Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Farway yes to all of the above. Both for seeds and lead paint. 🫨

I've been reluctant to feed because they've been so drenched but need must. The seed leaves are a bit bigger for the sun.

Middlwife, walking in 5th-6th week according to friend and able to stand and cook.

wort

we had 3 🌞🌞🌞filled days , I have managed to mow the lawn and plant clematis 1 day. Then pressure wash path and patios day 2 . Third day was a long walk with friend and then sit out with a glass of bubbly with dsis for a chat. What a difference the sun makes to days off.
Farway I think you will soon have a forest of mange toots and toms.

Middlewife don’t overdo it. Sit and enjoy the good weather.

Dusty the birds must like your garden , I wonder if they are the ones from last year.

wort

Rhododendron in bloom ,

Dustyevsky

2p said: That's a real smashing photo James 😍 Obviously waiting for you to start digging or disturbing stuff for a free lunch.

My helper robins have both cleared off! 🤥 I had one in the polytunnel, and another by the stream, but I guess they've been finding partners and nest building. We see one at the feeders with the other birds, but whether he/she was a one of the winter 'companions' is unknown.🤔 The same goes forthe Siskins, wort. One thing we have observed, is the proliferation of Goldfinches. They're doing really well.

Your compost looks like it has a lot of tree fibre in it 2p. I didn't get great results when using that sort of mix.😥 I'd possibly mix it with a bit of John Innes, and maybe add vermiculite too. It's hard to advise when you can't actually feel the stuff!

Yes, the wild area by the stream looked nicer before the privacy fencing, but the hedgerow I'm planting will soon hide that. I gave the planting done so far some BF&B today, plus a good watering. Trouble is, over 100m of hose is required, and it took ages to cobble that together! 😩

middlewife said: Thanks for the warning Dusty! I've just put a few trowel full in when I go past.

I should listen to my own advice.😒 While the sciatica's disappeared, digging the hedge trench has caused an arthritic difficulty with the other leg. 😢It seems to flare-up at this time of year. Last March, I could barely walk a mile without limping, yet by mid-April, getting lost on the Coast Path 'enabled' a 7 mile trek! As with operations, exercises seem to be the answer, but the right ones, and not overdone. 😉 There's a YouTuber called Will Harlow, who specialises in exercises for the over 50s, and I'm finding him grounded, but also inspirational. 😇

We had a great sunset last night, which I missed. 🙄 Got this, though…

More sunshine wall-to-wall today! 😊😎

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on March equinox. Lovely ☺️

I still have a job, himself still has a hurty gob, and the weather's almost Autumnal out there so that was Summer been and gone. I've been gardening in the mornings, trying to get on top of the goddam thistles and mare's tails that have decided to have another go. Grrr. I haven't got any decent pictures cos the sun's still too low that early. I've daffs out, various colours but not pink, my primroses are happy little souls - the "Golden Butter" one is sticking with being a very deep rich burgundy hue but I quite like it now. I've buds on trees and StickTrees 👏 My toms have first leaves and my sweet peas are still in Oliver Twist mode (they are reviewing, the situation🎶)

DomNon today and it'll have to be a full proper go this time. Surly BoilerMan came last Friday and …I'm no expert but… he didn't seem to actually do anything to it. He took the front off and pressed some buttons and swept the innards out with a dinky wee brush and that's all he did. He didn't even switch it on! Mind he hardly had time, he was in and out in 7 minutes. If that bill is anything over a tenner I'll be saying Words. Grrrr.

Right DomNon and food shopping, and I'll see what I can get in the way of pics. I've forgotten now who asked about Cissie, but you can have her number no bother - she's a problem solver so she'd be pleased as Punch to sort yous out 😄Or we could have an Agony Aunt subtopic on here and I'll be Cissie by proxy ha haa!

Dustyevsky

Good to see you, Bluey 😊 and good to see this chap too:

We think it's an original….faint markings on bum.

Must go, busy agenda today! 🙃

LessImpecunious

2P could you try putting your toms in a big plastic box or something as a mini greenhouse? - wouldn't help with the poor compost but some protection from heavy rain and wind (and greenhouse effect to warm them up)…

Lawn mowed here too!, plus lots of veg garden prep; we still have two robins (Mr and Mrs, presumed as they seem to get on) regularly visiting, plus heard the first chiffchaff t'other day and saw a Peacock butterfly, and, yesterday, a ladybird…

Farway

Nice sunset pic Dusty, and hedgehog returns as well. Your robins, Emma on her allotment YT has same, ungrateful rotters, feed then all winter then spurn you once things improve & love blossoms

2P, I've been reluctant to feed because they've been so drenched but need must. Maybe the rain has rinsed any feed or goodness there was away?

Wort, nice rhode, they do make a good show, but too much chalk here for me to grow, so I admire from afar, or at Wisley with the sandy stuff up there.

Farway I think you will soon have a forest of mange toots and toms. They've slowed down & seem to be thinking about it, probably eying up which road fork to take, the one to Fiords or the sunny uplands one

No gardening planned, may have a mooch & tie some labels on a couple of apple trees, apart from that I'm waiting for everything to burst into bloom, apples, cherry, pears, all malingering. I wonder if my garden is a Cold Spot? never really noticed before, but even weeds are slow this year

YoungBlueEyes

We do well for photos on here eh. Your sunset is a belter Dusty and I love your rhododendron wort. Your multi-headed daffs are very cheery Farway, I've some out the front here and they make me smile when I go off to work. And the siskins and wee robin - they're fab pictures, I'd love to take a pic as clear and detailed as that 🤩You'd think painting all your stuff black would be gloomy but yours looks great taff. I like your chair sat in the garden too. Actually that reminds me of a website I used to like, I'll have to see if it's still around and come back with a link. Imagine your neighbour being neighbourly 2p! Best to have a backup plan in place for after your op eh. Have you got a date for it?

I forgot to mention this morning - we've had 2 new starters at work this week. 1 was from …errrr… somewhere much sunnier than here, didn't speak a word of English, and thought he could manage phone answering through his (that he told us we had to pay for) interpreter or an app on his phone. Yes really. I was longer typing that then he lasted! The other one was a girl theyperson who goes by the name of Jay. They is from Deb'n and calls everyone "moy lurvve". Everyone's taken to her and I hope she lasts.

It's been quite nice here today, not as nice as it has been but better than what's to come, possibly. The sobers reckon next Friday morning we'll have snow 😏

Right I'll see if I can remember the name of that website. It'll not be in my history cos I've not thought about it for months and this is a new-to-me-'laptop'

ETA - https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/ It's real photos garnered from property listings, and you can't believe that that was the best thing/angle/perspective to take of a room, but then you think yeah it was cos the captions are brilliant 😀 It started as the same thing - property pics - but in the old days they all featured The Garden Chair Of Solitude, hence my remembering :)

twopenny

Just shattered so will be brief. Wort that's gorgeous! How lucky you are because I can't grow them. Neighbour who does nothing has an Azalea planted by the previous owner and that wonderful too. 🙄

Dusty what an amazing colour. I noticed we had a red horizon yesterday but nothing like that.

I seem to be everywhere except where I want to be but did get to tidy stuff in the garden, found a rat hole under the compost bin! A second attempt at the ants trying to nest by the house despite powder and gel to get rid so I moved the step and swept them up. But it's all looking a bit more like home now.

Went for a walk, yes a real one, on the moors and took this for Bluey

No date yet, more horror stories but friend recovering is driving and walking now. Got go places tomorrow but hope to get to the garden later.