Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Well look at you Bluey oop in the tropical north!
Hanging around 5 or 6 here, still and damp. I'm not a fan.

Less, my experience is that a fungi is the light before an incoming train. 
Another tropical north ISH er.
Oh, automatic caps. Wonder what that means?

Farway yours seem to now be the disappearing posts. If you get away with just the price of a check up pay fast and get out quickly. It's worth the price.

Dusty, mostly good news then? Relax and get your strength up for the coming work.🙂 Shame about rosemore though. 

So given the weather no gardening. My apples are all pickled and in a bowl. All at once though which makes me wish I'd chosen keepers.
Busy day, another round of trying to find a heating guy and hopefully some relaxation to take my mind off it.
Is the Monty Don Spanish gardens a repeat? Nothing else on telly tonight.

pink_poppy

A frosty start here, with a lovely pink sky. I was thinking of you, twopenny, when a neighbour had his noisy van defrosting for 20 minutes just after 6am this morning - luckily I was already awake and at least it wasn't 4.30am...

Groaning at Less' fungi joke - oldie, but goldie    

Gorgeous looking apples, YBE, you must be proud. Hope they taste good

That's a weird looking apple, Dusty, will the hens get it??

We had another couple of Auroras last night the first one was quite early at just after 6pm - I saw what was either the ISS or a satellite floating past at about 6.25pm too. It was a beautiful starry night, but bloomin' cold.

I was debating whether to have a couple of Lebkuchen shapes for breakfast (someone on here likes them too - I got them in Lidl last night - £3.99 now!!) but decided on porridge with the last of the (expensive) stewed apple and (free) brambles.

It's cold, but bright and sunny at the moment, with 40+mph winds forecast for this afternoon. I'm getting mithered by blackbirds on a morning - six of them first thing, with one of them practically in the house when I opened the back door to throw some food out for them...   

Farway

Back from the Dentist, and nothing needed, just a check-up, a quick chat about fireworks for his four-year-old and go back in a year 

His nipper has not experienced real close-up fireworks, just seen the rockets in the sky. 

If he is anything like my DGC his dad will get more joy than him

Into Morries on the way home, it was worse than usual, with about 99% Norwegian today, most completely dried out, not just wilting. In fact the cauliflower I bought for dinner has more life in it than their plants

Sun is out, and quite mild, and I picked some tomatoes on the way back indoors, I should've held on so I could pick in November, there are a few left so I'll see if it can be done

Beautiful looking apples YBE, I think keepers are a good idea, but only if you have space & enough fruit to start with, which is why I just stew & freeze my surplus earlies

"Interesting" ones for Dusty

On the way home, I noticed loads of decent-looking apples on the motorway verges, if only it was safe to stop, loads of pies there for the picking

Most were yellow Golden, so Golden Delicious cores out the car windows? 

Except for the seeds you sow, which grows like Dusty's twins

No gardening today, again

Photo failed again. I'll try Dusty method & see if I can post without words

Farway

No pic still failing

ON the subject of stars, I saw a bright one last night while checking the nocturnal plumbing, it was part of some constellation, which formed a large W

I took it to be a sign from the heavens, letting us know our Glorious Leader is watching over us

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

ON the subject of stars, I saw a bright one last night while checking the nocturnal plumbing, it was part of some constellation, which formed a large W

I took it to be a sign from the heavens, letting us know our Glorious Leader is watching over us

Must have been very close to the Crux, or 'Anchor'  constellation. 

greenbee

The 'W' is Casseopia, Farway. One of the few I know. 

Working_Mum

Well all this talk of apples and I have just seen the original Bramley apple tree on Barg4in Hunt of all things - it is over 200 years old and the mother of all Bramleys everywhere!! It is now infected with honey-fungus apparently so they're trying to take cuttings each year to keep it going!!

Loved the ruby red colour of your apples YBE - they're stonkers!! I've been dutifully making apple butter with apples from my next door neighbours tree. Always nice to eat during the spring when summer feels miles away The Siamese apple is interesting Dusty - I love how it has two sets of rosy cheeks.

I've virtually no knowledge of quince Less - is that how they propagate by moving across and suckering. I have a staghorn sumac which I kept in a big pot as I was warned that it suckers up everywhere and will grow out of control! 

