Awful weather - typical Brits talk

LessImpecunious

twopenny said:

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

Well, I have been outside, in wet and wind, but not v conducive to photography, even just with a phone... But, since you ask, here's a slowly-decaying hawthorn (I have photo/s of it from several years ago - will post if I can find!) in nearby fence-line, taken on Sunday morning before the weather descended

 ... and the only other photo taken recently, a comedy shot sadly missing poor pup whose ball had lodged in apple tree - shows the soggy state of garden and my MSE style compost bins...

 

My leeks and carrots don't look quite like the winners either Dusty, but pleased to see they're not as perfect as they could be in comparison

wort

To me, they look more like overweight mice with colds. 😂🤣Dusty now you’ve said it I can’t unsee it. Not a doughnut person even if I was allowed, but I would have succumbed to the mince pie with custard in behind, if they were gfree.
Weekend in work was hectic , not helped by a problem getting in on Sunday🫣 Rain and more rain quite windy too by the look through the window.
Farway glad the knees improving, my hip/ thigh has been trouble over the last few weeks. I don’t think I’ve any muscles I can improve on certainly not in my bum.
less you are very hardy venturing out in this weather. I can’t wait for the brighter days now.

-taff

Tiger Blam sounds much better, very seventies Btaman and Robin, now I'm imaginign you in a spandex outfit wiht your pants over your tights and a very small...mask on. Free bananas too! woop woop!

Well 2p, it's not that good a story, I think she fell victim to not knowing how social media works, or thinking too much about where stuff comes from, so a few things from the far right were shared under the guise of 'patriotism' but being as she was working for a place that was, in it's title, inclusive, that sounded a bit of death knell when someone must have reported what she was posting...it was leave or be pushed.  

I did chuckle, actually out loud, at your idea of adventure, I can hear the sarcasm from here...

Ohhh, you have to build the houses too? Hedehog Construction Company incoming! Well, if anyone can McGyver it, Mrs Dusty can...those carrots do look very smart, and clean. And the leeks, also, mine look nothing like those, are you sure they weren't started growing the year on the cards? 

Wort, sorry you're in the dodgy limb club too, but now you've said mine pie and custard, I might have to do a recipe...I used ot make a rhubarb and custard cake but I'm sure a mince pie and custard will be much easier. I have got a recipe for super easy gram flour cookies/biscuits, whatever they're called if you want. 

Less, i love how you can take a photo of something and make me see it rather than just skipping over it. 

I am decorating a very comedy wonky tree today, I didn't look at it thoroughly before I bought it but Lidl were the cheapest and there weren't many left, I didn't fancy traipsing, so bendy tree it is. It may look better with the strnng stuff off...

Farway

Rain again, but no gales etc, so just normal, mild but wet, December day really

I hope those who have to go out in the worst of it keep safe, and it doesn't get to be an adventure, and Drs turns out OK 2P, or at least the haircut does.

Welcome all to the Dodgy Limb club, I think I'm progressing to 2Ps Wonky Hip section now that Tiger B has worked its magic on my knee the limb blight is transferring to hip area, but that could be because of my wonky walking with gammy knee giving the hip a funny turn, or summat.

Nothing much to report on gardening here, what with rain & leg I'm just lolling about & watching far too much TV, I would read but can't these days due to my  pills I just fall sleep on page one.

Good lot of prize winners there Dusty, I'll have a look to see if I can find a pic of my prize marrows, hidden somewhere in the computer

Found it. Way back in summer of '76, the drought year, so my marrows got Best in Show as well, probably because it was so dry nothing grew

twopenny

Aww I love a bit of natures art Less. If someone had done that and labeled it it would cost a fortune

How long did you leave the ball there to tease your dog? I would have left it for a bit.

Your waterlogged garden cheers me up to. Mine looks exactly like that so now I feel better.

Wort sorry to hear you're joining the joint disfunction club but bits inevitabliy wear out if we use them. I'm not sure what the answer is other than it's a badge of honour to have got this far  

Taff does your MIL feel wicked in a good way for being kicked out? It's all a learning curve.

Seems to be a year for wonkey and odd looking trees. I've seen a few on display instead of the standard and friends are decorating branches in a tent like shape.. It's good, shows some individuality and sense of creative fun is still alive and well when They are trying to make us all conform.

