Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

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.
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 news on the lurgy front. A couple more days and you should have it out the door and on the run! let's hope Bluey has a similar health bulletin when she clocks-in. 

Your little Picanto or i10 (can't recall) still needs regular attention, despite being a reliable Far Eastern product. If you tire of it, they're in hot demand in these financially troubled times.  Chops Garage near me sold an i10 with a single short video over Christmas. The purchaser was waiting for him at 08.30 on his first morning back!   

No great news here. Yesterday wasn't wonderful, weather-wise, but it was calm enough for me to get the workshop doors wide open and start painting the hedgehog houses. Photos to follow when that's done.  I also managed to remove another 6 barrow loads of clay soil and stones inside the new deep bed, and almost finished the woodwork on that. So, progress, even if no Rosemoor. 

None of the above is helping with the hedging I have to do on the top field, nor have I cut any trees down yet, but my excuse is it's been blimmin' cold when opportunities for those jobs have arisen.

Good observation on my 'limp mode' explanation, Less. Never crossed my mind; I must be getting old! 

Photo advice for today.... When the world around seems chaotic, just do this:

These gals were next door to the blacksmiths. 

OT: Cloudy, calm, and quite warm, but Thoroughly miserable and wet now!  Apparently will clear to make frost likely overnight. 

twopenny

Love that photo Dusty 😍 they look so relaxed and happy. I could almost frame it and put it on the wall!

Someone hasn't told them about small cars around here. Yes, last year all the rage. This year it's ginormous versions. Even in winter they are jamming our small roads. They can't fit more than one into a pull in so it blocks the road for ages. Summer is going to be hellish 😐
There was a photo showing it but when I search it tries to sell me cars 😬

Getting to grips with the bird app. I've got some I didn't know were there 🙂 and saw some it didn't record.
Doesn't help that there a two lots of workmen with noisy machines.
That's as near as I'll get to gardening this week. All weak and wobbly and coughing. Just plain exhausted.

Going to wrap up and go for a drive to get some fresh air and daylight.
Still mild, no wind but grey and dull.

-taff

That tomato Sunfired Flare looks like it's been crossed with Blue OSU somewhere in it's ancestry. I had some of those seeds from Zazen years ago and while novelty value was great, taste was somewhat lacking so I'm just suspicious of anything its crossed with now. which doesn't stop me wanting to try of thses, also for novelty value.

https://www.tomatofifou.com/en/produit/wooly-kate-yellow-1229/

I had a chance to become a blacksmith aprentice before I moved to England, looking back, should have done that instead I think limp mode has now ben fancifully renamed Eco mode..when it only does a max of fifty for a certain amount f time and then just doesn't start at all.

Sorry you have lurgy ybe, it's never pleasant especially when your head feels like it's made of rubbery snot. Great story though, f'ing idiots, love it when people take things into their own hands and then decide they don't like it, please save us from our own stupidity...Talking of lights, did yours ever get switched off? Planes are notorious for spreading the germs, all that recycled air...

If its any help farway, I dreamt I owned a massive house complex, came back and was looking for my rooms and talking to Hugh Grant over a cup of tea served in red bone china and Ww3 went off with a massive bomb about a mile away, cue much running around to organise people who had seemingly moved in to my house. Nice bit of harbour jiggery pokery. I have some JapAns in the back, in really carp soil with loads of stones and they are still alive. I think the ideal thing for them is to treat them like you treat people you don't like. Give them nasty looks and withold affection of any kind. 

Apparently Chinese made cars are really taking off over here, seen a few things I didn't recognise lately and my sister kindly told me what they were. 

Sorry you have the lurgy too 2p..

Easter eggs wort? Absolutely bonkers...

I did manage quite a bit yesterday, planted out two camelias, one red , one cream, moved a russian sage, potted up some chocolate mint babies, removed most of the adults, took the metal bed off and took it apart, added the two new bits but too dark to fully assemble it, butchered the philadelphus to get the grass clump out the middle, it may live, it may not. Cut off some carex babies and planted them around the edges of the front bed garden, just to have something that wil grow there and to stop the cats killing everything whilst pooing in the beds. It's chucking it down today though so nothing doing, reading and knitting and watching youtube today. Just like Dustys pigs...

