Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

We get bell ringing on Friday evening which makes doing the watering a bit more pleasing.

I envy the rosehips, I'll just be glad if my roses survive. I've barely watered those. In fact a lot needs a good soaking, I keep hoping for rain but none seems to come. Only once in 4 months now.

Is it green down in Devon? I'd love to go for a walk but it's unpleasant here with very little wildlife and scratchy grass right up to the Mendips and beyond. Being school holidays and the world on holiday because of the good weather everywhere is heaving.

Farway

Hot sun again, and now officially in drought, also official, not rained for 60 days, guess the few dribbles we had did not event touch the sides of the measuring vessel

Wise move on the starter motor Dusty, gone are the days of two bolts, bit of a wiggle, and it's out. Mine had intermittent internal short, but with the magic these days it's possibly lost it's connection to Beijing

2P And thank you both for the fig information. Completely different to what I thought I knew. I think I'll stick to waiting for roadside figs to drop off into my pocket because I think I've killed off my Morrisons twig I bought. The little pot kept drying out daily 🙂 If any fig twigs drop off at same time, they root readily if bunged into soil / compost or even water. Hope the Morrie twig recovers

Oh No, rose hip time already! None round here, there used to be some in the volunteer border but wiser heads have improved it & removed those to leave much more elegant and nature friendly bark chips. 😠

Too hot for gardening, not much to do any way, except my leaning Runners made a dash for it & are on the conservatory roof. Still zero beans

Dustyevsky

2p: Is it green down in Devon? I'd love to go for a walk but it's unpleasant here with very little wildlife and scratchy grass right up to the Mendips and beyond. Being school holidays and the world on holiday because of the good weather everywhere is heaving.

We hung onto the green longer, but it's yellow here now too. There's no good grazing, so farmers are already having to feed cattle and sheep with the winter fodder. 😯

We don't see the holidaymakers in any great quantity here, and if I time things right, they're not much of an issue if I stray closer to the coast. In 3 weeks or so, that pressure will end. By then, I expect we'll have had some rain and the land will green-up a little. Until then, it'll be a case of staying close to home and prepping for what's to come. 🤐

Here are some of our more 'sensitive' subjects, sitting behind a yew hedge, waiting for me to plant them out. Some are very tough once they're in the ground, but they don't like being fried in their pots on a daily basis!