Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

That sounds grim Bluey 😕 I hope it's not the same as I got.

Farway that's really good I wonder if the makers of Doc Martin used the same because the real Port Issac definitely doesn't look like that!

Only gardening was picking up the fallen pots and retrieving the lid of the water butt from the light breeze they say we're having but is storm winds. I had to go out for milk and went round the sea way while I was there. The sea was being blown as spray right across the top and boats tossed in the harbour!

Only people out are the tourists. Sensible people stayed at home.

New stage of bug is coughing, sneezing and exhaustion. Everything hurts. So not through it yet.
Lady in shop said it was with her neighbours for weeks which wasn't cheering.
Even watching gardening programmes is too much.

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Nice craft pics Dusty, I can almost hear the clanging of the hammer. 

Was it just us oiks that used to "bounce" the hammer on the anvil between blows, to keep the swing rhythm going. or is / was it common practice?

Dunno.   After seeing what I did in woodwork, I wasn't invited to the metalwork classes!    My Dad was a carpenter, but he wouldn't let me near the tools. “No, son,” he'd say, “you'll use your brain, not your hands."   

As a result, I was pretty useless at practical things as a youngster. 

I think I like your version of Portsmouth Harbour better than AI's. Like the women in those AI parody videos, it's too good to be true! 

LessImpecunious said:

Yes, "dugs" are ours - I was going to be overcautious and delete pic thinking they might be identifiable but that plan seems to have been scuppered by all the comments

I've removed the quoted picture in case you want to.   

YoungBlueEyes said:

Am sick. 'Ave got lurgy. Is miserable. I've a filthy cough in me that wouldn't sound out of place on a 100-fags-a-day navvy.  
12' bodes well for Rosemoor tomorrow then eh? 

Oh, dear!   Hopefully not Himself's super-lurgy. That's too-long-ago now, surely? It's a hazard of being customer-facing, at this time of year, when the meja keep inventing all these new ones. That's when they're not discovering  crimes we might be 'slapped with' £1k fines for, or finding a dozen more things that almost certainly cause dementia. A hot toddy (or two) and bed with a Fisherman's Friend will not go amiss! 

Rosemoor is looking unlikely now. Mrs Dusty is in limp mode with a non-lurgy condition she has from time to time, but rain looks probable anyway.  :'(  (crying emoji still broken.)

This afternoon was wet, gloomy and punctuated by downpours. The hens went to bed a full 25 minutes earlier than usual!    

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all - Australian Open tennis. I've got chance of seeing it this year cos I'm not going to work  

Filthy bluddy lurgy is pure miserable. I don't know who I've caught this muck from Dusty, probably one of the animals clients/staff at work. Thank god it's not himself's super-lurgy for I think that'd hospitalise me. Actually we're back over a week now so would that be about right for bringing something home with me off the plane maybe..? Dunno. Good to hear yours is moving along 2p. Have you got a goodly stash of painkillers and orange juice and soups in? Fingers tightly crossed it keeps going and s0ds off entirely 🤞🏻
That's a shame about Rosemoor, is MrsD gonna be ok? Tell her to lay off kicking you in the night, that'll help her legs ha haa.

OT it's not raining but will this aft, possibly. The drunkards reckon it's 8'/FL5, the sobers say 8'/FL0, Tusky says 8/FL4. They're all wrong cos I can tell you it's approx 35'c and that's with the windows open.

:'(  <--- testing.  Mods have you got this on your To-Do list? 

Farway

Dull, grey, with rain in the wind. Probably not a Rosemoor Day anyway.

Hope Lurgy is improving for those stricken, and suggestions of booze & bed with a Fisherman's Friend sounds like good advice, after the tennis ?

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'll give the JapAns one more go then Farway. That'll absolutely be their last chance though. Swines. 

Best of luck, yours may yet re-appear, zombie like. I've just looked at prices, gob smacked, mine must have been on offer at the time, or maybe they were runts and hence the vanishing act last year?

