Awful weather - typical Brits talk

greenbee

Poppy - I’d head over to the energy boards and start a ‘storage heaters vs. ASHP’ fight 😂. In amongst the ‘heat pumps don’t work in old houses’ and ‘storage heaters are rubbish’ from the usual suspects you’ll get some valuable advice. As they are both electric, the correct answer probably depends on your lifestyle, budget, and what grants might be available. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on International Wombat Day  

twopenny said:

We had a sunny spell yesterday.
Just the one.

2p that was a perfect post, made me laugh I don't know if Cissie uses iplayer... I wouldn't suggest it because she won't be told, but I reckon Beloved Grandson will drop it into conversation and she'll be away with it then Mind she doesn't watch a lot of telly, she sits and knits squares to be made into blankets for the church to take to "all those wee babies in Africa". It keeps her out of trouble.

I don't know anything about heating either pp, but I'd be sorting insulation before/as well as putting in new heating. 2 sides of the one coin imo. What do the wise heads on the In My Home and Energy boards on here think? 

Gawd your crab-apples must be bad eating if the hens avoid them ha haa! Mind for £2 you can always take a chance eh. Absolutely right about tea cups - even though I only have a cup in the morning it's from a proper china cup. Coffee I'd drink from a shitey shoe but tea can't be messed with. What's the yellowy orangey flowers under all your toms...? They're cheerful Ah they're tagetes, thanks Farway

I agree with the others wort, friend needs to start dragging child on walks. Anyone too young to contribute to bills does not get an opinion Did you get any good pics on hols then? Did you get to a bier festival? 

Oh aye, I remember it now you've said about tree carving Farway, they're brilliant aren't they. I couldn't've named your flowers but aren't they sweet? They look fragrant too  

I'm with you on the modern stuff taff. I quite like some of it but I don't wanna be paying to look at old stuff in old houses and then find rooms/corridors full of new nonsense. There's a bit of that at Chatsworth, and Osborne House now I think of it I've got a good example of that actually, I'll put the pic at the end. 

OT mild and damp and very slightly breezy out there this morning. 10'c currently, and 14' to come, they say. Lovely and sunny all day though, possibly, which will be a welcome change. We had rain on and off yesterday, well we don't need anymore thanks St Fiacre, send it off to Scandi-wegia so they can have snow out of it. Oh there's a big 'storm' coming tomorrow is there? Course there is *sigh*

YoungBlueEyes

I took this pic because BeeBum. I hope it comes out on your screens - some of the flowers and all of the bees and butterflies are in 3D. It was beautiful. And new - the little sign next to it said iirr "A re-imaging of evening wear. Gucci 2025"  Hrrmph, grrr, not the point etc.

YoungBlueEyes

One pic per post is back in force  🤨

wort

TBH, her daughter is active and goes walking on hols away with other family. But as she’s an only child I think walking just with us two is a bit boring she almost a teen now. Also she has to stay with elderly gparents when my friend is at work.
I am sure we can get some walks in now the weather is rubbish again !! 

I tried to post a couple of pics but the site said no. Not much flowering stuff in Spain and Tangier at the moment. No beer had by me  Sangria and wine yes. Dgson did try the local beer whilst ashore, and in the bars on ships a few of the different bottles. He thought the Maltese one Cisk was palatable for sure. 😉
Pretty dress YBE , the dress I had for DDs wedding had some 3d flowers. It had another outing on ship too.

LessImpecunious

twopenny said:

Nothing much to say today. Another wet, grey day, chucking it down occasionally so no gardening. Sheesh I could do with some. The novelty of doing jobs I'd put off is wearing thin now.

That's one of the things greenhouses, potting sheds, or, I imagine, polytunnels, are most useful for - somewhere outdoors and gardeny but out of the weather - order for large ones, possibly several, of each for Rottery Acres please!

