Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

Just hot here and nothing doing apart from some quick chopping down of things and a little watering for things that might live…More time to make plans though so not completely wasted [ybe would be happy, I need some bricks to cover up and level some concrete]..supposed to be cooler Thursday and Friday so will lotment on Friday.

Very annoying waiting round for people 2p, especially when you have the wrong day [ how do I know this?] Did go and pick some blackberries today though so made the MIL happy..fair exchange for some cottage pie :) Ouch for the contct lens..I have them because I'd either be blind as a bat wihtout them or sport some fancy milk bottle lenses else, been wearing them since I was fifteen, if you want something bad enough [ like not looking through crazy carnival glasses] you put up with it :)

Water butts almost empty here too and thick skinned tomatoes despite having moist compost soI will blame th weather…no real rain forecast although there might be a thunderstorm next week…

Dustyevsky

Off to the Fayre, but I'm on business, so won't be stopping. Mrs D and DD2 + kids will be attending, though.😃

Might get some digging in while it's quiet here. Managed 4 more barrow loads the other day and felt whacked, but doing the working out (250m x 4 = 1km of pushing a full barrow) so maybe that's why! 😆

Big moon last night caught me unawares, but I got a shot….of sorts. 😏

OT: Warm, but cloudyish, and not baking. Hope we get one off your thunderstorms soon, -taff!

Farway

Up early, I have fellow ex garden volunteer supposed to be coming to collect my spare tip layered Boysenberry and I wanted to get it bagged up fresh and not hanging about. Maybe with the late arrivals declared here he won't show until late afternoon now. Forecast is late morning.

Picked a load of blackberries while out there, and topped up the bird bath, supposed to be scorchio as well so hopefully it'll help.

Quick work on dentist Dusty, and NHS as well. Mine is NHS but keeps trying to push private "Plans" for which I have "Shields Up". At least they are still NHS, I was a bit concerned post Covid if it would change, but seems not.

2P Some flying ants around. The light reflecting on the wings of the one on my car looked like rainbows. Didn't have my camera with me 🙄 Very photographer of you, noting light on ants wings. By coincidence there were flying ants near my garage yesterday, no rainbow wings though.

Still can't get butterflies, or ants, to stay still for a portrait

While out this morning I found I do have a Sunset apple, just the one. Hooray for that.

And, even better, I have two runner beans, a glut! Not picking size yet, but it's a start. The plants seem to making more flowers now, I suppose having failed to set they chuck up more flowers to achieve their mission.

This is my Sea holly, I know I posted one before, but like 2P spotting ant rainbows, I spotted this glinting in sunlight and was amazed with the metallic blueness of it. Taken with old manual focus lens trying for effects

PS, just spotted Dusty Moon, says it's Buck Moon. Remember to add Aug 12th in, solar eclipse

twopenny

Love a sea holly. Such beautiful shapes and colours. You've caught that just right 👍 blues are tricky.

Taff it's the dry weather wot does it. I left them in too long because I thought I'd get away with it and the new bottle of drops had gone off in car heat. Live and learn - maybe. Now I have to wait for the eye to recover. A nuisance because I can't look in the camera viewfinder with glasses 🙄

Beautiful moon Dusty. We got the light through clouds the other night.

Electrician been. He tells me it's a special bell ringing this Friday 🙂 joy of local trades. Another job then off to the moors for a picnic to recover from yesterday's mayhem. Cooler up there.

Clear blue sky and heat, bit of a breeze now. It's been worse. Will water this evening.

So eclipse on 12th? And moon should be small. May help with viewing the shooting stars on that date. Eyes heavenwards!

LessImpecunious

Nice Eryngium Farway, and moon, Dusty - similar composition to one of my attempts at sunset last night (without sun, or moon!), lots of purple and apricot shades, not as successfully captured as would have liked …

LessImpecunious

Hmm, thought I'd try it full size and then edit to medium to see if it looks better, but seems I can't do that...rather than fiddling with it here is another from nearby, which sharp-eyed viewers will notice features climbing french bean Hunter, which has supplied one mini picking of beans so far...