Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Cold but sunny, odd sunrise this morning, blue & pink layers, no camera handy, of course

Dustyevsky said:

As for references to Mrs P-B, it took ages to work that out.....in fact I only just did!  I don't watch any soaps....

Off to the market in the village today, to show my face and have a chinwag.   Then, maybe a wee trip to the GC for compost, but as it's Saturday, maybe not. I can probably scrape by till Monday. 

I'm still in the dark on Mrs P -B, must be male thing, right over my head 

Hope the GC still has compost and not chucked aside for singing penguins & laughing jolly reindeer

What cracking salvia Dusty, I'll have to keep my eyes open for that one

Before I forget, FREE  P & P on everything this weekend at Mr Fothergill.

Offer ends midnight Monday 27th October. Discount will automatically be applied at the checkout

I've had a quick look  nothing for me spotted, but you may find just the thing, I saw garlic & Onion sets on offer, so with free P & P could be useful

YoungBlueEyes said:
Late on parade today. The bottom has dropped out of Posh Friend's world, so she's decamped to my back bedroom. Not sure what himself is gonna say (they don't really get on)  

The Essential Training session was undoubtedly absolutely essential, except if you're a MW phone-answering chai-wallah-ette. I'm not sure how often I'll have to call upon my newly learned rules and regulations about, for example, being extra super careful where rogue nation's leader's grandson's have got their money from, but never say never I spose :rolleyes: 

Sounds "interesting times" with Posh Friend YBE, hope, for Mr YBE sake  , it gets sorted soon
Never mind Rogue leader etc, we have our home grown rogues here. No Names, no Pack drill as the old saying goes

Hope it warms up & sun keeps out, if so I intend planting my wall baskets up with the daffs I've had on standby for ages

At the moment there are trailing geraniums in them, but they are straggly now & on their last dangly bits, so time to oik them out

I'll try a pic again

Failed again 

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on "Search - Pumpkins" Day

Pp your 2nd robin pic is an absolute belter, with the moss and all. Definitely a screensaver at least that one  

Can't beat homemade soups on a chilly day wort Is work mad in the run up to xmas..? 

2p who have you replaced the drunkards with? I don't know if there are there any good new ones about. Mmmm ginger sponge yummy yum yum How's your jalopy btw? Have you part-ex'd yet..? 

Talk about running on country time for your sheeps and posts Dusty Has hen passed or just in danger of..? Isn't that salvia cheering Quite the name, too

You've reminded me I need to get my daffs in Farway. They're sat in the conservatory so I need to shift meself and sort pots and compost. Did you get any wallflowers, Norwegian Air ticketed or otherwise..? 

Still 3 people in my house, all of them living. The amount of stuff I was humping about yesterday I reckon PoshFriend will be the year here. It's fine though, since I reminded himself that he works away so doesn't really have a full vote  

Lovely bright sunny morning, cold though. The Feels Like was -5'c when I got up but it promises to get up to, oooh, 10'c (FL=2'). They say. Windy though so I've a wash out and a wash on. 

Oh and I was thinking about your frilly-bummed tree last night gb, could you get someone in with a chainsaw to carve it into something brilliant, like a 10ft owl+babbies or summat? Or does it have to be properly dead first...?

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Hope the GC still has compost and not chucked aside for singing penguins & laughing jolly reindeer

I'll try a pic again

Failed again 

I didn't even smell a GC yesterday. FiL had left his leccy shaver at home, so I was despatched to fetch a replacement....in the opposite direction!  There was no market either, but that was me on Deb'n time.  Now we're on GMT, and I'm totally confused! 

And I'm sorry, the hen has passed, Bluey  , but in hen years she was pretty ancient. I hope your posh friend remembers to adequately reward you if she stays. We thought having 'lodgers' was going to do wonders for the family finances, and they certainly bought lots of food, but the money seems to go further now! 

We had Royal Bumble before and lost it, but it comes quite true from seed, so I've collected a few, just in case. 

