Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

The adventure continues then Dusty 🙂
Are the boxes for hibernation or what?
I've noted one of those trees as well. I really should try some cuttings from the one behind my garden. Really pretty but an old tree and I'm not sure how viable the twigs would be. I'll take Farway advice and do it anyway. Nothing lost.

Only took time to feed my silver thyme that is looking like it wants to grow now and I've had some trimmings from it. Not enough because I use it a lot. I thought I should bfb around the garden particularly pots because they seem to still be wanting to grow despite the weather and the pots must be washed out 😐

Picked up some green and pink tomatoes that had been knocked off the stems by the deluge/ s. Many split or nibbled by slugs.

6c which feels warm now and did go out and got repeatly wet.
Next door son in place to leave at 4.45 again. Even Sundays aren't special. It all hinges on when his partners other children have their father visit when he works 😬

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

The adventure continues then Dusty 🙂
Are the boxes for hibernation or what?

Hibernation, or living in, having families etc. It seems most hogs are hibernating now, as we're not picking many adults up with the camera, but who knows what will happen if the (relatively) warm weather continues?

It's currently 13c here and raining, but we're promised better later (when the winds moderate, and it gets dark!  )

No matter, we're off to the Fatstock Show & Market this morning.  Then, maybe, machine cutting of the hog boxes. All indoor stuff, anyway.  Cheers for now.

Oh, and a quick wave to the 6000+ people now employed by Mother State to watch over social meja. ( Formal reply to an MP who asked. I have the details.) Nothing to see here, honest. 

Farway

Wet, dull, grey, misty, not a day to be outside doing things

Aching Fat knee is still painful, but is improving a bit. 

Embrocation & ointment application continues, but I did resort to taking a painkiller pills on the presumption if they work on my back they may work on my knee

Any port in a storm etc, but I had a reasonable night's kip so it looks like something is working

But with this weather it's not a garden day anyway

You pear pic Dusty, answered my unasked question identifying a tree near here, now I know.

On the fruit vid I posted the other day there was, a pear I think, that had crimson Autumn leaves, what is needed is a fruit tree, bears tasty decent sized fruit, lovely blossom, snake bark, and holds colourful leaves for most of winter.

Reading on Wiiki about the pear, seems one cultivar smells awful, make an ideal companion for a Cat Wee tree

I bags a gagging corner of Rottery Acres for smelly plants & trees, have to be downwind of course.

I remember going around Wisley and there were some plants in the border that were pollinated by flies so they smelt of rotten meat, much like a reverse Witch hazel, you could smell it yards away

All change in the office eh, YBE, shame but at least you get a free meal and a Small Drink, no dancing on the tables in your Clown Shoes, or abusing the photocopier with Googly Eyes stuck on a cheeky part of you 

Dustyevsky said:

No matter, we're off to the Fatstock Show & Market this morning.  

Oh, and a quick wave to the 6000+ people now employed by Mother State to watch over social meja. ( Formal reply to an MP who asked. I have the details.) Nothing to see here, honest. 

Hope your weather is better down there Dusty,

I imagine a lot of those jobs will fall to AI, bit like the swear spell checker

Not political, but I sometimes wonder how those in favour would feel about the surveillance, ID cards, facial recognition, abolish Monarchy etc under President Farage and Prime Minister Hopkins 

Today is more TV watching and nursing poorly knee

I watched a couple of the GW winter specials, usual eye candy with huge estates or gardens, not very relatable to those of us with muddy patches. Very much how the other half live, I thought. 

twopenny

Sorry to hear about your knee Farway. I had something that sounds like that in my 60s and it was an athletes injury they said. That made me feel better about it 😉
It's tedious always being told to rest though.  Not that you're missing much in this weather.

The bonus today is that it's a tropical 11c 😲 . It's rained of course and where there was no wind it whips up storm like unexpectedly.
Trouble with these short days is I need to go out and get daylight and I could do with some simple things in the garden.

Hope the new arrangements at work go better than expected Bluey. Sometimes changes turn out better than you expect. I had similar with someone at work and we still managed to stay chatty and made friends outside of work. Fingers 🤞 

Not a bad day for a show. Hopefully not too crowded. Odd time for a live stock show though?

Wave at WM, wort, taff, who are busy and Poppy who I hope has a good stack of logs in looking at the weather for next week 😲
Expect Less to get some fabulous photos on a day like today 🙂

twopenny

Part 2. I got into the garden as it was mild and not raining and did some 'on the knees ' gardening.
Whipped out lots of weeds, finding out which raspberry canes had had it after the devastating drought and the old rotting leaves round the strawberries.
I was surprised to find a little strawberry growing 🙂

Really I wondered if I should leave the weeds in to absorb some of the water.

