Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Gusty, wet & rotten weather. Great day, not, for singing Christmas trees

Dusty, if you feel like some conservatory clearing practice, I have one you can use. 

Honestly, it is a disgrace, but I can play the Health card if cornered, bending is a distant memory, as is lifting heavy items. 

Once my Premium bonds come up biggly I'll get a Person to give it a good going over, while the cloned young Charlie and her Dimmocks are sorting the garden for me 

I did manage to bash  cut back my Bishop dahlia and that has joined the clutter in the conservatory for a winter rest, I must try to remember to add some slug pellets on top, just in case there are some lurkers in the pot

YoungBlueEyes said:

A pinch and a punch for the first of the month, white rabbits

Morning all, on Cyber Monday Honestly, can we not leave the yanquis anything? 

Fingers crossed your pale amaryllis takes the hint Farway. My fig tree went all droopy and pale so I fed it and it started shedding leaves! Shipbag. You can't help some people eh. I'll watch your vid in a min, see if I can't get some tips How's the lurgy this morning? You need to stop kissing dirty girls ha haa! 

Beat me to the pinch / punch, and cyber Monday, bah, humbug say I.

Could you fig be just Autumn?

My lurgy is departing I'm glad to say, bit of a tickly froat but my Fisherman friend is helping there.

No gardening again, I may watch Monty clearing up for Winter, see what I should be doing but am n

PS, ref Cyber Monday, Mr Fothergill has free P & P today, plus some stuff, including some seeds, 50% off

twopenny

Yup it got more miserable by the hour here and the roads are flooded. Dark by 3.30.
I've been running around on what could well be a fruitless day but live in hope it will have proved to be of some use.

So here's a pic of the optimistic kind that I took the other day to bring a bit of cheer - hopefully ..
It battles on better than me and with all the weather that's been thrown at it this year it's still blooming 😊

Definitely going to be one I plant again so now I have 5 that will be must haves wherever I go 🙂



I too seem to have a lurgy. It just hangs around occasionally sneezing, coughing, shivering without it coming to anything.
I even sneezed underwater when swimming 😲 never had that happen before.

It reminded me of the rhyme about the man who wasn't there  https://poets.org/poem/antigonish-i-met-man-who-wasnt-there

LessImpecunious

We were just on the northern edge of amber rain here, pretty bad in the afternoon apparently, but I wasn't at home, instead driving through it, and back, on an unavoidable long trip... Didn't seem too bad in the outgoing morning, but traveling back in the dark was not much fun - in fact less fun than my similarly unavoidable trip a couple of weeks ago, during storm Claudia  

At least both were mostly "just" rain and not too much wind, expect we have that yet to come

twopenny said

Nearly the solstice but the sun should start rising sooner. I'll have to try and find the article.

Not sure of the page and too tired after wet drive to search now, but the website (I think) is called timeanddate...

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on "Giving Tuesday" (?) No I didn't click to find out what it is.

Just having a quick go before Posh Friend gets up. 2p I can get on on a Monday cos PF is still at home. She goes for the weekend (either I take her or she gets the bus/train home on the Friday) and comes back again under her own steam on the Monday. She drops in for my front door key on her way past She's not up yet so I'm having a bit of a go, on a Tuesday  

I liked the fruit tree vid Farway, even though those wee trees looked weird with all that fruit on them Deffo a couple of tips I can use though, and I'd be doing better if my plum tree would stick out some flowers. It can't still be sulking from when I bent it into Plum Crazy writing surely...

Were you drunk when you wrote your new sig Dusty..?  

Hope your lurgy shifts 2p, and I hope Less and wort and poss arb have come through that bad weather alright. @ArbitraryRandom

OT sunny and breezy today, they say, so I've a wash to put out. 6'c currently, and a high of 10 to come, says the sobers. Actually the drunkards have been righter than the sobers these last few days...

Oh and anyone how was quick and saw that thing I deleted - I was gonna leave it there, but then I got to work and had a little panic cos what if they banned me?! - you can get them on a website called the inappropriate gift company. It's down there in Oz-land. No connection, just sharing the funny. Warning though, there's a lot of bad language, including that word. 

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Dusty, if you feel like some conservatory clearing practice, I have one you can use. 

Could you fig be just Autumn?

My lurgy is departing I'm glad to say, bit of a tickly froat but my Fisherman friend is helping there.

Ah, I'm too careless  at deep cleaning the conservatory, so Mrs Dusty does it every 6 months.   I get to do the outside occasionally, so that's fair-ish.  We'd love a proper garden room, but it would mean going into the roof, and out of our budget.  Anyway, Mrs D and I mostly sit in the kitchen/diner, because we can see who's about and what's going on.  We're advanced curtain-twitchers. And speaking of twitching, when the weather turns properly, the bird feeders must go out.

Well-done for beating-off the lurgy. I usually manage to get my winter bug at Christmas, I think it might be stress-related. All that running about, trying to be sure nothing's missed.....and then the two big days are a blur we half-snooze through anyway.  

One thing's for sure, 2p, no n'er-do-well is going to climb over that gate! 

YoungBlueEyes said:

Morning all, on "Giving Tuesday" (?) No I didn't click to find out what it is.
Were you drunk when you wrote your new sig Dusty..?  
Oh and anyone how was quick and saw that thing I deleted - I was gonna leave it there, but then I got to work and had a little panic cos what if they banned me?! 

'Giving Tuesday?' Don't many of us effectively 'give' every day, whether we want to or not?     