So far, I'm not experiencing the previous issues with posting pictures, and to prove it, here's one shot last week in the wildlife woodland above the stream. We've two spindle trees there, and they always have a 'rest' year after heavy fruiting. Fortunately they're not synchronised, so while this one is loaded now, the other will be doing similarly next year.   

OT: Reasonably mild out there, with little wind at present and some sunshine. That's due to change in a few hours, so I'd better get going before the next belt of rain sweeps in. 

Farway

Nice blue sky, but a cold wind.

YoungBlueEyes said:

You've reminded me I need to get my daffs in Farway. They're sat in the conservatory so I need to shift meself and sort pots and compost. Did you get any wallflowers, Norwegian Air ticketed or otherwise..? 

Still 3 people in my house, all of them living. The amount of stuff I was humping about yesterday I reckon PoshFriend will be the year here. It's fine though, since I reminded himself that he works away so doesn't really have a full vote  

Managed to get my daffs in yesterday  , mine were also in the conservatory, and when I opened the packs I found they were starting to sprout 

If they fail to come up, at least I know they were alive when I planted them, green pointy bit up

No, never found any wallflowers  But it may not be too bad because I have zillions of self-sown Honesty, which are a lovely shade of purple. 

Vine weevils permitting it should be splendidly purple leading up to my front door next year, I have self sown foxgloves as well

We don't mention self sown, or otherwise,LIAM or Erigs around these here parts, a bit like whistling on a ship, it's not done 

If I spot any wallflower subs I can always bring them home, just wary of Primrose types, the Vine Ws love them, so I'm hoping for something a bit more chewy

Hope you & Posh Friend get settled in time for Christmas, but how nice for her to have a friend to help out in time of need

Sorry news about the hen Dusty, but at least not unexpected.

How odd about Royal Bumble, I'd never heard of it until mentioned here, then blow me I saw it mentioned somewhere else the next day

It rained overnight, so daffs have had some water, and too damp for any thing else out side, gardening today is therefore restricted to catching up on GW 

Try for pic, again

Failed again 

Dustyevsky

Sudden change of plan again here this morning. I ended up going over to the Hedgehog Rescue with a little chap who's only 230g. 

The other two, now at Hedgehog Rescue HQ, (different place) have been named after Mrs Dusty and me.  They have responded well to medication for worms, but may now spend winter hibernating there. We can have them back in spring if we have two suitable hedgehog boxes.

Having gone to the erse end of nowhere, someone then texted to ask if I could pick up one of those thick Sunday papers full of eco-worrier stuff that require half a tree to manufacture.   That taxed my local knowledge, but we tracked one down in a garage....and it was today's! 

No rain yet, but it looks imminent. Hmm... I could have had a morning getting the rest of my garlic in. 

LessImpecunious

Lovely Spindle Tree pic Dusty.

I had hoped to post a pic from a nearby viewpoint on our brief Sunday morning walk, but mirk descended, so instead here are some pics of my (almost bonsaied) medlar that I took midweek and didn't get round to posting (I think I promised some fruit pics when I uploaded a flower pic in the spring...). The eagle-eyed will spot that a quince is sprouting from the rootstock - wondering whether I should leave it in the hope of getting a Quindlar or Muince tree... 

I also tried but failed to get a Red Kite bum pic in this morning's mirk, as two circled briefly overhead, so instead will point out that several historical nicknames on a similar theme (bum, not kite) have been applied to the medlar fruit...

twopenny

Interesting Less 🙂 
Love the idea of both but somewhere in my head it says the medlar might succumb.
Could the quince be separated from the parent plant? Around now it might root over winter. 
Or stack up soil there it might root into?

Dusty the hedgehog nursing cheered me up. What a nice diversion to have. Nurturing hedgehogs. 😊

Bluey, I've taken to the beeb site as they are now using the met again. So far about just the same amount of success 😬
High winds at 6, wind and 6c this morning then heavy showers and gloom this afternoon. 😕

Woke at 6am, darstardly son doing Sunday shifts now, then overslept. Mum not looking happy because she is woken 5 times a week then over sleeping. Won't speak to me.

