Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

Bluey: What is wrong with people?!

Maybe they have too many choices and not enough history? Everything's down to perception. 😉

I love the Tatarian scabious -taff. We used to have it in the wild septic tank area, but I don't recall seeing it for a while. 🤔 I'm deliberately not looking in there at present….gone a bit wild! 😐️ Growers in the UK can still use peat-containing compost for another year or two, but someone in the trade told me that might be extended. The workings of DEFRA are inscrutable. It's like the bracken control chemical. Hill farmers were told “You can't have it!” Then they were allowed it again. Now it's banned. 😕 I don't care. Lke proper slug pellets, I've enough to see me out! 😛

I forgot to mention yesterday, Thompson & Morgan had another cheapo seed and free postage offer over the weekend. I topped up, leaving 6 items in my basket, as you do. Sure enough, the 'have you forgotten something?' email arrived, so I clicked the link, went to pay….and all the discount had magically vanished along with free postage. 😲 That was sneaky! 😡 Anyway, I cancelled the order, and then had to go through the whole palaver once more to secure my 6 packets for about £6.50. 😉

Farway: Rain due sometime, probably around midday when the window cleaner is due

Here, I'm the window cleaner. 🙄With the drunkards promising less wind, I foolishly offered to do the front ones today. I always get soaked, so it's shorts….and at 14c as a top temp, that's marginal for old bloke in shorts. It's on Mrs D's list though, and the alternative is pushing the old Honda mower to tidy twiddly bits, so rubbish choice. 😌

As you can see from the above, yesterday was somewhat grim at times, but it didn't rain. The farmer over the road was cutting silage, and as if by magic, 3 red kites appeared, looking for injured prey. We don't usually see many, buzzards being much more common around these parts. A swallow managed to photobomb my second try. They were rather a long way down the field.

Farway

Much better weather morning, still cool but at least sun's out & warm enough to get the toms out hardening off again, along with the posh dinner plate dahlias & courgettes

It did rain yesterday, window cleaner had gone by then, but at least the newly planted runners are really watered in, and still there after two nights.!

Hope the tablet gets sorted 2P, it's always something stupidly simple once known. I had one that went Foreign on me, so even pressing Help was useless because the results were in Furrin. 🤬

YBE, best of luck to he/she in suing a solicitor, they/ them will need it. I bet somewhere in the workplace T & Cs it's covered, para 96g, sub section 25e, footnote vii. 🤡. On a not political note, some are puzzled why employers are reluctant to hire young people.

Woohoo for your pyracantha Farway, your wee birds will be happy eh. I dragged my toms in last night after they’d got the last of the evening sun, might be a while ‘til I get them out again The birds are practising at the moment, handy prickly cover just in case one of Dusty's red kites gets blown sideways. Hope it improves enough for your tom's to go out & play

I have a courgette flower opened, male, still in their pots waiting for better weather. If sun keeps going I will try and get their homes ready later today, add fertiliser etc and then wait for warmer weather, must be close by, nearly June already

Apart from that, nothing else garden planned

twopenny

Sunny day mostly and I got inspired to do stuff instead of going to the coast.

Dusty I've been trying to get a shot of birds of prey in flight. No luck. Annoying but impressive that you have 🙄

Bluey I had my share of weird at work but thankfully this is new to me. How come your firm picks them? I think they should put how do you wish to be referred to at work to the application forms!

Farway, turn off and on again 🙄🙄🙄

So I've cleaned the windows, the gutter, the facia (probably not a great idea with one leg 🤣) repainted the seat, turned out enormous pot of dead which hazel (it bloomed this spring and made leaves) pot out the back ready for apricot this winter. Cleaned the paths of leaves, gate and walls of cobwebs. Dead leaf piles in compost, cherry de bugged, beans de bugged, scale insects removed with tweezers, bird feeders, table disinfected and refilled

I'm done for but the garden looks great 👍

It's actually a peachy colour, my £2 rescue rose that has a hard life still but keeps on going. Smells good too.

And tidy, bug free