Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

That's a nice bit of digger action I presume?

There's no digger access on our side; it's too steep, but the stream's small, so half an hour with a mattock, spade, and shovel.....

Canute completely blocked our side with rocks and lumps of tree. I thought, "OK matey," and joined him, tipping all the horrible clay extracted from walking friend's garden and some rubble down on our side to match. Then it was just pile-up the stuff extracted from the stream bed on top. 

Now the stream goes the other side of the post in the middle, does a 90 degree turn, does another behind the dam, and then carries on.

It's all pointless nonsense really, but it keeps me amused

I'll remove the picture later. Don't want a neighbour dispute! 

-taff

Am I wrong in assuming at some point it's going to wash away his bank on the 90 degree turn and just carry on as normal the way it was going anyway eventually?

Farway

Raining here, dull & wet. 

twopenny said:

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.

I had one Christmas in Cape Town, then we went on to the Seychelles, after making sure that Nasty Mr Smith wasn't getting oil into Rhodesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beira_Patrol

Very nice too, before it was tourist destination, coral reefs, swimming from sandy beaches in warm seas, riding giant tortoises, double bo**ock coconuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodoicea

I've still got one of the coconuts

To make it even better, that nice Mr Wilson devalued the pound in your pocket, luckily we were being paid in Aussie dollars by then, so my pound was safe 

Nice to know the price of potted hyacinths has skyrocketed, the modern-day equivalent of being paid in Aussie dollars. 

Knee is still twinging at times, Lurgy is lurking, I had a good shiver yesterday evening, but apart from sneezing I'm fine

Nice bit of [un]civil engineering Dusty. Does the stream debris clog Canute's bit? Just curious why he would damn it instead of just letting it continue downstream

No gardening today, wet & knee still. I did make a start on the conservatory African violets, still more to do though

All this beetroot talk, the two I managed to grow were nice, and I have found the seed packet, so I may give it another go next year, but thin them out next time

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Nice bit of [un]civil engineering Dusty. Does the stream debris clog Canute's bit? Just curious why he would damn it instead of just letting it continue downstream

No, I wouldn't think so. The stream is straight and fast-flowing all the way down to the river, as in my first picture. Any leaves and other debris tend to get swept away in weather like we've had. There's been some silt, thanks to the new neighbour farmer clearing his section with a digger, but that seems to have gone now. With the fields not ploughed for cereals any more, the amount of mud ought to reduce. The water's clear today.

-taff said:

Am I wrong in assuming at some point it's going to wash away his bank on the 90 degree turn and just carry on as normal the way it was going anyway eventually?

Yes, it would have done that by now, but Mr C has an odd bit of sheep fencing lying there, which has trapped debris. I don't think this is about tidiness! 

In other news, most of our outdoor lights are up, the tree has been trimmed down and installed in the conservatory, and it's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas!  Bang on cue, the drunkards are saying there will be a frost tonight. 

twopenny

I'm not surprised Dusty, it's been darn cold out there despite the sunshine.

No gardening today, looked at the weeds that need sorting in the front but that was it. I'm not bothering in the biting cold

So have a sunset to warm you up

And there's a mystery cloud for Less but I've lost it somewhere. Challenge for another day

Hope Bluey is all right, not been heard of since the Christmas party