Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Working_Mum

Hello everyone!!I haven't quite caught up on everyone's posts but I have read todays!!

I know it seems like an age ago but I hope everyone had a brilliant Christmas and are all set for a happy and healthy 2026. May you all remain lurgy-free and as bandy as possible.

I'm not sure what caused me to disappear to be honest - work was super busy, my Mum has grown increasingly confused and that means my headspace is taken up with sorting her than anything else - I just seemed to smash onto the sofa over Christmas with a groan and a schooner of sweet sherry

My garden looks dull and lifeless apart from when it was a beautiful crisp white from the smattering of snow we had. Looks like we are in for a bit of sludgy weather if the mayor of Wetwang (our TV weather chap)  is to be believed. I have taken the executive decision to do some cutting back and general tidying in late February/ early March - weather permitting. Its current states sees lots of blackies rummaging about on the ground for food and it is a joy to behold.

I'm currently readying my office for handing back to the landlord - 24 years I've been there and getting it ready has seen me rediscover muscles I didn't know I had as I got rid of old kit and furniture and start the redecorating. I have told myself it'll make January go quickly and then I am one more (big) step along my retirement journey!

I don't have any turbine pics to start the year but appreciated seeing Dusty's quite a few pages ago! Loving the idea of eating homegrown toms and pears on Christmas Day too - it's simply ace.

Right I'm off to finish catching up and promise to be around a bit more - you've kept me sane these last couple of weeks!

((WM))

twopenny

Lovely to see you and just how busy. Wow! That's a lot of stuff to be dealing with, no wonder you haven't been seen 😲 but it all sounds positive even though each can be tough. 
You're going to need that stint in the garden to find some headspace 🙂

If you can give Bluey a nudge to tell us the rest of her story I'd be grateful. Just left us with a cliffhanger 😵‍💫

Less it's amazing how beautiful fungi can be. I've seen those by a stream in Snowdrop Valley. 
Beautiful sunset 😍

Taff you and Dusty are keeping this thread legitimate considering how many of us are falling apart at the moment.
I feel exhausted just reading.

Farway I could only enjoy that photo if the eggs were any good. They produce so much these days with no respect for quality.
Used to be a special process for the eggs and moulds. Now they just sling in more palm oil.
And it's just not the same if you don't have chocolates inside the egg.

Frost here this morning but it's bucked up a bit. Overcast but no wind.
I over did the going out for fresh air yesterday and the lurgy hangs on with little sleep but each day a little more with it. 

twopenny

Is this the same one Less?

Or a different member of the family?

I;ll give you some blue ones too

 

Both photos I posted have vanished!!

They may or may not be here :'(

LessImpecunious

twopenny said:

Is this the same one Less?

Or a different member of the family?

I;ll give you some blue ones too

 

Both photos I posted have vanished!!

They may or may not be here :'(

Not vanished for me! The red ones look like mine - and either could be Ruby or Scarlet Elf Cups as far as I can tell - you need a microscope to distinguish them... Apparently there are white, green, and blue species or variants too, but not sure if they all occur in UK... The second pic looks like something called Turkeytail...

Frost here too, lasted until dusk, replaced by drizzle and slight rise in temperature (from cold to not quite so cold  )... oh, and my forecast from yesterday was correct - no sun to speak of, just haze or cloud between us and the sun, though with some annoying small patches of blue in all other directions 

-taff

Your deep bed looks a lot more work than my deep bed, mines metal and doesn't involve banging wood into the earth, which, incidentally, does look very hard packed. I assume you've popeye's arms now? Your thingy reminds me of churches for some reason but it's probably a line holder of some sort I'm guessing? 

Very cold here too, even the fence was frozen which is not something I see very often but was very beautiful when the sun hit it, all diamond sparkling when the frost dissolved. 

Farway, you could bung your gd a few plants in reciprocation for making beds? Play on the infirmity bit [or mybe not play, just plain flat out state it.]..Or ask for it as a late chrissie present, or advance Easter one  

Hey WM, sounds like a lot of stuff is going on in your life, sounds very challenging, hope you come out the other end intact! I did laugh at Farway bandy though, thought about the saying, couldn't stop a pig in a passage, is that a Welshism or a britishism? 

We're all keeping it legit 2p, it's only about the weather after all Those potentially turkey tail are lovely aren't they? Like living agate slices. 

Went to the allotment today intending to Do Stuff, but was thwarted by people being too kind and leaving prunings everywhere and kindly filling my dead hedges for me, which of course I then had to empty while doing an impressive swear [filled straight, not at an angle for stability, thrown on top and pushed out the wire which I was wring up as I go to stop it bowing out, large logs on top instead of at the bottom so even more unstable, added rotting brassica stalks, absolute stink, crushed the plant I put in the middle of one of them, god I was livid...and shouting !!!!!! at the top of my voice. ] I am calmer now though but even though they filed more than up three hedges they still left a massive pile of prunings...where on earth did they think I was going to put them? I asked OH to make me a sign saying no more thank you and laminate it so I can stick it on the shed. 

It's raining now BTW...

twopenny

The road to hell is paved with good intentions - judge Judy 🙂

Forgot Dusty's thingy. I've seen it before and think it might be used for getting up drain covers. Something like that. A workman's gadget rather than trade but it's obviously more valued now than whoever forgot it.