Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Last bit. Kitchen Garden. I saw this and thought of you 2p for it'd make a beautiful painting - 

A companion planting Bee Bum - 

And a sign, that made my heart smile - 



Forgive me flooding the place, but that's the job jobbed now  

pink_poppy

YoungBlueEyes said:

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

Gawd, that made me laugh       

Gorgeous photos, YBE, you went to some beautiful places for your wedding and honeymoon   

Bertigo is mostly gone, I just feel it in the background sometimes (usually when I've had a drink or been looking at the stars haha). Please post the geese pic - I love to see them flying overhead.

I don't think it was Mars, Farway, because it was part of the Plough?? I didn't notice the pink bit until I was looking at the photo afterwards. I did see a very bright star/planet too - it was to the right of the Plough (sorry, don't know my North, South, East, West)...

I don't think I want to read the Hovercraft article   

It's stopped raining and is nice and sunny now. Pussycat is running around like a mad thing - he sounds like a horse galloping around    

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

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  

You could do it. Maybe not where we were, but up the coast a bit at Hartland, there are several places with cliff views, no climbing involved, and no unmetalled track full of potholes.    As for the rear end pics, that's always going to happen, 'cos my walking friend's fitter than me.  I may trail along behind, but I'm more observant..  

YoungBlueEyes said:

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...? 

We decided they were probably sunbathing at the bottom of the cliffs, out of view. It would have been warm, as there was little wind, even on the clifftops. We haven't worked out how people get down to the beach, but as we were leaving, fit-looking men with body boards arrived, so it's also a place where surfers go...and geologists. (inclined bedding planes!  )

OT: A misty, moisty start today after some overnight drizzle, but 'proper' rain never arrived. I shall have to do some watering.  

Yesterday afternoon, Mrs Dusty asked me to cut a specific-sized hole in a plastic box so she could put hedgehog food in it without also feeding the local cats. We have baby hogs that need feeding-up before winter. After dark, Mrs D crept up to the box and discovered it was already in use!    This morning, both bowls empty!! There's a picture coming.

Meanwhile, here's those Cosmos 'Bright Lights' in context, in friend's garden, along with that Geum which never stops flowering (Blazing Sunset?) The cosmos is very different from others....and very cheap to buy as seed. Farway may want to look away, as there's a Canna lily, and it's still flowering.  
  

-taff

Wow ybe, such beauty, love the dog statue, someone must have based that postion from somedog they saw...Love the tree bum/bee bum combo, that's a very clear bee too. And that rose is beautiful and a smell too! Also love the seat backs on a log idea, I may steal that. I have serious greenhouse envy. What is the red leaved tree? And the purple one? Love the cauliflower, kaffe fassett did a load of fabric with designs like that, they're really lovely and bright. Looks like a very nice time was had too...If you look on the bee society? website they give contacts for people in your area who may be able to collect your bees..depends on the sort. OOps, you already have... Or you could give them a proper home if they use those things and get that taken away...Anyone on an allotment by you with a penchant for bees? 

Poppy, whatever I could beg borrow or - ahem - liberate..I'll take a photo next time I'm there. I used some metal mesh on the side because the last time I poked sticks in the ground from the cherry tree, they sprouted, so it's metal mesh and metal rods to contain it. As it's also the demarcation point for the path I thought a definite edge would be better. It's twigs, cuttings, potato haulms, bindweed wrapped in a ball and shoved into some bits, some apples [ fell off tree] sweetcorn stalks, tomato stalks, raspberry canes and roots, grass cuttings, some wood from  another allotment that was in a fire, some bay tree, you get the picture. Anything and everything that was dead. Or on it's last legs. 

Love your saucepan photo. [what I call the plough] 

Yours and my secret farway [taps nose] 

Dusty, maybe I could, or maybe I can sit and eat an ice cream and do some actual drawing..the light there is lovely. And you have hogs! how fantastic mr fox! I found a walled garden garden centre last week, quite near, I saw some of the Scarlet Tempest geum in there, so now I'l have to get some for next year now you've said they're a doer...They had a ton of different salvias, all colours, I'm afraid I fell for a peach ish one, we'll see if it surives the winter in the greenhouse. 

edited for many many typos....

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

OT: A misty, moisty start today after some overnight drizzle, but 'proper' rain never arrived. I shall have to do some watering.  

Meanwhile, here's those Cosmos 'Bright Lights' in context, in friend's garden, along with that Geum which never stops flowering (Blazing Sunset?) The cosmos is very different from others....and very cheap to buy as seed. Farway may want to look away, as there's a Canna lily, and it's still flowering.    

Ha, I may not have canna flowers, but I do have rain at last  , started before lunch, not buckets, but enough to postpone watering here.  