LessImpecunious

We seem to have had the best weather here for a change ... It was a bit of a damp start, but by the afternoon skies were clearing, and so was I - some branches from a coppiced willow and hazel which had been snapped at the base during one of the summer storms but were still attached, and have been annoying me for months... both on steep slopes, as were these fun guys, lurking among the fallen leaves...

 Goosegrass seedling for scale...

Then we had this sunset (not the best pic I took, but the least identifiable one, now I've become paranoid... )

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

..... these fun guys, lurking among the fallen leaves...

 Goosegrass seedling for scale..

I see what you did there.    But are they Scarlet Elfcups or Ruby Elfcups? 

Lovely sky. Here, the clouds were thicker, but due to clear and allow a slight frost tomorrow morning. Looking ahead to Thursday, it seems to me, the dipsomaniacs aren't really sure where this “hard rain's gonna fall.” 

LessImpecunious

Interesting, didn't know there were ruby ones too - nomenclature and id looks confusing (esp. at this time of night), but both appear to be rare. Have seen them before in another part of the garden, so perhaps will try out iRecord on them tomorrow... though looks like a microscope is needed to separate them anyhow... 

Heading towards zero as I type, a fine day forecast by everyone tomorrow I think... (so perhaps should expect cloud  )

-taff

They're really pretty Less, I've only seen the dull grey brown ones in my garden, and they do give me the shivers...Lovely unidentifiable sun too..

I too see what you did there, better watch out, there's not mushroom for puns on this thread...

Wass raining this morning so I was all for settling in for a day reading and knitting and stuff and then I thought, I'll just finish bolting the bed together in this dry spot...so made the bed, moved the bed, levelled the bed, started filling the bed...Good job OH came home from work otherwise I'd probably still be out there staggering about now. I did decide all of the clump of persicaria has to go to the lotment even though I like it because it just needs more space than I'm prepared to give it. Maybe I'll try a babier variety instead, although the walled garden place I found in the summer has so many different types of salvia...and the peach one I bought is still alive too...

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

 I did decide all of the clump of persicaria has to go to the lotment even though I like it because it just needs more space than I'm prepared to give it. 

The big one is great in difficult places. Pity it disappears in winter, though; people get to see what you're covering-up with it! 

We had about 2 degrees of frost in the wee hours of the morning. During a bathroom patrol at 05.30, I spotted the crescent moon lying on its back in a gap between the trees. A photo would have been great, but I wasn't up to the challenge at that hour!  Over 16 years here, and I've never seen it positioned like that before. 

The Dusty Deep Bed No3 is now fully dug out and waiting for its plastic DPM liner....

Mrs Dusty does the lining. I'm rubbish with anything involving 'material.' We'll put the end on when it's filled.

PS. You can just see my Parkside (Lidl) drill & driver. I don't bring the De Walt ones in here!    Oh, and in the back of the bed is my trusty (and rusty) iron 'Thingy' that comes in handy for all sorts of jobs. Here, it was making the pilot holes for the uprights. Dug up the Thingy in the orchard many years ago. 

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Love that photo Dusty 😍 they look so relaxed and happy. I could almost frame it and put it on the wall!

Just so long as Farway doesn't put bikinis on the pigs with his wondrous AI tool !   We don't want to be exposed by Chris Packham, and end up banned! 

Farway

Morning folks, another one with a frosty start this morning, sun's out now, with a blue sky. But Gawd help us tomorrow, yellow rain is back again. The Hard rain is gonna fall here, allegedly.

Tipped down all day yesterday

Fun Guys & Mushroom, groan  . Good close-ups though, as is the sky shot

My tom seeds arrived yesterday, well packed & good packet info.

Next task is shuffling though all my old tom packets, and tom seed smears, to see what i have and what may be worth keeping

Exhausting just looking at Dusty Deep Beds, with hindsight I should have made similar when I was fit and bendy.

No gardening today, except seed shuffling

Up to Morries first thing, I was so early the plant cage was not unlocked  Did'n t seem much there, but did spot tubers are there, dahlias, glads and the like

Not long now, well it is only 81 days [11 weeks & 4 days] to go.

Is it the same as First Cuckoo?

Morries this morning