Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Dull and cooler, for once, being darker & cooler, hopping out of bed seemed less appealing this morning so a mini lie in

Dusty I see the 'far right' headed your way yesterday. 😮 Yes I saw the news, that area, by Eastney Lifeboat, would be very easy to blockade, only one long narrow road in, sea on one side, mud flats & fences the other side.

2P visiting cat, seems similar the one who visits me, looks, cute, sits on the walls and mooches around but is wary.

No butterflies spotted, but my pyracantha berries are looking ripe, spotted a pigeon having a taste yesterday, so I moved a camera upstairs and hopefully can get The Birds once the berries are truly spotted.

Had some warm sun yesterday, and managed to trim the outdoor tomato foliage off, well most of it, let the sun & air into finalise the ripening.

Plus garden wheelie out for collection, not as easy as it sounds, I have to trundle it from back to front, via a shared access path which has part of the path getting overgrown [neighbour not cutting it back]. I always have secateurs in my pocket for that section. That bit comes & goes, along with the occupants, more changes than politicians promises aspirations

No gardening today, more or less up together, and rain is due tonight so I think I can skip watering for today

I did get some fleece over my Champion apple tree, apples still not ready yet, hopefully this will deter birds, not so easy to get at them

twopenny

Looks reasonable Farway. Not sure it would deter my blackbirds. They seem to see cover as a place not to be seen while up to nefarious things.

Wort work and gardening? I remember when I could do that. Very good for unwinding. Don't forget to wave at Bluey as you trundle off into her territory. Salute the departed 😄

Oh and your sunset photo is on the weekly round up page 😍

Less that's quite a haul of interesting insects. The bee garden program taught me a lot about bee behaviour which was a lot like that. I'm collecting stuff for a decent insect overwintering house though goodness knows there's enough places around here anyway.

Dusty it's good of you to give mention to the misses for her excellent photography when you could take credit for yourself. She's pretty red hot for the insects.

No gardening today. It's my turn for still feeling very tired and groggy. Rest isn't helping so I'm guessing it's something to do with the op and overdoing it. So gently does it again.

Going to look for more walnuts. I found that leaving them outside then using a teaknife to quater the pod and leaving them again causes the green to shrink and can be popped off. Then leaving the nuts to dry. They are the right colour and healthy looking but my winter stash, not to be opened till then. I have had a load one year that were all bad but we'll see.

Just copying photos so maybe something later of recent adventures 🙂 So, late summer drought still bought some dried, seedig plants into focus in the late evening light. No you don't have to zap these thistles Dusty!