My cosmos from seed failed, left them to get too leggy, and then eaten by slugs, all my own fault

Just watched GW, another one with huge gardens, one with half of Yorkshire I reckon. 

And a Police Pension must be a fortune judging by the acre of garden the married, ex-cops, couple had. 

Happy, in a Schadenfreude way, to see Monty had red spiders & white fly

Seeing M doing it confirmed my thoughts about potting my new daff bulbs up while I wait for space to become available

-taff said:

Yours and my secret farway [taps nose] 

I saw some of the Scarlet Tempest geum in there, so now I'l have to get some for next year now you've said they're a doer...

edited for many many typos....

Thanks for keeping our Erig secret Taff.

I'm also tempted by the Geums, wonder how a clump would do in the Dog Poo border?

Typos, I have some widget [Firefox browser] that underlines the mistakes as I type, and suggest corrections

Sometimes the red underlines make my screen look like Emergency Ward Ten, or Casualty for younger viewers

wort

Thanks all for the ID weirdly I’d thought (whispers) Erigeron ,but when I look at the established one the leaves are different. Anyway it’s staying for now. 

Dusty that’s my type of walk, I love the seaside, just don’t get there unless on hols, maybe that’s why I like a cruise.
Farway I know what you mean about the last post, gets me every time. Especially since we lost a family member in Afghan,it was played when he was repatriated home.
Pp those photos from the car are amazing, mine would be the 2nd ones all blurred.
2p I’m with Taff I couldn’t cope with that tiny kitchen, and I’m a minimal freak . Beautiful garden though..

wort

YBE love your honeymoon photos. Perfect autumn colours too.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all  

Ooh dahlias flowering now Farway, that is queer. Fingers crossed your cuttings are successful. Aye that's the 'everyone take your photo here' pergola but I wasn't impressed - all you got were either too bright trees or dark faces. The thing itself is prettier than any photo taken in it imo.  And yep the bananas are in trouble again, I didn't know 'til I put Cavendo Tutus into D'Duck for a translation and this article came up -  https://www.ft.com/content/0672a87b-6119-4ee1-bb7c-61af6ea5fe15  

I'll put up the geese pic then pp, there were loads of them and they were so noisy! Was Pussycat all giddy cos the rain had stopped..? 

Gawd look at friend's garden Dusty, that is pure lovely. So full and colourful and happy, it looks kinda tropical. Nice bench too Eagerly awaiting hog pics... Now the stadium lights are flooding my garden I doubt I'll see them here again

I don't know what any of the trees are taff cos sadly the place is about 80% unlabelled So I just took pics because pretty. The one place everything was labelled was the fruit orchard which would be useful if I'd written down the names of stuff we ate off the dripping with fruit fruit trees. Actually they go on about how they use all their own produce and compost food waste from the house to go on the gardens etc, but the fruit trees were beyond ripe and stuff was rotting on the ground. It was a bit sad to see actually. Anyway. I don't think I'll buy the bees a proper home cos I'd either need a good few of them or a bladdy huge one cos there's squillions of them. I need a proper person to come round and sort it really.

Met up with wm yesterday for a trot round 'Ull (the Old Town bit) and some lunch. Really lovely day, her head is full of the most interesting facts - they had a Bank of England! In 'Ull! All that money washing about the place a couple of hundred years ago produced some beautiful houses and streets. I reckon she could get a not-interested-in-history person interested in history  

OT cool and dark and damp out there atm. 6'c currently with a high of 13' to come, possibly. That fog wants to lift soon cos I've a wash on  

YoungBlueEyes

They need more practise - 



Oh and things I've previously forgotten to say - happy birthday ITV (70 years old), same age as fish fingers (70 last week), and it's not the Orange Shitgibbon any more, it's Mango Mussolini    

twopenny

I don't know where to start with all the lovely photos from around the countryside.
Wonderful colours and shapes and views I've loved them all and now, between the invalid status and the number of roads being closed around here I feel like I'm getting to see some of it.

Didn't repost the video, too depressing while the sun's still shining.
And I'm happy the cottage isn't to everyone's taste because that means it's all mine😉

Sun is shinning here and I'm thinking of a walk on the beach if my body will make it. I'm lucky we have so many to choose from around here. I've made progress with clearing the garage. Lots still to do. But would love to get going on the garden. Grass needs cutting again.
But it's heavy dew now and too wet to get a handle on the rest.
By the time it's dried out it's getting dark already 😲

This is how far the garden is getting out of hand. I pulled these up only last week but they've moved back 


I've still got new tomato plants coming up in random places too .

So I'm going to ignore all the jobs if life allows and have a day off - again 😆