Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on my Last Day of Work this week. Hurrah 😃

Himself has a fierce tan on him Farway, I reckon he’s half pik fishy person. His father’s long passed so I never knew him, but his mum was the whitest little daintiest thing you ever saw. God love her. I didn’t have to flip him burger-style, thankfully, he’s a stoddy lump of a man. Are your lady courgettes maybe not into boys..? 🫢 Another thing not to tell the servants ha haa!

I reckon your rasps will be making your birds happy 2p, or if you’re like me last year it’ll be stripped by the wasps in a few hours 😥 Would someone from your swimming or table tennis come round and help?

So is that you back to normality then Dusty? Be racing to catch up with yourselves now are you? Jeez I wish I was a bit more flexible, paddle boarding looks great fun 😀

We’ve got your weather up here this morning gb, cooler today and it’s rained overnight 🙂 You’ve got the richest soil out of any us eh! What’ll you do when all your squashes and cucumbers come good? Is there a collective noun for multiple gluts..?

OT cool - 12’c but FL 9 - and breezy and a bit cloudy and the humidity’s dropping, it’s lovely altogether out there. This evening they reckon it’ll FL 25’ right beyond bedtime 🤨Unacceptable really.

greenbee

cool and breezy this morning, so hoping to get some planting done (I went to a local nursery again yesterday, and inspired by Dusty’s picture bought some cistus amongst many other things!). I need to get everything in the ground while I can, and am making sure I soak everything well before I plant it, as well as having to add compost and feed to these newly dug bits. The ‘dry and full sun’ section of the nursery was very popular yesterday!

Stinky eats lots of squash, as do I, so they’ll all get eaten. Likewise courgette. And I’ll do batch cooking for the winter too (have several freezers). I’m hoping to get round to sowing some beans, carrots, and beetroot too (and I need to check what other seeds I have that need dealing with) for a bit of variety, but squash and courgettes aren’t a problem to use up. Although 8 courgette plants may be excessive…

wort

Wow, I thought the house got bombed last night, a huge bang and a massive yellow light flashed the whole bedroom, my phone started to beeb and alarms started to go off. I lay scared to move until I heard a rumble of thunder moving away. It had been raining for an hour before, so not expecting the thunder and lightening . This morning found that lightening had hit the phone line at the side of us. The fire brigade were out really fast though.

I had been at dd2 s weeding the garden yesterday for 3 hours only done 1 bed 🥵it was full of false strawberry plant with the yellow flowers and runners all through it. It was hot but a bit of breeze. The front looks scary as it’s full of horsetail 😢 so I’m staying in the back first. She does have 2 beautiful peonies in dark red. Mine has finally got its first white bloom ,only waited 5 years .

The beginning of the week was too hot to do anything. Though I did do some early morning cleaning of the conservatory before the sun came round,on Tuesday.

Dusty hopefully you can relax now the relatives have left.
Irises could you colour code with wool or cotton tied on the stem?

Farway hope ratty was just passing through. I’ve never seen a grapefruit plant before ,that’s definitely a long wait for fruit.

Farway

Hot sun again, after another sweltering night.

I'm cream crackered now after three hot & sleepless nights. No storms here, but seems there was a big lightening display a few miles way. You were fortunate Wort, a few years back a colleague had his tele & cooker blown out by a nearby lightening strike, covered by insurance fortunately

YBE Are your lady courgettes maybe not into boys..? 🫢 Another thing not to tell the servants ha haa! They look like girls but these days who knows? The lady flowers are colouring up, getting their lippy on and ready for a big night of debauchery. Most likely waiting until huge thunder storms and cold & wet before they forlornly open their soggy petals

Manky Toot alert, flowers at last 😁tried for a pic but it was blurry, I'll give it another go later.

Boysenberry, more new shoots spotted from base, a bit thinner than the others so i'll have to check about removing those and leave the big strong ones.

Had to water at the back, drooping buddlias and now M Toots are flowering need to keep them watered for tasty MTs

Jobs for today, if I can stand the sun, is plant out last posh dahlia and stray tomatoes left over. Could be postponed until cooler as still in pots

The French, tasty, pear. The one that ripens before it rots. Photobombing by Helen blackberry trained along same framework as the pear

twopenny

Just a quick drop in. I'm busy washing, ironing, clearing the garden pre op. Supposed to wash bedding every day I'm disinfecting myself and before I leave at 6am Monday.

Went out and got this. Something got the other big one 😬

Hnmm can't adjust photo size more than once now!

middlewife

Morning all from cooler Cornwall where I'm looking after DS 2:who's had his trigger fingers released. Staying about a mile up a bridleway in a cabin of a large garden/ smallholding. Chooks running around and a very well behaved spaniel. 2p, the nurse I saw said not to worry about changing sheets, it's out of date advice, so I didn't bother, just had clean ones when I came home. I DID religiously follow the showering regime. Best of luck, you will (eventually) feel like a new person! Here's a couple of photos, the owners parents are meant to be watering.......

wort

Farway I’ve just heard DDs tv got cooked, with the lightening strike. I didn’t think they’d be able to claim🤔

Farway

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82014331#Comment_82014331

I suppose it depends on their policy & excesses etc, and if very posh TV or Asda cheapo clearance, plus age of TV, new for Christmas of had it years?

Worth checking I would think probably have deduction for wear & tear etc.

He had to have one insurance company supplied, no taking the money & going down Argos

wort

The other day whilst having a minute in the garden

Dustyevsky

Bluey: This evening they reckon it’ll FL 25’ right beyond bedtime 🤨Unacceptable really.

Hmm, you had big thunderstorms over to the west of you this morning, so maybe the air will clear.

middlewife: Morning all from cooler Cornwall….

Yes, we're mostly cloudy too, and it's cooler than the Exeter inebriates say. Conditions are on the change.😉

wort: Farway I’ve just heard DDs tv got cooked, with the lightening strike.

I'd rather have the TV cooked than the 'puter, which is on a surge protector thing, though how well that would do against a zillion volts is anyone's guess! 😲 There was certainly a lot of electrical activity in Middlelefthandia this morning, but I think it went north of Bluey as it trundled NE across the country.

Lovely shady bower picture wort, and such an artistically-branched acer too! 😇

Farway, I've not studied our pears since they flowered, but I can share one of our bird cherries. They're so tart, even the birds don't bother in some years! 😄

Our visitors departed in late morning, having learned one of their very elderly cats had been with the vet, suffering terminal decline. The loss of the moggy was one thing, but the likely veterinary bill, in the £ thousands, came as a second blow. 😰

We had lunch, watered, cleared-up and fell asleep for the rest of the afternoon! We have GS tomorrow, starting at 07.15 in a car park 15 miles away, so we need to recharge our batteries.😟 Meanwhile, I've joined the sick list by filling-in an e-consult for my dodgy knee. It hasn't improved this year with the warmer weather, so although I'm coping here, lovely walks on Exmoor are off the agenda.😢 Hoping to visit some gardens instead…. It's possible I'll soon be looking at op instructions too, 2p, but frankly, I suspect there are others in more need, so the queue will be a long one.