BTW, I must disagree on tea - needs to be drunk from a mug - preferably large (especially if taking into the garden), and with a relatively thin wall (but not bone china thin), not the chunky smaller coffee-type mug, with teabag left in to obtain the best brew...

Forecast is dry all day, showers yesterday and some actual sun! between the showers...

twopenny

Well the embroidery is very beautiful on that dress but the dress itself is hideous 😲

Tea is important. I have the big mugs mentioned for breakfast, use a teapot because you can get 2 or 3 cups/mugs without having to get up especially if you are in the garden with a book. 
I had a lovely friend who used to insist on warming the pot properly and the tea had to stand for precisely 5 mins. We teased him but it was lovely tea.
Ordinary mug for size.

Lovely sky this morning but short on sleep due to 4th day of idiot son leaving at stupid o'clock.
Signs of sun which I treat with trepidation. I don't trust them.

Too wet out there to make any plans. Not sure what today will bring.

-taff

Yeah, embroidery, tick and gorgeous, dress, kind of a hideous mash up failed empire line gubbins...

As for tea..when I was in Bremen, we went to a proper tea shop where you got to choose your various teas, but they were in pots over braziers on the table so they stayed hot with small china cups and omg, it was lovely, even the stuff you'd think would be ropey was so much better boiling hot from the teapot, so I would say, if you're going the full teapot hog, get a little metal brazier and a tea light....you won't regret it...maybe that's the point of tiny cups, you get actual hot tea instead of ever decreasing temperature tea in a mug...the cake wasn't bad either, even the surprisingly dusty sounding buckwehat and cranberry one. [I may have visited a couple of times...]

Weather is sunny [big bloody shock that] and I continue to provide my public service of collecting the fallen leaves...

Amazing toms Dusty, fully envious...

Farway, I've had, or rather the heuchera did, it's first experience of vine weevil this year, most ammoyed, it was one I'd propagated...lovely flowers, I like the purply stem bit. 

Also like no one who doesn't pay bills gets an opinion unlike the parents of a four year old who were asking him what floor he wanted in his bedroom in a diy chain store once....

I used to have mugs like your one on the right, thin enough and big enough, but they all went the way of the dustbin for accidental smashings...I'm on volcano shaped ones now, keeps the tea hotter longer...

right, must act like I'm doing stuff....after another mug of tea...

And my tea is Yorkshre tea...or anything strong, with occasional chai ones thrown in, and sometimes an Earl grey mixed with a yorkshire for strength and flavour....

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Tea is important. I have the big mugs mentioned for breakfast, use a teapot because you can get 2 or 3 cups/mugs without having to get up especially if you are in the garden with a book. 
I had a lovely friend who used to insist on warming the pot properly and the tea had to stand for precisely 5 mins. We teased him but it was lovely tea.

Lovely sky this morning but short on sleep due to 4th day of idiot son leaving at stupid o'clock.
Signs of sun which I treat with trepidation. I don't trust them.

Too wet out there to make any plans. Not sure what today will bring.

According to the sloshed seers near Sowton, you should get a reasonable day, before the next wave of rain sweeps in around 17.00. Yesterday was reasonably dry here, and in Barneyrubble, so I pass on that forecast with the caveat that our weather can be very localised. 

On the subject of broken sleep, I'd be delighted to sleep through until 04.30 in one go, but being a man of a certain age, that's no longer possible!  :'( Without wishing to go TMI, I had two breaks in sleep last night; one at 02.30 and again at about 04.50, though the latter was also triggered by a bored cat attacking the hallway carpet.  Cat was ejected via the front door, when the sky appeared unnaturally bright to the north. I wondered if that could be the Aurora we never see, but then drifted-off till 07.30, when it was almost time to release the hens. That was a fairly typical night. 

I think your proper tea mugs are very much fit for purpose, and I notice the bee that links so well to Bluey's post.

