Awful weather - typical Brits talk

LessImpecunious

twopenny said:

Less I can adjust the photo sizes on my laptop. Click for a frame and drag. Just make sure it's not select and delete. That's the trick 😊

I've tried that following earlier suggestion by Dusty, but it just seems to distort the photo if I get it small enough to be visible in one screens-worth...and off to one side, which offends my sense of symmetry   However, have had suggestion from (semi)techy DS (well, younger than me, so amounts to same thing!) of an app which might do the trick, so will experiment again!

Hoghouses look v swish! Amazed by folks attempting to (and succeeding in) mowing lawns at this time of year, think mine would just look (more) like a speedway track or similar if I attempted same...

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Ha! Haha Dusty. That's a nice place for your rogue cat to sleep 😄 

With the nest area stuffed with leaves etc, there won't be a cat-friendly bed inside. Anyway, Houdini cat has gone home now the owner is back.   

Farway said:

I prefer the first in my face tree Less, it's fine on my desktop

I like it better, too.  Here, I do my best to avoid the wires, or edit them out. We hardly notice them, and they go by a fairly unobtrusive route, but given a choice, I'd still sacrifice the £40 a year we receive for having them. 

OT: It's definitely the greyest morning so far, and with rain predicted all day, I doubt things will change much. Like 2p, we have to play catch-up now to ensure Christmas happens on time. 

Yesterday it was reasonably fine outdoors when we searched for the perfect tree. We're still finding them at a place abut 8 miles away, where the plantation was neglected. Lower branches have been removed for access and re-planting, so the trees are on very long stems! 

Of course, some are too far gone, unless one is needed for a town square or similar!  It 'only' took an hour to find the right one. 

Farway

Grey and dull here as well, with rain on the way, though not as much as some from the forecast

Not much to report, no gardening today, again, leg is OKish, but now I have a feeling I'm on course for lurgy, sneezing & coughing this morning. 

I may have a bash at my conservatory, the African Violets need sorting, dead leaves etc. And get the larger pot out ready fro the apple tree replanting at some ime

twopenny

Yup, very grey, dark and wet but brightened up somewhat now.
Even the seagulls were quiet it was so dull.

I had a nice surprise this morning opening the curtains and seeing a garden looking like one 🙂 so it was worth it.

Had a home grown tomato with each supper so far. From the fridge not the garden. Was trying for one at Christmas but don't think they are going to make it. The wet is rotting them.

Not me getting ready for the season Dusty. For 2 weeks everything social stops. I am bombarded by over cheery songs. Why are there no new ones. Maybe Farway can use AI to come up with one and make his fortune. Next Christmas in the Seychelles 😄
It's grimmer this year than before so I'm hoping to just sail through it and come out sane on the other side.

twopenny

Farway have you seen the price of hyacinths bulb pots in the shops?
£8 😲
Get your stall outside 

LessImpecunious

Dustyevsky said:

Farway said:

I prefer the first in my face tree Less, it's fine on my desktop

I like it better, too.  Here, I do my best to avoid the wires, or edit them out. We hardly notice them, and they go by a fairly unobtrusive route, but given a choice, I'd still sacrifice the £40 a year we receive for having them. 

Full disclosure - dead tree is not in our garden, so no fee for hosting the adjacent wires... Thinking about it though, we do have a pole in the garden, but no-one has ever offered cash for it  ...

Wet morning, but dryish in the afternoon - the ground is so soft that I was able to pull some bramble roots out of the ground (though the fact that some of the ground was disappearing downslope, due to the repeated impact of rain) probably helped - not sure whether that amounts to a good thing or not, overall...

twopenny

Here's an idea about wayleave payments or not to get you started 
https://moneysavvydaddy.com/wayleave-payments/
If you think it's worth pursuing.

You are right about how easy it is to get weeds out. I might have a go at some that have had me stumped.

Been raining all day but not too heavy and it's mild with no wind.
Sunshine promised for tomorrow.......

