Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Bit later this morning, shopping delivery dross, but for me, it's far better than trudging round the supermarket looking for things that are not where they were last time.

Dull and sort of hope in the sky, no gardening expected, except lug the garden wheelie around the back now it's been emptied

YoungBlueEyes said:

Good news you found your Wandering Toms Farway, how poetic you found them with the apples I never knew woodlice ate toms though, honestly you can't have anything can you *sigh*  

I think they are opportunists, a slug makes a hole and the lice blighters move in

twopenny said:

Farway did you see BakeOff with the chocolate frangipan and pear tart. How's your baking?

Bake O I never watched, well I did years ago before it changed channel & the new presenters, I'm talking about him with the flower shirts, and the mouthy woman, got up my hooter, and then later I cancelled my TV licence so it's Forbidden Fruit now

So, never saw it and my baking is basic bung everything in mixer then into oven, banana bread & tea loaf and crumbles are the peak of my skills.

Talking of pears, I tried another of my Posh French ones, it was starting to go manky, so I decided to eat what I could. 

Juicy and could be pleasant, but still has a hint of bitterness about it, which I thought could be the skin, but peeled some off, and it was the same. 

twopenny said:

Loved the sea pic Bluey, perfect. I have a feeling you may be moving to the seaside at some point. I have lots of different beaches accessible from my place as Exmoor has a whole coast as well as moorland and woodland valleys which is why I stay..

Things seem to be going well at Farway meadows with all the bounty and it looks delicious despite the woodlice 😉

Back lawn needs mowing, done some clearing but seems back has come out in sympathy with the leg so it's all a bit random.

Better be quick on sea, latest global boiling news is it going to rise by eighteen feet, so stay where you are, and the sea will come to you 

I'm waiting on the woodlice toms to ripen just a tad more, get them at the top so to speak

My nice neighbour has mown my grass, again, I need to do abbit more clearing now the wheelie is empty, but like you, dictated by back allowing it or not.

Going to try a photo, it's a crab apple, a few doors down, but looking grand in the sunshine

Bottom right, yellow berries are some of my pyracantha, waiting for the birds to get hungry enough

pink_poppy

I'm not on my hols yet, but it's all been rearranged for next week. Weather for that week looks good too.

Farway, one of the crab apple trees near to me (yellow fruit) lost all the leaves to Storm Amy, whereas the other one (red fruit) is still covered in leaves. My Viburnum, that had just started to recover after being moved from pot to garden and was starting to flower, has now set sail for the Fjords My poor garden is looking very forlorn after the relentless wind and rain. Next week would have been a good week, weatherwise, to tidy it up, but I'm not going to be here, so...

Lovely moon pics, YBE and Dusty. It was too cloudy for me to see it last night, but the night sky was definitely brighter, if that makes sense. Lovely seaside pic too, YBE. We were at a beach yesterday and I was trying unsuccessfully to capture the waves crashing against the rocks. I took a couple of pics of DH throwing a big rock into the sea, with a disappointing splosh at the end too.

Poor Mrs Hog I hope her babies survive. Well done to you and Mrs Dusty for helping them out. I'm already worrying about my blackbirds for when I'm away. There's one Mr Blackbird who has a damaged leg and he just sits in the middle of the lawn (!!) waiting for me to throw food out. I'm going to have to ask my DD if she can still feed them when she comes to see pussycat. She'll probably think I'm mad, but I'm quite attached to my regular birds because they've been around for months now.

twopenny, Exmoor sounds like a perfect place to be.

Btw, I think it was taff who was going to Germany.

OT - another grey day with rain.