Sorry you are still having issues with your neighbour's son 2P - sending hugs and renewed strength. Do you swim whilst it is raining?? I swim in all weathers and love it. Beach sauna for me and a pal this weekend and I cannot wait. 

Thought I'd share a pic of my walk this morning - it was really lovely and the light was perfect. I live to the west of the City and my Mum to the east so basically where the sun is coming up is where I walk by the turbines!! You can almost see how flat that side of the city is from this vantage point (near the big single span bridge!!).



I am hoping to get into the garden at the weekend as long as the weather holds - currently predicting sun and balmy 11' on Sunday so hopefully I'll get the grass cut and leaves raked up.

Have a smashing Thursday everyone,

((WM))

wort

WM a couple of great photos there of the sky with the dark silhouette.
Farway made me laugh with Cauliflower remark. I am due the dentist in a couple of weeks hoping to escape with just the checkup. Dgson hoped for the City dentist being the last of his restorative visits ( he was attacked and they broke his jaw ) but he needs to go back to pick up a gum shield next week.

Pp I love to cook bramley apples but agree the price is getting ridiculous. YBE those apples are a fab colour hope they tasted good.

Ive spent the last 2 days cleaning at dd new house. I’ve just got back and had a hot cuppa and put the heating on , going to have a shower soon as my back is aching.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, and happy Halloweeeen :ghost:

I'm having a proper go this morning. PF is still in her kip cos she got thoroughly pished last night and was late to bed. 

I've never seen a Siamese if you please apple before Dusty, it's a queer looking thing eh. Just in time for Halloween! Does HogHQ have all your babies now? Shame about Rosemoor - how long are your guests staying? Will yous get chance of going again if the weather lifts...?  

Aye the weather was lovely here yesterday 2p, sunny in the morning before the cloud rolled in but mild with it. I'll take it.  If you're looking for something to watch, we sat last night and watched a thing on PBS about Franco's Spain "The Forgotten Dictator". It was good, very absorbing and not over-dramatic and mawkish or full of 're-enactments' and weepy first hand accounts. 4 x 1hr progs. Worth the watch if you can find them. Is your garden happier now you've had a goodly amount of rain? 

2 auroras and the ISS pp Not a bit wonder you're doing the house up rather than moving. It's me likes the lebkuchen shapes Not had any for a while though, and at that price I'll not be having them any time soon either  

<giggle> at your cauli Farway (and I giggled at your fungi too Less [groan] ) What's up with morries recently? Can they not employ some middle-aged folks who know what they're doing? Fingers crossed your toms hold out 'til tomorrow. I think someone should, but understand why no-one has, created a map of all the motorway scrumping trees. There's loads round here too, apples and pears and plums and sloes and filberts and allsorts. If you could only stop and pick them you'd never be hungry again. 

I didn't know there was a Original Bramley Tree wm, that's interesting. So it's a bit like the banana tree then. Gawd the things you miss when you gotta go to soddin work all day *sigh* That's a particularly good pic, you can almost smell the calm and damp of it  

That's awful about Dgson wort, is he alright? Good to hear dd is in her new house, she must be relieved after all this time is she

OT well apart from the view, the dog, and the glorious sky, it's the same here this morning as in wm pic. Still and damp and foggy but mild with it. Well either the wind or the sun or both want to shift themselves for I've DomNon to get on with and a load of washing to do. A high of 15'c to come, possibly, and bladdy windy with it!

twopenny

Morning all. Woke up to 10c! And daylight.👻 
Cloudy and it blew a woolly last night throwing the pelting rain against the window.

Not a lot to report because it's wet out there -again!

Don't want to stew all my coxes Farway, the dentist has left me with little chewing action for apples but these are small enough for me to eat which is a treat. The flavour is better for keeping too.
So may take a trundle down to a village where someone's got a few Bramleys outside with donation for the air ambulance. Don't mind paying for that.

I too like the Lubikan biscuits but will check out Tesco and Poundland to see if t
here's a better price. Poundland used to sell them for a pound before Tesco's got hold of them.

Right, let's see what today has to hold 🙂

I want to repot my apricot tree into a bigger pot.
It's lost its leaves and has lots of lovely new growth (still I'm on hold for failure as everyone predicts) and wondering if it should be done before Christmas.
Thoughts welcome.

Mind it still has to be dry enough to mix some compost, shift the bags around etc. so not planning this week unless the weather improves.