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

Dustyevsky said:

Farway said:

I prefer the first in my face tree Less, it's fine on my desktop

I like it better, too.  Here, I do my best to avoid the wires, or edit them out. We hardly notice them, and they go by a fairly unobtrusive route, but given a choice, I'd still sacrifice the £40 a year we receive for having them. 

Full disclosure - dead tree is not in our garden, so no fee for hosting the adjacent wires... Thinking about it though, we do have a pole in the garden, but no-one has ever offered cash for it  ...

I see 2p has given you a comprehensive link. As it says, where Openreach is concerned, one only receives cash if the pole and wire is for a neighbour's benefit, not one's own. 

I know this because our neighbour with the large bench, somehow moved a pole going to his property, out of his yard, onto our land. This was achieved with some difficulty, resulting in the pole being partly in the stream, where poles are not normally found.   The wires were also draped through bushes, instead of being in midair.   This occurred well before we bought this property, and by the time I spotted what had happened, the neighbour had built a stone shed where the pole had been. 

The worst aspect of the above situation was getting Openreach to visit or even acknowledge it. In the end, we gave them an ultimatum, using the Telecommunications Act. Fortunately, their surveyor was a decent guy, who arranged for the pole to be relocated where we wanted it, out of our view and not impeding the erection of a barbed wire fence on said neighbour's property boundary. (He'd been apt to come across when he felt like it  ) We were then awarded the then standard £150 + £20 extra for an armoured cable which runs along the ditch. 

The leccy company gives us cash annually, even though the poles in the field benefit us. Fortunately, however, there are no poles in front of our bungalow, and our supply goes under the front garden. Even the supply to the barn is underground.  They should do that more often.  

twopenny said:

Been raining all day but not too heavy and it's mild with no wind.
Sunshine promised for tomorrow.......

OT: It was frequently heavy here, with no let-up overnight. The local rivers are just about coping, but everywhere's very soggy. No gardening planned, and nothing to report on Hog-cam.  Apparently, we have some sunny respite today, sporadic rain tomorrow, and more heavy stuff on Thursday. After that, things begin to cool down, but there's no sign of a white Christmas in these parts. 

I hope your lurgy faded away, Farway.   It seems a certain NHS vitamin recommendation, for almost everyone at this time of year, has been pitched much too low. Although the more appropriate dose was established around 10 years ago, NICE have only just got around to telling us plebs. Useful, that.

Some good news; the new farmer next door cleared out the stream channel two weeks ago, and it's going like a train. Mr Canute's dam has been bypassed as it's following a slightly different route. I may have dug a new channel 6 weeks ago....can't recall.   

LessImpecunious

Thanks both for pole advice! Will have  a look...

-taff

No sign of you ybe, fingers crossed the lurgy has passed you by and you're just busy with weird people and phone calls [ or are you banged up for one comment too far from OMM?] 

Dusty, I saw the magelwurzels [ how apt the name] on SHeGrowsVeg and I thought, I'll have some of that..I d like beetroot, and I suppose this way, if it's good, I can grow the betteroot like that to eat, then grow the other stuff for the leaves, which I much prefer to spinach. wow to your hedgehouses!  That's a nice bit of digger action I presume?

I used to get farm eggs too but I'm more in town now so that requires a special trip, they're much better though, and fresh cream, fresh milk, fresh cheese...[I am hungry now] At least you got into your garden 2p, I'm simultaneously itching and procrastinating...you deserve a medal also 🏅and the reward of a nice view...I actually did ask an AI to write a Christmas song and it wasn't half bad, not too cloying, a little bit hopeful, maybe I should ask it to set it to music too  

I would just post your pics anyway, don't worry about in your face  

Less, you really should do an exhibition somewhere..your angles are really really good...

How's your lurgy Farway? fingers crossed flash in the pan...

Nothing doing here, rain and more rain, the one fine day was earmakred for other stuff so no gardening done except I did dig up one of the concrete blocks I used ot make a short path, so there's a trolly on top to avoid accidents of falling into the hole. It's like diggin for gold in my garden, holes everywhere where I've been playing garden chess...