Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

Congrats on the tomatoes, 2p. 😊

Not sure where you might have been in Devon to be "cool" (Totnes? 🤡) but it's officially still 24c here. If you were more coastal, or on the moors, the lack of a vest might notice more.😉

I'll concede we have duff roads, which is why there are all-season, chunky tyres on our wagon. We're trying to find another 4x4, because we can't see our roads improving in the future. 😕

Farway :While on dahlias, you may recall how I snapped off shoots and new ones were growing? I have to report that particular dahlia is jinxed. While pruning the apples I knocked over the pot the recovering dahlia was in, and broke off the new shoot, and the pot as well 🤬

It's always the way. Our dahlias survived in their pots, but I overwatered the one most precious to us, so it then swam off to the fjords. 😥 The one that sat outside the polytunnel back door all winter is rampant.😏

The improvement in my mobility has not gone unnoticed. Mrs Dusty now has me digging out a path in the builders' detritus at the front of the bungalow.😣 That's been topped-off with about 10 years of ash from a fire. To add to the fun, there's a big floor's worth of broken thermoplastic tiles in there too. Some of you may know why they need to be collected and treated with care.😫 If I ever get to the bottom of this carp, I may also find out what's up with the soak away. Picture tomorrow. It'll be a month's project, on and off.

Meanwhile, here is the 'coolest' place we know: our shady Secret Garden

twopenny

Dusty, meant to say ages ago - the bird

Isn't it a Redpoll?

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/redpoll

Dustyevsky

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82078000#Comment_82078000

I think the beak's too large for a Redpoll.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/linnet

Also, on the map we are in a least likely area for Redpolls. 😉