Eyes peeled in Springtime Morries I guess

LessImpecunious said:

Lovely photos of Portsmouth Harbour Farway - I spent a week in the harbour at the age of c. 10, on a Sail Training Ship, the Foudroyant, which was permanently anchored in the middle (we sailed smaller boats around the harbour and over to the IoW). This was in the days when we (self and younger bro) could be put on a train from London to Portsmouth (mum travelled with us from home in Sussex to London) and then navigate our way to the harbour (tho' we did have the advantage of having visited Portsmouth before, as grandparents lived in nearby Lee-on-Solent).

Mention of the Foudroyant sent me down a rabbit hole Less  . I remember her as well, so had to gargle to see what happened. 

Seems she went off to Hartlepool and was restored to her previous life as HMS Trincomalee, it's on YT, as is a B & W pic of the Foudroyant with what could be Less in a cutter, rowing out to her 

You'll note the harbour entrance is the same view as my pic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z7QSBPvAMY

Looked at the restoration on YT, seems worth a visit if in the Hartlepool area

Seeing Trincomalee name set me off down another rabbit hole, having been there when it was Ceylon, which tells you how long ago that was. For those longing for white sandy beaches & palm trees I can recommend Trinco when the Rottery coughs up

Between rabbit holes, I ordered four types of Tom seeds, from Dusty's link of Sea Spring, which should be more than enough to knock on the floor

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

That's a shame about Rosemoor, is MrsD gonna be ok? Tell her to lay off kicking you in the night, that'll help her legs ha haa.

Ah, sorry, 'limp mode' is something of a male-orientated term, deriving from the behaviour of vehicles when the engine management light illuminates indicating a fault. The car often goes into a slow, self-protect mode, like safe mode on a computer. i.e. it'll function, but not normally. You've probably had it happen, but it may have been called something different.

So Mrs D is OK, but running in safe mode.  No swinging from the chandeliers, not that we have any! 

Hope your lurgy, and that affecting 2p, soon pass and leave you protected from any recurrence, at least this year. Our DD2 went through the whole of Covid, unscathed, on natural immunity, even though it was frequently considered insufficient at the time. Being 'customer facing,' like you and wort, she was one of the very first to get it, and Oxford University enrolled her in a study, still ongoing, which may be gargled.

We have joined Jap Anemones Anonymous too.  A friend gave us a collection of 4 different for Christmas, They're currently living the life of Riley in the polytunnel, as I dare not expose them to anything harsh, They must survive at least one season, but my memory suggests they're pretty hard to kill, once well- established. 

Farway said:

Between rabbit holes, I ordered four types of Tom seeds, from Dusty's link of Sea Spring, which should be more than enough to knock on the floor

Now I have guilt!    But not much!   

OT: Reasonable day here, if not the best for Rosemoor. Double figures, dryish and wind dying away, despite last night's curry. 

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

That's a shame about Rosemoor, is MrsD gonna be ok? Tell her to lay off kicking you in the night, that'll help her legs ha haa.

Ah, sorry, 'limp mode' is something of a male-orientated term, deriving from the behaviour of vehicles when the engine management light illuminates indicating a fault. The car often goes into a slow, self-protect mode, like safe mode on a computer. i.e. it'll function, but not normally. You've probably had it happen, but it may have been called something different.

We have joined Jap Anemones Anonymous too.   A friend gave us a collection of 4 different for Christmas, They're currently living the life of Riley in the polytunnel, as I dare not expose them to anything harsh, They must survive at least one season, but my memory suggests they're pretty hard to kill, once well- established.

One of the most expensive faults you can have because it can have many, and temporary, causes, at around £60 an hour to chase. 

A friend had it intermittently, and of course at the most inappropriate times and places

Eventually, after a trillion pounds & umpteen garages it was traced to a fault in his trailer towing connection light 

Welcome to the JAA club, being hard to kill was my recollection as well, which is why i was miffed when mine seemed to die

twopenny

I'm on  the mend! 
Still exhausted though. Want to sleep all day yet can't sleep at night.  Still got the cough. I've had enough now.