Farway, that must have been a very proud day and great photo. Did it upset many people?

Glad your bits are cooperating. True that if one bit plays up the others will come out in sympathy. Annoying but easier to put right.

And that's what a workman dashing through the rain with his takeaway coffee said 'Mother Nature is really phished (or words to that effect) today' which made me laugh.D

Heck it was some journey but being a warm wind it was quite exciting walking in it.

Trouble is I got not one but 2 doctors!  Really through and a lovely experience and seems I'm trouble free apart from my looks

Only thing was that made me 10mins late for the hairdressers who rang to say I'd missed my chance. Grumpy and not would you like to book another so I've change them as well. Walked into another and no 10week wait but we can do that tomorrow.

Not sure whats left of the garden, it doesn't look like anything is dire apart from a watering can breaking free from it's moorings.

Wonder how Dusty got on with the delivery? I think they were out of the real worst but still going to be a lot of water on the roads. I bet he can identify where this is

I think we've all probably seen enough of the dark and dismal so here's a sunset from brighter times

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

Well 2p, it's not that good a story, I think she fell victim to not knowing how social media works.....

Ohhh, you have to build the houses too? Hedehog Construction Company incoming! Well, if anyone can McGyver it, Mrs Dusty can...

The way social media works is scary, especially with so many government employees fiddling with it, including the 77th Brigade, who specialise in psychological warfare. Meddling by the BBC, other media and government over recent years has made me question everything. I notice from conversations IRL I'm no longer alone in that either, so attempts to shackle the Internet have been counterproductive. It wasn't like that 5 years ago. "Fool me once..." etc.

We could buy the Hog Houses, but a good one costs £100 or more, so it makes MSE sense to build them from scrap wood.    Mrs Dusty knocked-out the design, and this afternoon we part-built two. Storm Bram was still pretty stoke(r)ed, and battering at the workshop doors, so with the light being too poor inside with them closed, we couldn't go in there to finish them off with the jig saw.    Here's one, partly made, in the conservatory:  

Yes, there's an intentional slight slope! The top will be covered with roofing felt and overlap the sides, so water drains off. Beech 'filling' behind. 

Farway said:

 Way back in summer of '76, the drought year, so my marrows got Best in Show as well, probably because it was so dry nothing grew

Wow!  '76 was before I had any sort of garden, but I recall looking from my flat towards the river, red with algae, and not even appearing to move.   I thought the fish wouldn't survive, but I was wrong. Extreme weather indeed, and all before climate boiling change too. 

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Aww I love a bit of natures art Less. If someone had done that and labeled it it would cost a fortune

Your waterlogged garden cheers me up to. Mine looks exactly like that so now I feel better.

Trouble is I got not one but 2 doctors!  Really through and a lovely experience and seems I'm trouble free apart from my looks  

Wonder how Dusty got on with the delivery? I think they were out of the real worst but still going to be a lot of water on the roads. I bet he can identify where this is

Less's sculpture has taken years in the making, especially the lichen, so that gives it added value.  Who knows, maybe that tree was in its prime when Farway produced the prize marrows.   

Doctors, plural??  Typical. You wait ages, and then two turn up at once.  Glad to know all's well, though what have looks got to do with it?  Do you mean you look like trouble? 

I managed to deliver the old guy on time, but no thanks to the chaps installing the fibre optic cables down the hill. They let the school traffic through, and then closed the road, which meant about 6 miles of detours altogether.  I had a 45 minute wait at the surgery, and then, on arrival home again, Methuselah informed me he had no cash. It's only £2, and entirely voluntary, so no great loss, but I get the feeling I'm being given the jobs no one else wants.

Your lovely sunset picture seems to be taken from a car park, and I'd guess with that long, straight run of coast, maybe Selworthy Beacon? 

LessImpecunious

Thanks for kind comments on my pics folks  but think we'd all agree 2Ps crepuscular rays are home page /calendar worthy...

LessImpecunious

Quick follow-up- found the hawthorn tree (well, ex-tree even then) - pic taken in the snow Jan 2021...

twopenny

Oh that's nice! The contrast of the stark trunk against the soft perfect trees is excellent.
 It must be one of those spots that is inexplicably mesmerising..
I have one with an old gate and fence panel that I am bewitched by and no idea why.