Drove round looking for bungalows in the area with chimneys for a fire to cheer up the global warming winters where we get 6c when we used to be around 12c. Got to be a plus right?

I'm missing my gardening and the outside. But on the plus side, the rain has finally reached the fence shadow - with some extra 

twopenny

Something that did make me laugh today was posted by a friend.
Now you can have the serious winners or you can have these runners up .
https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/
May not be on topic but worth it for the laugh as the dark nights set in 

Dustyevsky

Your medlar's doing the same as our two, Less. I'm not sure what sort of quince we might get, so I chainsaw the stems off every so often. Actually, I am sure we'd get nothing useful, because her across the lane has a quince carrying rust disease, and it bears nothing.  We cut ours down in the hope of eradicating the problem over time, asking if she'd please do similarly, but we might as well have asked her the location of the Holy Grail! 

twopenny said:

Dusty the hedgehog nursing cheered me up. What a nice diversion to have. Nurturing hedgehogs. 😊
Drove round looking for bungalows in the area with chimneys for a fire to cheer up the global warming winters where we get 6c when we used to be around 12c. Got to be a plus right?

I'm glad it's cheering you up.  Hedgehog nurturing comes at quite a high cost in petrol and time, but the alternative of leaving nature to get on with it is hard, especially when you possess the knowledge of what's going on in your own back garden. 

The psychological upside of having one's own source of heat, not subject to the vagaries of big enterprise and government, cannot be over-emphasised. I see there's currently a welter of anti-wood burner stuff in the MSM, suggesting heathens with independent heat are killing themselves and others with their smoke. I try to remember who sponsors it all, and put it in the same box as the nonsense about those big cars with two propulsion systems being greener. 

I enjoyed your comedic wildlife pictures. We do indeed need cheery input as the darker days arrive, though we're far from icy nighttime temperatures in these parts, and I'm still getting the occasional courgette.   Boy, was it windy last night, though, and it continues, so no trip to Rosemoor yet.   

Today's photo, the area of ground I've recently seeded with grass behind last year's new hedge, which has grown fairly well, considering this summer's drought. Building site fencing will stay until it becomes person-proof. I reckon that will be in 2028! 

Farway

Blue sky again, still a cold wind though

Loved those funny pics 2P, anyone would struggle not to smile.

And good news on hedgehogs Dusty. Without obvious external clues, how can anyone tell which one is Mr. or Mrs Dustyhog?

Quinces, by coincidence Monty was picking his on GW this week, loads of 'em, bumper year etc. He did say that one left in a room will gently scent the room, bit like a pomander he reckoned. 

The root-stock ones growing that I've seen killed the grafted fruit, pears, so I'd be very wary Less

twopenny said:

Drove round looking for bungalows in the area with chimneys for a fire to cheer up the global warming winters where we get 6c when we used to be around 12c. Got to be a plus right?

I like the idea of open fire, very useful, as Dusty says, to have your independent source of heat, but I've just realised if i had an open fire I'd freeze to death, no way could I bend down to even light it, or clear out the ashes, or lug the coal / wood etc, so I guess I should be grateful [see what i did there?] 

And all this Global Boiling, set me thinking. 

I'm compiling some Family History stuff and Ice Houses get a mention. I'll check later, but for folks to invest in building an Ice House they must have been fairly confident that every winter there would be loads of ice to cut & store for the summer, otherwise no point in building an Ice House

I know fridges knocked the need on the head, but these days you'd be hard put to cut enough ice for an Ice House, at least dahn sarf which is where "my" Ice House were

Just answered my own question, I asked AI, live & learn. I never knew the use of imported ice took over, some from Norway, which maybe why our plants are longing to return home, inherited homing instincts from melting ice cubes 

No gardening with the cold & damp but I may try for an Autumn leaves photo if the sun keeps going