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.