LessImpecunious said:

twopenny said:

Nothing much to say today. Another wet, grey day, chucking it down occasionally so no gardening. Sheesh I could do with some. The novelty of doing jobs I'd put off is wearing thin now.

That's one of the things greenhouses, potting sheds, or, I imagine, polytunnels, are most useful for - somewhere outdoors and gardeny but out of the weather - order for large ones, possibly several, of each for Rottery Acres please!

BTW, I must disagree on tea - needs to be drunk from a mug - preferably large (especially if taking into the garden), and with a relatively thin wall (but not bone china thin), not the chunky smaller coffee-type mug, with teabag left in to obtain the best brew...

If we can run to it, proper cedar wood greenhouses are best acoustically and in other respects. Polytunnels are essentially big drums, so the noise inside during heavy rain is awful!  Wind also makes the end bits thrum, and the doors rattle, so although you get a good bang for your buck, that's true in more senses than one.   

As for tea, I haven't looked back, but I didn't mean to imply a prissy little cup is best. My good-sized tea mug is bone china, but differs from 2p's by having little in the way of decoration. I'd certainly have a bee on it if I could.

wort said:
I am sure we can get some walks in now the weather is rubbish again !! 

 So am I. They just won't be long or adventurous. And there are still gardens to visit. 
 

Very sage advice above by GB on heating choices, pp. As John Cleese once said in a famous political sketch we mustn't mention, "I cant add anything to that, can you, Brian?"    (The Silly Party won  )

Today's photo; the phone box at Simonsbath. It's  still operational but obviously not used a great deal these days. They've been trying to  phase-out cash for a while......

OT: Still handy for shelter in heavy rain!!! 

Working_Mum

I'm loving all of this talk of mugs - weirdly I love a good mug! Bone china is best but the handle has to be right too. I currently have fun with guest - I have a lovely selection of Keith Brymer Jones mugs which have words on them. I delight in giving unsuspecting guests a hot drink in a mug with a message on them "phwoar" or "queen of everything" or "harlot" are amongst my faves!
You searched for mug - Keith Brymer Jones...

I feel safe admitting here that I also have mugs for Hallow'een, Christmas and Easter! Oh and I don't like tea, have the occasional decaf coffee and tend to drink hot water all day. Cakes on the other hand I can eat all day every day - Bremen sounds an interesting place -taff - I'll be adding it to "My List" (of places I intend to visit when I retire!

I am so jealous of your tomatoes Dusty! I have had a couple of kilos I reckon from a hanging basket of "tumblers" i picked up. I've left them in the basket so they may regrow next year!

Your trip to Chatsworth looks amazing YBE - the sculpture is breath-taking - the translucence of the veil...wow. I am so clumsy I could never do that in a month of Sundays!

I know what you mean 2p about not getting much done because of the weather. I got my pond lined at the weekend and it is slowly filling up given the recent rain we'd had. Outside of that I didn't feel like starting much or finishing up other little jobs at all over the weekend.

Amazing pics Less - you definitely have an eye for a shot. Sadly no fungi pics to share today from me - it was dicky dark when Rome0 and I went out this morning and whilst there wasn't a spectacular sunrise it had a cool, calm feel to the start of the day. Loved it.



I can't contribute much to the storage heater conversation Poppy - I laughed at greenbees suggestion (clearly knows these Boards well) - I installed electric radiators a few years ago in my office (replacing brick gas fires) and they were very good. I know the technology has come  on in leaps and bounds in recent years but the ones I had looked sleek and they got hot and were thermostatically controlled. The aurora pics are wonderful - you are so lucky to see it so often. Another place on My List!

I can tell you have fun with AI Farway - I would never think to use it for design etc! I recently used it to see what supplements I should take by inputting my last lot of blood test results. Very useful feedback indeed and saved me a GP trip.

Right I am working from my Mums today and so far we have lost her TV remote control, mobile phone and internal garage door keys.......you guys are keeping my spirits up!

((WM))