First job was seeing if I had any potatoes. 3 aging potatoes in and this is what I found 



It's a whole collandar full of all sizes but for one person that's going to last 😊
As they were free and growing where tree roots have made that spot unusable I'm really pleased.
More have gone in.........

Now I m having to have settee rest 

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Aching Fat knee is still painful, but is improving a bit. 

No matter, we're off to the Fatstock Show & Market this morning.  

Hope your weather is better down there Dusty,

Sometimes inflammation flares-up, short term, for no apparent reason. Let's hope yours is transitory.  

The rain wasn't as bad as predicted for the Fatstock Show, but as much is within the huge Pannier Market, the weather doesn't usually influence the event. It isn't at a very odd time, 2p, although the main sale of Christmas poultry & meat is in another 10 days. Now, most have freezers, and a good proportion of the wares on sale are non-edible.  It's a way to source good, interesting food and presents, and also an opportunity for the farming community to meet near the year's end and have a good chinwag! 

Here's a general view:

Of course, for the traders, a show is a way to find new customers. We bought pasties (what else?  ) from a lady whose shop I drive past almost weekly. Like most of the public, I'm reluctant to pull-in when out on a mission, but having tasted the product, I'll do so in the future! 

I didn't photograph any pasties, so here are some seasonal 'Rudolph' doughnuts from Somerset. Are you guys over the border trying to lead us healthy Devonians astray with addictive pastries?  

To me, they look more like overweight mice with colds. I'd never eat anything like that, but they're fun! More pictures through the week.

OT: By the afternoon the rain had ceased, so we were able to use the table saw in the garden at DD's to cut out the hedgehog boxes. Now let's hope the bits fit together! 

Edit: Just spotted your spuds, 2p. Bonus, and your soil looks good too!

-taff

That;s not too bad this itme, only six or seven pages behind Hopefully the hogs are sleeping off all the good food somewhere..I don't think much tries to eat them or do they? Bit difficult to eat a spiky ball...well done on your mse oil too Dusty. Glad your back is better, shame about your knee though Farway, not tried any of the vicious Tiger Blam on it? Forsythia Saga, ::snort:: Is that a real thistle or a sculpture Dusty? I honestly can't tell, looks more like one of them metal ones...That guy who does the stuff on the upcycly programme on the beeb is really good, love his cows but love his flowery acorny things more. Ohs mum was drunk in charge of FB and ended up having to resign from one place so....And that's a lovely leucothoe, I wants it...Lovely clouds too. Sometimes when I'm driving ro looking and there's a rolling bank of them, I think they remind me of a tsunami and then I imagine what would happen if it were...yeah, I'm odd. Love the tree, wasn't Chanticleer a chicken too? I seem to remember something vague about that. Fatstock indoors looks fun, not the doughnuts though, yuk.

The bulbs are definitely not flowering so I think they're for the Big Compost Heap in the sky at the allotment. Along with their compatriots [ another two pots of them] , OK, having read further, I'll do what you say Farway and give them one more chance. I've just started watching that vido about fruit trees, looks like it will be good info and interesting, I will save it for when I get back in. Along with GW etc.. Beautiful raindrops. And you know what you can do with your smelly plants...

You painted some vines on something 2P? ooo, sounds lovely, what kind of thing did you do then? I'm just being nosey, I used to knw someone who designed tiles and lived in Pahrump, she moved there because it was cheaper I think not because the name sounded huffy. I'm amazed by the plums too. Your rose is lovely isn't it? it's really settled in there and as said, brilliant burglar deterrent. Glad you got your birds back too. Beautiful robin, they're a much cuter version of a seagull  shitehawke. Yeah, about believing what they see too, it'll be original War of the Worlds all over again. I'm thinking we're getting less sophisticated not more and definitely less intelligent. You could try the thing on your tree where you slive the bark, put some compost round it and a bag of some sort and leave for a year? What a gift of potatoes! 

ybe, he fractured it falling off dodgy steps to his place at the time Good job he didn't fall the other way , twenty foot onto rocks, otherwise the house would be paid for now..And surprisingly, he wasn't drunk either. Buy the mug or look for some by Iddy Biddy T*tty...   

wort hope your other christmas lunch meet up was better  

Less, same as, with the plus that on the allotment and in the garden, most of time seems ot be moving one thing somewhere, then moving it again a few days later..garden object chess is now my speciality. Love your Beast of somewhere.. addition..

Hey PP, where the devil are you? 