Don't know anything about cars, have to find out where the oil and water goes on my tiny box still to be investigated 🤔
I miss my nippy fiesta still.

Good thing to stay at home Bluey, no one else wants it and it would last longer for you. Hope it's moving on and through.

Jap anennns, mine struggled, failed, grew again, finally treated them right and put them in soil and they are sort of failing,
Can't understand it. Last place they were a pest for spreading but beautiful for flowering late.
But I have found the white ones are petulant, dark pink not much better and the normal colour romp away.

Remember those tomatoes for storing I mentioned this time last year? Can't remember why I didn't buy some. Must have been a reason.

Temp finally climbed to 8c last night and stayed today with sunshine this morning that actually felt warm 🙂
So I guess if they predict something for long enough it will eventually happen.

LessImpecunious

Farway said:

Mention of the Foudroyant sent me down a rabbit hole Less  . I remember her as well, so had to gargle to see what happened. 

Seems she went off to Hartlepool and was restored to her previous life as HMS Trincomalee, it's on YT, as is a B & W pic of the Foudroyant with what could be Less in a cutter, rowing out to her 

You'll note the harbour entrance is the same view as my pic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z7QSBPvAMY

Looked at the restoration on YT, seems worth a visit if in the Hartlepool area

Thanks for that link Farway, I went down different parts of that rabbithole, didn't know about her more recent history. Don't often head Hartlepool way (or anywhere near!) but feel I should some day - tho' apparently the restoration has taken her back to Trincomalee times, so maybe not so recognisable... Hmm, I'm definitely not in that cutter (is it a cutter? - I've forgotten all my nautical terms) - looks at least a decade or two too early, and I never had a haircut that extreme (well, not until my post-punk years), and pretty sure they are all boys (tho' I often was mistaken for one, including on the Foudroyant by one of the instructors, though luckily not to the extent of being billeted in the wrong hammock area  )...

Dustyevsky said:

Ah, sorry, 'limp mode' is something of a male-orientated term

Was expecting smutty joke here, rather than handy vehicle-oriented advice (our once-trusty Fiesta is showing intermittent engine light, but not yet limping, will at least now know what's happening if it does)..,

Hope all limpers and sufferers from lurgy soon return to full health, encouraged by change in the weather...

wort

YBE , I’m used to very very short hair so going to chin length isn’t too short. It’s straight as a ruler so no need for any heated stuff, apart from quick blast with hairdryer at this time of year. I hope the cold is a quick 24 hr thing, and you’re feeling better soon.
The Easter eggs were flying out yesterday !!! 
Farway at least you got some sleep I’m very envious as it’s evading me at the moment.

Dusty shame about Mrs D and Rosemoor 😢😢

Grey and miserable again today, need to do some house cleaning, I really want to declutter stuff but not got anything left!,

Farway

Dull, and tipping down, a very wet & dripping world outside

twopenny said:

I'm on  the mend! 
Still exhausted though. Want to sleep all day yet can't sleep at night.  Still got the cough. I've had enough now.

Jap anennns, mine struggled, failed, grew again, finally treated them right and put them in soil and they are sort of failing,
Can't understand it. Last place they were a pest for spreading but beautiful for flowering late.
But I have found the white ones are petulant, dark pink not much better and the normal colour romp away.

Good news on the mend. perhaps you need Night Nurse to join you & your Fisherman's Friend at night? 

Got me slightly worried now, will my white JapAn be petulant?, sighing & whatevering as I look at it?

I do have, or think I have, normal one so if it gets going it can fight it out with the Shasta daisies

Hoping to get out mooching round Morries tomorrow, exciting times, bread & milk, maybe some plants will be back now the hols are over? But from Wort post it could be wall to wall Easter Eggs only

The tom seeds I ordered from Sea Springs are on the way, but that will be all my gardening today