

Those Standing wit Giants silhouettes were very moving, you can't help but think. My cousins had a piper to play at my aunts funeral, shivers abound and she'd have been very pleased. 

Lovely mares tails PP. 

the cottage is cute 2p, but no way on eath I'd get all my kitchen paraphenalia in it....perhaps it could be in the grounds of Rottery Acres for anyone to spend the odd night..

Dull and cloudy today, and cold, heating is on, I'm not going to light the fire until at least mid October...although I did just put the electric blanket on the bed and swap to a flannel sheet underneath...

Allotment going ok, Just finished making a dead hedge on one side, started another down the bottom, cleared the raspberry canes, will attempt to propagate from them, big plans this year after the first year now I know what happens and what actually grows there. I'm not that bisy relly, it's just I have one job a day in me and that's it  

pink_poppy

What a change in the weather from yesterday/last night. It was lovely and starry here when I got up at 5am. I stood on the back step whilst waiting for my coffee to brew and just stared at the sky (I know I shouldn't because of my vertigo, but I couldn't resist ). Saw the Plough and a load of other stars. I also saw a light coloured bird fly past, which was possibly an owl??

The weather forecast isn't looking good for our trip away next weekend - it's ferry cancelling weather... We'll just have to wait and see what it's like nearer the time.

What are you using to make the dead hedge, taff??

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all   

Gawd the colour of the sea in your first 2 pics Dusty I'd never be in the house if I lived down there, or up where pp lives. I wonder what the other people are doing that they're not out there or at the beach then...? Thanks for the precis of that link, I'm deffo not clicking it now or I'll be bubbling away and that's no way to start the day.

The Last Post does me in too Farway. I a friend in Lincolnshire, he played French cornet in a band and he hired himself out for playing The Last Post. He played it with such agony and heartbreak, it was beautiful. He always did it for the price of a pint cos he said anyone who's requested that has given enough in their life Jeez I've got a little lump just typing that. Yep I got council shirker's name, it was on her name badge ha haa! 

So there already is a wee house by that mountain pp? Even though all your pics are good I think there's something special about the 4 boats with the cirrus uncinus radiatus (thanks Less) There's a Japanese feel to it almost. Did DH play football or was it cancelled for the rain? Hopefully they've got it wrong and its not ferry-cancelling weather next weekend :fingerscrossed:

That MightMove house is just the sort of place I imagine you in 2p. Just wants a collie or 2 and that'd do it   Your red+pink friend reminds me of a colour scheme my cousin had a wee while ago - fairly dark grey with pillar box red. So red walls and grey radiators, or grey walls and red bedding. It sounds awful but that worked too.

Ooh good plan lifting 2p's cottage for the grounds of Rottery Acres taff, a sort of proper grown-up garden pod *nodding*  Next year will be great now you know the uhh lay of the land at your allotment  

I got a good go in my garden yesterday afternoon. I've snipped dead bits off living things, shortened the too long things, gave my 3 plants which are not called cystitis a severe haircut and carefully pruned cut some extra bits off my apple tree. Apples are still hanging on, and AppleStick is still living I think I'll have to see again about getting someone in about the bees in my grass though, they're settling in a bit too rightly and coming further up the garden. They were only in one corner but now they're over halfway up to the house and in 2 borders  

Well it's stopped raining out there now but it was lashing when I got up. I've had the reverse mornings of yours pp, it was clear and starry yesterday morning and I saw Orion's Belt It's 11'c currently and a high of 16' to come, possibly.

pink_poppy

Did you find out what the bees are, YBE?? Sounds like a big nest *shudders* - it’s bad enough us having ants in the grass…

It’s supposed to be 0% chance of rain this morning and it’s currently piddling down ☔️

Pic from this morning - not sure why one bit of the Plough is pink?? The bright thing directly underneath was an aeroplane going over…

YoungBlueEyes

I did find out what the bees are but I've forgotten now. The man from the Bee Society (or something) in Posh Town IDed them from a pic. Were they Davies Miner Bees...? I remember them saying they're not harmful but that's not the point. They're in there all year round and I want them taken away ideally.

