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...