There are worse things than being banned here, though not many. I can think of one person who deleted their post somewhere else, and they still found themselves in err... bother. That's why being drunk in charge of one's Internet is a situation to avoid.  I wasn't, just very tired after reading the runes!  

Speaking of inappropriate gifts, I'm into the 'Only Grans' calendar, if anyone's stuck!  

OT: The yellow rain was nothing special. Mrs Dusty went shopping, and reported the huge 'puddles' we went through on the weekend were smaller. Also, the river cams are still showing nothing exceptional. Today looks sunny with maybe the occasional shower, but cooler. That's fine.

As for Hog Cam, it showed one hog visit, but no action.

Today's photo comes from the GC, which had a good display of plants, despite the indoor tat.  Not everyone can grow Leucothoe successfully, but they're happy on our acid soil. 

Here's one I particularly liked.

wort

Unscathed thanks YBE, I was in work yesterday for the downpour then. Today looks clear again till Thursday then the rain is back. Looked at the website and see why you thought better of it 😂

2p having to scroll through holiday photos is a nightmare, trying to say something nice about them all 😔😞 I’ve not managed to cut my lawn either.

Im hoping to put decs up tomorrow, pretty full schedule after that. Today I’m meeting old work colleagues for lunch, I see them about twice a year and catch up. Known them and been doing it over 30 years now. It was Xmas lunch at work yesterday,if you can call a sandwich and crisp sat on your own festive 🥳

greenbee

It's been pretty soggy and windy here too, but it's sunny today. No time for gardening sadly due to work. And all I managed at the weekend was spending some time on Sunday cutting down the dead annuals/herbaceous foliage to fill the garden waste bins which were empty and needed filling before collection (today). However, it does mean that most of that is now done and I can fill them with the tomato/pepper/aubergine/cucumber plants from the greenhouse next!

wort

2p I was going to say my dug up “thrown away” rose is in flower 🌸 but yours is a cracker. Dusty I like the combination of the burgundy foliage with the heather.

Farway

Sun's out with blue sky, it was raining earlier, so very changeable it seems

Lurgy still lingers, slight cough etc, but feeling mostly fine, I noticed my Lemsips are three years out of date Obviously a tribute to my amazing healthy lifestyle, oddly, any chocs or cake never goes OOD 

Glad you liked the fruit Vid YBE, food for thought, and it shows what is possible. I've always thought catalogue pics of small tree laden with fruit were Photoshopped, but seeing them has made me think again.

2P, that rose, I think my one maybe the same variety, still in flower with small pink roses. I don't know the name but it's a great filler & trouble free, it has one flower on it so not as grand as yours.

wort said:

It was Xmas lunch at work yesterday,if you can call a sandwich and crisp sat on your own festive 🥳

I was beginning to think that could be me this Christmas, but DD has invited me over, so all is sorted

Horticultural DGD should be there as well, be nice to catch up & try to sus out just what she is studying.

I know it's Eco things, and I have this feeling it's one of those things that has grown from no where, like Climate Scientist.

Maybe it's tailoring the Kings new invisible suit or maybe it's real? 

greenbee said:

It's been pretty soggy and windy here too, but it's sunny today. No time for gardening sadly due to work. And all I managed at the weekend was spending some time on Sunday cutting down the dead annuals/herbaceous foliage to fill the garden waste bins which were empty and needed filling before collection (today). However, it does mean that most of that is now done and I can fill them with the tomato/pepper/aubergine/cucumber plants from the greenhouse next!

Put me to shame. that is what i should've been doing, I managed one dahlia and some canes, and today is Bin day as well

I was watching Emma, & Monty, now I fancy trying a pot of tulips. Next time I'm up Morries I see what's what. I think the shorter ones would be best, but I'm not going to pay a lot for them, especially with my squirrels

twopenny

Wort that's my sort of Christmas lunch The enforced get togethers with people you have no desire to socialise with was always dreaded.

Less, hope you have recovered. I decided that keeping on regardless was done enough so I stayed in the library.

Greenbee you make me feel slightly ashamed but it's still not going to make me go out in the freezing cold and wet to 'get on with it'

Dusty, very pretty but they all look like they'd need love and attention. I like the sturdy stuff these days.

Bluey, you are doing good deeds. Will you be bringing PF when we move to Rotteryacres?

Every now and again I get on the 'puter and can post other photos.

 I've been sorting out but I'm not really in the mood so haven't got far.

So here's what I've been doing instead of gardening. This was sitting really close to the car park but only a couple of people noticed it. No idea what is going on around them if it's not on a screen

Little and large............

The bugs are just beautiful, the blue beetle has stripey antenae

Periguine Falcon, big girl in real life

Sun and light breeze has vanished to grey and darn cold around 4-6c.

The sun no longer hits the garden, just heavy shade which with the damp makes it feel bitterly cold so I don't think I'm going to get any more ripe tomatoes. Just eating those saved.

And I was hoping to get the grass mowed as it was drying but it's probably not a good idea tramping over the wet lawn and beating the soil down.

Well that's my excuse anyway.

Some long tailed tits visited the tree outside my bedroom which as I'd grown it was a treat to see. Hope they've cleared up all the bugs it got during the heatwaves.

A few tits of various sorts at the feeder so things are looking up. I've heard a blackbird but it's not been in yet.

I also saw a seagull seeing off the last crow hanging around. Scarey looking encounter in the sky. So maybe the little birds will come back

PS just nipped into the garden to check if there was any sign of the washing drying and 3 birds inc one blackie, flew off