I like your pic pp, and aye there is a bit of a pinkish hue to it eh. How is Bertigo btw? I got a pic yesterday of the geese coming/going but I'll not put it up if it'll cause you bother. 

I haven't put up any pics from last week, I should sort a few out really.

YoungBlueEyes

Chronological then.

Sitdownerie at Gretna Hall in the lovely weather - 



And a sitooterie - 

It was a bu99er to get a pic of. I held my phone to have the garden straight but it makes the sitooterie look drunken The garden was a bit slopey...
(There were swiflows galore up there but I never managed a pic of them.)


Looking at the pics now my Lake District ones are all kinda grey and don't look a bit like the thing I was taking a pic of, so ixnay them.

This was the house across the road from the hotel we stayed at in the Peaks. Lovely big happy Autumnal jobber  

YoungBlueEyes

Chatsworth. I didn’t the usually house and garden pics because why would you when there’s plenty of those in the world, so here’s a different view. 

The garden on the south side has a few statues in the garden, and I particularly like this one - 

They’ve a belter of a greenhouse - 

And in a hot house there’s the banana plant that saved the world -

Same place, some diddy wee plants that are called butterfly somethings - 

YoungBlueEyes

All around the place are Lookout Points with a stand that you can set your phone on to take a "perfect picture". Pffft. I don't know what you'd do that for when the place has loads of non-LP good stuff. Here's another sitooterie - 

A charming fence - 

A swing hanging from a big ol’ tree, that I did have lots of goes on - 

(I’m thinking of calling my car Tutus, cos it’s horn is pathetic 🙄)

Farway

Dull & gloomy outside, no rain despite me wanting it to pour down and water the flower pots; it seems like rain everywhere except here.

One brighter spot, my Bishop of Oxford dahlia has got two flowers open, lovely orange but smaller flowers than I was hoping for. 

Link for info only, mine was not from them.

https://www.farmergracy.co.uk/collections/bishop-dahlia-tubers-uk/products/dahlia-bishop-of-oxford-tubers-uk

I was late planting him, so he is later flowering than he should be, but it's part of my Cunning Plan to take cuttings early 2026 to try to get a decent show of them

The Dwarf dahlias I grew from seed have cleared off Northwards, I'm only left with a severe slug gnawed stump

-taff said:

I'm with you Farway, so over bloomin erigeron [ which means I'll buy more seeds next year anyway or evn a pot and see if they make it this time...] 

Shhh, don't tell, but I bought a pot from Morries, and planted that  . 

Still alive when I last looked, so I have hopes of self seeding, maybe.

The Love in Ms don't self seed around my garden, but nasturtiums, foxgloves & shoo flies do, all very odd. I can only hope Morries pot grown erigeron have the SS urge in them

Nice Plough pic PP, I even saw it this morning, but no camera handy. There was a very bright star as well, a planet I guess, but CBA to look it up

Your pink bit, could it be Mars?

I'll take a camera to bed tonight, which should ensure rain

Hope your ferries keep going, the only ones here [IOW] are rarely cancelled, except for fog, but of course the Solent is not really stormy even at the worst of times. 

I think in IOW case it is wind affecting the safe navigation of narrow entrances & harbour mouths, although there was, years back, the awful accident when the Hovercraft was tipped over at Southsea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-60236843

Just refreshed, and now it's YBE pics, good one there, I know that sitooterie, think somewhere I've a pic, from memory it is / was used as a background for wedding pics by commercial photographers, but that was when I was there. 

That banana, isn't there some new problem with them now? 

Because they are all from the one gene pool, all the Cavendish ones are succumbing to Fusarium wilt like the previous breed.

https://www.treehugger.com/extinct-banana-5201723

No gardening again today, maybe some horizontal stuff with GW & BG to catch up on 

YoungBlueEyes

Bit of horticulture next. Tree Bum, it's got bum cheeks and everything!   - 




The colours were gorgeous, we deffo hit the right time - 

Oh and a rose in the (quite poor, frankly) Rose Garden - 

It smelled Proper though