I've been doing stuff, moving beds, digging the fruit cage [ still 80 percent to go], collecting a car load of cardboard, finished the step off but it will need painting again but it's much safer to step out of the door, stuff to sell, windows to decorate [ bought some chalk pens to give that a go, it used to be tigger, winnie, eeyore and piglet in a snow scene on the windows but that was years ago when I had some acrylics, this time it's just plain white pens] , cut my wood for kindling up, got my saw serviced after [ compound mitre saw, not a chain saw...yet!] , and some other stuff...haen't made a pomander yet..need to screw the bracket in first. Weather's been atrocious though, practically non stop rain and wind, doesn't look like it's raining today though so at least I might be able to drop the cardboard off, empty the boot and actually get a tree...I don't care, I love the smell of real ones and I always use them when their time is done...in January so as long as possible  

Farway

The rain has stopped at last, it just went on forever yesterday, one compensation from being poorly is not missing much outside

Fat achy Knee  is easing, it's now down to chubster size, and as Taff rightly guessed, Tiger Blam  has been applied daily, trailing a whiff of oinkment behind me as I hobble about

I think, as Dusty says, inflammation can flare up for no reason, and this time mine seems short-lived. Hope so, supposed to be over DDs for Christmas, with my currently non bendy knee I'd never get in or out of a car, but a lot can change in a fortnight.

No chance it's due to an old sports injury though, unless it was British Bulldog 

Great spuds 2P, even better by being unexpected, enjoy them, and the settee rests 

Big event around here, bananas are being washed up along the coast as far as Selsey, it seems containers washed overboard from a banana boat on it's way to Portsmouth, trumps seaweed I guess, but not as good as motorbikes down Branscombe, Devon some years back. 

Useless fact, did you know the majority of bananas eaten in UK are imported via Portsmouth?

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/business/cruise-ship-delays-departure-after-bananas-fell-overboard-in-the-solent-5432736

No gardening due to infirmity, but in keeping with local news, I've made a banana loaf to nibble while watching the  box from my reclining chair.

twopenny

Good to hear the embrocation is working Farway 🙂
Patience sometimes gets stretched but seems not too far with this.

Dusty, I like the look of those doughnuts 😆 and the show looks fun. 
Seems like tomorrow isn't gardening weather for us lot. Remember when 2 storms a winter was a thing?

Taff, there's a story there with oh's mum being drunk in charge of Facebook. Now I'm dying to know.

No gardening, for some reason my hip decided to be uncooperative more than usual despite me doing all the right things.
I've got an early start tomorrow for my first Dr appt in 5yrs which is almost exciting. It's along a road known for flooding so something of an adventure.
Then a haircut. I don't think it's worth a blow dry if there's 40mph winds and torrential rain 😲

Another mild day and surprisingly dry. No sign of the torrents yet, just a little drizzle.
14 more days to the sun turning upwards 😁

Darn, was hoping to ask Less to post some more photos. Remind me what outside looks like!

Dustyevsky

Good to see you are still with us, taff, if running late sometimes.  I do hope pp's OK.    Looks like the Tiger Blam is doing the trick Farway. I hope so, though where they get the tigers these days, puzzles me. 

Only a quick one from me today..... I'm also running late, having had a leisurely time yesterday at the Garden Club lunch, held, (where else?) at the local GC. As 2p says, the weather was OK, so I took the van and loaded-up with more of their wonderful potting compost for next year, just in case. One never knows when good things may disappear, be banned, or suffer a sudden price increase. 

While I feasted, Mrs Dusty was temporarily assembling the hedgehog boxes using masking tape, just to check the pieces go together. They almost did, too! Just a couple of minor tweaks required. She also collected enough beech leaves to fill them, and those are drying out on the conservatory floor. No one can say she hasn't tried, but it's frustrating, frantically trying to catch up, simply because the re-homing process wasn't adequately explained. We thought they'd overwinter at the rescue, and return in spring. 

From what I'm gleaning on hedgehog forums, it seems some animals in milder areas don't always hibernate properly, but wake every 3 or 4 days to forage if the weather's mild. That might be what we are seeing with the unidentified hog on the camera in the past week. There was no action at all on Sunday/Monday night.

Well, it's blowing a hoolie out there again, but I don't think we've seen the amount of rain they've had in South Devon. I have an 'elderly person' to transport to the surgery at 11.00, which may be around the height of Storm Bram for us, so like you, 2p, it will be adventure time!  Hope your visit goes well. 

Must go and release the hens....here are some vegetables from the Fatstock Show....

My leeks are nothing like these!   

EDIT: Mods, I do not live in the town mentioned on the prize cards, or even within 10 miles of it. Oh, and they used last year's cards. Very MSE!