Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

wort: ah no Farway another 👂 🐛 needles and pinza 😂

'Love Potion Number 9' was much more fun, and surprisingly racy for something composed in the 50s. 😲 But then, 'Lola' somehow got past the BBC censors, who fixated on the brand name 'Coca Cola' and demanded it be changed to 'Cherry Cola. Great piece of distraction psychology! 😄

Plenty of DP still going on, but now it's Auntie doing it!

Yellow leaves? I can do you those. Although most of my toms are fine, there's a couple in the polytunnel which have a suspected magnesium deficiency. Voilà!

I've given them some Epsom Salts, so now they'll probably shrivel-up in protest if I don't tell them the brand! 😄 It was Westland, and no lavender was harmed in its production. 😉

Just out of shot in that picture are about 30 tomato seedlings. Heinz 57, of course, but most will be ex- Cherry Falls. There were fuchsias in our Morries when I last looked, but I don't go there much. It's one that's likely to get the chop, and very deserving if it does. I must get a photo of their trolley stand, covered in filth, but still assuring us of their high hygiene standards from the days of C19. 😮

Happy to learn most of you are virtually lurgy-free now. If it's any consolation,2p, the one we've had doesn't seem to target the lungs, though it sure makes people cough. Mrs Dusty is still catching up on sleep lost coughing last night.😕

Farway: Hope the op can go ahead as planned, unless it's in the stars and like Holby City, a tanker is going to crash into the hospital.

When Mrs Dusty was suddenly hospitalised 100 miles from here a few years ago, she had to enter A&E by a convoluted route. A bus driver had lost control and reversed through the front entrance. 😨 This sowed a great deal of confusion for staff, but not for me, because I knew the site well….Correction, I knew it 12 years previously. In the meantime, they'd built a new A&E. 🙄 So, between the bus damage, the reallocation of the old A&E site + Mrs Dusty's phone dying on her at the critical moment, picking her up to go home almost became something from a Franz Kafka novel. It wasn't that far from 'Holby' either. 😉

Another day of strong gusts from the south-east, drying everything out. It's warm, but wearing. 😕Relief comes tomorrow, allegedly.

twopenny

I'll be brief because I'm feeling lousy 🤢 looks like a postponed op as I have the chest infection the nurse cleverly predicted. Must have been the giving up of smoking and alcohol 😬

Done some pottering between rests. Tied up raspberries that are collapsing in the wind. Watering, it's 27c in the back, and planted 2 more toms and a lavender. One of the toms was Cherry Falls 😀 Found on the plant stand at Proper Job. So I'm in the club now!

Debugged the cherry again using tea tree wipes. They don't like it. 4 leaves had to go. And tried rearranging the baby apple. My frame just gets blown apart and can't work out how to tie down.

And swept up dead box moth caterpillars. They've eaten sall the leaves and starved. Don't know why the dunnocks have turned their noses up at them this year.

Glad everyone's getting better. Looking forward to it....

Oh my watering idea. It seems to work well but time will tell

Bottom off pots with space at top. Should take the water and feed down and roots into cooler soil. Everything is parched here already. A tad of rain promised.

LessImpecunious

2P I'll be brief because I'm feeling lousy 🤢 looks like a postponed op as I have the chest infection the nurse cleverly predicted.

Sorry to hear that 2P, hope recovery is swift…

Must have been the giving up of smoking and alcohol 😬

Either that or the pre-op visits to medical establishments, bound to pick up something…