Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

I think I've already cracked the joke about people using far too much 'Wet n' Forget.' They don't recall using it, and apply several times…...😁

I've just awoken from a dream in which some rather nasty men entered our house, uninvited, and wouldn't leave until we paid our shed tax. Can't imagine why I might have dreamt that! 😉 Anyway, we haven't a shed, unless you count the chicken house, where some wild birds that identify as domestic fowl happen to choose as a safe 🙄space. 😋

Bluey: (I just D'Duck'd how to spell mivvi, and this site came up https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/mivvi-ice-creams Could be an entertaining way to pass a hot afternoon.

Half the people on that site can't spell it either! 😄 It shows what a deprived childhood I had that Mivvis were considered the height of luxury. Still, I wouldn't have known Mivvis were much superior to Splits if it I'd been totally deprived.🙂

Farway: Dusty Oh, and we have manky toots, at last, plus a second courgette.😀Booo,
Hisss, Not even a flower on my mange toots, courgettes I am expecting a pregnancy soon, males are out but the female is still at equivalent of "doing her hair" 😁

So long as she doesn't develop a permanent headache next eh? 😏

In the case of my manky toots, they started flowering suddenly when they reached the top of the support poles. Maybe shorter poles? They'e not the short kind I usually grow……the name of both escapes me. Oh dear! That, plus my tendency to get confused on the big roundabout in Exeter, probably indicates dementia's just around the corner, as claimed by every other MSM article I see…..🤨 That's demographic profiling for you.😗

2p: Good to know you have nettles and you aren't perfect 😄

Dunno where you get the idea our garden's perfect! I suppose it's because I select what to show you. 😉 At this time of year, especially here in the wilds, it's a race between the weeds and gardeners. If I didn't know the weeds are sprinters and run out of puff by July, I'd worry. As for nettles, they get to stay in some places, but not the main flower beds.

-taff: 12km paddleboard? nuh uh, sounds very energetic…that's a very zingy combination too..

They postponed the paddleboard trip, as there would have been too little shade. The river chosen instead was good for a swim, but not for paddleboards. More folk should grow the Diervilla, but I don't see it in GCs. 😐️

Our pyracanthas ain't bushy and floriferous like yours, Farway! We picked the wrong spot.😥 In the right spot is this very upright wild rose. It's not showy enough for the garden, but it adds diversity to the wildlife area.

Checked the weather for today, and this is our very hot one; potentially 31c. 😧 Hot again tomorrow, then a decline into more normal levels of heat, plus some rain at the weekend. Suits me, but barbecue means I will have to shop, and the car's only air conditioning is open windows.

Farway

Another non sleeper here, up and about early before the heat gets going, the sun is already frying bare skin, presumably Mr YBE is cooked to a frazzle by now?, Do you have to turn him over, like a sausage, to cook the other side? 😂

Dusty In the case of my manky toots, they started flowering suddenly when they reached the top of the support poles. Maybe shorter poles? They're not the short kind I usually grow. Hmmn, I wonder if they are like Ivy, which only flowers when it gets to the top?, allegedly

Trouble is afoot, looking out the front yesterday afternoon, and urging my lady courgette to get a move on, I spotted furry long tailed movement nearby. A blooming rat! 😮 It ran off once I moved. Not much I can really do except hope it doesn't get a taste for courgettes. Should be lots of fun once we get compulsory kitchen food waste bins. There a couple of cats who consider this area their own so perhaps that may help, or one of the foxes grab them? Any spare red kites Dusty?

YBE Please god let today be a gentle one. Folk get all panicky when it’s a bank hol and don’t understand that we don’t work them (what with us being closed an’ all) so there’s no work done. Very difficult concept, evidently. Blame Mrs T 😁, she deregulated everything and once shops opened on Sundays etc the plebs expected everything to be open.

Eeehhh, in my day everything were always shut, or so it seemed. Half day closing mid week, close early Saturday, closed Sunday, closed Monday if a fish shop, banks open 1000, close an hour for lunch, open at two, close at three.

Left my watering until this evening, seeing te bit about soaking in overnight made sense to me

Today, in hot theme, here's some of my grapefruit flowers, in a large pot in a sheltered corner outside all year.. Doing well this year, about seven clumps [bunches, clusters?] of flowers, various stages of openness. It's never had so many, and never fruited either ☹grown from seed sown by DS when he was at college, so long ago his DS has now left college

twopenny

Up early because the sun rises on the bedroom side so it's 80c between 6-8 😕 lovely idea the rest of the year.

Like Dusty, massive heat expected here for the next couple of days. Leg working so I did some housework. Still have a load of sheets to iron but that will have to wait. I'm supposed to have clean sheets for 3 days before the op and when I'm showering in disinfectant and on the day for return home. Really?

You're right Bluey, it was cool by the sea in the shade but packed with overexcited children and motorhomes people reverse without looking. The supermarket was a nightmare!

Anyhoos it's going to be too hot to garden, the GC wants £4 a strip for veg and loads of Brussels only winter veg. So today may be thinking around that. Perhaps some encouragement and talking to my seedlings?

Love the grapefruit flower Farway. I never did plant my lemon pips. I think because I was too concerned about my veg not growing. I do have one runner bean though 🙄

Dusty, BBQ, standing over a fire in this weather? Couldn't you get an ice cream maker instead 😉

Greenbee that is far too much to be doing in this weather!

Right off to peg foil blankets to the blind at the back. Hopefully the light breeze will still be there when the shade goes round front and I can open the door

twopenny

Here's a question for you 🙂

My irises haven't bloomed in 7 years since the move. I thought too shady, moved them to bake. Nothing. Moved them to sun and shade. Nothing.

Now one has bloomed. Think it's the huge bog standard purple but it looks lovely on its own.

Now how do I mark that one corm so that I know which it is?

Because there are expensive dark red (that bloomed every year in a pot with no attention) and a deep blue I bought from a roadside stall. I'd like to get them grooped by colour again if I can.

greenbee

Someone told me recently to tie a label to the stem with the colour/variety listed, 2P. Then I guess you move them before you need to cut it right back.

Someone else is doing the digging (and hopefully finishing soon and going to do some sorting out in the compost area, which is cooler).

I potted up squash, aubergines, and cucumbers this morning. More to do later/tomorrow morning. Also acquired some agapanthus in the supermarket, so more planting to do (I have two days off coming up, and a trip to a nursery tomorrow monrning).